Player Features and Ideas Discussion

please explain how this would make a parody? its not something i would argue for but surprised you dont like it.

You mean something like this?

http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?3190-Gallente-Reborn

Hull tanking needs something to make it unique among other forms of tanking. I propose that this uniqueness come from 1 thing: flexibility.

There should be 2 kinds of +EHP mods for hulls and 2 kinds of self hull reppers:
- 1 repper and 1 +ehp mod takes a low slot,
- the other kind of repper and +ehp mod takes a medium slot.
(or if possible code-wise, allow the same modules to be fitted in low and medium slots)

Module slot for module slot, hull tanking should be inferior to armor or shield tanking but if u combine a full rack of medium slot and low slot hull, its slightly higher in terms of strength as a full rack of low armor slots or a full rack of medium shield slots.

If balanced correctly, hull tanking's strength would come from the fact that you can split your tank between medium and low slots instead of being forced into fitting all your tank in low slots or medium slots. Armor comes at the expensive of dps mods, shields come at the expensive of utility mods, hull allows a balanced approach by being able to fit both to some degree (or for lulz, fit full hull tank in both medium and low slots).

there are a few ships that can get a really heavy hull buffer, but even then, lower ehp than a equally full buffer fit armor tank, I personly think the awesome thing about hull buffer tanks is the potential that you could use a mid slot to make it a active + buffer tank without sacrificing the low slots, sadly the repair/sec is so bad that even fixing the buffer after an engagement takes forever :) (unless you use a station)

an example being a navy megathron :P which can get 67055 hull points (with 60% res) giving it a total of 207k effecktive HP (max skills), you could get more if you fitted it with an armor tank, and higher resistance, so it's not really overpowered in any way.

but if you somehow manage to fit a single large hull repair... it gives 17 defence (OMG so insanely high defence) a single large remote hull repair will give it 80 total defence... what I personly would like to see, is a defence rating of about 75-150ish for a large hull repair II + a Damage controle II

Calling it a Parody is a parody in itself, nothing is wrong with hull tanking... it's serious buisness, your not much more mobile than a armor buffer, it almost always has less effective HP, but what could make it interresting is that you can combine active tank + buffer tank without gimping either

and on second thought, no need to make specialized ships or stats just for that, just consider buffing the modules themselves

what som of you is sugesting is that hull could be usless. then why not remove it copleatly, and just buff shield/armour? cuss that is what hull is right now, usless and itsthere for a reason, why not inprove it so you can make use of it, not just use it as a buffer. inprove the active modules to so you can activtank em if you wanna, atm shield is med armour is low. why can hull be buffer low and active med, but be in line whit the other two, so we can make use of it ?

Exactly my point, if this was to be done. PVP in EVE would get allot more intresting.

Unless you're in an Orca.

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