Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Here is a simple idea that no doubt is possibly in the works anyway, Tech 3 variants of battlecruisers for them to excel in their role and branch out a little bit into other roles and also dedicated roles to ease the gap between classes and possibly alter the fleet dynamics

An example of what one ship could look like:
Brutux Maxim (Brutix-class hull) - Heavy Assault Battlecruiser

The Gallente Federation Navy employed their shadow branch to design a high-end tactical response to larger hulls or local criminals. This then resulted in the creation of the Brutux Maxim, a heavy brawler sired from the success of the Federation Navy Brutix. Recently unveiled it has proven to be popular amongst capsuleers, mercenary corporations and is a permanent wing of the Federation Navy in its specialised role.

Buffs and bonuses:
Straight up
Warfare link usage
50% Reduction in capacitor use and powergrid requirement for Smartbombs

Per level (Heavy Assault Battlecruiser)
+10% medium turret tracking speed and damage modifier
+10% range and damage on smartbombs
+5% on offensive subsystems (example: 5% reduction in sig rad from mwd becomes 10 reduction per level)

The stats:
Structure HP: 7,800
Armour HP: 8,000
Shield HP: 6,000
Turret Hardpoints: 5
Missile Hardpoints:
Subsystems: 1
Calibration: 600
Velocity: 350ms
Mass: 11.5m kg
Warp Speed: 3.0 AUs
Inertia Modifier: 0.8
Capacitor capacitance: 4500 GJ
Capacitor recharge: 600
Maximum Target Range: 100km
Maximum Targets: 10
Magneto strength: 30
Signature radius: 250
Cargo capacity: 500
Drone bay capacity: 100m3
Drone bandwidth: 100mbitsec
Shield EM resist: 20%
Shield Ex resist: 65%
Shield Kin resist: 90%
Shield Therm resist: 70%
Armour EM resist: 65%
Armour Ex resist: 20%
Armour Kin resist: 85%
Armour Therm resist: 75%
Struct EM resist: 0%
Struct Ex resist: 0%
Struct Kin resist: 0%
Struct Therm resist: 0%

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Skills needed to fly: Gallente Battlecruiser V, Heavy Assault Battlecruiser III, Spaceship Command V (and the others)
Loyalists can purchase a pre-made ship from the loyalty store in exchange for 1m LP, 1 Bil ISK and a repackaged Fed. Navy Brutix.

those stats

*cringe*

No SS ideas?
600 callibration - Are you insane?
That 50% CPU and PWG reduction seems to be a bit too powerful.
Other things are also off but mobilephone typing is hard

on the basis that T3 cruisers have spent so much time being broken in every way possible why would you want something new and bigger and more broken?

as for anything being rare that's what they thought about titans

Life is broken, mate and that's not the point of specialised platforms.

Not supported.

Its bad enough with the current iteration of T3 cruisers is making a range of hulls almost pointless without doing the same thing to BC's.

show me battlecruiser (or for that matter, any ship) with 15% bonuses to tracking. Destroyers don't even get that.

E: you also want battleship tank tank with T2 resists? You know why T2 battleships don't get the full racial resist profile?

I'm terrified to imagine what subsystems you had in mind for this thing.

Let's see...

Faster than an AF. Check.

Battleship raw HP. Check.

High T2 level resists. Check.

Has 7 bonuses. One of which appears to be a bonus to "everything". Check.

Has additional slots for 4 subsystems, which are completely undefined. Check. Doomsday subsystem anyone?


Yeah. Looks balanced. This must be added to the game ASAP. (Sarcasm.)


Edit: I just got that the 7th bonus is a bonus to offensive subsystems... Of which the listed example is not an offensive sub, hence my confusion. So, I'd assume that it's a doubling of all subsystem bonuses. Awesome.

Personally I think the T3 strat cruisers cover most of the space between cruiser and battleship so any kind of BC T3 would have too much overlap, if new T3s were added then either something that covers the areas around Destroyers or something completely different like an industrial or logistic/support T3 would make more sense.

I can't support any idea that has medium size weapons on a BC hull.