Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey domi lovers, can you feel it?

I'm not gonna get on a drones topic here again tho.

The problem with domies that I see comes from its past. Before ccp decided to make drones into real weapons and rehauling BS bonuses domi was already pretty good ship. Awesome ship good for mission running, rr ganks, heavy dps platforms...you name it. Inbalance happened when they got changed into pure drone ships. Bonuses and modes that would allow them to project dps over vast distances with great tracking put them in inbalance with other BSs. They can hit stuff very far away while murdering any kind of good old short range brawling doctrines with their neuts.

I don't exactly remember what were the changes to slots layout, but in current situation dominix has too many high slots, similiar to other drone ships which used to have guns in the past. I believe that lowering number of high slots by two and cpu adjusted accordingly would bring them in line with other regular BS while not hurting it on battlefields where it is balanced.

My two cents, bring the hate :)

P.S. it may be that there is another topic on dominix slots layout but I wasnt able to find it. If so please feel free to move this post into correct discussion.

It is the Sentries that's broken.

Switching between Tachyon Beam Lasers/Mega Pulses, or 425mm Rails/Neutron Blaster Cannons on the fly is balanced gaem.

Yes, I agrie.

Ishtar thread got unstickied - problem solved. vOv

afkalt is right - Cancer started when blaster bonuses on Vexor/Domi got replaced with Optimal/Tracking. Introduction of Drone Damage mods may have also been a factor.

That's like giving the current Apocalypse a 10% per level Damage bonus on top of the Optimal/Tracking range bonus.

Oh, well. vOv

P.S. Incidentally,

Amarr Battleship bonuses (per skill level):
7.5% bonus to Large Energy Turret optimal range
7.5% bonus to Large Energy Turret tracking speed

vs.

Gallente Battleship bonuses (per skill level):
10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage
7.5% bonus to Drone optimal range and tracking speed

Three (Four*) bonuses vs two.

Balanced gaem

*But lets consider Domi to have 3 bonuses, since hitpoints and damage has been there since time immemorial, plus hitpoints one is pretty much needed by default.

The three bonuses vs. two explains Domi and Ishtar use http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/66946/1/STEVE_7.png

Damage done in PVP:

Light blue is drone damage;
Orange = Energy Weps;
Dark Blue = Hybrids;
Yellow = Projectiles.

Here's a more accurate chart, if you're looking to gauge shiptype use in Eve atm: http://i.imgur.com/z4ynWV9.png

* * *

Isthar vs. Zealot bonuses:

Gallente Cruiser bonuses (per skill level):

7.5% bonus to Heavy Drone max velocity and tracking speed
10% bonus to Light, Medium, and Heavy Drone hit points and damage, 5% bonus to Sentry Drone hit points and damage

Heavy Assault Cruisers bonuses (per skill level):

5000m bonus to Drone operation range
5% bonus to Sentry Drone optimal range and tracking speed

vs.

Amarr Cruiser bonuses (per skill level):

10% reduction in Medium Energy Turret activation cost
5% bonus to Medium Energy Turret rate of fire

Heavy Assault Cruisers bonuses (per skill level):

10% bonus to Medium Energy Turret optimal range
5% bonus to Medium Energy Turret damage

Five (Six, or even Seven if you count sentries separately) Ishtar bonuses vs four (three without activation cost) on a Zealot.

GFGF

Not sure what they are thinking there, but whatever - Ishtar thread got unstickied, is balanced gaem now. vOv

remove 2 high slots from domi's and nerf its pg heavily too stop 6 rack heavy neut setups on domi's i would suggest the same on the geddon, drone ships have too many free highs.

what about T1 Pests with NOSes, only issue is the fact that pests have less mids and lows than Domis, not to say the issue is your doctrine because Domis get Drone Control Range AND 4 Neuts with relative ease... plus a solid tank and assortment of utility modules.

Harvey, the Geddon is a goddamned Neut Boat, look at the bonuses... still a few highs removed from the domi and the geddon means drone control range or neut power would be something people would need to choose between

Danica, OP said bonused sentries, Rattle effectively drops a bit more than a full set with the large bonuses, Fleet Phoon and NMega aren't bonused

bonused sentries. Although arguably the rattle has an effective 5 sentries without actually having them in number.

In that case you must be literally blind.