Gyn Wallace
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2014.03.19 14:56:00 -
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Rami Hamilo wrote:Johnny Guilt wrote:If the equpiment is getting redruced in effectiveness can we at least get a price reduction on proto tier equpiment?Paying 21k for a nanohive or 35k for a rep tool is ridiculous if these changes go through and prices stay the same  Better yet, can we get an equipment SP refund?
A price reduction to accompany the efficacy reduction of logi equipment would have been reasonable. A respec for all equipment skills for people who will be respeccing into something other than logis, would have been reasonable.
The logi equipment nerfs are a little disappointing, because CCP doesn't appear to be exercising much foresight when making these changes. Here's how I anticipate this affecting my gameplay.
First spawn: Amarr suit to drop uplinks, repeated later on when necessary. Second spawn: Caldari suit to drop hives. Third spawn: another Caldari suit to drop more hives, since there will be a greater need for hives and my minmatar suits won't have an array of hives anymore, I'll drop more hive spam for that brief window I'll try to spend in a Caldari logi suit. Fourth spawn: Minmatar logi suit with a repper, and shield extenders, and armor plates. No more uplinks, scanners, or hives on my main Minmatar fit. I'll leave carrying some scanners on a scanning fit for the end of my skill point spending plan, and let another logi cover scanning for now, and perhaps permanently.
So my foremost group of fittings, still minmatar, will have more tank, less nanohives, scanners, uplinks. Maybe one nanohive for mass driver ammo. I'll still be following a heavy when I can (thanks for the buff there! I think this will allow me to beat my personal best of over 6400 SP in a single match) But when I'm not following a heavy, I'll be more focused on using the mass driver than the other logistics equipment I've carried through 1.7.
I predict massive waves of whinning about mass driver using logies being a bigger pain in everyone's rear than assault logis ever were before. Assault suits won't carry many mass drivers, they've always been too ammo hungry for most assault suit users. Caldari Logis with MDs backing up Amarr assaults with laser rifles will be the new mid to long range OP combo backing up the close range heavies/minmatar logis.
How can you nerf nanohive clusters and not anticipate more hive spam? I plan on having at least three Caldari hive spamming suits. Two just for when I'm proximate to a supply depot. I'm not going to replace those hives I dropped while wearing a caldari suit when I switch back to my main Minmatar suit. That'll free up CPU/PG for tanking.
Is this what you intended, CCP? I don't think its bad really, except for people who were already lagging around supply depot hive spam.
I would have gone in the opposite direction. Buff hives; make uplinks harder to find and destroy, but place a hard cap on how many I can have deployed at once. So we'll use fewer hives and uplinks. I anticipate dropping as many uplinks and MORE hives in 1.8.
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