Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There's not much to verify, frankly. The theory is fine, although the actual tactical utility is debatable.

When you hit siege, your mass increases by a factor of 10. If you're at full speed, then you'll take forever to slow down, and because you're sieged you're immune to webs. So you spend the entire siege cycle moving at about 70 m/s.

Your missile DPS is applied normally, assuming that hostile caps are largely stationary - which the turret ones need to be under normal circumstances because of tracking. However, hostile dreads trying to track you will have difficulties, because you're still moving at 70 m/s, reducing your received damage. Of course, blap dreads have relatively good tracking so this will be less effective, and since you can't change direction of flight of your Phoenix, then might just end up flying almost directly away from the target dreads, giving them no real difficulties in tracking you.

The Phoenix's problems are to do with a) the utter dominance of armour tanking at the capital level, b) the existence of the Moros and c) the far greater difficulty of using cap missiles in a blap role.

A can be dealt with by balancing Slaves and the Archon appropriately; B by removing the Moros's stupid ROF bonus, but C would either require severe changes to the tracking formula, or to the stats of citadel missiles. I'm not convinced that blap (super)capitals is good for the game, so the tracking formula rework hinted at by CCP after the blap Titan silliness might be the way forward there.

Even after those changes, further boost to shield caps may be required to force people to move away from their currently-trained Moroses and Archons. The greater abundance of EM/thermal damage over Explosive in large scale combat also dissuades use of shield caps.

Failing that, just make the Phoenix a shield hybrid dread. Maybe ROF and optimal range? It would probably still look a bit lacklustre in comparison to the Moros's ROF and damage, though.

currently only things we can do is
snipe from 250k away with citadel cruise for 4.5k dps with 76k volly with only 2 mins on local tank
or
facemelt with 75km (probably much lower in winter) with citadel torps at 127k volly and 9.7k dps again only 2 mins on cap.

this is concerning me cause of the fact the other dreads can easly get 5 to 10 mins to last their siege cycle so they can get reps.

ps. make nag/phoenix have 3 turret slots and missle slots so they can be either/or gunnery or missle ships. and while your at it give the rokh 6 or 7 launcher slots too!!

http://eve.battleclinic.com/loadout/64145-Nano-Phoenix.html

As requested. Haven't tested it but it seems like it'd work.

DPS is still low compared to everything but it certainly would be hilarious to see a fleet of these