Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Don't like the OP's idea, but Angel Dread with a falloff bonus to Capital Projectiles would be pretty sweet. But I guess it would be logical for CCP to introduce pirate destroyers and battlecruisers first.

Funny where this idea is going.
But we already have more than enough items to get from LP store.
This is not to create new one , it is just to introduce ISK sink.
To much isk is in the system, and i don't want to introduce something that will brake dreads.

Then quadruple the price. If you can afford the several billion for a fitted dread, you can afford to drop some pocket change and an hour's LP on the faction upgrade.

The thing with dreads is that, outside a wormhole, once you hit seige, there is basically nothing you can do to change whether you live or die. Get primaried, refit max tank, pray. Your faction/pirate dread would need a major bonus to change that, a bigger bonus then I think CCP would be willing to give. You'll note that it is very rare to see a dread with expensive upgrades except (1) Faction Damage Mods (2) T2 Damage/Tracking/Range rigs (3) Meta Guns; all applied damage bonsues. You never see a dread with say a deadspace tank (outside wormholes at least). When you seige the dread, you roll the dice, treating it as an expendable that may or may not survive.

If we therefor assume dreads are expendable, then the main question is whether the faction dread increases applied damage enough to justify its price tag.
Potential bonuses proposed by OP:
Cap Bonus - Useless for combat, only use is getting to jump cap quicker for extract
Bigger fuel bay - Useless for combat, its rare to not have enough room as iss
Less stront per cycle - Useless for combat - Stront it practically free, and any engagement that could use up as much stront as most people carry will tidi so bad it will take 10 hours to use it all.
Faster align time - If its serious, you jump out rather than align
More passive buffer - This one is potentially useful at a fleet level, but for the individual it just means you die slower.

Really not sure how much anyone would pay for those bonuses. Not very much I think. Furthermore, some of those would require everyone in fleet to have the faction version or they are even less useful. Having more fuel then the rest of your fleet... not very helpful. We don't want to end up with a situation where the only people who fly them do it because they are rare, not better, like the revenant. (Which is many times more expensive, and regarded as inferior in combat)

Want a potentially interesting bonus:
-20% Siege duration -20% Stront use

I think you may be going the wrong direction with this. I would agree to a navy/pirate faction dread that was 2/3 as effective as "dreads today". I agree with the isk sink idea. Trading a high value item and buying blueprints with isk does create more faucets. With the introduction of "lesser" faction and faction navy dreads, it opens up the ability for these ships to have structure grind or "magically counts for [insert fraction] of its mass when traveling through a WH." bonuses. But I may be trying to kill too many birds with one stone here.

funny.now shut up coven