Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I got this idea from the way I used to play my Rattlesnake.

It should have a lot of shield HP so you can passive shield tank and fit a nice buffer to deter suicide ganks and prevent losses due to connectivity issues that I face. This is also the best battleship in the game when facing heavy neut/nos due to its passive shield tank ability and an great ship when facing e-war thanks to the targeting preferences on the aggressive AI of small and medium drones. 7 low slots will be excellent for this ship: 3 for shield power relays and 2 of each type of damage amp will give it the damage boost it needs while still maintaining its main strength - its versatility. This isn't a ship that has specialized high DPS, more of a jack of all trades.

Missile Velocity Bonus to make Torpedoes Viable lets you take out enemy battleships VERY quickly. This is important because battleships are the only type of ship this ship will be able to lock onto under the effects of e-war and plays into the ships strength vs e-war.

Ultimately it would have a 50 % bonus to all drone damage and HP and a 400m3 drone bay will give you the perfect answer to any cruisers or frigates. The large drone bay space allows enough to carry the optimal type of medium and light drones for whatever enemy is encountered, along with enough space for a set of Sentries for distant targets. This large drone bay space also allows for creative gameplay possibilities with other utility drones.

20% bonus to all shield resists to help with the passive shield tank.

I really liked this play style and would like to see it again. I'm not aware of any Torpedo using Battleships that can passive shield tank and has bonuses to all its drones. Great idea, right?

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1-2 DDA II even lacking the all drone bonus of old will kill frigates easily. Non drone bonused based pve ships do this all the time....with no DDA fit at all.

Since you are using torps I can assume paint. Paint the frigates for the drones, it works well.

the general idea of your request is already covered by the Republic Fleet typhoon, however the specifics you're asking for are OP as hell.

Thanks for the heads up about the forum beggar. We are space monkeys not beautiful and unique snowflakes. Sorry I fell for the bring back the rattlesnake post #847. Thanks.

How about just bringing back the old Rattlesnake specs and I would be happy.
I understand that EVE is primarily a PvP based gaming environment but every now and then it would be nice if CCP considered the non PvP players.

Yes I am aware the Rattlesnake is still a formidable mission ship especially against some of the NPC, but post balance it has lost the versatility that made it my favorite.

Yes run the Domi, navy Domi etc but they are not as well balanced as the old snake and their greater dependence on cap puts them at greater risk on the odd chance that a gank squad comes your way with neuts.

In high sec missions there is no way to know that a gank squad is even in the system until they land on you.

The red criminal flag does not activate until they have done something to warrant a Concord response. This means that they are in a pod somewhere in the system trying to run from anyone and everyone in the system that may want to kill them. They cannot dock and re-ship or leave the system until the timer expires at which point the red flag disappears as well.

There are those that are red for low sec status. If a few of these are in the system there is rarely any danger for a mission runner, considering that they are being chased by the faction/empire police usually means that even if they are a gank squad they are looking for a quick and easy kill. Since they have to scan a mission runner down first we would be a difficult but not impossible target for them to gank.

So that really only leaves those with the yellow suspect flags. And to be honest I have never seen more than 1 or 2 of them in local. Even if they were a gank squad their yellow flashy tags makes everyone take notice of their presence and only a complete idiot would not take the proper precautions when they are around.

Take out those you have marked because the character or the corp is known to be gankers and what you have left is the roughly 20-50 characters in local that you have no idea about. Are they miners, fellow mission runners, are they just passing through on the way to someplace else? or are they a gank squad with your name at the top of the list?
And people complain about the dangers in nul with your intel channels and local that is a perfect indicator for those who are watching it.

Doesn't every one want ccp to make a custom ship just for javascript:insertsmiley('','/Images/Emoticons/ccp_smile-big.png')them? :)
Maybe they could make a survey and gather feedback and then design like a christmas present ship based on the survey feedback?

I wish for new classes of t3 ships from santa ccp
t3 destroyers, t3 bs or t3 industrials/mining ships or t3 caps .

Stopped reading the idea here.

No, you can't have whatever it is you want to make yourself even safer in highsec.

Well, at least it's a better tact than reverting the RS changes.

I can't see it happening, but honestly....fair play for making this attempt.