Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think that a Fast Response Frigate is necessary to help defend miners across all New Eden from null to .5 Sec Space. Given that ganking occurs at gates and belts the typical frigate or destroyer does not have enough response time to either drive away or destroy Privateers. Therefore I am suggesting that ORE develop the Hellcat to help counter the Privateering.

The Hellcat, which is based off of an old Earth tank destroyer from World War II was the fastest tank destroyer for that era which performed when compared to kill / loss ratio.

The base hull design would be taken from the Prospect Class Expedition Frigate with the forward arms removed to reduce mass.

4 high slots
4 medium slots
3 low slots
2 small rig slots

The Hellcat would incorporate the new hybrid Warp Accelerator with the Micro Jump Drive named the Micro Accelerator Jump Drive which when fit to the Hellcat would add an additional Warp Speed bonus of 20,000,000 million kilometers per level of the skilled learned which would allow the unit an increase of warp speed velocity by 33%.

It's high warp speed and high velocity of 500 m/3 with Micro Warp Drive fit would make this ship more than a match for any frigate or destroyer that is caught pirating.

5% damage bonus to any type of weapon fit per level of the Hellcat trained to.
5% optimal range for any weapon type fit per level of the Hellcat trained to.


15% bonus to rocket damage.
10% bonus to rocket optimal range.

2% bonus to shields and armor per level of Hellcat trained to.

Possible implementation of Precision Guided Bombs and new Precision Guided Bomb Launcher that could only be used on the Hellcat. Cannot be used in High Sec Space

Possible implementation of Frigate based torpedo and torpedo launcher.

Possible implementation of Cynosural Generator.

Possible implementation of Web Stasisfier Nullifier Rig that would nullify the ability of the ship to be webbed. 10% reduction in web stasisfying effect per level of Hellcat trained to.

Would retain the warp while cloaked capability of the Prospect.

With ganking on gates in the belts and general pirating continuing to be an everyday issue a small versatile ship is needed

So let me get this straight. You want a frigate that has a 25%-50% bonus to rocket damage and 15%-40% optimal range (flight time? speed? idk) bonus to the same. Said frigate also has a 2%-10% bonus to shield/armor resists (or is it amount?). It can also launch bombs (why?), use torpedo launchers, easily fit a cyno, and can warp cloaked.

Oh, and it also brings with it two special-snowflake "I MINE FOR REALS" modules and associated skills, the first of which reduces the speed reduction of stasis webifiers by 10% per level, meaning that it can completely ignore a T1 Stasis Webifier at max skills. The second module/skill combo increases warp speed by THIRTY-THREE ******* PERCENT PER LEVEL, which means training the skill to 5 increases your warp speed by ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT.

Are you ******* serious? You want a cloaked interceptor-bomber that magically can shut down webs and warp 165% faster than the base warp speed of all frigates.

The name you've chosen for your abortion of an idea is an insult to the Hellcat tank destroyer.

Covops Assault Bomber Ceptor , Best frigate evarrr!!!!

I missed these threads dryson, spectacular return to form.

need to be able to mount a DDD device effective against subcaps and can be used in high sec not to forget it can be used from AUs away just to defend those poor miners against those damn gankers

It should have something like 20% reduced sigrad per level so the gankers can't gank you back when you gank them.

you guys are all forgetting... It has bastion...

And when you click bastion it morphs into a titan with all the trimmings thereoff

Been a while since I tripped across an 'it can kill everything make my ship the best' thread, thank you . . . I needed the laugh.

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I have misread the topic as - Hecate

frigate hellcate hecate you know that sort of things

Looks like I found who stole my crack. Stop smoking my **** man, not cool.

Leaving aside the fact that this thing is massively overpowered and game breaking for the moment OP you do realise that there is no way in hell that this would ever be used for the purpose you intend it?

If it were ever implemented not only would it make multiple ship classes redundant it would probably lead to the extinction of ratting and mining in a great swathe of known space.

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