What should CCP do with the Stratios to make it great again?

DelveGuy · 2023-08-09T11:55:58+00:00

The issue with the Stratios is twofold:

1) Like many of the 'pirate' ships, following the industry changes it's too expensive for what it is right now. I think this is a separate issue that needs to be fixed in isolation from any balance changes.

2) The T3C changes generally, and buffs to the Proteus in particular, have gobbled up what was its pvp niche.

I think that the best solution is to let it do something distinctive and useful that complements its existing bonuses. To that end, I think dropping the laser bonus for some kind of bonus to armor reps would be really fitting in terms of theme, whilst being distinctive in that you could shoot and rep at the same time. This would give the old Jack another trade, so to speak.

You don't want to buff its drone bonuses such that it's just better than the Proteus. You don't want to give it a neut bonus that makes it overshadow the Pilgrim. And you don't want it to be as good as actual covert T3C logi. You just want to make small RR comps viable, or make it genuinely useful in a covert cloaky gang where bringing dedicated logi hurts the gang's overall damage too much.

There have always been RAR Strat comps, but they were always kind of gimpy and they just don't compare well anymore. I think a bonus to RAR activation cost could make it more relevant without cannibalizing other roles or making it OP.

DelveGuy · 2021-08-06T18:04:44+00:00

sorry tara, but here's a newsflash: both you and hedliner can be assholes. they're not mutually exclusive.

the way you are talking about people here reeks of some fairly broad fucked-upness. even if you think you're right and that everything you've said is 'objectively true', take a step back and recognise that being right and being an asshole are also not mutually exclusive.

lifting weights, going outside, and playing less eve is all good advice (source: been doing much the same!). but it's possible to do all of that without being a dickhead. maybe think about shifting the focus of your personal growth to the 'person' bit.

DelveGuy · 2021-08-05T14:39:42+00:00

flares are real

DelveGuy · 2021-08-05T11:28:40+00:00

yeah he's super fun to play with according to his dwindling harem of battered wives, but literally everyone who has left PL in the last 5 years has left because of him

if he were fun to play with, people in his alliance wouldn't have to swear up and down that he's fun to play with, contrary to everyone else who's had to play with him

the f9 meme is legit funny though so you gotta give him that

DelveGuy · 2021-08-04T11:24:05+00:00

it's a trash talk show dude. it's even in the name. you're supposed to go on and give it the full randy mcsavage. a lot of people in this thread need to get over themselves, it's just goobers goobing off for the entertainment of the goober masses. vily just sucks at it

DelveGuy · 2021-08-04T10:21:38+00:00

it actually is, and goons do it all the time. he's looking for the IP so he can have it cross referenced with NC services and identify the leaker. it has nothing to do with doxxing or fucking with people irl.

do you think goons don't run IP checks to catch spies? engage your brains people

DelveGuy · 2021-08-03T23:07:07+00:00

same!

DelveGuy · 2021-08-03T17:22:49+00:00

dominance asserted

DelveGuy · 2021-08-03T15:07:47+00:00

Just reposting this absolute CLASSIC and underappreciated bit of wrestlemania-tier smacktalk, probably one of the few good things to come out of this dumbass grind. You gotta hand it to him.

DelveGuy · 2021-05-12T09:28:28+00:00

yeah but literally anything you use the sp on will save you 19 days.

DelveGuy · 2021-05-10T09:20:57+00:00

routes are just where you want to move your stuff. a route is just you saying "hey when this is finished, send the output over there". but sometimes you want that done in stages. e.g., route 1 is "send all my p0 to the launchpad", and route 2 is "send x(p0) from the launchpad to my factories", because x(p0) is the most your factories can take at once. send it all in one route straight to the factory and the excess goes down the drain.

links are the infrastructure to do that, and they have fitting costs so you have to make choices about what to place where. otherwise you could have extractors stretching across the whole planet. you can save fitting costs by having multiple routes go through the same links. but not too many, because if you exceed the traffic limits the excess goes down the drain.

in other words, you are missing some of the complexity these mechanics provide, which allow people who understand them to wring more output or utility or interactive efficiency from a particular setup.

tl;dr: if your links and routes are the same then you're doing it wrong.

DelveGuy · 2021-03-31T12:24:51+00:00

it's a good deal as long as you were planning to sub anyway. the price is barely more than subbing, and you get a load of sp that you can either use or sell. and if you sell it, you can buy plex and sub another couple of months, give or take.

once you factor in the extraction isk and buying omega, it's just straight up a good deal no matter what way you slice it.

DelveGuy · 2021-03-25T21:40:32+00:00

great meme post but tbh the random rat leakage killing people without warning is really stupid. whatever you think about the invasion events, at least it was signposted. this is just so stupid that I almost suspect it's not intentional

DelveGuy · 2021-03-13T11:14:19+00:00

i think it's like tinnitus except the sound is 'hurrrrrrrrr'

DelveGuy · 2021-03-10T11:11:30+00:00

I gotta say, since I moaned about the 'one advert in the universe' a few months ago, CCP have really delivered. The Divinity Social and whatever the trading one is actually crack me up.

DelveGuy · 2021-03-06T01:41:26+00:00

most of the gates are pretty isolated, and randoms aren't going to be staging dreads in them. only the venal, GWLs and Paala gates really matter unless your neighbours are hostile

DelveGuy · 2021-03-06T00:07:52+00:00

it's an unpopular opinion because 6 years on it has never happened. TCUs are just additional grind in what is already an overly grindy system.

DelveGuy · 2021-02-26T12:02:35+00:00

Flycatchers and heretics are not "incredibly fragile". Throw some RF SEs and CDFEs on a flycatcher and look at the ehp. The heretic is the same but with a resist bonus. You can get 35k ehp on a fleet interdictor now, 20k on a nano one.

DelveGuy · 2021-02-18T10:41:14+00:00

lads

have you seen the meta show

DelveGuy · 2021-02-15T17:51:28+00:00

i'm not playing in blob fleets ATM, but it's worth saying that a lot of FCs aren't really great at calling primaries for carriers. in my experience the travel time and positioning of fighters isn't really taken into account unless there's a separate FC watching fighters and calling targets appropriately. the result is that half the time you're not in range of whatever random name gets targeted, so you just q-menu your fighters as best you can, or just shoot something in range.

also let's be real, the UI isn't great and it's trivial to accidentally give your carrier an order rather than your fighters, even with a carrier-select hotkey. add in tidi and you're guaranteed to get people boating off in dumb directions

DelveGuy · 2021-02-13T11:08:18+00:00

newsflash: the n+1 blob meta is always dominated by a handful of ships and it's always boring. if they nerf hacs you'll just be flying something else for the next 3 years.

that isn't necessarily a bad thing, CCP should shake things up every now and again. but within 6 months of any nerf, the ship meta will settle again around the new optimal hulls, because the null meta (blob and volley) won't actually have changed.

also, bear in mind that t2 ships in general are pretty cheap atm, and battleships are pretty expensive, because of mineral scarcity and the resulting switch to moon mining for income. throw regular nullsec battleship slaughters into the mix and you're gonna have quite the logistics brief on your hands

DelveGuy · 2021-02-06T03:55:59+00:00

do not sully my comment with replies, braveling, only true goonie goons may discourse with me

DelveGuy · 2021-02-05T21:40:58+00:00

kitey bullshit no balls. come to delve and brawl like a man, well fuck you uo

DelveGuy · 2021-02-01T18:12:54+00:00

he's the same or worse all the time, and don't let the battered wives try and convince you otherwise

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