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only Basi and Oneiros, Guardians cannot fit **** all the crappy tech 1 modules which on a tech two ship is more than lame!

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10MN AB - check
Scram - check
Pulse lasers - check
Cap booster - check
Tank in low slots - check
Not against a svipul - check

Took about 30 second to find. Fail.

How about changing the way the POS bubbles work? Right now a ship within a bubble cannot target anything and cannot be targeted. My proposal is that the edge of the bubble becomes wider, say, 5km wide. That would create three areas of space around a POS.

Current situation:

Area inside: You cannot target and cannot be targeted, you cannot combat boost and you cannot assist your fighters to someone.
Area outside: You can target anything within range, you can be targeted, you can combat boost, you can assist your fighters to someone.

Suggested situation:

Area inside: Same as before
Area "at the edge" (5km wide, or 3km or whatever): You cannot target anything you can be targeted, you cannot combat boost, you cannot assist your fighters to someone.
Area outside: Same as before.

This would expose capital ships that are in space to the risk that comes with it, because to become safe they'd have to travel 5km to the inside. It would also adress the problem (if there is one) of carriers repping a POS with virtually no risk at the edge of a bubble.

About titans bridging: I would say that ships that don't have the POS password can enter the 5km area where they receive all the bad attirbutes of the bubble but not the safety that it provides. The password allows you within the inner area, you don't need it for the edge area. So ships waiting to be bridged sit at the POS in the vulnerable area while the titan sits in the invulnerable area. If someone appears and wants to fight the subcaps they will have to leave the edge area to fight back but moving 5km isn't that much of a problem, since the enemy can't web the whole fleet (and if they can, well, you're probably doomed either way).

Disclaimer: I did not consider what that changes for nullsec, since I never lived there but I assume it would work the way it's supposed to. My experience is entirely from lowsec, is what I'm saying.

PS: Thank you for sensibly nerfing things and not just smashing a ship to make it unusable in a single update. I'm kind of sad for Veigar right now, but at least in this environment, that matters a bit more to me, the laws of the universe change in a sensible way. :-)

you can still assign fighters and be immune to pvp, just be somewhere and align to a pos/station. there's no point trying to salvage this mechanic, it adds nothing good to the game.
also a pos can have a load of stuff on it, and carriers are difficult/impossible to kill with very small gangs anyway. things would still be enormously skewed in favour of the risk averse link bads/capital bads.

the tengu won't be worth flying soon

For the T3 Balancing, is there any chance of an active rep SubSys for the Loki? (Armor/Shield or both).

Also, I was always under the understanding that T3's are very special ships, battleship DPS and tank in a cruiser size package, very skill intensive, expensive to purchase and fit well, also the only ship class to have a penalty if lost in combat. surely they should be capable, powerful and dangerous? if they get nerfed to any silly degree, they will just be replaced by HAC fleets etc.

The problem currently (which cannot easily be solved) is you have good retention of players, these players have a high average skill set, therefore, more people in any given group are able to fly T3's well. If you could get more newer players onboard, the average skill set of any given group would be dragged down.
Either that or carry on dumbing down, all the older players will leave and you can just let the new guys fight in Rifters and Merlins.

Your parents really need to stop paying for your subscription.

Warp changes are incredibly annoying for battleships. The only real viability you see in them is close to staging areas unless they are T2/faction BSes in which they pose a greater movement speed. In all honesty I love the strategy in warp changes, its awesome to see a cruiser warp away, you chase after it in a ceptor, and land waiting for it to exit warp. However, I think the warp changes were a tad bit extreme.

Consider the difference between a T1 Frig and T1 BS. The frig aligns quickly, accelerates quickly, and decelerates quickly. A battleship aligns slow, accelerates slow, and decelerates slow. In all honesty, the frig is going to beat the BS on align time alone. Assuming the two are aligned perfect already, the frig still lands on the opposite side before the BS. You guys have put so much emphasis on acceleration and deceleration that its pretty painful. I do not mind warping slowly and a frigate beating me to the other side, I DO mind have to see the grid and wait forever for my ship to stop in order to do anything.

We are talking about a form of propulsion that is faster than light. In my opinion ALL ships should go into and exit warp damn near instantly. Acceleration and deceleration shouldnt even be factors in a warp. The only reason this didnt work before was because so much time is spent accelerating or decelerating that the ship's warp is pretty much split evenly 3 ways in an average warp. Accelerate, Cruise, and Decelerate. If all ships entered their max warp speed as soon as they go into warp and exited warp instantly, their warp would then be defined as their cruising (aka max warp speed) which is as it should be. In this manner a BS aligns slow, enters max warp instantly, exits max warp instantly, but is warping at 2 AU/sec. The frig likewise is aligning fast, enters warp instantly, but is warping at 5 AU/sec, and exits warp instantly.

Essentially you take out the wait time between subwarp and max warp or rather effectively reduce it to 1% of the total warp curve and thus 99% of the warp is based on the true max warp speed of the ship. Does the frig and BS have the same speed going into and leaving warp? Yes, but considering that time is a second or less, it plays such an insignificant part of the warp curve that align time and max warp is the true warp. Thus the BS and Frig may hit max warp at the same rate (1 second or less) but the frig will still overtake the BS in warp and land on the other side before it arrives. Only the Battleship pilot is given the illusion that he is going the same speed as the frig because of the lack of acceleration and deceleration times when in reality the speed differential remains the same as it is currently.

Sounds good to me for a first pass. Keep itterating changes like this and the game will be in a good place.
I'd much rather see people get upset as their new favourite ship gets brought down in power a bit - compared to years of Drakes online that we had at the start of the decade!

I do feel it is the tracking of the Sentry Ishtars that is the major issue rather than the outright damage.

I'm glad T3s aren't getting a huge nerf straight out, much better to let a complex ship class bed in with the changes and if further power reductions are required do so.