Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The damage is fine, but the shield, armor and hull strength need to be buffed - along with the resistances (they're pitiful). As others have mentioned, a bit more speed, sensor strength and possible one or two more attributes would be beneficial.

I read most of this if I missed some I am sorry. On marauders I really liked the post about increasing cycle times of TP and Webs. I think this would allow better application of DPS from these ships without increasing the damage out right. I do not have any great ideas for this line of ships however as I am not sure what role they should fill other then the PVE role they have, although I am not a fan of any ship being PVE focused.

As to Malcanis I would say the best way to make Rats harder and more unpredictable would be to change how Rats spawn in a site. CCP should IMO fit rats just like real ships with correct slots and fittings not give ships 8 guns plus defender missiles that we see now. If there was a way to assign Rats points just like in the alliance tournament and then give missions a point pool in which to randomly seed ships for that mission it would give the game the ability to make fights more realistic and harder to fit the defacto min max that everyone loves. This would give missions more risk because every time you enter a site its a gamble if you are fit correctly.

So far I am happy with the re-balancing of ships that has been done and I do not think it will change much going forward. My only problem are the people that want the gap between t1 and t2 to be as large as it was before the whole rebalanced pass. If these people got their way we would be right back to the role of t1 not being viable ships and back to the stale fleet doctrines of old.

Relax, grab a beer, take a step back and ask Yourself:

Does it blend?
Do You really want to go through all the effort of making a big fuss over some small changes in Your interweb space ships?
Or would You rather want another beer and some drunken roaming?

Think about it, take your time.

Well half of the thread made for an interesting read. Didn't read the other half

I think we should give marauders the 3rd rig slot, and incorporate sub system technology in to them. Turn them in to strategic battleships. Oh that would be fun and justify the training time

T3 Flagships! :)

Whatever it is, I hope it is something more interesting than "it tanks better and does more damage" like the rest of the rebalancing that's been going on.

I understand that adding new and interesting features to ships would require some code work from your incredibly talented development staff, but I'd rather wait for a ship class to be rebalanced and give it something really unique than make changes now and just get "more tank, more dps".

It's time for fresh hints from the devs and/or Malcanis.

A feature to be able to generate your own random opening into wspace, well suited for a marauder

or a bops for that matter

give them 50% reduction in Signature Radius Penalty from Microwarp Drives role bonus
if it worked for AF-s then they should work for marauders too :)

Ah ha ha!

But seriously, the only reason people dislike t3's so much is because they were made a little too strong, and probably shouldn't be cloaky. For a battleship obviously all the options would be much more different. At least you would see a lot more of them in pvp because of the guessing factor.

I am a Marauder pilot myself, and yes I don't feel that using them was worth all the training time when most of the other things I can fly would be just as effective at doing what the marauder was designed to do. I wouldn't mind at all if they were converted to a T3 or at least somewhat more customizable than a regular Hull.

Perhaps they can be given much greater advantages for wormhole exploration/site running. But I am not sure how many people would want to risk their Marauder in a WH without some sort of greater Defensive mechanism.

Here's another quick idea

Immune to the system wide wormhole effects and
A) Covert cloak or B) Interdiction Nullified.

This will see quite a few more marauders in WH Space giving it a new specialty.

And once again, give them the 3rd rig slot!