Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Was hoping to come in here and see a massive boost to my old brawler Megathron. Leaving disappointed and letting the dust keep gathering on the old beast.

Had some good times in that Mega.
When's the next fix?



EDIT:

After further review of the Mega;

Seeing the lack of fix/buffs for blaster boats over the years, I am very glad I made the switch to other races.

Any changes made to the Mega would have to be significant. As it stand in it's current form and the proposed form, it always comes up short. Current and proposed form the main problem is actually being able to apply the damage due to it's short range. Even then, comparing it's damage and tracking to other races, it's nothing special. The other races are almost always better choices, there is currently always a better option over the Megathron. The problem doesn't only lie in the ship, it's with blaster and hybrid ammo as well.

While us die hard bitter vet Megathron pilots appreciate an attempt to bring this iconic ship back into a viable platform, this proposition just didn't measure up. You will not be getting a rose tonight, the tribe has spoken.

Don't take my word for it though, just look at the numbers on eve-kill for 20 most used pvp ships in Eve.

In the top 20 list you find 1 Gallente ship. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see there's a problem. It's clearly not just with the balancing of each and every on of those ships, it's a larger problem with Blasters, Hybrid ammo, and drones. You will never balance Gallente ships until you fix those issues.

i really an excited to see what the resistance nerf will look like... and please a polish pass on armor tanking...

plus any chance you guys will do a polish pass on the hybrid boost tallest did a while back?

for me the big things that need to be looked at is fittings for large blasters... (you did not increase the hype so its going to hurt to fit)

viability of medium rails (can you explain why anyone would use them)

and lack of flavour for hybrid ammo... remember way back when minmatar was boosted and they did ammocide and made three tiers of ammo (close range mid range and long range) and then added cool bonus like tracking and stuff... why not do that for hybrid ammo...

Well, the Hyp is still crap.

It's completely unusable.

The rebalanced Hyperion is sub-par, imo.

Switching around a medslot for a lowslot isn't bad for armor ships, but it's debatable for the Hyperion.

It's a good start but I would give it some powergrid. Active-tanked armor setups need a LOT of powergrid to be usable.

Right now, it doesn't have enough PWG to fit anything but Electron Blasters, and Railgun setups are completely out of question.

More PWG would fix most of the Hyperions' problems.

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The rebalanced Megathron seems great !

I have yet to see how its mobility have been affected. If its mobility is alright, then it will be a very good ship. If it's still very bulky, it probably won't be as good as expected.

If I had one thing to say about the Megathron, I would say that its scan resolution is very low. Attack battleships are supposed to be the "skirmishing" battleships. Skirmish implies that it does things fast. It moves fast, shoots fast. But it locks slower than combat battleships. I would switch scan resolution values between the Hyperion and the Megathron.

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The rebalanced Dominix is awesome. For real. It owns so much. Very nice job on this one, Gallente pilots rejoice, Kil2 has arrived.

If I had to change something, I would reduce its turret slots to 4. I think that a ship THAT good requires to be toned down somewhere, even if a turret slots change is purely cosmectic on a Dominix.

lol the hyperion's "we know this ship is ****, but we are to stubborn to change why it is ****, so it will stay **** <3"

Just looked at the Apoc. So it can apply "short range" gun damage with Scorch out FOREVER and enjoys the tracking of a Megathron? Isn't the tracking bonus a Gallente thing? I mean why would you fly a Mega over this boat? You barely even need the prop mod on an Apoc. Just sit there and kill all the things while you watch the "faster" Mega desperately run around trying to get in range to apply DPS? I mean wow...just bad. I guess you trying to make the Mega a Shield tanker, ok...well I have Talos for that.

+ 1

This is the mega i would like to see...
by taking away one turret but increasing the rate of fire to 7.5% it makes up for the lost blaster and also helps with cap and fittings issues...

plus the tracking bonus being replaced with a fall off bonus will allow the mega to stay in attack skirmish warfare...

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Gallente Battleship Skill Bonuses:
+7.5% Large Hybrid Turret rate of fire (replaces large hybrid turret damage)
+10% Large Hybrid Turret Fall off

Slot layout: 8H, 5M(+1), 6L(-1); 6 turrets(-1) , 0 launchers(-2)
Fittings: 16000 PWG(+500), 550 CPU(+25)
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 6300(+89) / 6500(-141) / 7500
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second) : 5800(+175) / 1087s / 5.02 (+.15)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 122(+7) / .117(-.0046) / 98300000 (-100000) / 15.96s (-.63s)
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 100(-25) / 125
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 72.5km / 95 / 7
Sensor strength: 21 Magnetometric Sensor Strength
Signature radius: 380(-20)

+1

Did CCP just make a shield-Megathron more viable? 5 mid slots? Tracking and damage bonus?

The Hyperion has changed in a significant way. 1 extra low slots means more resistence.


- killz