Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Why all HAC's have drone bays except Zealot? I think ship, that costs like BS or more, must have drone bay for 5 light drones!

I like the idea of 3 guns with a 100% damage role bonus. It would also be nice if all HACs then had 1 (or 2) utility highs, too many of them have been removed lately yes i'm looking at you megathron).

Posting to reiterate that I think this would solve, across the board, 90% of HAC issues. It would give them BC sized DPS with utility slots and high-resist, low-hp tanks and cruiser speeds.

A few ships need their speed and agility looked at, I think, but this change might justify the price tag of HACs.

I don't think that last part can be over-emphasized. CCP Rise, I'm looking at you.

I feel that bonus would make for alot more blob and alpha fleets which are already good. but you never know what might be a great idea

See now this is something alot of people can debate without having walls of useless text.

Combat: (These ships will be made from close range brawling and will have higher EHP or resist, however they will be slow and have less utility)
Role Bonus: 60-100% to damage of its races close range medium weapon
the bonus will start a 60% when having Hacs trainned to Lvl I and will been at 100% when trainned to V

this will work alot like how the bonus for cpu for cloaks worked on recons or bonuses for logis.)
main reason for only close range weapons is to avoid them be OP and make more alpha fleets.

Assault: (Ships of this class would also have higher utility and are made for kitting and more support roles)
Role bonus: -60% to -100% Reduction in MWD Sig Radius
(reason for this is becuase even with a -50% bonus its sig will still be huge.)
the bonus will also start at -60% and work its way to -100 when having trainned HACs to lvl V



had a silly idea have a hac role for anti-blobs:
Special Bonus max of 20ships target lock this ship at any given time. (aplies to both friend and foe)

FOR THE BRAWLER
I dont think racial damage is the answer.. I think it would bee better to keep the bonus but restrict to to only the close range medium weapons: For example: Autocannons, Blasters, Heavy Assault Missles, Pulse lasersand Medium andor large Combat drones. not sentries

As well as making the ships slower... tank needs to be good since these will be your face ships that will be taking alot of damage. This would make it a really good ship for brawling and it would be worth the ISk without being OP. since the ships would have obvious weaknesses


FOR THE KITTER:
we should remove or greatly reduce the damage bonus so we dont just make more alpha fleets
As weel this bonus should only effect medium long range weapons(Rail guns, Artillery, Beams, medium soute and or sentries)

They said they were diversifying the weapon types across the board. Of course change the Khanid ones to drones would cause an uproar so they don't. Which means they cant change the second minnie ones to missiles or there would be 3 missile races, thus the whole thing was pointless. their whole rebalancing philosophy was about streamlining and now some poor minmatar dude who ground missile skills as no use for them in most t2 ships while the amarr guy suddenly has to train missiles to use half the t2 ships. Dumb as hell and all because some people want khanid ships as amarr ships.

Truth is all the amarr t2 missile ships should be drone boats and khanid navy vessells with missiles should be added (thus fixing the ridiculous get amarr navy ships from the khanid thing). But that would be too much work so they wont.

Kiting missile vaga would certainly diffirentiate well from the cynabal wouldn't it.

HACs should have 4 guns. and the bonus for brawlers should only effect Close range medium weapons and the the Bonus for Kitting should only effect long range medium weapons

Then do this instead, it would make alot of the ships fitt perfectly

Combat: (These ships will be made from close range brawling and will have higher EHP or resist, however they will be slow and have less utility)
Role Bonus: 60-100% to damage of its races close range medium weapon
the bonus will start a 60% when having Hacs trainned to Lvl I and will been at 100% when trainned to V

this will work alot like how the bonus for cpu for cloaks worked on recons or bonuses for logis.)
main reason for only close range weapons is to avoid them be OP and make more alpha fleets.

Assault: (Ships of this class would also have higher utility and are made for kitting and more support roles)
Role bonus: -60% to -100% Reduction in MWD Sig Radius
(reason for this is becuase even with a -50% bonus its sig will still be huge.)
the bonus will also start at -60% and work its way to -100 when having trainned HACs to lvl V

So, what's up with the Ishtar? Why does it still have such low levels of CPU?

Fully supported, this is an epic idea indeed