Ships & Modules

Why those ships? You've taken:
Inquisitor (T1 version of Purifier (stealth bomber))
Merlin (T1 version of Hawk/Harpy (assault ships))
Maulus (T1 version of Keres (electronic attack ship))
Breacher (T1 version of Hound (another bomber)).

Notice that all the T1 speedy frigates were made interceptors, the T1 missile frigates (for the most part) made stealth bombers, and the hardiest of each races T1 frigates made into assault ships.

Are we seeing some similarities here? Good. Now go away and gather yourself a the similar frigates from each race and try again.

If all you came here for is to ask for a tech 2 inquisitor, then grab yourself a Purifier and be happy. If, alternatively, you want an interceptor that goes fast. Well, grab yourself an interceptor :| each race already has two variations.

this really.

sig reduction, bit more EHP, bit more speed, increased capacitor, perhaps reduction on build costs.

some bonuses, like the keres ones, need to be reworked, since the keres is either too expensive to be fielded as a mini-dampner platform (celestis does the same thing for a fraction of price), or using an ares as a long range tackler is cheaper and more survivable.

Why hasn't the new crow model been activated?

That's a point! The Sentinel can't even use 5 drones! I always thought it could... It's cap recharge bonus should really be a drone bonus to be more in line with the Curse. Then ofcourse it needs its cap sorting out anyway. And sig reduction, AB + those bonus'd tracking disruptors would be entertaining against some ships :P can't really speak for any of the others to tell you the truth.

What you mentioned about potentially having a covert ops version and a more combat orientated version of the EAFs seems good. Just like their bigger cousins; the recons. I like that idea quite a lot.

Now OP, do we see how we make a thread now? Come here with something to discuss and something that has potential and people will like it. "Gief moar ships because I need to cross train moar" does not make a thread.

More bandwidth for the sentinal, more grid/CPU in general. Or 50% reduction in required build materials. Make them cheaper.

Biggest issue with Keres is that the Ares is a better tackler in every way. If you go the damp route, you're screwed by the fact that a) EAFs as a class suck, and b) Damps, as an ewar system suck.

The ships aren't good enough to merit fitting meta4 damps, which are quite expensive, and you need at least 3 if the damp route is your focus. Without the meta4 though, your frigate sized cpu and capacitor end up REALLY REALLY hurting. Also i feel you need a sig amp to take advantage of the damps. All the eafs could use bonuses to speed, ehp, dps, etc. But what the keres really needs is a role bonus for damp capacitor use.

As for the effectiveness of damps themselves, most people agree an acceptable way to buff them would be to increase the bonus on the ships that use them to 7.5% or 10% per level.

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actually no. Keres is 200m/sec faster than the maulus, and the ares is 1km/sec faster than the keres. and that's only with a mwd fitted, and no other kind of speed mods.
There's currently an overlap in roles when it comes to the keres. The ares has half the bonus, but is a hell lot cheaper, has a smaller sig rad., and can do circles around your keres all day long. Keres struggles to do it's role since it has to decide between better cap stability or tank, specially when the ares can dedicate a good amount of the lowslots to speed, making it twice as fast as the keres, which, btw, has nearly half as much as the ares' EHP, nevermind the fact that the celestis, the next biggest thing, has nearly 4 times the keres' EHP (and costs like 6x less)

and when you throw damps into the equation, considering price-performance ratios, the maulus does exactly the same thing as the keres with the added bonus of actually being able to shoot back.



oh and another silly thing: maulus has more CPU than the keres, however it has 2 less medslots.

what?

it was actually quite fine on the damp boats. the main problem damps had was the fact that everybody, their cat and their mother had one or two fitted. So CCP nerfed damps, but totally forgot that there were ships out there that had damp bonuses and didn't touched on them (unlike what they did when they nerfed jammer STR, but boosted the ECM str bonus on ECM boats to compensate).


also, changing the bonus to 7.5% won't bring the damps of old since they were triple-nerfed back then: nerfed in strenght, effectiveness (scripts) and got their rigs nerfed too.