Topic: Explosion damage needs to be lowered.
I want to start off by thanking you for providing clean and clear dialogue and I am asking very kindly we keep Corporation dialogue where it belongs. Thank you.
There have been a number of changes with balancing and speed and mass in the past 6 months but we haven't seen anything about explosion damage. I have some questions because I am unclear of a few things.
What is the ACUTUAL explosion damage calculation equation for radius of explosion and damage done?
Range and DPS were lowered 20% in the rebalancing post, but one of the most destructive weapons in the game remained unchanged: explosion damage. Why wasn't that lowered?
In honesty I love explosion damage it provides a realistic feel to the game but in this game the penalty is massive!
I want to post some simple pros and cons:
Pros:
Adds a realistic feel to content.
Losers of a fight can still inflict major consequences to the winning forces causing both sides to always lose something in pvp.
Can easily camp gates with certain bomb fits.
Cons:
Losers of a fight can still inflict major consequences to the winning forces causing both sides to always lose something in pvp.
Can easily camp gates with certain bomb fits.
Bringing New players into a fleet fight becomes a liability
Explosion damage can easily change the tide of a fight with one guy exploding in the group
It's not new player friendly
too hardcore for most players.
It Causes snow balling effect.
One huge disadvantage to it is with Logistic Robot pilots(Yes they do exist) you know the guys playing medic in the backgroup throwing out remote armor repairs and energy transfers they have to be within 300 M of you. These guys soak up damage because they have to be in the back pockets of the people on the front line, so if they are at half shields and someone blows up most likely they are going to end up soaking up huge chunks of damage if not being killed itself. And when someone goes bomb in the middle of the group, well let's just say we have seen many a chain reactions...
So what's everyone's thoughts?