Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP, as said many times in this thread already, the active tanking bonus on the Hyperion ensures that it will never be used in fleet engagements because it will pop after the first enemy volley.

You state that you don't want to give up on active armor tanking and that's fine on smaller ships, but active tanking only works in solo and small group PvP engagements. Generally speaking however most people simply don't do small group or solo PvP in battleships, especially armor battleships as they're too slow and cumbersome, so this means that the active armor tanked Hyp is really only ever gonna get used in PvE.

To give it a meaningful PvP role the local rep bonus either needs to be replaced with Local AND Remote Rep or better yet simply do away with it, raise the armor HP and instead give it some help getting into range of its targets like a 10% bonus to AB and MWD speed or a 20% range bonus to stasis webifiers or warp scramblers per level. In doing so you'll solve many of the blaster boats problems and might make the Hyperion a decent choice for fleet PvP.

It would be nice to see other options, and several have been brought up by players, I can't say that I like this Dominix any better than current or better than the Armageddon.

im pretty sure the torp raven does more dps than a mega in this new form even if the mega has 5 heavy drones.

that issue aside, these changes are way better than the first round, even if you nerf the bandwidth of the mega let it keep its bay size.

Rate of fire is going to hurt the mega's cap.

would be quite terrible cause most ships are usually already using the max ammount of repairers they can fit and the hp/s is even with the bonus not enugh to be competitive with shield
one of the problem also is that there are no armor crystals

Get out!

As for the Hyperion, I've often wished that a blaster boat could have a bonus to MWD in the form of cap use reduction and sig bloom reduction. The greatest problem with blaster boats is always getting into range for the purpose of actually firing their awesomely high DPS, ridiculously short range weapons. Reduce their damage bonus to 5%, substitute a sig bloom bonus of -50%. Or perhaps give it a bonus to afterburner speed.

Ok folks maybe I am just not seeing it, so please respectfully enlighten me.

Megathron : Losing 50m of drone bandwidth and a high slot for your heavy neut or what ever in exchange for a low slot and a switch to ROF hull bonus. At current lvl 5 skills thats 126 dps from two heavy drones lost. Adding a mag stab in your new 8th low slot adds 121 dps. So that new low looks like it will have to be a mag stab.

So unless I am really off base here (and I will admit if I am wrong), the only thing that changed on the Mega is a lot less ehp, no heavy neut, more ammo, more gun cap, and less drone bandwidth in exchange for 7 ms faster speed and about 8% dps increase due to ROF? Is that good enough?

A battleship trying to snipe with sentries is doomed to either lose all the sentries after three snipe spots due to havin to align to warp off cause he is propped down.

-or-

Die in a fire because he was not aligned to warp because he had to stay in range of the sentries to scoop them.

Either way it simply does not work with the current drone mechanics.

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