Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Tristan and Kestrel are already pretty studly ships.

Love the changes. The nag can be turning into the ultimate tracking dread ^^ with the burst tank of shield + slightly higher dps than a moros if fit right.

I don't give a damn about what you see, because your point of view is only one perspective. On my end I see far more beam coercers than rail cormorants. In fact, I've seen a grand total of maybe two of the latter, ever, mostly used to drive out long-ranged plexers.

not every possible battle is a group of sniper destroyers being chased by a group of other stuff and having to inflict X damage before being tackled. Poorer damage means that it will be harder to kill something before it just warps out, unless you're working with closer-range tackle in which case poorer damage means that the tackle is likely to die before you can do anything about it.

Just gonna note that the myrmidon has a blank turret spot now


Steve is sad. Nobody likes a sad Steve.

since you are V3ing capitals i think its a good opportunity to give a 3rd turret to the Nag, not doing that now its just laziness.

about frig rebalancing, i dont see how a +50 armor its going to fix the rifter, change the bonus give the thing more fittings because atm its just terrible compared to the others, i can understand you want to keep the utility high but its impossible to fit anything there with some tank, give it some fitting so you can fit mwd nos guns and either a medium SE or a 400mm plate and then it might be decent, or just change the bonuses (it have the same bonuses of the slasher) give it a 5% rof instead of damage and maybe a falloff bonus instead of tracking and then it might have a use.

i dont see any problem with the breacher it can hold its own against pretty much every other frigs not that +50 hull will make it OP anyway

the punisher like the rifter its ridiculized by the the merlin and incursus give it better bonuses it wont be able to hold its target solo but at least it might have an use in gangs

no, +50 armor will fix everything.

Can't say I wouldn't welcome such idea, maybe even it would be good to introduce a second dread to each race, being more designed for fleet engagements than shooting stationary structures.
One of their bonuses would be for tracking, optimal or faloff (or missile explosion velocity, if Minmatar one goes the way of Talwar & Cyclone)
Second bonus would be defensive, so either resists or repair/boost amount.
No damage bonuses, so they would have slightly lower DPS than current dreads but being more likely to hit other ships and have greater survivability.

I wouldn't mind some Coercer buffs, personally. It's hard to fit, can only use its biggest guns in EXTREMELY gimped fits, and has a paper tank. But I never brawl in my Coercers. I prefer to turn on the MWD, drop the point, load Scorch, and apply ~250 DPS at 20-25km. Brawling is bad, because no tank is bad.



My corpmates almost never use Coraxes. Something to do with everything the Corax does, the Caracal does better. But I don't know what it is about the Talwar that makes them use that instead, but they go crazy over it.

The only benefit to the Corax over the Caracal is that it's a destroyer (people will engage a destroyer when they wouldn't a cruiser, it can get in small plexes, and people will only bring a half dozen cruisers to kill a Corax, as opposed to the few dozen for a Caracal), and the 50% explosion velocity.

I still think that ewar needs to be looked at. Kiting TD meta is a bit broken, especially in t1 frigate land.

Yup. The main problems with ewar atm are

1) It costs too little cap. Like WAY too little cap.

2) Scripts are too powerful. They should be -75/+50 instead of -100/+100

3) They are too easy to fit