Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sacrilege would be perfect if you moved the utility high to a low.

Deimos needs some more hitpoints. Thanks to natively poorer Gellente t2 resists it has a fairly weak AHAC tank even if you try.

Muninn is clearly designed for using artillery yet it has a hard time fitting them, Maybe change the 10% optimal to a 5% optimal and falloff per level. That or give it a bit more fitting space, tho I think that could be a bad idea.

Other than those things I like them.

Also just for the sake of bringing it up, the 2 rigs slots. Are there any plans on changing this? Because rigs as they stand play a HUGE part in how a ship preforms and because T2 ships are only able to fit 2 they have a harder time being better than their t1 counterparts and get horribly shafted when it comes to T3. Just wanted to bring this to your attention and let you think on it.

The problem is the Gallente design model is fundamentally broken; big slow armor tanks and blasters with no range. It's a combination of bad and bad with no counterbalance, especially for cruiser-sized ships; battleships are always slow regardless of how they're fit (and have MJDs, which are a wonderful way around this problem), while frigates can get away with just fitting a damage control and perhaps some other resist mods.

Making armor faster isn't a good choice since it's the defining weakness of an armor tank, and when you start adding range to blasters you start looking suspiciously like Minmatar. The Talos is as good as it is, perhaps even overpowered, because it's un-Gallente: it has both range and speed.

The way I see it, there are two options: either redesign the Gallente HACs to have shield tanks with a decisive speed advantage and enough EHP to brawl at point blank range -- and I mean actually enough, not like the Thorax where shields + blasters means you'll explode instantly -- or leave them armor-tanked, but let them track well enough for railguns + antimatter to be at least somewhat competetive with Scorch and Barrage.

(To CCP's credit, I think the proposed Ishtar changes have already achieved this balance with drones, which just leaves the Deimos.)

I prefer the latter solution since I think ultra-fast shield-tanked blaster ships would be a great direction to take the Serpentis ship line, but that's just me.

The last tunes to the Sacrilege are perfect. No touching it anymore pls.

Diemos is still a flying coffin with the words (I brought it on the field and I have blasters, kill me please) written on it.

I agree with the gallente armour and blasters combo not making sense it turns the mega into a fairly average speed battleship at best not very quick and attack like when the Hype goes quicker...
I was disappointed the mega lost the shield option at least give the deimos the mobility and stronger projection to make it a mini but more resilient Talos... more shield tank aswell would help
Serpentis make more sense as combat armour tanky ships with their web bonus switch the falloff on them for tracking like the vindi has.

You're everything wrong with this game.

Fixed.

While I still think that a falloff + tracking combination wouldn't be as unreasonable as CCP Rise claims, I wouldn't mind trading the falloff for tracking either. "Close range blaster platform" and all that. But you should still replace the MWD capacitor bonus with something, because it's awful.

I'd perfer the diemost get either A, more dps by trading a damage bonus for a Rof one or B, an armor tanking one over the microwarpdrive bonus, whether it's a resist, armor amount, or armor repair bonus, it'll still be useful. Both would be preferred for me, but probably Op.

I think when we see people actually using hacs we can then decide that they need their speed nerfed. But the fact that they cost a 150 mill more than t1 should provide them with some additional benefit. Otherwise they will remain in the hangar.