Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Anybody notice how CCP put up the original new marauder plan, got 219 pages of feedback, and completely ignored ALL OF IT.

They just said the original plan is going on sisi. WTF do they even ask us for feedback for??

CCP's job isn't to make us happy (because that's impossible).
Their job is to tick us off as little as possible... just like every other business out there.
But yes, it is aggravating.

honestly i wish we kept the T2 resists (or even a scaled back version like field command ships used to have) but when in bastion mode we got the 30% increase to hull resistance. as 78% resists on hull would be epic to get me threw an AAR or ASB reload.

example would be the kronos:

its shield bonus would be going from

kin: 55 to 77.5 (regular tech II is 85)

thermal: 30 to 50 (regular tech II is 60)

its armor going from:

kin: 51.25 to 75.62 (regular tech II is 83.75)

Thermal: 43.125 to 59.37 (regular tech II is 67.5)

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this would also allow us to keep the repair bonus on the ship hull... as the modified tech II resists would not be op with them.

ok, I'm done posting any feedback cuz CCP just made everyone look stupid
- first revision happened, got feedback
- based on this we got 2nd revision
- and a feedback for that 2nd revision
- based on this we have reverted to first one
- and we're going to put this on SiSi asap
- to get some feedback on 1st revision
- again
220+ pages (most active ship rebalance topic for quite some time) seemed to be completely ignored

to be fair the last time CCP did a version two they started a new op or split the topic to 4 ops... so 220 is average tbh.

This is excellent news, but please can you comment on the Paladin's 5% capacitor fake bonus? Why is this bonus left on when it's useless and also similar bonuses have been removed from other ships during rebalancing?

Oh well. Guess i'll cancel my marauder training when i get home.

It's a shame as i was looking forward to flying battle ships more in PVP but without web or target painter bonuses, these things will be garbage for close range brawling fights.

Finger crossed for a good BLOPS balance.

ok so with my ideas this is what i would like to see:

BASTION MODULE

Increases shield and armor repair amount by 100%
Boosts all hull resistances by 30%
Extends all large turret falloff and optimal by 25%
Increases all large missile max velocity by 25%
Has a cycle time of 60 seconds.
When in bastion mode, Marauder is immune to EW but cannot be remote assisted in any way
When in bastion mode, Marauder speed is set to 0 m/s and cannot warp (mass is unchanged). Also receives a weapons timer that prevents station docking or gate jumping. Weapon time doesn't require the user to drop weapon safeties in high-sec
Only one may be fitted per Marauder, cannot be deactivated before cycle ends
Uses 10 CPU and 100 powergrid to fit
Uses no specific fuel or capacitor - we were discussing the use of Heavy Water as fuel. However, it doesn't really provide any gameplay (as CCP Rise mentioned, capacitor is the main limiting factor in combat with those ships). Plus it adds more consumables to a class that already commonly uses charges for weapons, cap boosters and need to keep cargo for possible salvaging.
Skill requirements: High Energy Physics 4 and Energy Grid Upgrades 5


KRONOS

Role Bonus: 100% bonus to large hybrid weapon damage, signature resolution bonus for Target spectrum breaker module reduced to 0% , 70% reduction in Micro Jump Drive reactivation delay

Gallente Battleship Skill Bonus:
5% bonus to large hybrid weapon rate of fire
10% bonus to large Hybrid Turret Falloff per level (instead of 10% bonus to the velocity factor of stasis webifiers per level)

Marauder Skill Bonus:
7.5% bonus to Armor Repair amount per level
7.5% bonus to large hybrid weapon tracking per level


Slot layout: 8H(+1), 4M, 7L; 4 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 14000 PWG (+2000), 580 CPU (+30)
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 6600(-200) / 7200(-100) / 8600(+400)
Shield resists: 0% EM / 50% EX / 77.5% (+22.5) KIN / 50% (+20) THERM
Armor resists: 50% EM / 10% EX / 75.62% (+24.37) KIN / 59.37% (+16.245) THERM
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 6900(+1275) / 1150s (+226.1s) / 6 cap/s
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 92 m/s(-28) / .114(-0.0038) / 113160000(+11360000) / 17.8s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 50(-25) / 50(-75)
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 90km(+3km) / 120(+39) / 10
Sensor strength: 13 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 420(-80)

edit:

so that means with a DCU II the bastion mod two true sansha energy adaptive membrains and an explosive tech II hardner you get:

shield:
em: 12.5% therm: 56.2% kin: 80.3% ex: 56.2%

armor:
em: 76.9% therm: 81.2% kin: 88.7% ex: 78.2%

hull:
all resists 78%

CCP thanks for coming back on this thread finally but seriously bad decision just saying to everyone who has given feedback that u dont really care what they say.

Cant see why your choosing the route of 30% on bastion, while it will give a good tank while in bastion, noone will want to enter it because your too vulnerable while you cannot receive RR.

It needs to be just T2 resists everything else was fine in the OP - though tractor beams & slot layout need looking into because of the new deployables

If you go back through the thread, the overwhelming consensus was that the first iteration was preferred over the second. That being said, I agree with you that there's still a need for something outside of bastion use to make these hulls attractive in and of themselves. There have been several very good suggestions along this line.



They just need to fix the dual (any size) ASB setups. It's a problem regardless of hull class. The repair bonus on Marauders just make it a glaring issue. A simple 1 per hull rule like the AARs have would clear that right up.