Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't post much but this time I feel I must.

The Kronos is a good ship. It does exactly what its meant to filling its unique roll well. The only problem with it currently (on TQ now) is the very low sensor strength. For an 800 million isk ship which is supposed to be advanced. It should have a strong sensor strength like most other, if not all, T2 ships.

The 10% bonus to webifiers is one of the most appealing special bonuses on this ship. It actually allows it to fend off smaller faster ships that get too close. With out the webifier bonus the Kronos will be less effective.

Gallente ships are drone ships by nature even if this one isn't specialized in drone usage. Having the extra drone space and bandwidth seems logical and is very useful.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why you want to reduce armor hit points by 100. It isn't a big deal really… just mind boggling. Increasing the hull hit points is pretty much pointless there is no hull tanking in EVE. At most with a damage control fitted you are basically allowing the ship to survive 1 or 2 more volleys something like 5-10 seconds . If you want to "balance" the Gallente ships give them more armor hit points and less hull hit points.

In regards to velocity, I don't understand why in new Eden you'd want to make the ship slower. Gallente ships are drone/blaster type ships which require mobility. A ~25% reduction in speed is painful.

As for some of the other changes I've never had any issues fitting the Kronos and with good skills it has a strong cap. The micro jump drive seems interesting though I don't have a strong reason to use it. But, lets not kid, the ship as it is does what its supposed to and really isn't in need of these sizeable changes(nerf).

CCP might as well make a whole new battleship for the Bastion mechanism. It would be preferable to me. The Bastion mode is a niche ability based heavily on tanking. If it was a massive damage boost it would make more sense to me. Giving its extra optimal + falloff just makes it a sniper type ship… I guess.

In conclusion I strongly disagree with the changes to webifiers, drone bay/bandwidth, hit points, and velocity. I am begging you(CCP). Please leave these things alone. If other marauders need some help then by all means.

Yes. . Yes I do, and have used one for years. It would need to balanced of course, but it was an alternative thought to the skill issue and a way to tie it into existing skills. (One post in years, and I get that reaction psh.)

When I had discontinued doing missions I had just unlocked the marauders skill. Now I have a reason to buy it and start training.

Thank you. I look forward to seeing what the final iteration looks like.

Hmm 1 question... Or a few, for the pve side of things... Could this 25% bonus with bastion in optimal and falloff be without stacking penalties? So it is a greater boost with range mods, rigs and scripts? Also perhaps a boost to scan res when deployed in bastion mode so its easier to snipe frigs in missions since your removing web bonus? Also, would be cool if mjd could be used in bastion mode lol :)

They are no longer ratting ships, remove that idea from your mind forever. There's a miriad of ships that are great for ratting, carriers frankly and balancing around shooting red crosses is silly.

I think they need better resistances if they are going to have a + 400 sig radius.

I like the mini dread idea though.

Or you could just fit a MWD or AB and burn to the next gate? Not seeing the issue here, all of these ships are going to have plenty of spare slots.



Except that it allows you to fit less tank and more damage application and damage modules. Plus there's the immunity to E-War, which often slows down mission completion. Also strong damage application bonuses meaning fewer soft hits and faster kill times.



You mean like the partial T2 resist (which they already have) or the 30% non-penalized resist bonus they get from Bastion?

Beyond that T2 resist on these ships would cause all sorts of balance problems with Dreadnaught HP battleships and all sorts of other sillyness. For solo and small gang without Logi the Bastion is better for tanking anyway and doesn't give these same issues.

i do agree with this - keep the web bonus or give it back the drones

im still not happy that we need another new skill to learn

I remember that someone in F&I proposed a similar idea a few days ago. I think I made quite the bad jokes about that (or at least I wanted to)... I can't remember who initially posted that, but i still wanted to apologize... profoundly.

Seeing these stats makes me feel al warm and fuzzy.

I love you CCP Ytterbium.

Against frigate one normally uses light drones, no? Thus 25/25 is sufficient bay and bandwidth to deal with frigates. Nw, more space to allow a bit of versatility would be nice, but these ships don't need the extra drone capacity for anti-frigate work.