Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My Hulk..... OH MY GOD, THE HUMANITY!!!!!!

You Sir are completely correct. That is what intys were originally intended for. Why do we ,all of a sudden, need solo, interdiction nullifed, dps, tanking intys? There are so many other ships that fill those roles already! WTF is wrong with people? This change will be a big hit to null sec combat.

Like you said we need intys that can tackle and use SPEED to survive the fight. Not tank, not dps, But SPEED.

Before the nanonerf intys were a very usable ship for lots of things. The nano nerf is the reason intys are so bad now.

well i would not paint the picture as black as you, but holy .... those interceptors a blitzing around.
they will still die pretty fast though. some smartbombs and/ or a few webs and the ceptor swarm goes "pouff".
but sure is a nerf to afk ratting alone in a 0.0-system ;)

Stiletto rocks, even a cyno version works great!!

don't think so. one sig amp and it is fine!

Hi CCP,

I will not be that positive about what you want to do about interceptors. I'm ingame since long before they existed and when they first went out, they were Deadly if you didn't had the right fit or weapon to take them down, as an example, I killed some with FOF cruise missiles because back then, the missiles were able to do this and ceptors were so fast that they could escape missiles if you didn't had a web on them. This is history since long ago but there is one thing to remember about that era. The fact that the inty was Deadly and that the weapon we had against them killed them quick as well. So the fight was more about having the guts to attack/tackle a big target and may be die before your friends join the fight.

Why do I state this. Because I believe that giving such improvement to that ship is not healthy for the class nor fair for big ships or active defense of a system/constellation. Basically with the new inty, one could enter in a system, warp away from bubbles, tackle or light cyno and bring hell the the one defending. This is no longer an interceptor, this is much more a special ops ship. And there is a dedicated class for this --> covert ops, Recon and even the T2 BS counterpart that is currently partly broken. The only other example we have in game to avoid interdiction is a specific T3 elements. If this appears in T3 cruisers, then why would have it been invented before on T2 interceptors ???
If you really want to do that, invent T3 ceptors that would make more sense. Having a ship in a hostile system has to cost the offender something. A ceptor is only a few millions... a T3 equivalent would be more representative of the cost it has to enter an ennemy system with some kind of speed/nullifier invulnerability. Please reconsider before giving such a decisive advantage to a small ship class that is way too common ingame. Make people to train for it and be something they need to invest in through a specific carreer path.

Secondly, if you really want those little ships to becomes so big players in game, then you HAVE TO give some modules/ game mechanics to counter balance this. why would a T2 ceptor gang be more effective sneaking in a system than a recon gang or T3 cruiser gang ? Its fine to think about boosting ceptors but not making them special ops kind of ceptors. An interceptor is something capable of intercepting others, and escaping thanks to its speed, nothing else.

Finally, you are giving the new bonus to each of the 2 ceptors of each race. Why don't you just give it to one and not the other ? I mean, let's take the example of minmatar. The stiletto is currently fine, just leave it like that give him some more stats if you wish but not nullifier and give that nullifier advantage to the claw without giving him some love on other stats. The same can be repeated on the 4 races. Force people to use the weaker one if they want to go through nullifier and use the other if they want to do more classic and stronger interceptor.

I jumped on briefly to look at the warp changes and used the interceptor class to see just how quickly I could go. The first thing I noticed was that all the interceptors have been moved to a 10 AU warp speed. I guess I missed the notes on that somewhere. Combat used to be 9 AU and Fleet was 14 AU. Secondly -

Holy Shitballs.

Crow:

High:
Malkuth Light Missile Launcher x 3
Mid:
Limited MWD
Regolith MSE
SB II
Warp Disruptor II
Low:
OD II
DC II
MAPC II
Rigs:
Hyperspatial Velocity Maximizer x 2 for giggles.

The rigs give the crow a ~14.4 AU Warp speed. 70 AU warp in roughly 10 seconds. The sudden stop coming out of warp is pretty awesome. In a fight I was MWD'ing in one direction having escaped one of the many faction ships on the test server. (seriously, why? I don't fight Vangels on TQ that often) I hit the 'warp to station' button with 9 seconds left on the aggression timer. I entered warp at 6 seconds left (3.5 AU warp). I arrived in time to be declined docking rights due to my aggression. Those rigs are going to be a thing.

how do i downvote this guy?

How large should solar system be in order to actually make new ceptors traverse it slower under the new warp acceleration mech than old ceptors under old mech would?

Fozzie, this guy ^ nailed it.

Remove this stupid bubble immunity, give all the interceptors another slot. Personally as a long time interceptor pilot I think all the tackle specialized ones should have the ability to fit a nosferatu so that they can get up close and scram tackle ships with neuts. They should all have the ability to fit a fair amount of tank without hurting their mobility or general role on the battlefield. The tackle interceptors should all have bonuses and damage application good enough to be able to handle a wave of warriors. The combat interceptors should in my opinion be similar to AFs in dps potential but exchange a substantially lower tank(about half, kinda what they have now) for speed. The role of the combat ceptors has always been anti-tackle.

Buffing combat ceptors like I proposed would give a sense of scalability. As long as you don't make them very tanky we shouldn't get the problem that we had with the dramiel back in 2011 since it was pretty much like an interceptor and an AF built into the same ship.