Player Features and Ideas Discussion

To be fair, I don't believe I said it was unbalanced. I said it would come at the expense of the current features I enjoy on my RNI. Because no way it gets just plopped on without something getting nerfed in the process.

I think the best help you could give Battleships for smaller gang stuff is two simple changes.

1. Cut the Cap use of the 100mn MWD down considerably. They run a bit shorter than Cruisers and take much longer to regenerate the cap % they use. Give them a loftier run time like Battlecruisers, 6-9 minutes without increasing the Battleships cap recharge. It would create the option to have some mobility without a Heavy Cap Booster.

2. Scan Res buff. If a Drake aligns to warp at the same time a Raven hits lock the Drake will make it into warp first. With a buffer shield setup the lock time is almost even. Locking another Raven is an 8 second affair. A 40-50% increase in Battleship Scan Res putting them at between 140-160 (max skill) depending on the ship will give them a reasonable lock time. That translates to better small gang use against all types of ships without negating the abilities of smaller hulls to escape as designed.

In effect it also potentially frees up to two midslots for tackle or accuracy mods. BC MWD run time w/o the % recharge and about 65% of Tier Battlecruiser lock time. Two ways to greatly improve small gang Battleships without making them overpowered.

BS don't have issues with taking part in small gang fights. The problem is behind the keyboard.

Haven't needed either of those for the last three years. BS work just fine, in fact, we have never had it this good.

and rapid light missiles. My anti frig raven is one of the funniest ships money can buy.

Actually, bastion gives you a 1 minute weapons timer starting when it shuts off. So it'll actually negate that problem. You'll have a minute to kill the bastioned battleship after his bastion is off before he can take the gate.

Having spent the last few weeks out in Fade hanging out with you Goon guys and being particularly alert with de-scan I have been able to gain a lot of Intel on ships being used as gangs go through systems. I recall seeing 1 Tempest on scan in that time. The rest being battlecruisers, HAC, cruisers (primarily Caracals) and smaller.

If what you say, that its behind the keyboard, then you may need to improve your recruitment practices :)

Yes I tend to agree. They were very effective at one time. Then CCP came out with the idea they were solopwnmobiles and CCP developed the no Solopwnmobiles doctrine and they've been neglected ever since.

Apart from niche fleet doctrines over the years what should be the most potent subcap brawling combat ship is relegated to blapping npcs in PvE :)

I need to spell it out? E-war immunity. I dont think you understand how strong this is. So you take a hyperion. A maelstrom with one of these? Abaddon? An apocalyse with its range and tracking. Throw bastion on it, it now needs 5-6 good dps ships to take it out. Its going to sit there and do damage until you remove it from the field. Or you're forced to get out of its range, if it doesnt have tackle buddies holding you down. It has extra range, resistances, and massive tank. For under 200m isk.
All of a sudden its a requirement to have a bastioned battleship in your roam to counter other ones. Its almost the only counter other then massive numbers. Especially seeing as how grid wide cyno jammers are being introduced.

When you want to change something you have to think of how it would be used in every aspect of the game.

Once again how would it make them OP and why isn't it the answer. Statements of opinion dressed up as statements of opinion are just that. I'm open to the idea it may be a bad idea. Convince me.