CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.09.04 19:44:00 -
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Whether CCP or Rattati has this same point of view or not, in thinking about the "progression" of a fight, of what it would require to TAKE an EVE district away from a corp who owns it, or what it would require if you want to DEFEND your district from an entity who wants to take it from you... we should FORGET about any real-earth-combat associations:
It would take a warbarge and MCCs to deliver footmen and combat machinery to the surface--and to resupply them from the "packs" of clones you bought.
If you're an attacking entity, you'd likely plant down AWAY from the district or facility, and you need the mobile weapon platforms (HAVs, LAVs, DSs) to advance from your plant-down area to the target facility. Your footmercs are needed to completely kill or remove enemy footmen from every room and ledge of the district---your mobile platforms can't do that; their job is just to pave a path for your footmercs to actually REACH the buildings and start cleaning them out.
Since installations are NOT mobile, they can't support an advancing team of footmercs much (SOME, but not much).
It makes sense that capsuleers or corps would purchase and plant installations with the intent being DEFENSE against MOBILE machinery (district owners finding it cheaper to permanently station an "automatic" gun than to hire a protection infantry full-time, when there's a chance they may never get attacked at all----and attacker corps only using a few installations to protect a staging area during the fight, and not much more than that; they're paying footmercs to do this job, cuz you can't effectively decimate persons with installations  )
In this funny way, it makes sense that designers would focus on specializing the installation (any type, even blaster) for suppressing oncoming machinery---and if it turns out to be effective against infantry, it will only be coincidence, not design.
"In the universe of New Eden, you pay your money for clones to kill clones, because it's expected to be the only effective way to get it 100% done."  Lourde, that sounds so RUTHLESS and cool!
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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