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Armor plates are used on ships that have heavy cap use. Thus, it shouldn't hurt the weapon system it is normally paired with. Thus my idea keeps the balance of armor plates making your ship thicker while keeping a steep penalty. The goal is simple find a drawback that doesn't hurt using blasters or lasers, that still keeps the feeling of 2nd guessing if you should fit one more plate.

Armor plates not adding mass

Armor plates don't need to add mass. Yeah it doesn't make sense but who cares. They should however reduce agility extremely. If you can make it full speed in a straight line but go slower when turning, how cares, awesome. This would have the side benefit of booster blasters as the slower you orbit the better your tracking.

Remove the mass penalty . or reduce it by 90% and increase the agility draw back by a bit.

Armor plates make you more obvious

lets face it, slapping armor plate on your hull is not very ninja like. This makes it much easier to figure out where you are. It also makes you easier to scan and to lock down. Now i feel having armor plates increase sig radius leads to the same issue as mass increase. They can lock you faster than who cares if your faster. So instead armor plates stop your senors from being as effective. Senor strength is decreased by 10% across the board no matter what size you equip.

This adds an element of fitting ECM to counter the new super fast buffer blaster ships and long range run away laser ships.

This doesn't stop blaster boats from being useful in normal situations, it jut adds a counter other than "haha I have autcannons"

Armor plates forever

A new option to expel armor plates would be awesome. You get in lase and jammed, so what do you do? the hell with it! you blasts those ******* plates off the port bow! this allows you to change to a speed tank when close, or to get back your lock. This last part is more just for fun.


Anyways hopefully this gets a lot of support and CCP will hear about it!

if not tell me why I'm a dumbass that shouldn't post ideas and I will take it into account so my future posts don't overlook any obvious balance issues.

^That's the problem. It should. That's why it's called a "drawback."

You don't make sense, and we care.

Give me your stuff.

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Yes, they do. It just requires you to think a different way and fly for armor tanking blaster boats rather than for something else.

Blasters and blaster ships in general do leave a lot to be desired if you are flying solo (flying solo in a MMO? Don't you have any friends??).

If you are in a small gang or a fleet with fast tackle to get you a close warp in, blasters will melt the face off anything out there as they stand. After the patch, heaven help you if any blaster ship lands on you at 0m.

I would like to see a buff to blasters and a little love for the Gallente ships in general but not to the extent they become an IWINEVE button.

Having blasters do insane damage should and must come at a cost. Lack of speed and agility is that cost.

Learn to use your ships to their advantage and you will be fine.