Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I wonder what you guys think of this as a fleet role for the Black Ops Battleship:

New Role Bonus: Able to use Electronic Warfare against ships normally immune to Electronic Warfare attacks.

Aka Supers.

DEBATE!

The first thing that would need to occur would be that all Black-Ops should have similar (faction specific) EWAR abilities as the Caldari one.
I never understood why the Caldari are the only ones with an EWAR version.

I like the idea and I think it should definitely be done on a capital-priced subcap like the black ops. If they make all tier 1 battleships into ECM/support style, then it'll be even more fitting!

Perhaps it should work like the infini-point. There could be special area EWAR modules they use that can be scripted to affect a single target and surpass all resistances. Widow can have a special ECM burst that maintains its effect over a duration, preventing target locks in the zone of effect (people outside can shoot into the zone of effect), and the others would get a zone of effect module for their EWAR type. Panther would get an area that slows all ships and increases their sig radius. Since slowing and increasing sig radius of a supercap is virtually meaningless, when focused the Panther's module would maybe decrease resistances. Or maybe that would be the standard effect of the module.

Of course, the ship creating the field would be affected by it.

Just some food for thought :)

I don't see this destroying any roles, just adding a new one.

I think the OP meant to keep this in mind when the rebalancing effort eventually gets to Black Ops. They could indeed be completely revamped.

I could see it working like this:

Black Ops Role Bonuses (for all 4):

- Can fit covert cynosural field generators and covert jump portal generators. No targeting delay after decloaking.
- Multiplies the cloaked velocity by 500%.
- Ignores immunity to all types of electronic warfare. (Reminder: this does not include Propulsion Disruption)

Redeemer (Amarr):
Role Bonus:
100% bonus to Large Energy Turret Damage (only gets 4 turret hardpoints, this is to allow it to fit neuts and NOSes)
Amarr Battleship Skill Bonus: 5% Bonus to Large Energy Turret rate of fire and 5% Bonus to Tracking Disruptor Effectiveness per level
Black Ops Skill Bonus: 40% bonus to Energy Vampire and Energy Neutralizer range and 5% bonus to all armor resists per level

The range bonus for the NOS and Neut would give it about the same range on them as on the TDs (>70 km), but it still wouldn't drain the same amounts as a Bhaalgorn (which gets +75%). The resist bonus would help keeping it alive.

Widow (Caldari):

Caldari Battleship Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to cruise and siege missile launcher rate of fire and 10% bonus to cruise missile and torpedo velocity per level

Black Ops Skill Bonus: 30% bonus to ECM target jammer strength and 5% Bonus to all shield resists per level.

Almost no changes here, except the shield resist bonus to help keeping it alive.

Sin (Gallente):

Gallente Battleship Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to large hybrid turret damage and 10% bonus to drone hit points and damage per skill level

Black Ops Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener effectiveness and 5% bonus to all armor resists per level.

Replaced agility with RSD bonus and added armor resist bonus. If the agility is that crucial, just build it in the hull's stats.

Panther (Minmatar)

Minmatar Battleship Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to large projectile turret rate of fire and 5% bonus to large projectile turret damage per level

Black Ops Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to velocity and 5% Bonus to all shield resists per level.

Target Painting Supercapitals seems pointless, so that a part from adding resistances, I don't really see what to do with this one.

Just allow officer ewar/points to work on supers.