Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Not like if Thorax was known for it's ability to fit 1600 plates making it a nice suicide ship or awesome Rails fittings/dps on it. Tracking bonus on this hull it's probably the worst bonus you guys could think about, fix the guns first, eventually give it a rof bonus.
This means Thorax is meant for rails, and fit short range guns on it means a wasted bonus. Well nothing says we have to fit blasters on it but then I look at Vexor and think about drones and smartbombs...

Ruppy all the way :sad panda:

Serious question to CCP Fozzie;

Even though the Omen has a ROF bonus/Cap use bonus and i'm guessing the Maller will have a Damage bonus/Resist bonus, your aware the Omen will probally be ignored as while sure the cap bonus is ok, you have a better tank and similiar DPS on the Maller, it really doesn't fit for an attack ship. Why not consider an optimal range bonus so people actually consider using it?

Serious question, not a splergy shitpost like most of the thread.

When will CCP realize that speed is worth more then signature radius, just cut the armor rig penalty in half already.

In a 800mm RT plated Omen with 3 trimarks, this would only make a small difference. From 1239 m/s to about 1320 m/s. Unplated and unrigged it goes 1500 m/s.

There should be more thought going into the choice of rigs, rather than just HP rigs on everything. Forcing a choice between EHP and mobility is good design, so speed penalties on trimarks should not only be retained but also extended to Extender and Purger rigs. Altering to an agility penalty would probably also work though.

Active-tanking rigs should get no penalty; resist rigs should get either no penalty or a light one, sig radius would probably work.

You are talking about known problems with ASBs, not problems with rig penalties.

ASBs aren't really active tanking mods anyway, they're effectively buffer mods.

ASBs were a fundamentally bad idea and Eve would be better off removing them entirely and looking at other ways to make true active tanks stand up better in a neut-heavy environment. Things like better synchronisation of cap booster and repper cycles, or reducing Nos fitting requirements and increasing their drain amount.

The neut protection offered by a cap battery was a good idea in itself, but it was wasted by making it too weak against neuts and linking it to cap batteries, which are far too hard to fit, both in terms of spare medslots and and PG & CPU. It would work better on a new highslot module, relatively easy to fit, that offered a ~40%, subject to normal stacking penalties, reduction in cap amount drained from your ship by neuts or nos. A ship fitting these would be resistant but not immune to neuting, at the cost of its own offensive or RR capabilities. Carriers with these might be a problem, but if they have them then they're not RRing. In-combat refitting might have to go though. Hmmmm.

How about active tanking that isn't 100% reliant on cap boosters? Having to dock up all the time is bad.
Nos should be way better though yeah. It's supposed to be a good defense against neuts, but it only actually drains half the cap/sec. The short duration is helpful, but typically means you can have a very small amount of cap rather than being completely capped out.

It would appear that the Thorax is being set up for modules which currently do not exist in the game. Interesting.

Am I right to think that a 25% bonus to the rate of fire increase the capacitor needs of turrets by 25% making the 50% bonus to cap just a 25% bonus?? Wouldn't it be better to just have a damage bonus instead?

I am curious - how fast would each one go with a MWD? Just as a comparison, assume no armour tank.