Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Not sure about the amarr one using turrets, but I do see it complimenting the Gallente one with drones in that regard. Perhaps giving range and sig reduction bonus to missiles would work well enough...

I like the current balance for the boosts, but I am concerned about the current boost amount. Command ships boost at 3% per level, and titans boost at 7.5%. Considering that I'm going for a conceptual progression between the two with these, do you think it would be viable to go for a 5% boost per level, or would that be too overpowered?

I think the issue with applying high resists on battleships isn't with defenses, but with their firepower, i.e. how much dps it takes to bring them down vs how much they can dish out.

A good example for this would be the sleipnir vs the damnation, which I've highlighted as an equivilant between the Warhammer and Hellfire in this instance. The sleip is revered as a solo pwnmobile because it mixes astounding levels of dps and tank while maintaining the essential elements of dmg application with mobility. While battleships certainly aren't considered 'mobile' they apply their damages at excellent ranges, and vessels like the blaster rokh or AC tempest can apply their dps quite well.

The offset comes with their inability to track smaller targets and apply subsequent damage to them. Having a high-resist tank negates this to a degree since something in that setting can shrug off the dps from smaller targets entirely while focusing on the targets it CAN hit. I get how it makes sense from a fleet standpoint to have high resists and high tank, which is why I opted for having the dictor-level resists, since it (in my mind at least) reaches a happy medium between high fleet-level tanks and not being invulnerable to small-arms fire.

That being said, the tank on the hellfire with a HG slave set would reach well over a million ehp. That would be working as intended in that instance, and would be damn interesting to see it applied in a fleet instance. Would you be against swapping its range bonus to logi to an amount bonus?

And what we do wit T3's warfare subsyetems? just blop to the trashcan? insted just make it imposible to turn on links to close to the forcefield 20km+ from the force field (just like cyno inhibitor) and give links weapon timers so they can't just pleasure thems selfs on station undock.

bom Problem gone, now we can kill all the links \\\o///

That's the idea with the passive boosts, yes. The thing to remember is not doubling up on the same bonuses, and making it a bit less strong since they're battleships and not capitals. Auxilary bonuses like head reduction and logi range help out quite a bit in a variety of settings, so they should be very useful.

Why Gallente ship has only 7 highs and 6 turrets when the others get 8 slots and 8 guns?

I dont see a drone bonus nor a drone bay size.

I also dont see at least 3 high slots as utility slot so ppl forced to use them as boosters instead of 8 slots of turrets and launchers.
With the current layout they will be used as damage dealers and not as boosters.

It doesn't have command ship level resists; it has dictor-level resists, so while it'll have more hp than a Damnation, it'll have lower resists. It will also have a significantly larger sig radius and be very slow, so it's not exactly indestructible, especially considering that unless it's getting titan boosts, it won't be getting ehp boosts like armored warfare links since it'll be boosting the command ships beneath it.

In regards to logistics, this is an increase to range, not amount. This is not an issue since sensor damps are an excellent counter to logi that's spread apart, and bombs are a good counter to logi grouped together. Giving pilots in a fleet more room to move around has quite a few advantages, but doesn't translate to a straight buff since there are already plenty of counters.