Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Also drone tracking speed? This thing is suppose to be a drone sniper with one sentry? It can't even fit two of them. Please go back to the drawing board with this one.

I agree that drone tracking is a very useful bonus to light drones

Are these meant to be brawlers? I think these are meant to be ranged ships. Look at the stats compared to the close range combat frigates. These are slower and the Tristan has one less tank slot.

In fact the Tristan is slower than the Tormentor and Punisher in addition to the one less tank slot (every other combat frigate has 10 slots on the Tristan only 9).

Approved.

I second this approval

It doesn't have one less tank slot. It has one less High slot, and that's only because it has a whole bunch of drones. And most Gallente ships have one low traded for a mid compared to Amarrian ships.

I say Tristan being a drone boat is awesome. Less missiles on Gallente, more drones!

And why are people getting so worked up about the Drone boat slot being passed to the Tristan rather than the Navitis? There's absolutely nothing wrong with that! do still wonder about what the Navitis is going to be though, but we'll have to wait and see.

How come "small" balance changes have to come along a big expansion? Why not just continuously balance and put these changes and other upcoming balance changes into small patches that can be applied during a regular maintenance?

To be fair, it doesn't take months to come up with the changes currently suggested. With this pace it's gonna take until 2020 before all ships have been looked at.

I would like one missile ship in Gallente other than the Nemesis. I'm not saying less drone ships. What I am saying is that the Navitas looks like a space fish like the Vexor and Dominix. The Tristan does not.

I'm not sure how you are counting but the Tristan does have one less slot than the other ships. This would be a low slot not a high slot.

So what's the point of having a Gallente T2 stealth bomber at all?

Seriously, you've now laid out that there isn't a single Gallente frigate that requires any missile skills. The whole "racial" combat platform of drones + blasters sounds good in your head maybe, but doesn't make sense from a gameplay standpoint. Blaster boats have to be point blank and are armor tanked, so are slow to get into range and do their damage. Drone - focused boats aren't practical in PvP unless you are a suicide PVP player, because of drone recall times in GTFO situations. You've taken one of the most offensive ships in the Gallente frigate fleet and crippled it.

In addition, you've now set up a good number of Gallente T2 frigates to be suboptimal straight off of the T1 frigates. due to a lack of any missile boats. Gallente have always had a harder time due to mixed platform training for weapons (drones, guns, missiles) and now you take away one of the useful cross-train paths. Seriously, think about it.

Just a reminder about the supposed upgrade to the Tristan:


Name: Nemesis
Hull: Tristan Class
Role: Stealth Bomber

Specifically engineered to fire torpedoes, stealth bombers represent the next generation in covert ops craft. The bombers are designed for sneak attacks on large vessels with powerful missile guidance technology enabling the torpedoes to strike faster and from a longer distance.

Developer: Duvolle Laboratories

Duvolle Labs manufactures sturdy ships with a good mix of offensive and defensive capabilities. Being the foremost manufacturer of particle blasters, its ships tend to favor turrets and thus have somewhat higher power output than normal.

Gallente Frigate Skill Bonus:
10% bonus to torpedo explosion velocity and flight time per level
20% bonus to torpedo velocity per level


To even touch this ship now you have to train a month of missile skills that have no bearing whatsoever to any other gallente frigate.