Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Nope, missiles are still useless. If missiles were useful there would be another Dev post about a slight missile nerf to balance them out with the damage done by low velocity marshmallows covered in bubble wrap guided by a drunken amnesiac with a lazy eye.

"and rep range"... and sins rock for plexing btw

wait are you the duel remote repping ultra niche sin guy. didnt you do a demo at fanfest or something

Can you please change the name?... That name symbolize "Cancer" and other bad things in Argentina. :'( Thanks.

really what region?

need a good kill

pretty sure now that rubicon is deployed the blops is the least used ship in eve.

Reading through the majority of this, I have seen a lot of different approaches for the use of this ship. I agree, if going along with the humanitarian route, this should be designed as some sort of rescue/medic ship. I don't really see the need in adding a damage bonus to drones nor the bonus to energy turret range. This ship is supposed to be humanitarian right? The scan probes makes sense. It is there to scan down ships that are in distress. Lastly, I don't really see a need for the virus strength to relic and data analyzers. As a result, I propose the following changes:

1) Changing drone damage to drone speed to get those in need quicker.
2) Removing the 50% bonus to Large Energy Turret optimal range and replacing it with a 50% bonus to remote repair range
3) Removing the +10 virus strength and replacing it with a cloaked velocity bonus.

NESTOR

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

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

Role bonuses:
50% bonus to remote repair amount (Is this for only armor? or all three systems?)
50% bonus to remote repair system range brings it out to 12.6km (not great but better)
50% increased strength for scan probes
Multiplies the cloaked velocity by 305% (I believe this is the same as level 5 for the Blops. Can anyone confirm).

Other thoughts:
Slightly increasing cargo bay would be a good move.

I also think the agility needs a slight buff.

Maybe give it a covert jump portal generator with limited range compare to a normal Blops. I would also prevent it from jumping other ships through. Example: Role Bonus = -50% to Jump Drive Calibration and -99% to Covert Jump Portal Generator Duration (Effectively making it impossible for others to jump through).

Clone bay is also interesting.

Small SMA or shuttle bay is interesting.

I don't think Bastion should be implemented on this ship. It doesn't make sense for a humanitarian ship to be super tough.

I don't think additional drones (more than 5 on field at a time) should be used on this ship.

Thanks for reading.

voting Nestor is changed to Cancer

Humm, the more I look at the concept art and that funky little cosmetic shuttle bay, the more I think CCP should do something NEW with this ship.

Along the drone lines, why not introduce something only this ship can use? Perhaps a missile based defense platform?
Think of it as an XL sentry drone. Using the new Rapid launchers with the long reload, it would be an awesome toy to lay down in combat, and yet have a vulnerability window in its damage output.
In addition, being missile based would allow smart bombs to be used as a viable defense to prevent these being deployed en mass in alliance warfare like the current "2000 sentry drones tied to one guy" fleets you currently see.

The big drone bay would allow a spare to be carried along with a few select normal drones, but instead of launching a flight of 5 heavies you could opt to drop a single defense platform. Boost the rep range a fair wack and the ship can then help to keep said platform alive.

Wouldn't the ship be more unique as a true BLOPS logistics to give black ops gangs the ability engage in skirmishes instead of just small ganks? Between the price the ships are going to command no matter what role they end up filling and the higher sig, slower locking and lower general maneuverability vs standard logis they shouldn't encroach too much on their turf either. From a RP standpoint the Sisters repairing people makes more sense than attacking directly anyways.

NESTOR

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
150% bonus to Remote Armor Repair System range

Role bonuses:
15% reduction in Remote Armor Repair System capacitor use
50% bonus to afterburner speed
200% bonus to cloaked velocity
Cloak reactivation delay reduced to 5 seconds

Slot layout: 6H, 5M, 8L; 0 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): 116 / .13 / 56000000 / 13.97
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 125 / 450
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 95km / 285 / 10
Sensor strength: 24 Magnetometric
Jump drive capacitor need: 95%
Maximum jump range: 3.5 ly
Fuel bay capacity: 2500m3
Jump drive fuel need: Helium/Oxygen Isotopes
Jump drive consumption amount: 300/300
Signature radius: 465
Cargo Capacity: 700

Problem with swapping the range bonus that way is you end up severely gimped on range. The AB bonus was also to allow it to have some amount of maneuverability without a huge cap drain.