Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've spent the last couple of days thinking about this; we have non-empire factions that use dual systems, and those who use single systems of weapons. We have:

Single-system:

Angel Cartel (Projectile)

Serpentis (Hybrid)

Sansha's Nation (Lasers)

Mordu's Legion (Missiles)

Dual-system:

Blood Raiders (Neut+Lasers)

Guristas (Drones+Missiles)

Sisters of EVE (Drones+Lasers)

But I've always been irked that there's never been any pure drone NE ships, and I decided to draft an idea for a line based on Rogue Drones, the infamous berserk insect-like A.I. They've never really gotten any real focus, but I think they could be used really well for a new idea.

Basically, what I imagine is ships where we've subjugated the A.I. of the Rogue Drone and taken total control of the body (This is just a lore description- we'd build them from BPCs- how we'd get those, I'll think of later.).

They'd be light-tanking ships with good mobility and insane DPS from the drones- and they wouldn't use skills in the same way that other NE factions do- but you'll see what I mean in a second. Here's a rough draft for one- the battleship:

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Hubris (Battleship)

Gallente Drone Specialization Skill Bonus:
20% bonus to Drone damage per level

Minmatar Drone Specialization Skill Bonus:
20% bonus to Drone MWD max velocity per level

Minmatar Battleship Skill Bonus:
+15km to Drone control range per level

Role Bonus:
50% bonus to Drone tracking and optimal range

Drones (bay / bandwidth):
400m3 / 125mBit/sec

Slot Layout:
2H; 8M; 7L; 0 turrets, 0 launchers

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The ships would be focused on doing large DPS (around 15-1600 DPS with max skills) but would have fragile drones (note the lack of the HP bonus other drone ships have) and substantially weaker tanks than other drone ships. They'd have slim to no high slots and be mainly shield tanking. It would only be able to use one weapons system, so it'd be highly proficient with it.

The three ships would use slightly different sets of skills- you saw the Hubris had Gallente/Minmatar Drone Specialization and Minmatar BS as skill requirements, but that's not all there is to it- each ship would require two spec skills and one class skill.

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Frigate:
Amarr Drone Specialization I
-> Drones V
Gallente Drone Specialization I
-> Drones V
Gallente Frigate I
-> Spaceship Command I

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Cruiser:
Minmatar Drone Specialization I
-> Drones V
Caldari Drone Specialization I
-> Drones V
Caldari Cruiser I
-> Spaceship Command II
-> Caldari Destroyer III
->> Caldari Frigate III
->>> Spaceship Command I

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Hubris (Battleship):
Gallente Drone Specialization I
-> Drones V
Minmatar Drone Specialization
-> Drones V
Minmatar Battleship I
-> Spaceship Command IV
-> Minmatar Battlecruiser III
->> Spaceship Command III
->> Minmatar Cruiser III
->>> Spaceship Command II
->>> Minmatar Destroyer III
->>>> Minmatar Frigate III
->>>>> Spaceship Command I

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Also, with the new design for the Dominix, I've been imagining a really amazing looking Rogue Drone BS- maybe I'll make a sketch of it or something

Tell me what you think- that's why it's called Features and Ideas Discussion.

EDIT: Formatting

So its going to have a caplesss weapon system with 4 bonuses to the weapons, a giant drone bay, and enough mid and low slots to have a lolwut gigantic dual tank or to give your heavy drones the tracking speed and velocity of frigates while still having a giant armor buffer and without sacrificing DPS.

Oh and it still has 2 utility highs.

Okay, fair enough, a really REALLY low powergrid and CPU, just enough for a bit of buffer, a prop mod, and one or two reppers, well that definitely is unique.

Also it DID start to bug me that drones have to be supported by highslot modules, two different kinds of midslot modules, and lowslot damage modules. This would be a way to look at it.

However it still seems to be the case that this ship might be too good at stomping cruisers and below. So what if the tank is weak when you're going to get perfect 900DPS hits or whatever on smaller ship classes all the time?

That's also a really good point- and if this came to balance, I'd say the easiest way to fix that would be to have the bonus for damage on each hull apply to their own class- light, medium, or heavy/sentry, like the Guristas line does now.

People keep asking for Rogue Drone ships. CCP keeps saying it isn't going to happen. The most recent time, they even got all Rogue Drone Lore about it.

I'm going to call this a redundant thread.

Overpowered, do not want.

Even if these ships don't happen, I'd love to see a new model for the Rogue Drone BS based on this!