Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Claw is still sub-optimal. Even more likely to explode quickly inside web/neut range (no ulility high). Do not want arties to kite something because drones and too small tank, cannot even try with ACs for it anymore (TE nerf). Capacitor on the Claw is still meh compared to the Slasher.

Stiletto remains good , but still gets beaten by the Slasher in Scan Resolution and Capacitor, which I think is strange.

Claw
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 285(+4.75) / 213.75s (+2.8) / 1.33

Stiletto
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 250 / 187.5s / 1.33
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 27.5km(+2.5) / 925 / 5(+1)

Slasher (not copypasting, using Pyfa)
Capacitor 240 / 120 (!!) / whatever
Targeting 22.5km / 940 (!!) / 4

Why is it so?

Please make T2 interceptors at least not worse than T1 frigates in acquiring targets and running mods. Please do it before adding weird role bonuses that do not always work towards intercepting and tackling.

Edit: Correction. There IS an utility high on the Claw.

i have another idea... why not supress dictor from the game ?

they become useless.

you're right of course, that is a better fit - the new maled is certainly better than the old one in almost every circumstance. however imagine you could fit 125mms instead of rockets. you couldu probably drop the maux for a ancil rig, or upgrade the plating to an enam, or use a sig amp and have some warp speed rigs perhaps. i just feel like taking away options is almost never a good thing

Nothing can catch them. Fozzie has made a ship that is impossible to engage unless it wants to fight. Any smart interceptor pilot knows what fights they can and can't take -- meaning that the ship is absolutely ungankable unless they make a major mistake. This is a good example of why devs shouldn't listen to player ideas which really aren't all that thought through.

It is a major buff to home defense blobs against non-interceptor gangs though, given that the main recourse of retreat for a small gang roam into 0.0 is dropping bubbles behind it... a tactic that is absolutely nerfed into the ground now. Sure, you can kill the 30+ man blob's 4-5 interceptors if you get far enough ahead, but aggression means loggoffski as the gang then catches up to you and covers your out-gates.

What is going to be HILARIOUS is when people start taking out small gangs of only Taranis to gank ratters. I suggested it to my guys in my "I'm quitting, sorry!" post about this change. You'll have more than enough DPS to kill any non-carrier ratter you run across and you will absolutely be impossible to kill unless you make a mistake killing a ratter. By say, not moving at all, heh.

The idea behind this change is to remove the effectiveness of spamming anchored bubbles on gates to protect ratting systems. A simpler solution that wouldn't be overpowered would have been to restrict the anchoring of bubbles to within 40km of gates, much akin to how you can't anchor a GSC within X distance of a gate. Such a change would also "fix" large bubbles spammed on regional gates as well. It would buff every ship class roaming through 0.0 and remove non-player bubbling of gates, making 'dictor pilots and HIC's more worthwhile, rather than less.

Instead, Fozzie decided to give nullification to a ship class that simply does not need it on any level. Interceptors have no problems getting through gate camps, either by simply running away or gate crashing. Now, he's created a situation where if you're a small gang FC that likes to roam through 0.0, you're incredibly stupid not to take out Taranis-only gangs to get incredibly easy ratter ganks while never being at risk of being attacked yourself. Way too easymode to be fun. EVE is supposed to be a challenge. Nullification takes a player skill and turns it into a ship skill. It removes the viability of the one avenue small gangs had to retreat from blobs in 0.0 by nerfing interdictors. Bad.

I don't think Fozzie is stupid, so once he realizes that the warp speed changes are all that interceptors needed for the ship class to be buffed to the max... then hopefully he'll remove Inty nullification as the game-breaking mistake it so truly is.

I really feel that those of you against nullified intys are not being vocal enough. This will change the game we love, this will give more power to the major blocs (the ability to project fleets and super caps across the map in mere minutes).

This in general is not a good change for null sec.

If you are against nullified intys, SPEAK UP! Get your friends and corp mates to speak up. Fozzie will be reading this thread regularly so if we voice our concerns about this maybe CCP will at least re-think the idea!

The hell are you talking about I live in null and I can't wait.

Which what to do with anything? Fun fact the entire CFC doesn't really do ops unless there is a war going on......something about crossing back and forth across 9 regions.

So for that matter FA isn't that big.

whoo we been recruiting it seems, that was 2500 a couple months ago

I'm apparently bad.

CCP might aswell have added a tech 3 nullified shuttle with cyno ability and removed interceptors competely for all warping through bubbles in an interceptor is worth IMHO. Cause yeah, that's all that thing is gonna be used for, cynoing, travelling and blobbing. What a way to improve the game.

Come on CCP. Give us something intys can use to survive IN COMBAT. NOT A MECHANIC TO AVOID IT!