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Some intersting ideas in this dev blog and it is good that CCP realise that currently the Capital ship has little value to game play in the current climate. Whilst most ideas seem to have a valid point and i can see advantages i am concerned that the bread and butter capital, the Carrier, will be reduced to an oversized burden of a ship, especially given the potential new logistacal capitals.

Owning a capital and planning its movements within the game is a task that on its own needs planning in order to work out the requirements to have the ship in place without to much Jump Fatigue. Whilst having a new logistics capital is exciting i do not think that the logistical attribute of a carrier fitted for the task should be removed....in fact this is an oportunity to have the new logistis capital but also keep carrier able to fit logistics modules...just ensure that are not as effective as the dedicated capital class logistcs.

This also gives the game more choice in logistic planning. I think you need to keep the carriers ability to rep in battle, just to a lesser extent of the dedicated logistics capital.

Maybe of topic but whilst we are talking about capitals, will CCP give bonus to Jump Fatigue reduction for jumping capitals in the sov that you own? That would also stimulate more local capital movements.

ccplease!
NO CAPITAL SCRAMS!
Seriously, are you insane? Who has even came up with this idea? Do you understand why HICs cannot receive reps, and dictors have like 10k EHP? This design is done on purpose - do you understand this purpose? Because to me it seems that you dont. You suggest a ~capital hic~ that thas millions of EHP, can be repped, has a huge sensor strength and a jump-drive on top of that. Freaking genius!

Alright, I'll give you a clue about that old design purpose.
Fielding a super-capital fleet is a big risk. Especially for an underdog. That risk becomes manageable if you have a support fleet that can clear tackle if something goes wrong. So people take that risk and then something goes wrong, and than it goes hugely wrong - and titans die.

With ~capital hics~
1. The risk becomes overwhelming, unless you're in PL/NCdot or CFC. Means less groups will use their capships. Means more rifter gangs! (I guess it was your design goal, right?)
2. Support fleets become mostly irrelevant in capital fight. Oh wait, those fights will not happen anyway.

It's fairly obvious.

Provided you can hold tackle, it doesn't matter if they have 1, or 100 FAX ships, if you can kill one, you can ~eventually~ kill all the capital reps and thus the entire enemy fleet.

Because they can only rep in triage and in triage they are limited to local tank only - overwhelm that and they will all die, one at a time.

As opposed to today, where 300 archons can all spider as one unit and you'd need to either a) alpha the caps or b) out DPS 300 archons worth of non-triaged reps.

I don't like most of the changes.

While I agree that Carriers are the swiss army knife of EVE, since they can be ultimate drone boats (with potentially near-endless supply of them), provide good repairs even when not in triage, can be used for refitting in the heat of battle, store other ships and can even be used to move your ships and assets around, splitting Combat Carriers and Logistics Carriers is about the only good thing that will come from these changes (I also think that more thought should be put into naming the new Force Auxilliary ships - my suggestion is "Capital Projection Ships").

Removal of EWAR immunity is really bad. I loathe at the idea of Dreads and Titans being tracking disrupted, sensor dampened or jammed since they already have terrible tracking and scan resolution (goodbye blap dreads). The only problem of EWAR immunity in its current form is that you need a special class of ship to point a super. Giving them a warp strength of 20-50 as proposed in the blog is one way to fix it. Another way would be to make officer scrams, points and webs affect supers. This would be balanced not only due to their high cost but also due to their high powergrid requirements, making the choice of ships that can fit them very limited. Also in one of the posts, a dev mentioned 40% webs, yet the weakest webs have a strength of 50%. Even in a hypothetical situation, I expect to see valid, realistic numbers and not something that dev pulled out of his ass, showing his lack of knowledge of the game he is in charge of changing.

Being unable to refit with a weapons timer will also limit much of Marauder usage in PvE (since Bastion also gives you a weapons timer and I tend to have a depot next to my Vargur), something that I'm sure nobody in the dev team thought of.

T2 capital modules will negatively affect market for metalevel modules - those who can be built exclusively with blueprints purchased in Concord LP stores. But I guess that's one way to give Incursions much needed nerf.

Also, does intorduction of anti-subcap guns for Dreads means that we shall finally see Rapid Cruise Launchers for The Phoenix (something that some of us desire so much)?

New doomsdays: I would keep them a single module, but make them use ammunition, just like you can put all kind of bombs in a single bomb launcher. This ammunition should have large volume (1000 m^3/unit at least)to prevent putting too many of it in a single Titan.

That's all I can think of for now, though I haven't read much posts in this thread (except for the dev ones).

Why are you removing the facility of fighters/squadrons to warp after their host carrier ?

I would have thought that would be of more use after this expansion, seeing as you have stated that fights can happen a very long way from the host carrier.

Instead of fixing the system that has worked for 10+ years their throwing it all out and making changes for the sake of changes.

Seagull is bound and determined to think outside of the box which is commendable but I'm not sure you can pull this off.

Not a chance in hell these changes make into a spring release.

Wrong, Battleships have enough PG to fit officer scrams/points/webs easily, I've seen several Bhaalgorns with officer webs, and even a Loki with one.

Dear CCP,

these changes seem exciting, escpecially the Titan related changes and how you handle fighters.

There is ONE BIG THING, that was not addressed:

1. Jump portal generators

One of the major differences between the small and the big guys is the ability of being able to bridge your forces. Or being able to help your logistics efforts by bridge-ing.
The reason is simple: a Titan is a good 100+fit+character. Let's say, to get your hands on a Titan, one needs ~200bill ISK. You can see how that could be problematic to small entities.

With the changes of SOV and power projection, we can see the rise of small empires, eg. in Fountain, but really all over the map.

Request:

Please make use of Jump Portal Generators available for those who has no access to hundreds of billions, either on a dedicated platform or maybe on the proposed new Force Aux capitals.

I can imagine simple limitations to it so that Titan bridges also have a place: eg. limiting the amount of fuel it's platform can store, the size of force it can project can easily be limited. This Titan bridge for bigger, more established entities has a place.

Thanks!

Do you know how the first alliance made the first titan? They worked hard. they did not beg CCP to change the game to let them do something others can do without all the hard work.

So will T2 Cap ship module BPO's be inventable, or will we need to run drifter incursions to get the concord LP as they the only supplier of BPC?