The PS fired from the warbarge eliminates the need to have an EVE buddy dropping the rain. (The only working link between EVE and Dust ATM)

I feel like this strike shouldn't be available and if you want to drop a strike in you need somebody in orbit.

Or if you want to keep your anti-social strike it needs to be nerfed. It is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy to effective for a free strike.

Yeah, it's broken on that particular map right now. The roofs used to protect you, but for some reason they don't any longer. Other roofs do, but not those two. I remember running to hide underneath and cheering because I made it only to die and scream, WHAAAT?!?!?! RARGH. I am assuming it's a bug and not WAD.

I'd much rather see a nerf on the Mass Driver splash damage radius.


Orbital Strikes, while fatal, are usually a one-per-squad thing. (Two or three if you're in a good one)

From my experience; people lose more tanks to Demolitionists' mines, swarm launchers, and forge guns than they do to Orbitals.

There is nothing wrong with the mechanic as is.

Warbarge Precession Strikes are free. How much SP did you have to invest to use it? How much isk did it cost to put that warbarge up there to drop the rain?

The PS is just a get rid of tank button for all you jackrabits that didn't put SP into AV. It is completely unbalanced and a broken mechanic. Not to mention that it eliminates the need for an EVE pilot to support you (The only link dust and eve have)

If they keep this broken mechanic it needs to get smacked by the nerf bat, because why buy the cow if your getting the milk for free?

It's a weapon shot from orbit, how does it make sense that tanks should be able to survive them? yes you don't have to put sp into calling them in, because it wouldn't make a huge amount of sense to put in a skill that everyone will skill up to max as quickly as they can, and then we will be in the same situation we are now except we've all wasted a load of sp to get back to the exact same spot. and it's my understanding that instant battles take place in hi sec and concord has a thing about people shooting planets so npc warbarge strikes are the only things we can get.

Make it a SP sink then, Flyingconejo had a good idea for it. And how is the npc different then a person shooting a planet?

By that logic we shouldn't even have Precision Strikes in pubbies, (I would be fine with that)

Basically what you are saying is I didn't spec into AV and I don't want to lose my crutch.

What I'm saying is that I've put a minimal amount of sp into AV so I do some damage and I can easily lose my dropship to a couple of swarms or forge gun hit, so watching tankers qq about dying after being shot from space doesn't hold much weight.

And before you say anything else I know that you're acting incredibly biased towards your vehicles, we all do it to some extent.

At least when I get killed by a forge I know the guy at least had to aim and out play me. Swarms with their LOL lock on are a no skill weapon but atleast someone had to put SP into to be effective. The Free PS is a no skill no SP broken game mechanic and needs to be looked at.

And I commend you for still flying dropships after the only turret that could effectively protect them was nerfed into oblivion.

Warbarge Precession Strikes are free. How much SP did you have to invest to use it? How much isk did it cost to put that warbarge up there to drop the rain?

The PS is just a get rid of tank button for all you jackrabits that didn't put SP into AV. It is completely unbalanced and a broken mechanic. Not to mention that it eliminates the need for an EVE pilot to support you (The only link dust and eve have)

If they keep this broken mechanic it needs to get smacked by the nerf bat, because why buy the cow if your getting the milk for free?

Your problem with OB's are it's AV capabilities? And you want a nerf for that!? Lmao Sounds to me like you're just butthurt because you've gotten your tank taken out 1 too many times by teams that are good enough to actually earn an OB. We should total nerf the OB's because they shouldn't be able to take out HAV's right All my of AV is militia/starter grade, pretty free right, should that be nerfed too?

The only issue with OB's is that they come a little too frequently. Like I said earlier, I would like to see a 3000 WP requirement instead of our current 2500. Or like someone else mentioned, increase the WP needed to use every consecutive OB by 500.

Your problem with OB's are it's AV capabilities? And you want a nerf for that!? Lmao Sounds to me like you're just butthurt because you've gotten your tank taken out 1 too many times by teams that are good enough to actually earn an OB. We should total nerf the OB's because they shouldn't be able to take out HAV's right All my of AV is militia/starter grade, pretty free right, should that be nerfed too?

The only issue with OB's is that they come a little too frequently. Like I said earlier, I would like to see a 3000 WP requirement instead of our current 2500. Or like someone else mentioned, increase the WP needed to use every consecutive OB by 500.

That's the problem, you said by teams that were good enough to earn them. Anyone can get an OB, it's the easiest thing to do, I can get them solo. They are way to easy to get.

When squaded up we earn 3-5 OB's a game...

All I hear from you is please don't take away my get rid of tank button, because I didn't spec into AV

You should have to spec into the ability to call in a Free OB

The PS fired from the warbarge eliminates the need to have an EVE buddy dropping the rain. (The only working link between EVE and Dust ATM)

I feel like this strike shouldn't be available and if you want to drop a strike in you need somebody in orbit.

Or if you want to keep your anti-social strike it needs to be nerfed. It is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy to effective for a free strike.

Which is why I'm calling for a WP increase to call them in, I said 500 but even a 1000 WP Increase to 3500 per OB would be acceptable in my book.

If you want to go the increase each OB Called in by 500 WP. Make it so that it applies to the whole team. For example-

Squad 1 and 2 have both earned 3000 WP and are ready to call in an OB.
Squad 1 calls in OB.
Squad 2 loses current OB and must now earn another 500 WP to call in OB.
Squad 1 now needs to earn 4000 WP to call in their next OB.

Hope that made sense.

It's not free...2500 WP needs to be accumulated before its awarded. But I'm sure you knew that.....

Again your issue with OB'sare it's AV capabilities. Sorry but that's not even an issue. OB's should be more than capable of taking out tanks. OB's are meant to take out everything in it's proximity on the ground, your tank is nothing special to be excused from this mechanic. Even if they did make it a skill to call in OB's, every squad leader would obviously be skilled in it and you'd be right back here again QQing in another thread because your tanks will still be taken out.

I get what you mean, but the problem with that is that it would make it harder for squads of new players to call in OB's. for example

squad 1 is made up of experenced players from a good corp
squad 2 is made up of new players who have made their own corp and are just starting out
now squad 1 knows all the tricks to maximise wp gain and go down far less than squad 2 due to their equipment and skill
squad 1 hits the first orbital and calls it in squad 2 have just earned 1000wp
now under your system squad 2 needs to earn even more wp, that system would just mean that only the top squad on a team would get to call OB's in and it would make it much harder for new players to use one of dust's coolest mechanics.