EVE General Discussion

From CCP:

Barghest:
The Barghest is underperforming a tad in our eyes, so this change provides a slight DPS buff at high skill levels (9 effective launchers vs the previous 8.75) while providing a second utility high.

• -1 Launcher (second utility high)
• Change damage bonus to 10% per level

Reference:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=451065&find=unread

Thank you Scipio, I'm getting too lazy to check for new Devblogs these days.

Need to get rid of my stash of Gilas and Worms now!!

Powercreeping Toward Oblivion II: The Revengeance

We don't need big ships that are better at fighting down, we need small ships that aren't as good at fighting up. The navy ships already in game need to have trade-offs like the new navy ewar frigs, and the T3Ds were obviously implemented badly (focus group.) We've actually had a couple of focus groups organized by CCP, and a balance pass that was just announced to deal with a bit of this issue.

More and better ships makes the rest of the ships obsolete. T2 and to some extent T3 were all good additions and aren't all hopelessly unbalanced yet, but we're starting to reach critical mass here. The only reason anyone flies a standard T1 ship at all now is because of tiericide (the most needed balance change since [insert any reason.])

Balance, balance, balance. Then balance some more.

I (because its all about me) need a spiky BC

The problem with the larger ships is that they are in a way force multipliers despite their slow speed, with their firepower, hp and larger fittings.Cruisers cannot fit battleship class weaponry but battleships can fit cruiser class weaponry [an exception are the combat battlecruisers that can fit bs weapons but they still have the lower powergrid and hp etc].

In regards to battlecruisers there are still plenty of factions that lack them like Sansha's and Sisters of EVE. Other than that, battlecruisers and battleships should get T3 ships eventually but there is a point where you can oversaturate a game with a lot of overlapping ships that all have to be balanced.

I would rather see CCP develop new gameplay and iterations on existing gameplay where all ships can be used because that is what really makes the difference in eve. Imagine if mining was decent, then all existing mining ships could be used in new meaningful ways. If WIS is ever finished and Planetary Interaction iterated on, then those are the kind of things I would rather see CCP work on in the near future like the incoming citadels. In fact I would say it should be CCP's number one consideration across all its departments, iteration of existing gameplay and new gameplay. Too many ships spoil the broth.

What we need is a drone Marauder with Nestor RR and Domi style Drone bonuses.

No ... whatyamean OP? ... never ....

Patience my young padawa...... your wish might come sooner then later. These things take time to implement

I think they need to increase warp strength in all ships to reflect their size and class. Just like they are doing with the titans ans supers. If a BS had a warp strength of say 3 built in that would be more realistic and you would see a return in larger ships. No one for a second in any reality thinks a 300m isk BS should be able to be killed by a 300k isk frigate with a scram.

If a BS could just jump out then you would see them return. It should take 4 or 5 frigates to kill a BS.

To counter anyone thinking this would not work, it also come with another change. Make scrams and disruptors sizable for each class of ship. Small unit strength of 1, medium 2, and large 3. Now ships of equal class are even, and the big ships have one advantage over small ships in escaping a scram.

Tear away...

I'm all for more Battleships. More diversity could be seen in this class. Unfortunately with the nature of the hot drop their use is more limited in low and null then it should be. Seriously, huge roaming BS fleets should be a thing without constantly being vulnerable to a lowwat hotdrop omg we ded. I am of course referring to their use here by smaller entities, not larger groups that can field what they want because they have Cap support.

But I would also like to see Pocket Capitols as well, ships between the current Battleships and Capitols. They have no jump capability but they can enter Hi Sec. Since carriers will only be able to use fighters then Pocket Carriers could field a few more drones then most ships. Maybe have a Pocket Capitol capable of being a mobile cyno jammer, jamming out to say 4 AU. It could travel around with a BS fleet and prevent loldrops so the enemy would have to take it out first if they wanted to drop. This would give a good reason for a small group to roam in BS's and give lots of GF's when they ded.