Player Features and Ideas Discussion

i see there already in the patch notes which means this thread is now dead ... what a shame so many useful ideas that should have been used have been ignored.

Not everything was wasted.

Plan of training alt into Recons is now on hold and this just saved me a month of dual training.

In a sense I just won a couple of beers. GG

Because If they took them down players will create new ones.

why scram? you neut from 30+km your dmg is at 60 km. you either 4 slot tank it and use it as a neut boat or 3 slot tank and use it with a TD or you trust your logi to always feed you cap and you 4 slot tank and have a TD on it.

Or you armor tank it with no damage mods and have full 6 slot mids to play with.

an un-damage-bonused rail lachesis is going to be absolute crap. secondly, weapon types are not split like that. it's hybrids, missiles, and drones. for example you don't have amarr ships that are considered to be pulse or beam laser. you have amarr laser ships, drone ships, and missile ships. the roden missile "brain-bug" needs to be expanded upon. give them the option to fit more missiles. I would love to see a missile ares -- it might actually be worth flying if you could missile fit it.

Actually this isn't correct. The Crow is a Kaalakiota ship, and the damage bonus was just changed from a Kinetic bonus to:

• 5% bonus to Light Missile and Rocket explosion radius
• 10% bonus to Light Missile and Rocket max velocity

Please stop locking Caldari ships in to Kinetic damage types. The point of missiles is versatility, and this takes away from the situations where it would be useful to change ammo types to take advantage of that.

P.S. Speaking of ammo reloads, how's that ammo swap mechanic for Rapid Missiles coming along? Are we still iterating on that after Rubicon 1.1?

I'm sorry but you're wrong with making the comparison between lasers and hybrids. Caldari get ishukone which is exclusively bonused around rails, with the double range bonus. The problem with it is that they're trying to shoehorn bonuses into a ship where it doesn't work in the least bit with only 2 combat skills...primary skills for Roden should be range and damage, not range and tracking. Rails are applicable mainly when they have decent alpha which the lach won't be doing.

What will likely happen is you'll have the Lach have a web and be blaster fit, so anything that comes into close range gets smoked by its fast-tracking blasters. Sure rails are great for fleet when you can hit everything with it, but you'll be doing sh*t for dps with them.

That said, I would like to see the falcon turned into a Lai Dai boat and given missiles. It has the worst offensive power out of all of these recons by an absolutely pathetically large margin.

I think i have an idea. Maybe already said by someone:

0. No invisible dscan ships
1. Remove D-Scan.
2. Make a module for recons, that add D-Scan functionality.

This way you will not restrict or affect existing tool, but you'll make a whole new role to play

remove the E-War bonus from an E-war ship and you're doing it wrong

What I don't get about CCP's balancing is that they stick to a set number of bonuses per ship. By limiting them to say, two, you invite crappy combinations like range and tracking. I don't care how many bonuses a ship has, as long as the result is balanced.