Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Agreed and i think this is probably the best direction to go ... it seems more synchronus as well .. however instead of a veloicty bonus i would give it a 5-10% Drone control range bonus per level to further synchronize the ship with its intended role as a sentry sniper. the velocity bonus does nothing for sentries but the control range will help by freeing up the 2 utility highs. this is much more acceptable to me even at the loss of another turret slot. and this is coming from someone with all Large turret specs to 4. trust me i like my guns ... i like my drones more though =)

this way you can fit 4x turret and 2x DLA in highs and be competitive with Rokh's+Naga's in a sniper role with sentries being able to follow an attck target command to 120km roughly depending on skils (still need Sebo's to make this work)... the 15% to drone dmg really is needed instead of 10% since even with the optimal range bonus and if u fitted additional Omni's u are not going to be using gardes at this range since its still well outside opitmal for them.

but the gardes would be more inline with the antimatter rokh+Naga ranges and dmg so it would have some compareability dmg projection wise.and the dominix would have something that its better then the geddon at aka being higher drone damage and application..

A higher bay would allow you to mix up several sets of sentries so it not so predictable and means your DPS isnt so easily destroyed.

this seems much more streamlined in my eyes .. but still this is going to be an immobile sitting duck fleet while sentries are deployed regardless.

now to make this work you need to allow ships to stay aligned while not moving ... not sure if this is an easy fix or not. otherwise this is still going to be subpar due to game mechanics

the scoop range should be extended a bit. if i deploy sentries right after coming out of warp in my domi i can still float past them out of docking range before i come to complete stop. another thing that would help droneboats in general alot would allow drones to autodock if u initiate a warp and they are in docking range.

without that i can easily see a FC warping the sentry fleet thats aligned at 0 speed(if this can be fixed) and losing all their sentries.

Attack battleships

I may post this in every thread.

Anybody feel these are a little lacking in their role.

The Mega may be an exception due to it’s opportunity for massive close range DPS but generally these feel like they should be on the move and yet seem to have cap problems doing so, this is not so much a problem for combat battleships that may end up in scram range or as fleet platforms where mobility is just one factor.

Attack frigates have a role bonus over combat frigates, this helps them maintain tackle and speed by reducing the cap draw of propulsion disruption modules. At battleship level such a bonus would make very little difference but at battleship level, no ship can run a Microwarpdrive for any significant period of time.

How would people feel about a cap reduction role bonus for propulsion modules for all Attack Battleships? Even something as strong as 50% or even 75% to enable these ships to stay on the move (as much as battleships can) without constant cap boosting.

its tiers by disguise :P attack role means tier 1 EHP and at battleship level attack just means slightly less brick like... :)

Issue of why i want velocity is so that the changes don't only effect sentry drones. The layout that I have give players the option to add a drone range module in their high. The above ship still does less DPS than the current version of the Domi but is much more interesting, versatile and fleet worthy than the current proposed CCP version. Though as some have said maybe the 50% velocity bonus is a tad to high and maybe it should only be 25%. I do hope CCP looks at my proposal and considers it.

The dominix bonuses seems .. weak. The reason I say this is because of the split between the turret platform and the drone platform. Now that the damage bonus has been removed from the turret side, and the drone platform has been given a range bonus, the ship's role preference will be moved towards a sniping role. With this, the effectiveness of the turret side is mitigated even more as it doesn't have the range of the now drones, leaving the ship as a mediocre drone sniper.

Opinion: The drone damage bonus should be increased in light of the new changes, to make up for the incoherency.

What about something like a bonus to drone speed/tracking?

I am tracking that the new bonus gives a 33% damage bonus instead of the previous 25%. Though this comes at the loss of two drones and a missile launcher. So overall it's not really a change to damage at a and actually gives the Mega less versatility.

I posted a couple of weeks ago, and now I see that "my feedback" hasn't done a damn of difference. Yeah, I'm talking about the Domi.

First of all, as some one already mentioned, why even bother making a "Sniper" when it's "guns" won't shoot past 60km. I need 3 modules just to make the damn ship target and activate the drones at 100 + range - sebo and 2 drone range control modules. Some sniper. In fact the shortest ranged sentry drone(garde) will be able to hit beyond the drone control range. Talk about idiots bonus.

Second - how stupid is it to have a sniper which can forget it's guns in space? You move 5 km and forget about getting your drones. Also forget aligning to a planet, sorry all our dps is gone now, we're aligning.

Why change s#it which isn't broken? I never heard anyone complain that the domi is overpowered, this most gallente of all gallente ships should be returned to it's previous glory!!!!!


Look you have 115 pages worth of complaints about the domi. Change it the hell back already !

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Agreed - the mega having its drones back would be a nice change and would help it out a lot given how short its range is.