Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm back!

Getting to finally show you guys these is very exciting! I hope you understand the delay. The drone changes outlined in this Dev Blog had a big enough impact on the balance for pirate cruisers and battleships that we really wanted to wait on posting these. Thankfully, that's happened and we can get on with it!

So, there's a lot of changes here but the precedents set in the frigate pass should be mirrored fairly well. Here's some high level explanation on each of the Cruisers:

Phantasm:

Role bonus to Afterburner speed

Major buffs to base speed and slot layout

Ashimmu:

Infinite Energy Vampire (remember these are getting a buff as well, check the thread here for details

Web range bonus instead of effectiveness

Adding a low slot and losing a high - the low slot should be more useful in most setups

Added drone bay/bandwidth

Gila:

Medium drone powerhouse (remember the Medium Drone buff in the above linked Dev Blog)

We expect a lot of feedback here, I'll do my best to answer questions as they come, but the basic thinking is that this is new and interesting, very powerful, and frees it from overlap with the Ishtar (which simply does sentries better)

Vigilant:

Keeping the web bonus

Fixing strangenesses in the attributes by lowering PG some, adding some base speed to catch it up with other cruisers and finally giving it decent lock range

Cynabal:

Warp speed multiplier increased (moves through space more like a frigate now)

Slight fitting tweaks

And here's the details:

PHANTASM

Amarr Cruiser Bonus:
7.5% bonus to Medium Energy Turret tracking speed

Caldari Cruiser Bonus:
20% bonus to Afterburner velocity bonus (was 5% energy turret damage)

Role Bonus:
150% bonus to Medium Energy Turret damage (was 100% energy turret damage)


Slot layout: 4H(-1), 6M, 5L(+2); 3 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 890 PWG(-35), 380 CPU(-45)
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 2700(+266) / 2175 / 2065
Capacitor (amount / recharge / cap per second) : 1800(+105) / 495000 (+3750) / 3.5
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 228(+64) / .62(-.06) / 9600000 / 8.25s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 15 / 15
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 59km / 275 / 7
Sensor strength: 20
Signature radius: 120(-10)
Cargo Hold: 410

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ASHIMMU

Amarr Cruiser Bonus:
15% bonus to Energy Vampire and Energy Neutralizer effectiveness

Minmatar Cruiser Bonus:
20% bonus to Stasis Webifier range (was 10% bonus to Stasis Webifier effectiveness)

Role Bonus:
100% bonus to Medium Energy Turret Damage
note: Energy Vampires fitted to this ship will drain targeted ship's capacitor regardless of your own capacitor level


Slot layout: 5H(-1), 4M, 6L(+1); 3 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 1300 PWG(-120), 350 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 2290(-38) / 2950(+325) / 2325
Capacitor (amount / recharge / cap per second) : 1850(+20) / 530000(-7500) / 3.49
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 208(+33) / .58 / 11010000 / 8.85s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 40(+30) / 40(+30)
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 55km(+10km) / 340 / 7(+1)
Sensor strength: 19
Signature radius: 130
Cargo Hold: 430

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GILA

Gallente Cruiser Bonus:
10% bonus to kinetic and thermal missile damage (was 10% drone damage and hitpoints)

Caldari Cruiser Bonus:
4% bonus to all shield resistances

Role Bonus:
500% bonus to medium drone damage and hitpoints (was 50% bonus to Light Missile and Rocket max velocity)


Slot layout: 5H, 6M, 4L; 0 turrets, 4 launchers(+1)
Fittings: 670 PWG(+40), 400 CPU(+50)
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 3200(+12) / 2200(-125) / 2490
Capacitor (amount / recharge / cap per second) : 1400(+25) / 530000 (-1250) / 2.85
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 195(+31) / .66 / 9600000 / 8.78s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 20(-105) / 100(-300)
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 58km (+3km) / 285 / 7
Sensor strength: 22
Signature radius: 145(-5)
Cargo Hold: 440

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VIGILANT

Gallente Cruiser Bonus:
10% bonus to Medium Hybrid Turret falloff

Minmatar Cruiser Bonus:
10% bonus to Stasis Webifier effectiveness

Role Bonus:
75% bonus to Medium Hybrid Turret damage


Slot layout: 5H, 4M, 6L; 5 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 1050 PWG(-150), 360 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 2175 / 2500(+175) / 2625
Capacitor (amount / recharge / cap per second) : 1545 / 490000 (-1250) / 3.15
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 242(+36) / .48 / 9830000 / 6.54s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 50 / 50
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 49km(+14km) / 300 / 7
Sensor strength: 20
Signature radius: 130
Cargo Hold: 450

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CYNABAL

Gallente Cruiser Bonus:
10% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret falloff

Minmatar Cruiser Bonus:
10% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret damage

Role Bonus:
25% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret rate of fire
note: This ship has increased warp speed and acceleration


Slot layout: 5H, 5M, 5L; 4 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 980 PWG(-120), 335 CPU(-15)
Defense (shields /...

So there are the cruisers! Waited for them quite some time. Next thing i am looking forward to is the posting about the battleships.

Going to give these a few days and hopefully post the BS near the end of the week.

Why don't angel ships get a cool role bonus??? ...ffs

Literally, just a minmatar ship with a different skin

Super drones, super web, Super NOS AND web, Super AB and.... just a more expensive Vagabond.
Or, a Firetail that goes faster and is much more expensive if you fly the Dramial.

Angel ships need a cool role bonus and a new niche.

EDIT: WARP FAST LIKE A BOSS Xx BRINGING OUT THE HIT AND RUN MACH xX
(pls buff autocannons tho) :)

VIGILANT FINALLY HAS LOCK RANGE

Check the bandwidth

wow

I hope you took the cynabal out on a date before you did... that to it

Totally looking forward to summer!

I am liking most of these changes. The small hybrid turret bonus on the vigilant has me scratching my head, but I especially like where you're going with the phantasm and ashimmu.

You have no idea how hard it is to keep quiet when these things are told to you. NDA and all.

But yeah, that drone on the Gila

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