It's the planetary combat side of the MMO called EVE, not an FPS as you know it. Vehicles are just as valid as running around and pulling a trigger.

or turn FF on.

It's the planetary combat side of the MMO called EVE, not an FPS as you know it. Vehicles are just as valid as running around and pulling a trigger.

Perhaps you should change your title? I was hoping to hear an analysis of all of today's battles and not piecemeal information from only two used to support our arguments for change in the game. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, only stating your thread title is misleading.

let it play out the devs need to see how vehicle balance works in a competitive environment. disconnects wont be a problem in retail cuz they have much more servers up.

Ok, I've talked to people from a couple of matchs so far. The way it sounds, the vehicles are a serious issue. both for the team with them and the team without them. Basically this is supposed to be a FPSMMORPG and people are playing it like a tank command MMORPG.


I've heard What the French was calling in vehicles in the open all match and couldn't get their player count up until near the end of the match. I imagine that is because they kept disconnecting because I hear U4A had disconnect issues as well. WTF was stupid to keep calling in vehicles in the open instead of at safe locations like the back of their base, and using vehicles was apparently their main strategy. If they had been smart about it they might have done a lot better, but having a low player count at the start makes things very hard.

U4A I've heard more about. From what I hear had trouble with disconnects throughout their match, and one person in their squad reported a total of 6 dropships and 7 tanks total on the other team for the whole match. I don't know how accurate that number is, but I don't doubt it. U4A had one dropship pilot and he disconnected before the match was half over, and one tank pilot who stayed pinned down by 2-4 tanks and 2 dropships pretty much the whole match.

This all seems rather ridiculous. If people are going to spam tanks and dropships all match this game no longer deserves the title of FPS. It's already barely hanging onto the tittle of MMO with all of the lag and disconnects. Right now in the big matches it's a tank command game with playable air support and ground troops. If this keeps up, every corp match is going to depend on who spawns in first with the best/most vehicles or who comes in with the best forge guns/AV grenades (I don't even count swarm launchers since they are pretty useless unless your against a militia vehicle or a LAV).

Basically what I see here is a vehicle balance issue. Might I make a suggestion? Limit vehicles to 1 tank and 2 dropships per team per match in all corp battles. You can leave it alone in regular battles, people need a playground, but in important matches we need to keep things fair for ground troops. This will let people who spec into these roles have the chance to properly participate without feeling left out. You can then decide who is the best tank/dropship pilot in your corp and make sure they are the only ones who call in the vehicles. You'd need to strategize as to whether you call in your tank/dropship right away or to wait till later in the match, so people who spawn in with AV fits first thing have to switch up or get shot.

Side note: Dropships are being used as attack ships. This is ridiculous as well. A suggestion maybe? Make blaster turrets the only turrets available on them. They can then be used as anti infantry as the ship sets down and can't be abused for attack ships. Spamming rocket's across the map where no weapons can hit it with any accuracy is insane for dropship. Alternately, add a LOT of recoil that throws the ship sideways hard whenever the missile turrets are used. This will require turret users to have to be careful about when they shoot instead of just bombarding objectives with flying death while their team hacks it.
I'll be posting these two last things in the suggestions section.

I personally believe vehicles have a place in FPS games. Maybe we need to stop thinking about FPS as just a run and shoot type game and as a battle simulator.

let it play out the devs need to see how vehicle balance works in a competitive environment. disconnects wont be a problem in retail cuz they have much more servers up.

I don't disagree, I'm not saying remove them altogether. I'm saying they need to be less available for spamming. Money will be almost no issue once EVE is fully linked in. That means as bad as it is now, it will be 100 times worse when money is no longer an issue. If this is going to be a FPS then make it so that FPS is the main focus, not vehicles. In a match with masses of vehicles on the field it makes coming in as anything but AV pointless and a waste of ISK/SP. And there goes the casual FPS crowd we need to fill in the ranks.

If CCP didn't want vehicles to be used, then they wouldn't have put them in the game. It's a valid tactic. Perhaps other corps should bring AV fits to counter them. Replacing vehicles that get blown up doesn't mean anything either, that's not vehicle spamming, that's just replacing vehicles so your strategy still works.

Face it. You will never convince everyone to believe in your interpretation of what an fps really is. Again, agree to disagree.

Now that I think about it. How many fps games recently released don't have vehicles in them?

OP have you been playing crysis 2 lately?

Serious question like your one about what fps game has tanks and dropships( ok you get a point,yet you do get gunships,pavelows and AC-130 so I'll take that point back )

What fps has no tanks and 'dropships'? Is the better question I would imagine.

How many times must I say this? I NEVER SAID NO TANKS OR DROPSHIPS! ARE YOU ALL DAFT OR JUST PLAYING IGNORANT?! LIMITS! I said LIMITS! I am NOT saying take them out. And I KNOW other games have them. They are also LIMITED in other FPS games, which is what I am suggesting HERE. And I said NO limits on regular matches, only in CORP battles. LEARN TO READ you illiterate b*astards.

As I mentioned multiple times in other threads, the state of the market will one day determine the value of the weapons and vehicles based on supply and demand, player controlled manufacturing, individual income, and availability of resources needed to produce said items. The market will be limited at first, but given enough time it will balance out even with the isk flowing.

In eve online only the powerful alliances have massive isk because they were able to corner various markets and monopolize on certain goods such as hulk production and oxygen isotopes.

Besides, if ccp decides to impose a heavy tax on isk transfers between an eve and dust, then your concern about the excessive isk flow will not be so much of a concern.

Responding like that is not going to help your case. Less CAPS, less attitude, and more calmness please.

How many times must I say this? I NEVER SAID NO TANKS OR DROPSHIPS! ARE YOU ALL DAFT OR JUST PLAYING IGNORANT?! LIMITS! I said LIMITS! I am NOT saying take them out. And I KNOW other games have them. They are also LIMITED in other FPS games, which is what I am suggesting HERE. And I said NO limits on regular matches, only in CORP battles. LEARN TO READ you illiterate b*astards.

Thank you very much Macken Tosh for all of the actually CONSTRUCTIVE responses. You make a valid point once again, however as long as there is no real limit on vehicles, regardless of how large the taxes are, there will always be people grinding in every corp in order to make sure their vehicle supply stays full enough to flood the field.

ONCE AGAIN, I NEVER SAID REMOVE THEM. Read the whole post before you post pointless things that I already covered. A limit on the number is not unreasonable, and as I just said one post ago there is no point to spending SP/ISK on non AV fits or vehicles if every enemy on the field is in a tank or dropship. That removes the necessity of having ground troops for anything other than manning turrets and jumping out to quickly cap objectives.

Lol I read your post where you were saying what fps genre game had a tank commando or dropships. I gave you an answer.

No need to be angry. I didn't say you wanted the vehicles removed from game. You made a stupid statement. I showed you were it was flawed.

Now take that butthurt somewhere else. Passing your angry monkeys on to me for nothing.