Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This Astero is not better than a Hookbill...

That might be relevant if I was talking about combat, but I'm talking about how easy it is to avoid it with these ships. I think you're responding to a different poster.

You can already do pretty well with a t1 frig stabbed to hell with a regular cloak. Adding a covert cloak makes them just about impossible to catch and you don't even to decloak and accelerate to warp off if somebody comes in your plex and you cloak up to avoid detection.

I feel like you are vastly overrating the reaction speed of an average EVE player. While a 5 second Targeting delay is not insignificant, it also isn't as hindering as you would assume when you take into account the 1second EVE ticks, player reaction, and the ability to bump out of alignment.

50k ehp is not a pathetic tank. It's actually above average for most cruiser sized ships, T1 and some T2, thanks to that lovely 20% resist bonus. With the additional mids for TDs I would find it also unlikely for any gunbased ship (the most common) to be able to kill the Stratios without extreme pilot error on the part of the Stratios pilot.

Finally, the new warp changes have no effect on this at all because that only applies after they have reached the 75% max velocity threshold and begin to warp off. At least read up on changes to use in your argument before you start spouting them out like a crazed bible thumper, because not doing so is just lowering your credibility.

I'm anxious to see the new direction of the guristas hinted at by other comments, but the cruiser is a pirate vessel, thus overshadowing the Nvexor, and moreso even the vexor, is to be expected in the presented hierarchy. The should tend to the top of the heap and the shared strength of drones in both racial contributors should make it very competitive there specifically.

How about the battleship?

The next person who says "reduce the cargo bay, it's overpowered" should have their fingers cut off.

Just my opinion.

Reducing the cargo bay to be on par with T1 defeats half of what this ship is even intended to do.

As has been said repeatedly.. If the Blaster/Drone combo is overpowered. Reduce the drone DPS and up the laser DPS. That ties it tighter to lasers which matches the stated design intent, as well as drops DPS a bit, since Laser DPS will be lower than the Blaster DPS, & tracking will be a bit worse at the blank point ranges people are talking to bump & drop heavy drone DPS instantly.
Alternatively applied drone DPS will be lower since heavies will have to travel. Giving the target time to counter web and pull range through higher base speed (assuming same number of webs almost any other cruiser fitted for PvP will pull range on the Stratios, especially if you MWD fit the Stratios for bumping, if you AB fit you then struggle to bump.) as well as lock & engage the heavy drones or Stratios directly before drone DPS gets applied.

Of course, all these 'OP' fits don't have an extended probe launcher, & most of them don't even have a normal probe launcher. So you aren't finding most of these supposed targets to start with and having that much DPS anyway. Unless you find someone ratting in low sec I guess. Which has always been a dicey game anyway.

The Servant Sisters of EVE are ostensibly considered enemies by the Amarr Empire. Why, then, have their ships using a combination of Gallente and Amarr skill bonuses? Perhaps Minmatar would be more appropriate?

Source: in game, Show Info on the Servant Sisters of EVE; select the Standings tab. They are considered enemies by Amarr and Caldari, allies by Gallente and Minmatar.

I guess they Keep what they Kill and make it better.

Any idea on how many LP's these puppies are gonna cost?

There's dozen of supercap kill mails ; there's even kill mail by velators. Relying on people stupidity or badness never proved anything.

You have 5, or most commonly 6 seconds of targeting delay, and then the targeting time, which is several seconds more. That leave you some time to react, and if your ship take that much time to warp out, you probably have enough staying power and firepower to give the Stratios a tough fight.

Unless you are an LP farmer or doing pve.

Blasters and heavy drones have high damage values. That's because they have very hard time applying them except for
Baali Tekitsu who is a l33t pvper and always apply 100% of them to its targets. Any normal people have to deal with the tracking formula, and ogres have poor tracking and poor speed.