Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What I propose is that Marauders role changes to be something a little bit modular, meaning the ship hull itself can have a universal bonus across all races, but have one subsystem slot that allows you to choose between 1 of 3 roles.

Proposed universal bonus on hull: 5% reduced spool up time on Large Micro Jump Drives

This subsystem defines the slot allocation and bonuses, the roles would be like the following:

Caldari
- Caldari Siege Systems
- Caldari Triage Systems
- Caldari Assault Systems

Amarr
- Amarr Siege Systems
- Amarr Triage Systems
- Amarr Assault Systems

Gallente
- Gallente Siege Systems
- Gallente Triage Systems
- Gallente Assault Systems

Minmatar
- Minmatar Siege Systems
- Minmatar Triage Systems
- Minmatar Assault Systems

About the systems:
- Siege: It would be a 4 Hi Slot Loadout with 3 Turret or Launcher hardpoints depending on the racial subsystem and the 4th slot for a newer smaller version of the current siege module, making the ship a Sub-Capital Dreadnought as a first step towards before training a Dreadnought itself. So their is also a way to siege thing more efficiently in Hi Sec but also being more mobile in low sec and null without having to rely on a cyno for travel, and can just ravel by conventional means (ship does not have a jump drive) Large Micro Jump Drives cannot be activated while siege mode is engaged.

- Triage: It would be a 5 Hi Slot Loadout with no weapon hardpoints, it will give the ship bonuses to shield and/or armor transfers and energy transfers, with the 5th slot for a newer smaller version of the current triage module depending on the racial subsystem, making the ship a Sub-Capital Carrier as a first step towards before training a Carrier itself. So their is also a way to bring big reps to the field in Hi Sec but also being more mobile in low sec and null without having to rely on a cyno for travel (ship does not have a jump drive) Large Micro Jump Drives cannot be activated while triage mode is engaged.

- Assault: This would be a hybrid setup between the dreadnought and the carrier by tacking the gun aspects from the dreadnought and taking the drone/fighter aspects from the carrier, making this a combat load out instead of a more focused stand point, meaning that the ship is more for being used in fleet battles etc (ship does not have a jump drive) note will only have a few guns and only be able to have 5 fighters or drones out at once.

If you would like full stats on each ship and subsystem to see how they would turn out, I will do it if enough people ask.

Please redirect to here, thread modifed with alot more info: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=271377&find=unread

Yes....lets turn the marauder into a HiSec machine and make it utterly useless in Low/0.0

A ship that has to siege is a large disadvantage too.....If you are going to siege, and lock down assets, why not use a proper siege ship?

And yes small corps would be-able to use it. But inorder to use a siege ship you would want a supporting fleet. And small corps have small numbers. So a 6 man fleet.

What is better? 1 dread/carrier and 5 supporting ships? or 3-4 Marauders(seiged) and 1-2 supporting ships?

In the end the pricetag of the fleet is about the same. And FYI Cynos are not that difficult or expensive.

EDIT: oops, and scam > MJD still very vulnerable

Now i'm not hating, it IS a cool idea, but for practicality, I don't feel it is a good use of a potently unique cool ship. Im just posting concerns with your idea.

T3s are not "completely" overpowered. Also the training time loss wouldnt have to be implemented. Also explain what this has to do with T3s and how this would be overpowered

I like these ideas for a new T3 flagship (battleship).

Not convinced entirely by those ideas but I'm another person who'd like to see Marauders become something a bit more modular.

no one talked about tech III it's just sub systems for a advanced BS TII
actually adding sort of sub systems to more ships in the future might be very interesting

my appologies.
there has been alot of people wanting to make marauders into actual t3 ships with sub systems and whatnot.
i have marauder 5 on 2 toons and absolutely hate t3 ships. they are tooooo op and toooo modular/flexible.

i will go back and reread. i did assume u meant change it to an actual t3 ship.

i want a marauder with a defined role. thats it. a kewl role, like fozzie said, thats useful.
even a t1 bs with double damage guns like it has and say a jump drive. doesnt have to be all that for me. one high slot for a cyno and they could cyno each other back and forth. or roll with the cap fleet...

imagine if they had a jump drive.
black ops have them, so how can it be over powered? black ops can bridge, they can target with no delay, they can do a host of other things. these ships are paper thin to pay for it, but their utility is worth it if one setups up a good blops fleet.

marauders:
they have double weapon damage. not unique to marauders anymore, even t1 frigates gain bonuses of some extent.
kewl thing is, we have 3 utilities because of it which is good. thats a bonus.
but we need something else.
i disagree with what you wrote. we could create another ship thats modular, but marauders arent it.

having a bonus to mdj would be unique. having a range extension for weapons to coincide with the mdj bonus would kick ass.
lets say -50% to cool down of the mjd as a role, and reduction 10% to spool time per level. this would allow them to dictate range effectively. just like spiders, these thing would jump all over the place. and with a 10% range boost/lev (like the apoc), they could use their short range weapons more effectively. they would become masters of range dictation.

thats a unique role.
op?
lets see..can they bridge in 20 bombers? nope.
do they gain the cloak targeting delay reduction? nope
on and on.

point is, we just need a role. a non-capital role. something nothing else can compete with.
dps can be outdone by the vindi.
mobility? blops
cloak? blops
resists? hacs/command
targeting? everything
range? apoc/meggy
scanning? cov ops/t1 frigs
rr? logi/t1 frigs and cruisers

if they received an rr range and ammmount bonus, it would help TREMENDOUSLY.
make it like 1/2 the range of logi and some cap savings.
this would be a kewl thing about the bs line no one could out do.
they have good dps, good tanking, and good rr to help others. they can hold alot of ammo and only use 1/2 making them last longer in deep space before having to come back.