Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello. My in game name is aznomads ive been a veteran in the game sense 2006 first started as a caldari pilot. I would like to speak to someone personally about the ship that i deemed m6 flagship and named the Illucidator MK-XV11 or as you would know it better the caldari standard battleship the Rokh. This has always been my goal ship and though i know the roles it fills arent anything of great value but from the moment my friend Rupee Rue in game gave me my first caldari steam train it has always been the pinacle of my focus. Improving fits finding new combinations of different armories and hardneners and ammunition types to make her the battleship that reflects the image of its class. However from 08 to current date ive seen nerf after nerf toward my pride and joy my reason to fly the vast expanses. My vessel my castle is all but ruins and now ships that take a few weeks to train into can easily out gun what took me 3 years to get to mastery 5 solo.... ide like to know why my ship has been thrown to the side to make way for frigates..... please answer this calling. It may save my subscription. I know one subscriber and monthly player doesnt make much of a dent compared to the vast numbers collected in your creation. Your universe is ever expanding and truely amazing. But so many have been forced into the shadows. The RnK fleets of old to the TEST alliance numbering in the near 1000's have all witnessed the destruction of one of the things that gave them the humble start and built the road to get them where they are today. Though i know as i said one perspective one objector to the order of things as they are compared to thr tens of thousands that go with the flow of the game. But RnK is all but lost and TEST is no more than an afterthought. Do you recall thr golden fleet of RnK? Who truly proved that even when small in numbers compared to many times their offencive force one pilot could change the tides of war depending on his actions. This is my version of killing a butterfly. I just hope the butterfly effect makes you see things through our eyes. We the random few, the forgotten fleets, the wartorn heroes. The eve nomads. Thank you for your time.
AZNomads, balgara, Col Hoss, Baylore, MOONMAN777, AZNomadofmalice, ibfugly

All names listed are seperate people not just alts or fictional creations. And we all look forward to your answer

Ever after the kind formatting in still going to have to say

Wut


M8 tell us your idea clearly cut out all the back sorry b.s. that has nothing to do with it

Indeed. You need some sort of idea rather than just 'buff rokhs or I'll quit waah'

https://youtu.be/bv7vPtXdWnk

OP likes Rokhs. So does this person.

Rawketsled, totally gave you a like... I was going to TLDR the OP and try to put it together from the answers, because that would have been easier. Turns out I was right, the replies were way easier to understand than the OP.

I somewhat understood the post and I think it belongs to the roleplay section of the forum. Or "out of pod" experience as there seems to be some sort of irl drug involvement.

Small ammo in large turrets- 1/10. There is something as under caliber ammo but it has the same rate of fire and "tracking" issues.
t1 bs are in healthy place and have very good variety (shield/ armor + solo/fleet variants and other mix) and Rokh is a fantastic shield brick for fleet fights, only reason it's not used is because faction bpo's are being farmed to death and too cheap (mineral cost is similar).

you know you can just put undersized guns onto the BB right? and since they have more slots and more PG/CPU generally do get more DPS than ships bonused to those guns?

BBs are not meant to just be simply better than smaller ships they are a different tool for a different job

You can, but at that point they suck for their big hitter role. (Ignoring stuff like RLML here as a known unbalanced item)
My idea doesn't make them better than small ships because small ships still have the massive advantage of mobility, but what it does is give them a way to apply DPS that will be slightly less than a Frigate/Cruiser to said frigate cruiser, without murdering their primary role.
At that point you are trading mobility for EHP, rather than the current situation which has led to T3D's online, where you are trading so many things just for EHP that it becomes not worth it. Frigates will still be able to pick their engagements, and I am specifically saying that Large guns/missiles should become worse against small ships for this idea as well, so only your small guns are effective.

@Blade. CCP's implementation of balance is bad yes, but their ability to recognise that something needs balancing is actually pretty good. They just fail at the 'how' quite often. T3 will not increase Battleship use though, it will increase T2 Cruiser use instead.

there is nothing wrong with making the choice to fit undersized guns they do not need the ability to swap from shooting frigs to other BBs on the fly. build your fleet around the BB they are not meant to be solo ships. brings ships good at hitting small ones or slowing them down and fit large guns to your BB otherwise fit smaller guns to your BB and laugh when frigs and cruisers think they have found an easy kill.

Agreed. Mach fleets don't real.