Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I truly hope a CCP dev sees this post.

There are two things I love to do in Eve more than anything else. Probe down sites to hack/analyze and probe down ships so that I or my alliance mates might try to destroy them. I like probing and exploring very very much and recent changes to launching and arranging probes along with the changes to the hacking/archeology sites have improved my experience immensely.

I prefer to explore in nullsec because it is the most exciting/dangerous frontier, yields the best loot and there are so many nullsec systems to see. The only reason I would explore in lowsec is to find gas sites and the only reason I ever explored in highsec were because my skills weren't yet maxed and I was still timid about the dangers of leaving highsec space. But even with maxed hacking/archeology skills, using a covert ops frigate fit with memetic algorithm bank and emission scope analyzer rigs and with tech 2 analyzer and hacking modules the hacking minigames in nullsec sites can be viciously difficult.

+5 virus strength?

I will never use these ships for exploration.

Without probe launcher fitting bonuses, using an expanded probe launcher seems barely viable on the Stratios. So I don't think I will use the Stratios for helping my gang find people either. Especially when the covert ops frigate is so much less expensive and has a higher scanning strength.

When I saw that SOE ships were going to be introduced I was overjoyed. As someone who spends most of his time in New Eden launching probes and finding what is hidden, to hear that the faction that makes the best probes, probe launchers and probing implants were getting their very own ships made me so very excited and hopeful. I had hoped to perhaps find a cruiser that was a middle ground between the covert ops frigate and strategic cruiser with emergent locus analyzer and covert reconfiguration subsystems.

Seeing these probe and hacking specs leaves me so very very disappointed.

“What we're shooting for is ships that are themed around exploration...”

If you are going to introduce these ships as they are, it seems wrong to market them as exploration themed vessels.
I consider myself to be an avid explorer but I will never buy these ships.

I agree with the first part but the second part makes no sense. lasers aren't useful in any scenario?

question: how do you guys run 6/10 with sentry drones in a ship that can't tank the site?

That's really the point of this. To be good at hunting down and killing stuff.

And I'm pretty sure - at least, I hope CCP ignores the idiots throwing around Ogre DPS numbers saying :it gets 800 DPS" when in reality probably only half of that is effective DPS. And even that's with a glass cannon fit.

Yeah and drones are a Gallente weapon even more. resists are not weapons. he ship needs to be identified as half and half and that means lasers and drones. You know this, don't be THAT guy. No one like that guy.

Cause web bonuses are never seen on Minmatar hulls.

Yeah and drones are a Gallente weapon even more. resists are not weapons. he ship needs to be identified as half and half and that means lasers and drones. You know this, don't be THAT guy. No one like that guy.

That might work... a range bonus to heavy assault maybe?

But right now it is to good, it tramples over all other hunter class ships.

People in this thread would tell you otherwise because apparently heavies are horrible against a double webbed and scrammed target. Even Berserkers which are fast enough to catch most ABing cruiser and some MWDing ones.

These are not Capital Sized guns we are talking about. They have the tracking speed of an average cruiser weapon, they are going to hit whatever you catch.

How so? T3s are still tankier, recons still have better ewar, Cov-ops will are better at exploration.