Player Features and Ideas Discussion

New ship type

Tarantula

from an invented bpc

Require four ship bpcs Apocalypse Scorpion Dominix Typhoon

8 lows

8 Mids

4 high 2 launcher 2 utility ( two fangs)

role 400 % damage per launcher.

need all 4 battleship to 3 to fly it,


Amr Bs Skill per level
( 2 % armor resist) (1 % Armor hit points)
(1 % launch missile damage) (3 % drone damage)
25% cap vamp and nut range and strength bonus

Gal Bs Skill per level
(1 % armor resist) (2 % Armor hit points)
(1 % launch missile damage) (3 % drone damage)
25% warp scam range and web strength and range bonus

Cal Bs Skill per level
(2 % shield resist) (1 % Shield hit points)
(1 % launch missile damage) (3 % drone damage)
25% range of damps ECM and ECM burst range and strength

Mim Bs Skill per level
(1 % shield resist) (2 % Shield hit points)
(1 % launch missile damage) (3 % drone damage)
25 % agility and speed bonus

Just an idea. :)

So it's a battleship with bonuses to just about half the things in eve, maximum low and mid slots and an insane damage bonus to compensate for the fact that it only has 4 high slots.

First: Why?

second: No.

Bit OP isn't it

Too many OP options

Top of my head
- AB, Web, Scram + ECM
- 3 Ballistics in the lows + Armour tank

Reduce the Lows and Mids to 4 (makes more sense too if your going for the whole spider analogy (4 legs each side not 8)
- Give it a massive bonus to either Shields or Armor not both

At first I thought this was Extremely OP, then I realised that it was only Mildly OP

Has 2 Launcher Hard Points, with a 400% Bonus this gives 8 Effective Launchers, basically the same thoughts as Marauders, but with 2 Hard Points instead of 4, It only has 2 Utility Highs, as opposed to the Marauders 3, so the Highs are fine.

The Bonuses aren't probably as bad, however I would remove all of the strength Bonuses and only have Range Bonuses, You have enough slots that you can fit double modules to get the same effect as a single bonused module.

Remove all of the Hit Point Bonuses, and only leave the Resist bonuses, having both is OP. (the resist bonuses would end up worse than current resist bonused hulls, because they are effectively 3% per level bonus, instead of the standard 4%, and given that you are likely to fit one tank or the other, and not both you are not going to get the full effect of both sets of bonuses, although it would make one heck of a bait ship:)

reduce the Speed/Agility bonus, it is per level not a role bonus.

oh and remove the drone bonuses

Bringing the revised version to something like this:
8 lows

8 Mids

4 high 2 launcher 2 utility ( two fangs)

role 400 % damage per launcher.

need all 4 battleship to 3 to fly it,


Amr Bs Skill per level
( 2 % armor resist)
(1 % launch missile damage)
25% cap vamp and nut range bonus

Gal Bs Skill per level
(1 % armor resist)
(1 % launch missile damage)
25% warp scam range and web range bonus

Cal Bs Skill per level
(2 % shield resist)
(1 % launch missile damage)
25% range of damps ECM and ECM burst range

Mim Bs Skill per level
(1 % shield resist)
(1 % launch missile damage)
5 % agility and speed bonus

Nulli Must have hit you guys really hard in the head to come up with this idea...

sure sounds like it....

I would actually say this is more like a concord ship at this point. Tarantula class Concord BS. With appropriate stats you could actually get this fairly balanced. I think the whole duel tank thing is interesting.

Having a 400% bonus with a 20% missile dmg bonus is still a little too good. I would go towards a 330% to 320% bonus giving it 7.92 to 7.68 effective launchers vs the Navy ravens 8 and the Fleet typhoons 8.1 effective launchers. I would stick with the 2 launchers because it severely limits the ability of it to abuse some of its bonuses.

As for the web bonus 25% of a 10km web is 12.5 so that's not that bad so long as its not a per lvl thing. Not sure if by 25% scram bonus the OP meant just the scrambler, or the disruptor as well. If it is both its a little iffy, because ~30km point with 36km OH range is almost too good. But if its just a scram its about the same as the web and is very acceptable.

With no bonus to the ecm or disruptor strength the final role bonus is actually rather tame.

Having 8 lows and 8 mids is honestly a little too much, expectantly for a ship with this much small stat boosts. I know OP was looking for 8 to be use because of the name, but 7 lows and 7 mids is much more manageable.

My only remaining problem with the ship is that it is to use missiles which are a capless weapon. This makes having even 7 mids and lows a challenge to balance. On the other hand I think a good nerf to this fairly over welling problem is to only have 1 or 2 rigs slots.

Last we have to decide on how much Raw ehp it should start wit.

Do we want the 6000 across like t1 BS? (around 90kehp after normal fit)
Somewhere in the middle?
Or do we want the 9000 across like faction BS? (around 130kehp after normal fit)

Another ridiculously bad ALI Virgo idea?

Must be a day that ends in "y".

Removed an off topic post.