EVE General Discussion

Not as cool as T4 battleships.

They'd be terribly overpowered if they are done in a similar way to the current T3 cruisers.
Anyway I'd rather see T3 frigates.

Let's wait for the Marauder rebalance.

oh and I cannot help but point out that it's either:

who agrees with me
or
who's in agreement with me

No. Not unless they go along with what people are clamouring for right now with T3 cruisers - instead of being just more powerful than T2, make them slightly less powerful but give them the ability to save two or so fits and transform in space. Otherwise it just condemns T1 and T2 battleships to obsolescence.

Rock, Paper, T5 Battleship!

Tier 3, not tech 3.

Get it right

What about a T3 Battleship that would not be overpowered but would have some very interesting module adaptations.

The only module adaptation that I can think of is combing POS Gun attack settings to the battleships Auto Targeting Module.

POS Guns can be set to certain standings where the guns will automatically attack any ship within range that has a value equal to or lower than the attack setting.

The Advanced Auto Targeting Module would be able to have attack settings that would allow the pilot to adjust the setting of attack.

For example the pilot sets the AATM to -5.00. Any pilot with a -5.00 standing with the pilot that comes within range would first be targeted and then asked if the guns should fire.

The same type of setting could also be built for a Security Status AATM where the pilot sets the modules setting to -5.00 and any pilot that with a -5.00 or lower sec status that come into range would be targeted where the pilot is the asked once again if the guns are to be fired.

The green and red safety settings would determine whether or not the guns fire or permission is asked to fire the guns.

Green = Permission is asked first
Red = Guns fire as soon as the target is locked.

There would also be a Suppressed version of the AATM where the pilot being targeted would not know that they are being targeted.

The drawback to this class of Battle Ship is that it would only have four low slots, four medium slots and five high slots due to the amount of hull volume taken up by the POS Gunnery mechanics built into the Battleship.

Normal bonuses apply such as a 7.5 per level damage modifier and a 5% AATM targeting bonus per level that locks the target down at a faster rate of 25% by level five.

Won't see anything even close until all of the T2's are rebalanced, which will likely take a year or so, and then POS's need fixing as well.

All of which has to be done so as to have a hope of identifying any possible niches where any new T3 hulls, of any class, might have half a reason to exist.

Kick back, have a brew or three... this will take awhile.

Yes, T2 cruisers need to be addressed... along with Marauders, Black Ops and Pirates. T3 Strategic Cruisers are fine and should be left the heck alone, however. As for T3 Battleships, I'd actually like to see three additions:

• T3 Destroyers (we don't really need any more frigates, do we?)
• T3 Battlecruisers ("Pocket battleships")
• T3 Battleships ("Flagships")

T3 Battlecruisers would be along the lines of an upgraded Strategic Cruiser (7 weapon slots), and T3 Battleships would rival all T2 Battleships (8 weapon slots) - think Dread and Carrier killers. Yeah, probably a long way off. I can still dream...

Covops nullified probing abbadon here I come!