Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You're right.

CCP takes any and all constructive suggestions given through the forums into legitimate consideration therefore I should come up with ways to help them out with the creative facility so that I can help shape this universe we all love so much into something I can be proud of personally.

Do you prefer a load of bullsh!t to the truth?

Truth is CCP is out in left field in the game design community and their trying to get more 'mainstream'. The only problem is this game is so far from ever being mainstream that the only thing their going to do in the process is f*ck up game mechanics (see: exploration).

However Fozzie and Rise are 2 people at CCP that I feel actually play the game and have a grasp on the mechanics that come into play in day to day scenarios presented in game and I think they'll do a good job given their superiors let them pick the direction for rebalance and they are headed in the right direction once they figure it out.

HENCE

Make Marauders better at PvE than pirate faction battleships.

When they announce the changes that they propose I will post my 'constructive' feedback in that thread.

Thanks and have a disgusting day.

i cant agree to that. makeing things simpler inst always same as makeing it mainstream.
and they do things the comunity wants / and listen to feedback (one could argue about the degree and if they do it in the right cases but that would be to off topic here)



i agree with you here
but why was it so hard to share your conclusion with us?

Some times ago, CCP mentioned that pirate hulls were above T2 hulls, however, considering the sheer amount of time and skills required for a T2 battleship, it's just not worth to fly a paladin over a nightmare, or a vargur over a machariel.

The main issue with marauders is that they try to be good at too many things, a cross between a (previous) tier 3 battleship and a noctis with some terrible sensors and huge signatures added in. This is a pain particularly for guristas that keep you permajammed and hit you really hard.

I can speak only for the 2 marauders I fly, with the skill to level 5, the Paladin and the Vargur. The Paladin is powerful and quite a ship, but it is not tanky enough for its massive signature (500m), and just too slow. The web bonus is mostly wasted, due to its limited range. Particularly annoying when using tachyons, perhaps trade it with range or rate of fire, or another bonus to the guns. The Vargur is my favorite of the two (especially since I dislike the new apoc hull model), but that thing is just a pain to fit. The Vargur is pretty obviously designed with 800s in mind. Even 1200s are a pain. It sorely lacks extra powergrid for a prop mod + 1200s, and some sort of bonus to its guns. It can match a maelstrom in damage, but has greater range and tracking, I could live with that, but fitting artilleries forces me to fit a T2 ACR + 6% implant and still be limited to 1200s+AB if I want any sort of tank and damage. And both suffer from really small drone bays...huge cargo, small drone bay...

Considering the battleship skill to 5, adv weap upgrades to 5, marauders to 5 time I invested on these ships, I want to be able to use them outside of level 4s. Tried going to incursions with them, but a machariel and a nightmare, again, largely outclass them. And with the navy armagedon changes, for armour, I can fare better than the paladin once more, even the new apoc does better. The Vindicator has no comparison point with a Kronos, besides the hull model and the Golem is falling short when the CNR comes into play.

Please make it so that marauders reward pilots willing to fly them. It feels a bit unfair to be outclassed by a ship that can be trained in 4 weeks time, when I required over 3 months to just catch them.

You can do better than just that, come on. This is a wild speculation thread! We're speculating wildly!

Or maybe they can rebalance them completely, instead centering Marauders around the ability to use covert cloaks and adjusting their other abilities accordingly. After all, the notion of a battleship capable of warping while cloaked was briefly discussed at Fanfest.

Corp XXX has no titans, but I know they have about ten guys with Marauders...
If you see a cyno pop from them, you know what is in that gift basket....

cyno's or cyno beacons..they could jump to either.
t2 bs need jump drives. =)

hellllll yeeeeahhh...
me too!

fyi...59 days till nfl starts again...=)

I beg to differ about cov ops scouts not being pvp capable but that's for another thread. A jump drive wouldn't be nearly enough once you realize a single Griffin can perma jam it. And now, at least with the kronos vs megathron, I think their dps is matched by their t1 brothers. After their sensors get the needed boost, i think that the base damage bonus should raise to about 125%, them any other damage bonus would become Rate of Fire. This might be a bad idea, but I think as something to make it unique, they should get bonuses to frigate sized weapons but an application one. To prevent abuse, the kronos, vargur, and paladin would get bonuses to velocity for rockets and light missiles, while the golem would get a bonus to optimal range and fall off of small hybrid turrets

It's like you read what I said and concluded the exact opposite.

OK man