Player Features and Ideas Discussion

...the balancing pass comes for faction ships?


For context to those who don't know :

For years now the Sansha ships have had to endure being completely different from the rest of their faction. Originally they were armor tanking, split laser/missile boats similar to the Typhoon. They excelled at this role when one took to them as Minmatar ships. They didn't do the most damage, but their versatility and ridiculous tanking potential made them devastating in the right hands.

They were changed into shield tanking, high damage laser boats without any real preamble. Separate from the rest of their faction line up, they were brought out of line as part of an initiative to buff them. Although the buff brought them into the lime light, when the other pirate ships were given similar treatment the Sansha's power curve fell sharply. Since the other pirate ships were brought up, the Sansha are the only to have its faction out of order with itself. No other pirate faction was changed as radically, and the Sansha's problem still exists today.


My question : Is there any word on a fix coming to this problem? Will the Sansha finally get their faction fixed to match the 'new' shield ships, or have them reverted? Devblogs have mentioned that every ship in the game will be getting looked at - whats in the books for the Sansha?