Player Features and Ideas Discussion

After looking some things over, my initial reaction of disgust has turned around, and I am somewhat pleased with how this has turned out, especially with the rattler which I am still scratching my head over.

Nightmare: 10% extra ab speed on top on the standard 20 is going to be awesome, especially considering how cheap domination ab's are. Good balance, and the extra low will come in handy for a multitude of roles.

Bhaal looks great; it will benefit immensely from the nos changes, and it looks like it got its cap and drones buffed a bit. Drones in particular look good now that it can field a full flight of sentries. +1

After some initial rage over the rattler being forced into grouped drone dps, I calmed down a bit and realized that not only does it have quite a lot of drone space left over even with 2 backups, it can fit a full compliment of mediums and lights. I still have some serious concerns about its drones space, but aside from that the extra dps from its missiles are going to be phenomenal. I just wish rapid heavies didn't have the burst mechanic, otherwise they'd be wonderful in a pvp setting with these. They still might be, we'll have to see.

Vindi looks good as always, extra cap and lock range will be nice.

Still disappointed with the mach. While not nerfing its fitting was a good idea, a weapon reduction and bonus increase would have been a good way to go. I am displeased at the lack of creativity on the angel line, and would have liked to see this happen with the macharial specifically:

Drop the number of guns to 5, change role bonus to 100% damage following dramiel line (same with the cynabal, except 3 guns). Drop 2 highs in favor of mid slots, so you have a 6/7/7 slot loadout. Former damage bonus for minmatar turns into a tracking speed bonus, which would be nice as currently no battleships exist with a large projectile tacking speed bonus, and it would make the mach extremely potent as a gunship.

I for one will say I did a LOT of complaining over the faction cruiser changes.

But I will say that I LOVE the changes to the battleships. LOVE them. Well done. Don't say all I do is complain over the changes!





But please, dont kill the cynabal :)

Well this is extremely interesting on the RS front. The missile DPS increase is nice, though prior the drone side was where the DPS was most concentrated making the choice of which damage increasing mods to fit obvious. Need to play around with this to see what kind of real increase in damage potential including fitting is there.

Mine is currently cruise fit, and with the increase from 4 to 7.5 effective launchers it means some testing to see where a new balance falls will be needed. Fitting a 4th DDA over a BCU was a given but after the changes not so much. There is also some other splits to consider, TP's vs Omni's/DLA's comes to mind. Rigors got more attractive on the hull too.

Somehow, I just now realized that the snake only does 6.25% less missile DPS than a stock raven.
The current rattle does exactly half the missile dps of a Raven.
Granted the Raven has more range and does the same damage with all 4 damage types.

Completely disagree with everything you say.

I'm all for constructive feedback however it would be alot more accurate if we could actually get our hands on the ships but the amount of self entitlement in this thread is just astounding.

Why would you need more than one DLA? With a T2 DLA and IV skills you should be able to reach out to around 81km. Everything but Wardens will fall short of that anyway.

U mad brah?

Op+Falloff on T2 Bouncers is > 90km before skills. So half of the sentries can reach past the 85km allowed by a single T2 DLA.