Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We all know that big ships can't hit small ones reliably due to tracking and explosion radius
But small ships do full damage to larger ships, and often significant amount due to the speed at which small weapons fire.
It is logical to introduce a stat that works the other way: that effect larger ships less than smaller ships, and this is the defense rating.

A ship's defense rating reduce each separate attack by a fixed amount after resists, to a minimum of zero.
Larger ships have higher defense rating, it can also be increased with modules. I am intentionally not specifying how much defense rating each ship should have, because it should be determined by testing.

Let say, for example, and only for example that a battleship has 50 defense rating and 60% resist across the board. a fully Bonuses light neutron blaster does 136 raw damage, and 54.4 damage after resist. This would be reduce to 4.4 by defense rating. Because each separate weapon is considered a different attack, each volley from a catalyst would inflict 35.2 damage and each cat would do about 18 DPS to the battleship, down from 225 without def rating. (yes it's an extreme example for illustration purposes)

Now let's consider a hyperion's Neutron blaster cannons. each does 550 raw damage and 220 after resist. Defense rating reduce that value to 170. 6 cannons does 1020 damage per volley, or 275 DPS. (down from 277)

Making larger ships differentially more resistant to small weapons have obvious implications in ganking, as larger hulls are more expensive. However the primary concern is if it can bring about a positive change in tactics.

It obviously makes any forms of zerg less effective. With the extreme case of a single battleship tanking an infinite number of frigates forever, this is why i intentionally did not specify defensive values. However, this does not make small ships useless: a ship does not need to inflict damage to be a threat. even impossibly high defense rating does not prevent a single ECM frigate from CCing a marauder forever.

This would make a more segmented battlefield where each ship class engage ships of similar sizes. I am honestly not sure if this is a good thing, but I believe CCP can make a sound judgement.

Translation of OP: please nerf gankalysts, because having to get a bunch of people together isn't enough.

Let's not, and say we did. :-)

No.

You just made my phoenix immortal to subcaps.

Abyss Azizora just made every ship below a battleship pointless.

Nope.

People just need to fly these ships before spouting myths such as you just did

Increasing their base HP sbould be enough. There is no need for some complicated mechanics

Pretty simple question you're ignoring here, OP.

Why is this a good idea? How it it good for the game?

Because it nerfs gankalysts.

That's not my answer, but it is the OP's rationale.

Nope. That's a myth.

2 webs + 2 target painters + some warfare links = most subcapitals vaporize in 1 to 3 hits.

small ships are meant to be able to take out big ones as part of balance and t3/ishtar are med sized not big so i don't see your point there. as well ishtar and t3 are currently a problem in themselves so that just makes the point mute....