Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think the trick to this ship, more so then the other D3s, is to master the mode shift. Pulsing MWD while in prop mode, switching to snipe when you are in position and controlling range and cap / sig penalty that way. The hull bonus to help off set pilot error. I like the concept personally, even if I was hoping my near maxed drone skills would be useful I am still pretty excited about this ship so far.

Where the hell do you get "effectively ten turrets" for this thing? That math of yours is bad, and mine is terrible.

5 X 1.5 / 0.75 = 10

I like how we have gone from Confessor (no tracking bonus) -> Svipul (tracking bonus in mode) Hecate -> Base tracking bonus.
(Insert obligatory complaint about confessor not having a tracking bonus here).

This ship really doesn't need a triple bonus in defensive mode. Sure, no sig bonus is a trade off I suppose, but the active armor tanking potential on this ship is out of control. Four mids is the magic number for prop/scram/web/capbooster to enable a dual rep setup. The ship will have massive reps and the structure bonus will mitigate bleedthrough. Essentially this ship has all the normal weaknesses of a close range gallente ship, but it's advantages have been turned up to 11.

I don't expect this ship to be the pervasive problem child that the svipul is, but I do think that the Hecate will be very very out of control in certain environments. Will have to wait for some test server loving to put up more opinions.

Perhaps a base sig of 60 would be more rounded.

Confessor has a base of 60, with a 33.3% global reduction bonus.

Svipul gets a base of 50 (still rediculous, should be raised to 60) with a 66.6% mwd reduction bonus.

This gets a base of 70, with no bonus whatsoever, on a ship made specifically to be mwd fit.

Other than that, I like how this looks, better than the overly conflicted jackdaw.

I would like to confirm that I understood that correctly. In the Base Post it says nothing about Base hull resists, only a bonus of 33%. However, 33% of 0 is 0, So you absolutely need a dc (no other module has it) to actually take advantage of the defensive mode hull resists. Did I understand that correctly?

Hecate gets a big sig so it will be wrecked by anything bigger than a destroyer. It's one of the intended weaknesses.

As for the high DPS, thats with blasters which have low impact outside of scram range. Blaster-Hecate will have worse a Dmg projection than an Autocannon Svipul.
It comes down to actually testing this. Looks strong on paper but in the current speed'n'drone meta the drawbacks might proove sufficient to balance the ship out.

They're fine. I took a Svipul out for the first time the other day and while I might have beaten a Caracal, Stabber and Atron in a 3v1 I died to a carrier. So that's OK. RLM Caracals aren't meant to be strong against destroyers anyway.

On a more serious note, I can't understand why anyone would fly any other frigate or destroyer. It makes me sad. In this case they have taken what is probably the most powerful pre-T3D small ship, the Comet, and doubled it's power. Plus a bit. Might be fun to fly but utterly toxic for the meta.

Yeah, I would like to see that too. But it would need to lose on turret for that, way to OP otherwise

I'd like to see it lose 2 turrets.
And get a drone bay of 10/10.






Cos screw the Hecate, that's why. Power creep is real.