Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Infested Dominix is frickin' sweet looking.

The Cockroach is pretty cool too...

I would like to see a whole line of these ships come out... but what would they do?

What I would like to suggest is making a series of drone ships that are kind of "jack-of-all-trades", a utility-style ship with larger than average cargo holds, some kind of logistics bonus (but not quite as good as logistics-roll cruisers, etc...) and omni tanks that average out to like-average of similar ship types. For instance, in the instance of a BS you could simply average the shield resists and make that the shield resist across damage types for a drone BS. These ships should obviously get a heathy bonus to salvaging, and maybe each hull type has some other odd bonus, like 2x web range OR 2x NOS range OR 2x jam range.... the trade-off for that second bonus would be an "Achilles heel" of sorts... like really weak sensor strength or huge mass, inability to fit propulsion mods, inability to fit other function-specific mods.

Anyway that's the idea. The point isn't to 1-up any other ship class, just make for some really odd ship setups and throw PvPers for a loop if they don't know what they are up against. I could see this a particularly useful series of ships for pirates who need to always keep their opponents guessing, or small groups. Maybe they would also get some loot table bonus for working in the drone regions, or when dealing with drones in general.

Space is too conformal.

It would be cool if certain ship types got bonuses for working in certain regions.

...and it seems like a waste of a really cool idea not to develop the infested domi more... give it a family of ships, CCP!

Any thoughts?

I think drone ships would make great Tech 3 ships- what better use for pod technology than interfacing with those jokers?