Alena Ventrallis
Vengeance Unbound
Dark Taboo
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Posted - 2014.09.28 01:37:00 -
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Soraya Xel wrote:a brackers wrote:You are still massively overstating our effectiveness. Nope. The numbers don't lie. CCP has statistics on this crud.
Nor do the numbers tell the entire story. An example: the longbow is a superior weapon in every way to the musket. It is more accurate, can shoot faster, requires less maintenance, can be made my a single person, and works in foul weather. Why then did the Patriots in the Revolutionary War use muskets instead of longbows? The numbers show us that the bow is superior to the musket, but the numbers are leaving out some crucial parts. First, it takes far more training time to be proficient with a bow than with a musket. You must begin practicing with a bow at a young age (most tribes began bow training at 7 years of age) while muskets take about a week to learn proficiently. Next, muskets make a tremendously loud noise, and this provides a psychological advantage to war. Loud noises are scary. That's the point of the war cry; making noise to scare your opponent. So the musket going BLAM BLAM BLAM versus the bow going twoink twoink twoink means the musket user can scare the bow user off, even though the bow user has the advantage of range, accuracy, and fire rate.
In this way, the numbers (which by the way, none of the community has seen) may show dropships as being OP, but those spreadsheets aren't showing you the whole story. They don't show how I use my blaster tanks to run interference for my friends Dergle and Boss SobanRe, drawing AV fire for them so they can swoop in and annihilate the swarm nest. They don't show how my faction warfare friends use dropships to get people to spawn in AV fits so that our infantry players can push the point while facing mainly a bunch of sidearms to our rifles. They don't show how I used my Python to fling two HMG users on top of a water tower where a nest of forges was dug in, forges that had shot me down twice before we got the idea to send in someone to deal with them.
You can't base everything solely on the numbers. You must include how those numbers are being used before you can call something OP or not. This is why the ADS community has been offering to provide ADS to Rattati to show him what it's like from the cockpit of an ADS, an offer that I still regard as available to him should he want to fly with me. He seems to have numbers and his experiences on the ground, but he's missing a crucial part of the equation: any experience in the air.
Listen to my muscle memory
Contemplate what I've been clinging to
Forty-six and two ahead of me
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