woensdag 9 november 2011

Tier 3 Batllecruisers: Capital class killers or the rise of the new suicide ganker

In the next expansion for EvE Online, winter 2011, we are getting new batllecruisers.
The Amarr Oracle, the Caldari Naga,the Gallente Tallos and the Minmatar Tornado.

First off is that all these are based from or directly taken from the top 10 from the 'Create a starship' competition that ran a while back. And besides the Oracle, they were designed as battleships. CCP decided to turn them over into battlecruisers but with a twist. Officially to fill the gap between battlecruisers and battleships.

Hence this will be battlecruisers capable of using battleship weapons. (Anyone remember the miniature gun Will Smith used in the first M.I.B. movie)

But what role will these new ships play, well from what we know about the super capital and capital nerf upcoming it would be safe to say that they are meant to engage capitals and super capitals. It will take longer for them to be targeted then battleships although they probably die faster.

Off course were there price to drop to that of the 'classic' battlecruiser, they could effectivly replace battleships as the main Freighter suicide ganker, and begin a whole new level of piracy, that could really hurt the EvE economy.

A solution to this would be like suggested on the evenews24 site to invalid insurance if concord or any NPC police is the one who destroyed the ship. That or give concord the ability to pod kill within the first 15 minutes of the aggression.

OK, an update to the post
  1. Should have been winter 2011
  2. The winter expansion is called Crucible

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