Player Features and Ideas Discussion

As someone who has flown in a fleet using a Nestor, it works. Fourteen Guardians and a Nestor, which back-of-the-napkin maths told us was approximately 18 Guardians effective. Cap is a nonissue once you have sufficient floating feed from the Guards. Range limitations force it to bunch up with the other Battleships but...it's a Battleship, it wouldn't keep up with the Guardians anyway.

Of course given the nature of Wormholes and mass, a Logistics Battleship best suited to scaling up Logi wings for medium-sized Battleship fleets is possibly not an ideal role for a SoE ship, but there we go.

Well, OP's idea is quite interesting. Finally one that is not about giving it a larger SMB or allow it to bridge.

I picture a possible alternative. What if it had the same cloaking capabilities of Black Ops? No covops cloak, but ability to move cloaked easily and instawarp.

In addition to either one of those, I'd swap the hacking bonus by it receiving bonus to shield RR too. Maybe it would help it on W-Space fleets, where one must adapt quickly to the environment.

* I could have replaced the word 'rattlesnake' with any other pirate battleship. They all massively outsell the Nestor.

* I use the rattlesnake for PVP - it's pretty good! - dual XLASB, anti-frigate rapid lights and a buttload of gecko-hurt! It's a fantastic small gang flagship.

* I have never, ever seen a Nestor used in any pvp in any wormhole or low-sec system - and I go looking for trouble on an almost daily basis in wormholes and low-sec. I would be very happy if you could guide me to a cluster of systems where I am likely to see one in action.

In response to the previous post about the Nestor's price - the price of the Nestor is set solely by the price of sisters' LP. It has nothing to do with the power of the ship. The undeniable indicator that the market price is too high is the low sales volume. This is basic economic theory:

A free market will find price equilibrium when prices fall (or rise) to match the utility of the ship in comparison with other options. If the price is too high, ships will not sell. If it is too low, they will sell out. Unfortunately, the Nestor's price is fixed by unrelated factors - the fungible value of SoE loyalty points (which are themselves price-discovered by the utility of the astero, stratios, sisters probes, launchers and (less so) virtue implants).

The fact that the Nestor is not selling is a clear indiction that its utility does not match its price.

Leave my wonderful nestor alone, thanks.

so toss it into another role and strip it of the one it has currently fit well into just because its price is higher than ships in the blop role. one of the great thing about pirate ships is people can fly them w/o needing to train into T2 you want the thing to use a jump drive that's going to add about 100days to it's training

If the ship had the ability to move between systems without getting caught on a wormhole they would be excellent for running c4 and c5 relic sites in Foreign systems.

Then the hacking bonus would have some use - to get the hull sections without having to switch out to a frigate.

In this role it could do without the remote armour repair range bonus.

In fairness the Maintenence bay would be useful in w-space - it allows for transition to pvp fit without a mobile depot (which would get shot).

If the ship had some ability traverse wormholes without getting ganked I could accept the lack of covops.

The ship is only unused because you can't get it safely between systems (well, that and the silly price)