Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi friends of eve online (players like me and ccp),

im not god with writing down my thoughts thats why im also not much into forums so bear with me.

Now to my ideas for future development in Eve-Online.


1.a) Changing the Cruiser Category (Thorax as an example) from cruisers to light cruiser.
b) Creating a Heavy Cruiser Ship Category, which will get tier 1 and tier 2 battlecruisers (Drake, Harbinger as examples)
assigned, because those ships are in my opinion not true battlecruisers (Definition Battlecruiser: Battleship weapons,
armor and speed of a cruiser)
c) Filling up the heavy cruisers and battlecruisers now with new ships. For battlecruiser i think the Gallente would need
a drone boat, Caldari need missile boat, amarr either drones ala arbitrator or Torpedos ala Sacrilege and for the
minmatar im not sure.

2) As u guys know, missiles can be intercepted because they are much bigger and slower compared to projectile, laser
(yeah i know intercepting protons is a pain in the butt) and hybrid weapons. So here are my thoughts on that.
a) Introducing faction specific anti-missile systems, which produce the highest Damage on Missiles, less Damage on
Fighters, Fighter Bombers and Drones and pretty much no Damage on Ships.
b) Introducing High-Slot items to blend or confuse those anti-missile-defense-systems and increasing your chance to
get through them.
c) Increasing the Damage of Missiles to counter the before mentioned increase of defense.
d) Introducing a Ship which will be a pure anti-missile-defense-platform (maybe destroyer), which will be the only ship
capable to fit those Systems efficiently.

3) Creating a new Battleship sized ship. I'm calling it Fast Fleet Auxiliaries because their role is pretty much that of a
Logistic with Cargohold for alot of cap boosters. It will have a higher Speed and slightly less tank compared to Battleships.
The logistic capabilities should be that of a current logistic ship (Sensor Strength, max targets and rep capabilities). Its
role would be simple support your fleet and deliver fuel (cap boosters) for long fleet operations cut off from supply.

4) Ideas where i like the concept but didnt put much into thinking it through.
- Siege-Battleship = Battleship-Hull with XL-Guns
- Escort-Carrier = Battleship-Hull with Long Range Damage Support through guns,drones and fighters. No Logistic
Support whatsoever.

Hope you guys like my ideas. Constructive criticism is welcomed and thx for reading.

PS.: i hope i put it in the correct place of the forums

Yes i know. Thats why i'm thinking along those lines to recategorize them. Because i think im not the only one who thinks
that tier 1 and tier 2 battlecruisers arent really battlecruisers, by wet navy definitions atleast. ^^



I know that balancing this will be complicated. But realy they started it along time ago with defender missiles so they need
to think more along those lines.



I never found any mentioning introducing a second logi to fill this role.

I'm certainly not on board.

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@FireT:
I would have been surprised if those thoughts were uniquely mine. Many people are reading the same books i read and where i derived my ideas from. And as i said that is my personal wishlist. Highest Priority on this wishlist would be a Flak-Destroyer as Missile-Defense-System so.



Dreadnoughts are a Ship Class of their own, also named after the Battleship HMS Dreadnaught because of her firepower, armor and size.



This is an argument i pretty much anticipated, because i can't classify them 100% but u are correct that they come closer as anything else to being a heavy cruiser, aside from those tier 1 and tier 2 battlecruisers.


This has nothing todo with the before mentioned.

That Flak System will not only effect Caldari. They will be the most effected yes, but minmatar and some amarr ships are also missile users.

Now to the System i will try to explain it on an example:

Attackers 4 Drakes
Defenders 1 Brutix and 1 Flak-Destroyer.

Those 4 Drakes will have to destroy the Flak-Destroyer first. The Drakes are 7 heavy missile launcher fitted and no penetration aids and the Destroyer will stop 75% of all fired missiles in his direction (Flak is automatically shooting at the missiles when activated, you have .5km optimal and 5.5km falloff which will influence the efficiency). This means 21 missiles will be destroyed
before hitting their target.

Now we take those Drakes and add one of those high-slot penetration aids. Those penetration aids giving a boni on the missile damage and survivibility against Anti-Missile-Systems. So they will now fire 28 Missiles where 37.5% would be intercepted, which means 10 to 11 missiles. Now u would have higher Damage per Missile and less intercepted.

The next step would be to remove one heavy missile launcher and add another penetration aid. Now those drakes are firing 24 Missiles where 16.5% will be intercepted, that would be around 4 missiles. Now you would have 18 missiles again which would hit their target with a raised again damage per missile.

Overall that would give the caldari a boost in 1v1 fights, in fleet fights from small to heavy those anti-missile-destroyer would play an important role to negate some damage and support your fleet. The Problem will be to balance it in a way that if u have multiple anti-missile-destroyers some missiles still can penetrate your defense ring and take them out.

I concure that the basic is already in the game with defender missiles. I also aknowledge that my percentages are in a rly bad need of balancing they should just make the concept visible. And now to my thinking is that there is a ship role which is missing in my opinion, 2nd i rly would like to see race specific missile defense systems for that ship and last but not least if u have a defense system normaly u try to counter it and thats where those penetration aids come in.


PS @Ruareve: Hail to Duchess, Steadholder and Fleet Admiral Honor Harrington :P, also i prefer Shanon Foraker