Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With all of the talk about Marauders having Bastion/Siege mode, the desire to "fix" field boosting mechanics by making the boosting ships vulnerable somehow, (outside of a PoS shield), etc ... I recommend Siege-modable Command Battleships!


Command Battleship Features

-- Command Battleships would have the ability to enter siege mode, (with the defensive abilities somewhere in the middle of a combat battleship, (i.e. Rokh, or Abaddon), and a Dreadnaught, but without the capital gunz, and certainly no fighters or bombers).

-- Command Battleships should be able to receive remote reps as well at the risk of requiring other ships in their fleet to expose themselves to the vulnerability of relative immobility. I believe the limitation on CCP's part for precluding remote reps is arbitrary, unnecessary, and very inconsistent--especially since the role of these ships would not be "Attack or Combat", but rather, "Command".

Command Battleship Types

There could be:
1. EW Boosted Command Battleships.
2. Logistics Boosted Command Battleships.
3. DPS Boosted Command Battleships.

etc...

Pirate Factions could have their own specialized Command Battleships as well.

Field Boosting Bonuses, But with the Vulnerability with Immobility

Of course, the Command Battleships lack of mobility should/would make them more vulnerable when they enter siege mode to field boost. (Field Boosting Should require an immobility requirement!).

If these command ships ran logistics as well, there could be some really cool battlefield deployments and maneuvers where fleets would cycle between front lines, to the command ships ...

This would should address the fleet/field command bonus issues ... Even if you keep the Field Bonuses, the command battleships would be STATIONARY in Siege mode, and fleet mates would have to fly to them, encouraging the command battleships to be more accessible in combat. :)

:D

Not T3 Flagships
After further noodling -- I believe T3 Battleships / Flagships, should be a completely different thing than Command Battleships. For one, it would require that CCP create a lot of Subsystem modules, balance those, etc, and the effort / reward isn't as high, and wouldn't have the tactical affect on fleet warfare that command battleships would have.

That's for a different topic!

T3 Flagships...

I got chills when I read that.

:)

But ...

I think that any T3 Flagship Battleship would require an enormous amount of effort on the part of CCP to implement, (creating and balancing subsystems, etc). Also, I would want to see T3 Battleships as the the "go-to" ship for support C4 + wormhole operations, deep space exploration, that kind of thing.

Sure, they could perhaps be used tactically in large fleet engagements... But I would hope that they were /far/ more complex to fit, had many different possible roles, etc.

I think simple command ship configurations would be a bigger reward for the effort, and have a much bigger impact on fleet combat in Eve today. :)

The restriction that Siege mode precludes receiving remote reps, I believe, is an arbitrary one that CCP is injecting.

With the ability to receive remote reps, and invading fleet can use a sieged command battleship as a portable PoS. In null sec you would need a fleet of stealth bombers and capital ships to kill that blob... But that blob would be immobile, and vulnerable.


In incursions, this would be super handy.

Been left off for giggles, arty Maels are still THE thing you want to bring and instakill stuff, but you need players looking at their screen and listening coms, able to target broadcasts, shoot all guns when they're told to and align when they're told to.

DPS wise old CFC Maels have better dps than Megas, alpha wise they're no where comparable one to each other but Megas tank better bomb runs and are a bit faster.
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