Player Features and Ideas Discussion

All of this fuss about interceptors being OP got me curious. since if we follow internet logic any ship that solo kills an interceptor is even more OP than the interceptor.

Looking at the various killboard losses for interceptors it's easy to find ships ranging from T1 frigates, destroyers, cruisers and battlecruisers, to other interceptors, police and pirate frigates, assault frigs, T2 and T3 cruisers... The list goes on...

So clearly we need to either buff inty's or nerf everything below BS's, because that's how Eve works.

ceptors are fine as is. They are great for new players since it is low sp and low cost. Not to mention they are really strong.

nerf them hard, the bubble immunity buff made this Interceptor Online.

So, break a ship that is actually functioning in it's intended role of being able to go fast, catch something, and do a little DPS while trying it's hardest not to get webbed, nueted, smartbombed, hit by a wave of RLML's/LMs/Rockets/drones/small blasters/small ACs or popped by another ship that it doesn't have as much transversal on? Totally. While we're at it, I think freighters haul too much and move too fast.
If <2k tank is too much for you... Maybe you need to go back to Eve University and retake some 101's.

As long as we're throwing out silly ideas, I think that gate campers should have a timer before Concord shows up and arrests them for loitering with malicious intent.

HTFU. Interceptors working as design. Intercepting.


Also, it was warp speed changes that made this game Interceptors Online, not bubble immunity. Lots of times I took frigates with warp speed rigs out on roams. Bubbles never stopped me.

I agree with you on a couple things.
I've been saying the "mod to gain a nullified advantage" thing since ceptors were changed to a nullified ship. Without the mod change to be nullified only if the mod is fitted, they are OP. They are literally impossible to catch unless they aggro you. I've been trying for months to figure it out. Even with Stilleto, with a sebo and being remote boosted, getting to a scan res of 4500 or more, they can still warp away quickly enough that they are in warp in before a lock and mod activation is even possible. The problem is latency. The time it takes for the server to respond to the mod activation. An insta-lock with enough time for your mod to activate is only possible if you are closer to the server than the ceptor pilot. I know that because when I lock in 1 second or less (and yes I'm being honest there) and the mod doesn't activate quickly enough to catch a ceptor, that's a problem.

I do know that above a certain level of scan res, the rest is wasted. However, I had multiple people remote boosting me at one point, and I had a scan res of around 6250 and a range of 168km in that stilleto. I still couldn't catch them. I see a real problem here.

You're assuming that the Inty is long enough on grid to get a lock on it .... your argument is just wrong. I'm not whining about any AFK Kills but you're whining about your cheap-as-shirt-ship which can get you shiny killmails without getting into the danger of loosing it. If you land in a gatecamp, all you have to do is to hit the warp-to button, wave to the gatecamp and spam the local with "Ceeya Nerds".
Oh and writing with capslock does not intensify your argument. It just makes reading your Post harder. JFYI

See... funny thing. I did that in a Crow and right when I started to wave was when they popped me. I guess it's different since they were actually putting forth effort...
Later on they ran from our fleet and waited for a few dozen of their closest friends to show up so they could have a fair 2-v-1 fight, but that's a different matter entirely. The point is that, while I was not in a maxed out Crow, if inty's were so horribly broken then how did I get away when my cloak only dropped after I hit Warp To? Or is the effort required to catch one that you object to?

You die in a gatecamp in a properly combat-fitted ceptor if the gate campers aren't completely incapable. You die to Caracals, Talwars, Flycatchers with Light Missiles. You die to drone ships with fast drones. You die to T1 frigs, as numerously demonstrated by Suitonia. In bigger fleets you die to well tracking turret ships with webs. You die to fleets with webbers and logi. You die to fleets with missiles.

You die to Exhumers. You die to Ishtars which are fitted properly. You die to Tengus which are fitted properly. You die to carriers if they are not incapable.

You die a lot if the other players use the tools available to counter your tool. I don't see OP in ceptors.

Hardly. An interdictor will shred an interceptor that is dumb enough to stick around. Just because you didn't kill him doesn't mean you didn't counter him.


An interceptor fitted this way is almost useless in combat. It is little more than a shuttle.