Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Currently Eris is by far the worst interdictor for interdicting purposes for several reasons:

- it has the biggest sig
- it has significantly less CPU than the others
- it has only one mid

Shield tanking it is not viable due to slots (no scram, even bigger sig and still no tank), it doesn't have the CPU to hull tank, which would make it too cumbersome and hull tanking in hostile space is just stupid and it would still have a weak tank, armor buffer tank would make it slow and it lacks the cap for active tank.

In theory, it has the potential to do large amounts of dps, however it all falls apart when you fit the Interdiction Sphere Launcher and you realize that you ran out of CPU. Mid-tier guns, meta 3 scram, meta MWD, launcher and DCII push it over CPU. Forget about cloaks.

I suggest it gets more CPU so you can at least try to play to it's dps strength. Even +10 CPU would help.
And if the slot layout has to be so horrible compared to the others and it's somehow considered ok for the Eris to not have any tank, give it a drone bay.

Only one mid, the other one is for the mandatory MWD.

If you were stupid enough to armor tank it, it's possible to match the EHP of Sabre, but then you can't fit any guns on it, you'd be 1Km/s and two seconds slower, and still have as big sig as the dual MSE Sabre.

It's broken.

It sure could use a third mid and some more CPU. That said, used as a combat Interdictor its pretty darn good. Can't think of any other sub cruiser ship with 900 dps.

I live in C4 Wolf-Rayet, and my gank-fit Eris does +1400dps with Void there. However, that fit has no room for the bubble. So I acknowledge it can be a rather serious glass cannon, but this thread is about it's non-existent viability as a fleet interdictor.

The only use the Eris currently has is for ganking relic site runners when you already have a warp-in on them. Since the ship has no EHP to sneeze at, it is really only viable to use for ganks. It really, really needs more CPU.

Eris is an excellent bubbler with damn high speed. Want more tank and guns? Use a Sabre.

Poor Eris, it's still gimped by it's non-existing fitting resources.

I'm going to assume you can't read, I acknowledge this use and capability of the current Eris, but seriously, it's incapable of performing in it's primary role, which is bubbling. Whether you can't see past your nose or not, if a mining ship can't mine, it's broken, if a hauler can't carry cargo it's broken- no matter what other uses players creatively come up for them.

To put this simply: Yes, Eris can do a lot dps when fit for it. When fit for bubbling, it doesn't do more dps than the others, but has a lot less tank = no reason to use it, it's just plain worse.

The bubble launcher takes 100 CPU. All V Eris has 262.5 total available, with weapon type that uses a lot of CPU.
Sabre has 287.5 CPU, with guns that use almost no CPU.

You can't increase the slot count, and while it won't be as tanky as the others with the current slot layout, I'd be fine with it if it could be fitted reasonably to be a ganky, agile dictor. But currently it's impossible. No matter how you tank it. it's significantly less tanky than the alternatives. If you try to fit it to be as agile and fast as the others, you'll come short on tank and have no dps advantage.

This still needs fixing.

CCP, you now have the opportunity to make Gallente D3 an expensive glass cannon in the dessie class, please make the Eris a viable interdictor like the other three.