Player Features and Ideas Discussion

True, but this argument is applicable to any active tanked (non-ASB) ship. With dual cap boosters you can stay up against a fair number of neuts, but not an overwhelming amount.

Replace damage/hitpoint bonus with +1 drones/level, make it a REAL drone boat :)

Oh wow the changes to the Hype and the Mega make me glad I fly minmatar and Amarr. Those are going to be some useless lumps.

This I'm fine with. Even if you have to drop turrets to balance it. They are unbonused anyway, so **** it.

I think these changes make Gallente have a pretty bad line-up. The Dominix is now clearly inferior to the proposed Armageddon. I never had issues with range or tracking of drones and it will lack drone control range to make much use of the range bonus to sentry drones. The Mega I guess will fill the hole left by the hype as a shield gank ship but I still think there is room for a buffer fit armour ship which the new look mega will not perform as well in. The hype is now pretty much good for nothing in my eyes. It will almost certainly underperform dual ASB Rohks and Mealstroms and offer pretty much no utility in its mids now to compensate. If you are going to persist with making it an active armour ship then at the minimum it needs more PG.

I think the armor reps should have another bonus than just repping part, like when active adds 10% armor hp or something. And Gallente boats Repping Bonus should be 10% effectivness, thus rep more and ad 15% armor hp at full skills. This would give Gallente boats large armor pool wich could be good even in fleets (just put a small rep for the armor bonus).

Keep the Dominix bonuses as they are. There is room to play with a pure drone boat in the form of the Navy Issue Dominix. I think everyone is happy with the Vexor and excited by the prospect of the Navy Issue Vexor....

The Armageddon is also too strong by comparison. I'd move a high slot on it somewhere else and limit the dronebay to 250m^3.

If you read my first post in this thread, you'll see that it is my opinion that the Hyp absolutely needs 5 mids to be effective. Though I much rather run dual cap, scram + web, and either MWD or MJD, rather than dual proping it. The web is just far too valuable to the ship's ability to actually apply its damage to remove.

My point in my previous several posts is that many of the comments in this thread are complaining about how terrible active rep bonuses are. While they are not helpful in large fleets, they can be very effective if used right in solo/small gang fights.

The other 3 races are very solid throughout, but a near complete swing and miss on Gallente.

The Hyperion completely whiffs. While it desperately needed a low, it did not need one at the expense of a mid. It is completely outclassed on the fleet front by the Rokh and Abaddon due to their resists bonuses, and outclassed by the Maelstrom due to the weapon system. Active armor tanking is still terrible, despite efforts to fix it. I bit my tongue on the BC changes with the promise of the AAR, but now that it's live I am disappointed in armor tanking once again. So I will say I am firmly opposed to active armor tanking bonuses on all hulls until it something DRASTIC changes with it.

At the very least, the Hyperion needs more hitpoints in armor to make up for this wasted bonus. It could also use some sort of range bonus to hybrids, either falloff or optimal, to give it some sort of direction. It's current bonus doesn't lend itself towards blasters or rails particularly well. A good falloff bonus would make it a beast with Null, a good optimal bonus would make it a rail platform. I'd lean towards the falloff because of the precedent of Gallente being a blaster platform and the fact that it's a travesty that the Rokh does blasters better than the current or proposed Hyperion.

The Megathron simultaneously addresses problems and creates problems. The Mega always needed a midslot to come into it's own, but it does not need one at the expense of a lowslot. Yet somehow the utility high slot still exists, despite being one of the least used slots in this game.

Drop the utility high, restore the low and the Megathron is heading down the right track.

As others have said in this post, the new Dominix bonus is pretty awesome, but it kills the utility that the Dominix currently has. I can live with this as split weapons are bad and hopefully drones get changed in the near future to fix their flaws. I maintain that drones are still to vulnerable to being killed/smartbombed and need a better HP bonus on all blaster ships.

Can I get that second bonus on the Rattlesnake I JUST upgraded to? You monsters.

It's funny because Rattler just BARELY won out to Navy Domi because I liked the new missile effects and hate the Domi ship model. Redesign it and I will consider forgiving you.