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Khuram Khurelem
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#1 - 2014-05-25 13:20:24 UTC
Nestor is a very bad ship. The reasons why have been posted a number of times. Since on of the reasons is the very high price, save it by making it the perfect tool for highsec combat site runners, which also keeps the SoE exploration theme.

Give it a ship maintenance bay like the one carriers have but much smaller. 164500 m3 would be enough to carry a frigate, a destroyer and a cruiser. This would let people cruiser around in Nestors, probing from it and maybe running Data/Relic sites and public anomalies, then reship into a smaller ship when they scan down a combat site.

The price tag might still be a bit heavy for this kind of activity, so maybe give it faster warp speed like the one Machariel will get so that it doesn't take too long to warp between gates while looking for sites to run.
epicurus ataraxia
Illusion of Solitude.
Illusion of Solitude
#2 - 2014-05-25 22:18:49 UTC
Khuram Khurelem wrote:
Nestor is a very bad ship. The reasons why have been posted a number of times. Since on of the reasons is the very high price, save it by making it the perfect tool for highsec combat site runners, which also keeps the SoE exploration theme.

Give it a ship maintenance bay like the one carriers have but much smaller. 164500 m3 would be enough to carry a frigate, a destroyer and a cruiser. This would let people cruiser around in Nestors, probing from it and maybe running Data/Relic sites and public anomalies, then reship into a smaller ship when they scan down a combat site.

The price tag might still be a bit heavy for this kind of activity, so maybe give it faster warp speed like the one Machariel will get so that it doesn't take too long to warp between gates while looking for sites to run.


regretfully, the ship would just be a Gank magnet in HS, It just has not found a home anywhere.
Maybe it will come back one day in the future, with a black coat of paint as an ore ship of some sort with a sensible price.
Or It will get a role in Wormholes, rebadged as a combat hole closer with variable mass.

But with it's current design and stats and it's current price the sky will be full of gank ships before it even drops out of warp in HS.
But the Idea of a battle orca has merit, but I think the only use of your suggestion would be to replace the Orca for Grief baiters and gankers in HS.

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Khuram Khurelem
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#3 - 2014-05-25 23:40:18 UTC
epicurus ataraxia wrote:
Khuram Khurelem wrote:
Nestor is a very bad ship. The reasons why have been posted a number of times. Since on of the reasons is the very high price, save it by making it the perfect tool for highsec combat site runners, which also keeps the SoE exploration theme.

Give it a ship maintenance bay like the one carriers have but much smaller. 164500 m3 would be enough to carry a frigate, a destroyer and a cruiser. This would let people cruiser around in Nestors, probing from it and maybe running Data/Relic sites and public anomalies, then reship into a smaller ship when they scan down a combat site.

The price tag might still be a bit heavy for this kind of activity, so maybe give it faster warp speed like the one Machariel will get so that it doesn't take too long to warp between gates while looking for sites to run.


regretfully, the ship would just be a Gank magnet in HS, It just has not found a home anywhere.
Maybe it will come back one day in the future, with a black coat of paint as an ore ship of some sort with a sensible price.
Or It will get a role in Wormholes, rebadged as a combat hole closer with variable mass.

But with it's current design and stats and it's current price the sky will be full of gank ships before it even drops out of warp in HS.
But the Idea of a battle orca has merit, but I think the only use of your suggestion would be to replace the Orca for Grief baiters and gankers in HS.


I doubt suicide gankers will be thrilled with the idea for suicide ganking a bonused armor tanked pirate ship that's not doing a level 4 mission and is not fitted with officer mods. If you fit your expensive ship with officer mods, flip cans or fly it around under wardec, you deserve to lose it.