Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would love to see logistics frigates. It might also be interesting if they came out with destroyer sized command ships.
They would certainly make wolfpacks much better. Logistics support would probably also be something of a stealth buff to AFs as well.

Seeing as cruiser logis use large repair modules, it would stand to reason frigate sized logis would use medium modules. That, combined with a range bonus, would likely alleviate any range problems. Other frigates can go out of range much more quickly, but their guns are shorter ranged, so, as long as everyone is ganging up on one target, they should be in the vicinity of each other.\


As for T3 Frigates. I admit the idea intrigues me as a small craft pilot, but everything about a frigate is fast, and that, unfortunately, includes the speed at which things can go wrong. I don't want skillpoints and huge sums of money riding on something that would drop quickly.

Is there any reason to believe that adding logistics to the field wouldn't change that depending on group composition?

It would be similar to how for solo and small group PvP you want a local tabk, but for larger groups, you buffer tank and call for logistical support. In this case, small group wolfpacks would still rely on kiting to stay alive, but larger swarms might drop speed mods for a plate and call for repairs if they are caught.

Challenge for all the non-believers.

Get 3-4 buddies who knows how to handle a ship and fit them all out with AF's with a single small RR and AB for propulsion (DP when/if wanted and possible), have had great fun in 2-3 Vengeances (tackle/RR/secondary dps) with 2-3 Retris (dps/rr).
You'll be surprised just how hard a small cluster of spider AF's can be to crack .. fun and fast .. when it works you get a hard-on of Herculean proportions and when it fails it is violent (but cheap ).

it would be wierd, they would have almost no survivabiity and probably be like EW frigs, too expensive and to easy to kill compared to cruiser counterparts

I'm not in favor of Logistic Frigates, but rather... Anti-Logistic Frigates. An Anti-Logistic Frigater would be a Tech 3 Frigate that can target a ship and turn on a module (whatever you want to call the module) that will prevent that ship from being repped.

A much needed counter to Logistics and adds complexity to the fleet flight.

It also makes frigate roles in fleet fights more viable again because you will need a counter to the Anti-Logistic frigates to take them out.... Destroyers and such.

In a large scale,the battle would be complex (hopefully)

Todays (buffed) Destroyers have a hard time dealing with T2 frigates, 1v1, what use would they have against a T3.

Bumping this back up for discussion:

Part of why I went with small reps was to keep with extremely low power consumption.

Their tank would primarily be their tiny sig radius and decent speed, which is amplified by the ability to perma run AB's while repping (due to small reps low power use and their bonuses).

Yes, this shorter range setup would require coordination and communication between pilots, which is part of the idea. I'm not looking to replace main logi's in large fleet battles :)

Eh, true... hell, why not :)

I got ganked

due to the limited HP of a frigate.
I think the standard repairing damage may not work well,
but giving extra temporary Shield or extra Amor Points that buff the frigate temporarly