Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is a realistic question to all the Eve Pilots of F&I.

I'm posting to this section of the forums, because I feel the comments that come will be Ideas of items and/or ship classes that can fill an empty role.

I'm not asking you to break it down to bonuses and slot layouts, or even design a ship..

I'm simply asking


What ship and/or item do you think needs to be added to Eve in order to fill an empty role....


Edit... Consider this to be much like the "New mobile structures" or "little things thread", in that I'm asking everyone what role they think needs to be filled by either an item or ship.


My suggestion


A ship class designed to use Bastion in a different manner than Marauders.
The bonuses given to by Bastion for this class would be more PVP centric.
Take tier 3 BS hulls and create a T2 ship class that is designed around anti-tackle and/or anti-ewar, but only truly capable of this while in Bastion.

If not this, then simply make Bastion part of a Marauder...
Remove the module from game and make it permanent to the ship, much like the new T3 destroyers.

marauder got an extra slot for the bastion module. CCP would take this away. Take away is you want it as is. If you don't run the module ccp gave you have an extra utility high slot.

That and with t3 dessies ccp is trying something to see if they can avoid t3 strat cruisers major pitfall (imo). Subs determine its roll. You rigged the hull around the subs....ergo that hull was locked as is into role. Which is why in PvP and PVE you see the spamming of the same few "op" fits. You'd like to experiment...but you don't want to buy a small armada of say tengu's to experiment with. Nor the whole collection of subsystems (and spares). And lots of various t2 rigs to rip out often.



With the t3 dessies in theory you at least lose the subs locking the role. Rigs may if spec'd to one mode ofc. But the player with the new t3 dessies has a very viable option to fit rigs in general as much as they can to switch roles. This option was never given to t3 cruisers.

I edited the OP to show this.

It was based on dreads. bastion is mini siege. CCP couldn't have BS's doing half assed siege damage (a decision I concur with) so they gave it range to weapons as a bonus. Couldn't be tracking, these would blap ships big and small out of the skies.


Its also giving you anti e-war with the e-war immunity. Take even blaster kronos, go into bastion and you are blapping the crap out of recons at long range. Well any range they would most engage at to apply e-war. I use blaster kronos as bastion does wonders for it. Trade in some dps for the more lr ammo, tc range script....she gets some reach. As a former recon pilot you don't have to kill us. You have to make us see our tanks get low enough we tell our boys kill what is killing me ASAP or I am going to gtfo real soon.


Anti tackle is in game...its called sub bs support. BS' shoot big stuff...let the low sp players (usually their first roles in eve, hiher sp can have the fun too as well though) have their fun in the frigs and dessies.

I'd like to see what others think about a Field Command ship. Different from the old tier 1 CS's by the same name. A ship for FC's that can take punishment and be the eye-on-the-field. A ship that's very durable, has excellent sensor strength, high scan res and a large number of lockable targets, without exceptional combat, support or ewar abilities. Right now this niche is best filled by specialized T3s as there is no T1 durable enough, or T2 cruiser, BC or BS that has competitive stats. I can't think of any suitable ship that's ready for a T2 overhaul, but I would very much like to see this.

One 'bad idea': A Tech II battleship with EWAR immunity, high warp speed, and bonuses that benefit up-close, high-power combat (strong tank, massive boost to turret/launcher damage, massive reduction to turret/launcher range). People would need interdictors to lock them down (or just keep bumping them) and they'd make battleship roams just a wee bit more plausible again.

Tactical frigates- T3 frigs would be cool...and form the apex of frigates.

Mining Depot- has a single strip miner or 3 mining lasers, has similar function to both mobile depot and the mobile tractor. good size ore/cargo bay.

Mobile Cloaking Unit- possibly the dumbest suggestion ever but it's missing from the game as far as i am aware [outside of cloak on a hull] and probably for good reason

Mobile Turrets/Missile Launcher Deployed structure. player loaded crystal/ammo/missiles.

Rigs to reduce mining laser turret/strip miners duration/increase yield.

WiS: i want to high five your character in game.

Drone control unit on subcap hulls, smaller than carriers-larger than frigate hulls only. max 1 per hull bigger than frigate. limit somehow in large drone fleet engagements.

Drone production plant- makes drones in belts using mined ore from rocks. can control say 3-5 drones of bandwidth overall. can store 4 flights of small drones.

one thing missing -- A way to jam missile / rocket targeting. Unless I'm mistaken, the current targeting disrupter only works on turrets.

Sensor dampening I suppose serves a similar function, but at 35% max (over heated) it really doesn't affect rocket/missile accuracy other than the lowering of the range by a minuscule amount.

its the only work to being a wreck vulture. If a hardship a vulture could, you know....run their own missions and not have this issue.

In the case of honest tag long invited to clear wrecks, well....same applies. Want convenience make your own wrecks lol.

Or they could just fly good ole salvage dessie. Zips between wrecks really. And in my jaded view of the loot and salvage tables not a great loss of isk/hour. I happen to think its funny noctis was given basically when these tables got shot to hell. I remember the pre noctis days. Getting all those cap charges and real stuff in a salvage/loot cat in 1 go.....difficult prospect for just 1 mission. Fast forward to today and the noctis has a base cargo capacity that should cover any real need without cargo low slot mods. Mine does 3 or 4 missions on a final before bed cleanup with lots of cargo to spare. Just find that odd really.

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