Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The only thing that shuttles really need to make them better is a smaller packed size. So you can fly one to a BC (or even a cruiser, those things supposedly can hold up to 700 people) and pack it up, put it in the hold and not totally pack the hold out.
Then they will have a real advantage over the noob ship for moving around places.

The only way that I would get behind this is if CCP balanced shuttles like they did freighters. And even this is less about shuttles needing the fitting (they really don't) and more about keeping them in line with freighters, the "other" slot-less ship pre-Kronos (freighters are essentially oversized shuttles, so it somewhat makes sense to balance them in similar ways).

1PG, 1CPU, 1 low slot (3 would be overkill), no role bonus allowing bulkheads. It would be interesting to see, but I don't see it as a driving balance need.

why? the rebalance to give it that slow will make it slower and weaker all around to compensate. a shuttle with a tanking mod is still useless. A Nanofiber or inertia stabilizer would only increase to pre-balance state, the warp speed one isn't much at the speed its at currently.

Shuttles should almost be the only thing that you buy from NPC's and are available in all stations in eve. There role is point a to b in something that offers protection for your pod and is of negligible cost.

As I and others said before: Shuttles only need 1H, 1M, 1L and a -100% role bonus to the fitting requirements of civilian modules.

Nice idea but not really true. I've managed to survive for quite a few volleys in a shuttle when targeted by a BC or BS. If I'd have had a WCS I'd have survived.

If you're targeted by a frigate you're probably right. Perhaps a destroyer. Anything bigger and you can probably survive a couple of volleys if you're moving. Enough to get to warp, at any rate.

I've lost a lot of frigates on my alts :)

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As we all know, the Kronos release this summer brought us the rebalanced freighters, which now have three low slots and can choose between such helpful modules as Expanded Cargohold, Reinforced Bulkheads, Overdrives and Inertia Stabilizers. More customization is always good for the game.

But what about such almost entirely useless class of ships as shuttles? Basically the only use they have now is to move your pod around 3 au/s faster. An entirely free noobship has much more functionality than a shuttle with the only downside of being slightly slower: it has more cargo space, more EHP and is even able to serve as a scouting or PVP vessel! You can probe with it, cloak in it, and even E-war and tackle things in a noobship! (not for long, of course, because it is squishy, as it should be.)

Shuttles need improvement and customizability to keep them as a viable ship class that is worth producing and selling to other players.

I suggest the following:

1. Shuttles gain 50 m3 cargo bay.
2. Shuttles gain 50 tf CPU (enough to fit a Damage Control, or a single Warp Core Stab, or some tank module that most likely won't help if ganked anyway).
3. Shuttles gain one low slot and 2 MW power grid.
4. Shuttles gain 8 au/s warp speed.

This will make almost no difference in ganking autopiloting shuttles in highsec (except they'll have more loot inside), neither it will change the situation in lowsec, as you can't anyway catch a shuttle without bubbles in a single ship, and an instalocking boosted gatecamp will get that shuttle either way, so there are absolutely no reasons to disagree with this change, unless for the sake of resisting any change at all.

:P