Jonquill Caronite
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.08 05:51:00 -
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As a Sagaris driver I'll tell you why in most battles everyone and their mother isnt in one of these beasts... Simply put, its because of two things, Prototype Heavies with Forge Guns, Prototype Dropships, and other tanks.
Simply put, losing a Sagaris scraps your game. If you lost two in a row, in two seperate battles or in the same map, you're heavilly in the negative, and unless you have a good Million+ ISK buffer your not going to be able to keep it up for long. Now granted that's a limited number of weaknesses, but you have to note, they all cost a fraction of what a Sagaris costs to rig up and be the Super Tank your talking about. For a Prototype Heavy that costs less then 100,000 ISK to take me out, or a dropship driver to gover above me while his team takes points and suppresses swarmers, it not that difficult, and makes it hard to field tanks.
Once and awhile you'll hear about a Sagaris driver who dies and fields a second one in the same battle, but usually this just isn't the case, its such a major loss that putting another one out makes no sense..
FINAL POINT, and this one is the key, there will NEVER be all Sagaris versus all Sagaris... This deserves its own thread. The reason is simple... Sagaris kill Sagaris easily, and if you have two teams with multiple they quickly wittle down to only one team having a few, or a TON of really broke tank drivers who won't be that stupid again. The simple answer to the question why aren't we all in tanks, is an economic question, its simply economically unstable and inviable for everyone to run around in tanks, if we did we would quickly all be broke.
Now if one team fielded all Sagaris tanks what would happen is a good question, I suspect what would happen is they'd all end up hiding under cover as a prototype Dropship went to maximum altitude in the middle of the map and rained TII missiles on their heads until a few popped and the rest were scared... At this point the enemy owns control point C because it can be gaurded from cover, but A and B are free for the pickings..
The key here is, even if the Sagaris is unbalanced and only Sagaris drivers can effectively compete with each other (Which isn't the case), it will never turn into all tanks on tanks, because frankly no team will ever be able to afford that.... Economics economics economics... |
Jonquill Caronite
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
115
|
Posted - 2012.07.09 03:19:00 -
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Noc Tempre wrote:Kyy Seiska wrote:Noc Tempre wrote:I think it is funny that there is so much hate for shield tanking when I know for a fact armor tanks are consistently stronger. A Surya will rep more raw hp and EHP AND have a bigger buffer. I like the Sagaris better because I dislike being a brick, even if that brick is sturdier. it's not a single tank type, its these armored vehicles that are fitted to have insanely high shield hp in general. Having high armor is fine, as it takes ages to regenerate if it regenerates at all. This is simply bad intel. An armor tank will heal faster than a shield tank, period, because the active reps are almost twice as powerful.
You also trade Turret Damage modifier potential if you run an Armor tank =), although I DO like the idea of a Gallente Glass Cannon with support that's ALL damage modifier and gank running around popping Sagaris's in one shot =D. |