Player Features and Ideas Discussion

the only thing that interest me about this ship is a possible return of a nanodominix

6turrets bonus to probe and bonus to RR with 7 highs will be a hell of a compromise.
6med and 6 low on a armor tanking BS its not really good (see ex hype)
for what i see CCP is trying to give the ship too many roles: dps, flexible tank, esploration, RR, hacking. make a choice and make the ship good in 1-2 things not mediocre at 4-5

I would advise against adding range bonus to remote reps. Fleet of those could get insane spider tanking capability with all the free highslots, reaping bonus and resistance bonuses. Essentially we are getting BS sized slowcats here. Keeping remote rep range small helps people to use bumping to break those spider tanks, stops spider tank from being able to be establish immediately after jumping the gate or wormhole, and makes them more vulnerable to bombing runs. This ship needs those counters, else it could become too powerful.

To mare,

I agree. Too many bonuses. Don't give it a repair bonus. Og with either 7H, 5M, 7L or 6H, 6M, 7L

Still want to see what it looks like. what about looking into Rapid launchers and heavies? And Cald/Min faction pirate ships?

Slot layout is fine. We all kinda want 7 and 8 lows on all our armor tanked battleships.. but its not really needed here.




A lot of us are considering price vs payoff of using this ship in combat. It has to have a use over other ships to even be considered, because the loss of a 2 billion isk ship sucks especially when you could have fit the same thing on a 100 million isk ship and insured it ontop of that.

An interesting spin with the ship purpose as RR>Exploration>Combat

NESTOR

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
10% drone damage and hitpoints per level
125% drone repair amount per level

Role bonuses:
50% bonus to large energy turret optimal range
50% increased strength for scan probes
+10 virus strength for relic and data analyzers

Slot layout: 7H, 6M, 6L; 6 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 11250 PWG, 680 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 8900 / 9950 / 9900
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 6200 / 1044 / 5.9
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 92 / .18 / 56000000 / 13.97
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 125 / 500
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 75km / 85 / 7
Sensor strength: 24 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 465
Cargo Capacity: 700

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So basicly shifted the repair amount from high slot mods to drones. Extended the the rep range to 60k with perfect skills and the cost of delayed rep activation due to travel time and loss of rep ability due to drone loss. Its kind of an interesting concept


It could also be pretty awesome to include a bonus to ewar drones though at first glance I have no idea how to balance it.

I agree it isn't needed, but better 7L then 6M, or 7H.

And everyone whining about not having a covert cloak. Guess what it isn't getting one DEAL with it, best you can hope for is a cloak bonus somewhat like blackops get now. I hope for that instead of the armor repair bonus.

There are no exploration battleships because a solo battleship jumping gates in low/nullsec is going to die horribly and quickly

Older post, I've already moved on from that.

I was trying to dream up the uses of the current ship, thats all I could come up with.

And if it even fails at incursions, whats the actual point.

Eitherway, move along

Can't stress this enough. The rep-bonus has absolutely no place on this battleship, as the theme was since Astero exploration, not some super weird mutation of logistic and exploration. I would be cool with new tier of ships from SOE whose are "healers" (since SOE is in lore also a healing group of hippies), but not on this battleship. Doesn't make any sense, it's bad, it makes the Nestor to do two things and both badly.