Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Eagle? sniping rail cruiser.
Tengu? Rail fittings are possible
But in terms of tech II sniping boats there is a lack of Battleships in that field (the Golem and Widow are more missile boats)

edit: A Tech II Rail BS would be interesting. Marauder Class Rokh, maybe?

Tier 3 faction ships would be cool.I'd like to see a Navy Rokh, Navy Hyperion, RF Maelstrom and Navy Abaddon.

Would like.

No, the Rokh isn't top tier. Compare it to the damage and flexibility of the navy raven, paladin, fleet typhoon, etc. It loses on damage AND tank compared to all of those by significant margins. A rail Rokh caps out its damage around 800, which despite the range advantage, is low enough to hinder it in many pvp settings, and most pve settings.

A second argument I would make is that neither gallente nor caldari have the complete hybrid weapon systems on their own. Take a look at trends in racial bonuses:

10% in laser cap consumption --> a must for laser platforms, ships require extensive cap mods/boosters without the bonus, functions well for both beams and pulses.
7.5% in falloff --> clearly meant for projectiles that operate principally in falloff. Falloff bonus directly translates to increased functional dps for BOTH auto and arty, and so falloff bonuses are very important to projectile ships.

Now lets look at hybrids.
7.5% tracking --> a must for blaster platforms, especially large ones who have to deal with high transversals at close range. This bonus is literally is what makes large blasters work in pvp. The most popular blaster boats all have tracking bonuses, however, there isn't a single caldari gunboat that has a tracking bonus.

10% optimal range --> clearly meant for railguns, as range is the other way to deal with tracking issues. Admittedly, this isn't as essential as blasters and tracking bonuses, but 10% optimal is nearly useless on blasters, and 7.5% tracking is nearly useless on rails. (Generally speaking, I know people in their null neutron nagas will throw a fit, but...)

I also agree that there are a lot of decent medium rail ships. Tengu, eagle, and vulture are all good choices. But they're all still medium. They don't have the raw damage, alpha, or falloff of large rails, even if double optimal bonused medium start to get to large rail territory.

I'm not sure all that effort is really required.
Federation Navy dominix already exists
Republic Fleet typhoon already exists
Amarr is admittedly more difficult, but considering that the blood raiders and SOE ships require negligibly more skills then just default amarr, they still have good BS level drone and neut options available.
Then caldari.... nothing.

Caldari are meant to be predominantly missile users with rails as a secondary weapon system, the current ship line up reflects that so everything seems to be fine.

Did you even read the OP or the posts that followed? Posters like you drive me nuts. Pay attention, and actually think before rudely attacking another person's ideas.

Firstly, I suggested a change to faction ship, not tech 2. Secondly, blackops have yet to be rebalanced. It is very likely the redeemer will go the way of the armageddon before it and get drone bonuses. Then finally, as I already posted literally three posts above, the other factions DO have top tier heavy hitters with their secondary weapon available. ==> Fleet phoon, navy dominix. Nestor/Bhaal for amarr requires a couple days more training time but otherwise uses all core amarr skills, and as I mentioned earlier, the redeemer may very well be rebalanced to be drone oriented.

True. But finding a fleet of pilots who trained Warfare Link Specialist IV and injected the Command Ships skill before the change might not be so hard. The Sleipnir has been a popular PVP ship for a very long time.

Or the same about how there should be a faction (or tech 2) gallente battleship that uses drones. Huh! Surprise again!

Typhoon Fleet Issue says hi!