Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well if you want this ship to do exploration, it will need a covops cloaking device.

The issue is that this ship should not be doing exploration (its... frankly kind of silly).

Spacepriest sounds a lot better.

What if you gave it the ability (and corresponding bonuses) to deploy a flight of Repair drones along side it's combat ones? I don't know how hard that is from a code standpoint, but being able to rep one ship while your Gardes tear up another is pretty cool, and would be a blast to play compared to a normal logi.

I'm still confused what this ship is supposed to be for.

It has exploration bonuses but can't explore (to slow, warps slow like every BS, no cloak bonus at all).

It has this weird rep bonus but without a range bonus that bonus is pointless -other ships are better and a lot less expensive in this role.

It has a low mass and is agile, but is slow as **** at the same time. What the hell?

The mixture of drones and lasers is expected and pretty OK. The rest is atrocious.

Really CCP, this is getting worse the more I think about it. Do something about it, please?

You are joking, but this at least would give the ship a (stupid) purpose. The way it is now, I would name my own vanity Nestor "The Flying Coffin".

It looks like a Jack of all trades, master of none. Or better, a Jack of some trades, expert of none.

Much love for providing us with new toys, CCP Rise o7

As a friend said, this would've been lovely in 2007. I haven't played during that time, but I think I understand the gist of it. I'm pretty sure it's fairly obvious. The current EvE battlefield isn't really a place for a ship like this.

How this ship could be made to work is of course the players' choice, but in a PvP scenario it isn't really useful. It has drones and a drone damage bonus, spider tanking capabilities, a low mass, but this will not make it withstand let's say dreadnought fire, even without 90% webbing. A few target painters and range bonused webs will do. And, contrary to popular belief, wormholes do not lack dreads.

I understand the thoughts behind not giving this ship a covert ops cloak. What would be lovely though, would be a black ops jump drive. Make it a Black Ops Faction BS. It could act as a logistics ship for blops drops and support them with drone fire. The slot layout is ideal for either shield or armor tanking, so you kill two birds with one stone.

I believe this will give this ship good PvP usage outside envisioned some normal scenarios like WH exploration, further more, it'll help it. Let's say you're in a WH, after bagging some nice loot and your only exit is a null/lowsec system. You move a cyno alt in range of that system, pop through the WH then jump out immediately. It will also make it justify its price tag, from what I can tell it'll be at least 2bil ISK after the prices settle, so basically you can buy 2 Bhaalgorns or 2 Vindicators or two Machariels or... And yes, I think that in the case it gets a black ops jump drive its pricetag should be maintained.

Completely unimaginative. Can't say I'm surprised.

Seriously, there's nothing interesting here. 10% bonus to drone damage and hitpoints. Oh em gee...

CCP Rise, please turn this ship into what it is supposed to be if you folks really want it to be an exploration ship. As listed this ship will not be used as an exploration vessel. It needs something that will allow it to keep pace in dangerous space with the smaller SoE vessels. This thing needs some sort of cloak function.

There are already enough RR and pew pew ships in eve. Please give us a true exploration battleship.

shut up.
bring a bomber wing.
cry baby.


@ CCP Rise:
+ 200% Rep range
+ Bonus to reduction on re-calibration delay. A BS already has a bad lock time. Could maybe add some cloaky love that isn't OP.

Ninja logi.

Note: This is what CCP should have released

I am very relieved to finally show you the cooler Sisters of EVE Logistics Marauder Battleship, the Nestor.

We believed that keeping the covert cloak theme was not going to work for the battleship initially but we've changed our minds. We began to really understand that there is a need for logistics in Eve outside of logistic cruisers and carriers. We are expanding that feel towards a battleship capable logistics vessel. This ship has some massive teeth to it. The Nestor can now fit a covert ops cloaking device, and is now capable of jumping along with gangs of black-ops battleships and T3's. In addition, the ship's covert ops bonus now permits a great deal of logistics to be fielded through the use of black-ops. Please note, that while this ship can jump through a black-ops bridge, it itself is not capable of creating those bridges. That ability is still ship specific to the black ops battleships.

We are getting rid of the exploration feel of the Nestor and removing the previous hacking and probing bonuses and it will receive a bonus to remote armor repair amount, drawing on the Sisters of EVE themes of aid and relief. On top of that, we are increasing the remote repair range by a huge amount. We are also giving it the mobility potential by adding a micro jump drive bonus (it can get onto the field and remove itself from the field as needed). As this ship will most definitely become primary in every combat scenario, we are going to overload its capabilities by extending the Bastion Module to it. We fear we may have completely overpowered this ship as it would essentially become the first ever Faction Black Ops Cloaking Logistic's Marauder ever. This thing can truly defend itself.

Here's the details:

NESTOR

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
10% drone damage and hitpoints per level

Role bonuses:
50% bonus to remote repair amount
350% bonus to remote repair range
100% reduction in CPU requirements for cloaks
70% reduction in Micro Jump Drive reactivation delay

Can fit Covert Ops Cloaking Devices.
Can fit Bastion Module.

SOE LP is worth about 2000 isk/unit if you buy faction probes. If the ship itself costs 1,000,000 LP, it'll cost 2b isk, if the blueprint costs 600,000 LP +150m isk, it still costs over 1.5b, just in LP+isk.

It's going to be expensive, probably at Machariels once were, at the 1b+ range.