Ships & Modules

I was curious about the Naga’s design choice of being a torpedo boat. I envisioned it much more as a cruise missile platform. Torpedos are already seen fitted to Ravens, Typhoons, and of course Stealth Bombers, whereas cruise missiles are really one viable on Ravens, and rarely seen in PvP.

If the Tier 3 BC’s are designed for assaults on very large targets, this would negate some of the very weaknesses of cruise missiles- the large explosion radius, and the delay between launch and impact during large bombardments. Cruises would hit for maximum damage against capital ships due to their massive size, and could truly make the most of a damage bonus or rate of fire bonus. This would give Caldari an opportunity to use this weapon outside of PvE. And, of course, you’d still be quite vulnerable to smaller ships getting a tackle on you.

Lets say your gang had a capital ship scrambled – the takedown would take long enough that a squad of Nagas beginning a bombardment with cruise missiles would still make a big impact on the DPS, and be able to do while keeping range and avoiding defenses like heavy neuts. They wouldn’t be fat sitting ducks like a cruise raven either, and can take advantage of the fact that the speed of your ship and transversal won’t affect your DPS while orbiting and bombing your target.

If the goal is to make the Naga flexible at range and up close, than you could still use the optimal range bonus to enhance 8 large blasters, though obviously not living up to the Talos in terms of DPS. I think at very minimum the bonus should be changed to allow for cruise missile setups, if not getting a specialized bonus to cruise missiles.

Any thoughts from the developers or players on cruisey Nagas?

I suppose it may be an anti-ratting measure, but how hard would cruise missiles really hit against NPC frigs? My guess is that without drones to compliment them, cruises only become useful in SOME pve situations, but not all. And couldn't you just kite with rails too?

Naga was definitely designed with some ranged warfare in mind, i'm just surprised that cruises weren't given a little love.

All hail the Blaga!!!

Because Toga is just silly.

If that was what CCP had in mind, only short range turrets would receive a bonus (although I don't know if bonusing short range turrets only would be possible without some recoding).

Whats wrong with kiting rats? Is ratting now an exploit? Is CCP now planning to remove PVE from the game? Are we going to have to buy all our ISK from the Eve store? Or maybe we'll buy GTC from the Eve store than convert it to ISK in the NEX store. No more concord bounties!

...uh. Hrmm.. I'm not seeing anything about the naga that disallows Cruise missiles. It's just a large launcher. Type=3 or whatever... if you want to fit cruise missiles I don't see anything that would prevent that... at least on the test server.

...I mean... I'm pretty sure these numbers for bonuses and power grid capacity aren't set in stone. yet.... The Naga shows a base power grid of 855

A seige launcher II uses something like 1800... so even with the power grid bonus its tough...

I'm just saying don't count on the #s where they stand now.

The Naga only has powergrid/CPU reduction for sieges, so can't fit cruises.

are you kidding? torp naga is perfect for 0.0 belt ratting... try it out on sisi.... it melts rats

I was actually using the Ellipsis correctly. I edited out the more boring parts of my monologue as I spoke this out.

Thanks, I appreciate that, very helpful. And no, I don't need to be linked everything. I just don't have the time to keep up with every thread so I'm fine with just tossing my thoughts out there and if its already been said than great, someone like you is bound to point me in the right direction. No need to be condescending