Player Features and Ideas Discussion

but....

they are fleet ships?

The problem with all ships larger than battle cruisers is that are all designed for siege warfare of being able to mount the largest guns possible.

In all reality a siege warfare ship unless it has been designed to specifically bring the pain, would have smaller armament mounts located on the hull to defend against simple objects such as asteroids that the larger guns would take to long to traverse to track.

From what I have read about the history of naval warfare is that is all combat ships have their main heavy armament that is supported by smaller more rapid firing armaments.

Battleships are the class of combat ships that have been historically called upon to breach the blockade because of their heavy armor, modest speed and their vast array of armaments.


A BB in Eve Online should at least have two point defense systems available that can be added to the ship as a rig that would automatically defend the ship against any ship firing on it with aggressable weapons.

The first rig would add two Point Defense small turrets and reduce the optimal range of the slotted weapons by , cloaks and

Rig 1 - Two Point Defense Systems - small
Drawback: optimal range and tracking of all high slot fitted modules - 10%
Rig 2 - Three Point Defense Systems - two small, one medium
Drawback: optimal range and tracking of all high slot fitted modules - 15%, Velocity - 15%
Rig 3 - Four Point Defense Systems - two small, two medium
Drawback: optimal range and tracking of all high slot fitted modules - 15%, Velocity - 15%, EHP - 15%

Only one Point Defense System could be fit to a battleship at a time.

The Point Defense System would add to the shield HP of the ship though

Rig 1 - 250 shield HP

Rig 2 - 500 shield HP

Rig 3 - 1500 shield HP

The Rig would be a second shield itself that once the shields had gone down the Rig would take the additional damage being delivered. When the Rig was taking damage though the shield would not recharge but could be recharged from a support ship.
Once the HP of the rig had been reached the rig system itself would offline and not online again until at least 75% of the main shield had been remotely recharged.

the good ol days before stacking and tracking

Wait wait I've got this.

Small fast craft that would attack them in groups?

I believe the term you're looking for is "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly Incident"

just drones probably not great but drones + smart-bombs and you get a good representation.


(TBH if ccp just changed the name and image of smart bombs to be point defense we would probably have fewer people like the op)

Grappler has to be the best thing added to this game in a long time. Can you belive what would of happened if ppl convinced ccp to let them get effected by links and hull bonuses?

no

cruisers are already quit able to hit above and below them. this along with the nice level of utility they are afforded has lead to them dominating eve they don't need more help in this area

At least with another web, you won't need to switch ammo from void to antimatter.


"Come to momma.."

Higher EHP and T3's 'rebalanced.'


That's what battleships could use. They don't need ewar resistance. And as much as I like the idea of attaching the PDS visual effect to a battleship, it would kill the server, so smartbombs typically work fine.