Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd like to see the bubble firing rate bonus removed from the hull, given to the launcher itself as a baseline ROF (who cares about making it a hull bonus when nothing else can fit them) and have that bonus replaced with a useful survivability bonus like resists or a sig reduction of some kind. Even if they just copied the covops cloak revamp (set it to 100cpu and give the hull a bonus to fitting) it would at least give us a bunch of extra CPU to play with when all of these ships are extremely fitting limited.

I've never understood why these ships are so fragile. Hictors have ridiculous passive tanks so they can stand up to fleet firepower but dictors can't survive against a single T1 frigate or a battle industrial (especially the newly buffed ones) without logistics or ewar backup.

The mids and lows are another issue, especially on the Eris and the Flycatcher. The slot layouts on these two ships are frankly silly. The Eris should go from 2/4 to 4/2 and the flycatcher should be switched from 5/1 to 3/3. I'm aware that this homogenizes the fits quite a bit but the result is that both of these hulls end up being more competitive with the sabre for small gang work.

I assumed it was a troll.

Anchored bubbles are primarily for static combat, DIC and HIC are primarily for dynamic combat. Different roles.

Yay

This is an excellent idea.

Also, jesus christ, don't put mandatory split weapons on the Eris. It sucks enough already.

I'm still not seeing any reason to fly any dictor other than the Sabre in any situation small gang or large fleet, given that it's the only one with a sane slot layout, but at least the margin isn't quite as huge. But whatever, harder to get outraged about this compared to some of the other ship classes in recent memory, and at least the interceptor pass was good.

This seems pretty inevitable, probably not for Rubicon though, there's already 2 ships coming out on this one.

sorry what

Can someone tell me which is the objectively best one? Flycatcher looks un inspiring for a first glance. it's slow and has low dps.

I believe the actual interdictor sphere launcher needs a revamp. Sure years ago it worked for the scale of the game, but thankfully the game has grown since then, specifically fleet battles.

I propose you limit the sphere launcher to only one fit at a time. Change the rate of fire to 3-5 seconds. Remove the bonus to the sphere launcher rate of fire and make it +1 to amount of bubbles in the launcher clip with a base amount of 0. At level 1 interdictor you can carry one bubble in the launcher and at max skill, level 5, you can have 5 loaded. Now have the reload time decently long.

With this you have a launcher that fullfills the needs of today's fleets and allows fitting room for a more logical tank so the pilot can be more than a 15 second hero. Also when the launcher is reloading, the pilot can bail off the battlefield or stay and perform some other duties like anti-tackle role without being gimped due to 2-3 launchers and a cloak.

why no drone boat Eris? And why are we still on the missile/blaster combo? Who seriously does that?

I suggest Tristan bonuses with the t2 bonuses being drone damage / speed and the bubble. That is a gallente ship we can get excited about.

So while arguing with Prom about these ships Marlona brought up ditching the bubble timer too and I sort of agree a lot.

Players long ago figured a work around for that stupid timer on the sphere launcher (fit more launchers) and the fittings for the ships easily allow for this.

So that bonus is kinda dumb and doesn't really invite you to train interdictors 5.


What's being discussed currently is an ASB/AAR length reload timer for the launcher (so say 60 seconds) with a magazine in the launcher that can hold 3-5 bubbles (my number was 4, this is how many you'd get off from a 3x bubble heretic inside 1 minute with dictor 5, Marlona's was 5 but you get the idea) and ditch that stupid reduction in sphere launcher time that literally means nothing atm.

You then treat the launcher like a cov ops cloak and give it A) a limit of 1 per ship and B) the interdictors themselves get a role bonus to fitting them making them the only ship that can viably fit one.

This change might be complex but it stops the ****** throwaway multiple bubble fits we have now and allows you to use your dictors fitting to actually fit THINGS , like guns and other mods and crap.

It also allows you to give it a worthwhile bonus that prompts people to train dictors 5 (currently thats not really a thing people go out of their way to do, even if they fly dictors constantly) that people are asking for in the survivability department (hint: Sig reduction under speed)