Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Right now all the black ops battleships are a joke. They cost about a billion simply for the hull, their combnat effectiveness is semi effective at best (Being nice here) and their jump range is total crap.

Their range should be increased to at least the range of Titan bridges and lower the fuel cost. After all the only thing you are jumping through is bombers, and recon ships, b oth of which are paper thin for the most part. Tis plays into the role of "behind enemy lines operations." As it stands you are faster to just jump the systems rather than set up a jump chain to blops with.

Next, Blops should be able to fit on a cov ops shield and let them warp cloaked. Keep their cloak speed bonus and make them viable ships beyond just jumping over a buddle as a quirky joke.

Black Ops need love, no doubt.

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Black ops need love, in their current form they are almost only used by the most risk averse of blobbers and gatecampers.


That is, buff them in a way that makes them usable by less risk-averse people. The jump range is not the problem

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As a proud owner of a widow:

Honestly, I think they're pretty good as-is. Covops cloak would make them OP, as would i think significantly increased jump range.

Having them uncommon means that people don't expect them nearly as much, as if they had huge jump range, could warp cloaked, and were better combat ships than their t1 counterparts.

The fact that they cost 800m or so for the hull really means nothing. COST IS NOT A BALANCING FACTOR!

That said, the blops has fuel issues. They either need a significantly larger fuel bay, or a fuel consumption bonus.

Dread range, maybe. They are a lot smaller than caps don't forget.

looking at the numbers, a JDC 5 blackops can go 4.5 light years. a JDC 5 dread can go 11, a carrier, 14. A titan, 7.8

I think titan range would be fair, don't you? Same range as a non covert bridge isn't too bad.

Definitely agree on the damage potential though. poor things shouldn't be weaker than thier T1 counterparts.

Im ok with them being less combat capable than there t1 counterparts, as they should be able to fit a covert ops cloak. Extra jump range would be great if it were a bonus from the black ops skill, say 10%/level

Black ops should get a .5-1.0 LY extension . I am fine with combat capabilities of the BLOPS as they can defend them selves well enough with a fleet with them. I would say the fuel consumption is a bit extreme. I can bridge a BLOPS through my BLOPS though.... Not practical application but it can hold enough fuel to bridge a BLOPS and about 6-7 bombers.

Just a thought. A long jump range means that it would be a huge module IMO. I just don't feel a BS should have the range. .5-1 LY is sufficient as it is interesting to be creative with staging systems and not be able you be like a carrier and go any where and everywhere.

I like the Blops as is. It is a battleship with a capital class capability and is groovy with a cloak. I dig the cloaked speed bonus the blops currently has. I find the request to enhance the combat capability of the class unreasonable. I am satisfied with the current jump range, however increasing the blops range isn't unreasonable.

While we are at it, I suggest that the blops stays as is and the marauder receive a sensor strength boost along with a jump drive with a range comparable to the blops.