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you cant buy skill point injectors if you don't have the 5bill to buy them with. unless by some miracles reason I missed something hear.

Useability:

1) I would like an individual color selection for each fighter group while in space - so I can make my fighters highlighted in green, bombers red, support yellow. Each squad is numbered right now but it's hard to distinguish that in space quickly. Color selections would be a gigantic help.

2) Would also like a button to engage all fighters (basic attack) like grouped weapons. Annoying having to click on each squad every time.

3) I'd like to be able to right-click the launch tubes on the hud and reload/change fighters like ammo. Right now I have to open the fighter bay and manually load them.

4) My OCD is going nuts not having symmetrical numbers of squad types. It's 3 heavy's + 2 fighters/support. I can't even do a 2-2-2 setup because there's only 5 tubes. Can't put enough emphasis on how much it hurts. I don't like the restrictions anyways - we're already restricted to 5 squads. So lets end the nightmare by removing restrictions and adjusting balance.

5) The icons for each type of fighter needs to be different, so we can tell what bay has what easily. EX: right now the icons for gallente are all firbolgs.

6) There seemed to be some lag/buggieness with the hud when in combat. For ex: Numbers representing special ability ammo did not always display properly.

7) The UI scaling on tubes compared to the other ship mods is off because they're different sizes. I can't get them to line up with each other. Again, OCD.

Thank you

I take it back, fighters are crazy hard to drop. That shield recharge daaaaamn.

Ed: I'm not sure the damage of the normal, light fighters (firbs/templars etc) is what I'd call "super overpowered" to be honest.

Hi,

I'm missing visual feedback what my fighters are doing.

They shoot somebody? The guns will cycle but I don't get a UI feedback who they shoot
You try to tackle somebody? No UI feedback
You try to jam somebody with your fighters? No UI feedback and you will never know if it was successful

If would be perfect if fighters would give you the same visiual feedback as drones and the different E-War modules when you use them so you see which ships your fighters are currently attacking, pointing and jamming.

BTW, considering the emergency DC. Why does it give you a criminal flag

Fair warning, I didn't read every post or even past the third page so many of my observations have probably been touched on already but I am setting out some suggestions on tweeks to try and help the devs.


Though I have no way of helping address this issue the problem of the run time error when destroying fighter groups seems to only happen when it is fighter on fighter. I smashed 3-4 groups with a dreadnaught an failed to get the failure.

Now on to the main event.

Though the bombs still aren't working (or at least I can't get them to work) as of last night (so I can't comment on them) the heavy fighter torpedo salvo seems a bit over powered in that when using a single T1 H-fighter group I can almost one shot a dreadnaught using the torpedo salvo. I realize the damage levels are high as they are so as to make the super carriers able to threaten a titan but I feel that it should be brought down a notch or two. Another issue in regards to fighters is that in extreme close range you and cycle your heavy fighters in and out of your fighter bay to reset their torpedo timer. I watched a guy melt a titan in approximately 30-40 seconds by doing this.

The other thing with fighters are the skills and the way in which you gain access. Using lights as an example you don't get access to the attack light fighters until 'Light Fighters' Lvl 5. This also allows the use of the T2 variant at the same time. This may have been an oversight or accident. However, if this were to remain as such I don't see why one would use the T1 variant for the attack lights fighters other than due to availability restrictions. There is also no gradial requirement to go from lights to heavy fighters once you can train one you can train the other. Since I know the super carriers are the only ones that can use heavy fighters this is somewhat understandable but at the same time supers can still use the light fighters so making the progression from lights to heavy fighters a gradiant one would add play value to ther use.

My suggestion/idea/hope(?) is for a skill scheme somewhere along the lines as follows:

Requirement to reach L-fighters can remain the same as they have been

Light Fighters Lvl1: Access to the T1 interceptor L-fighters as it currently is.
LIght Fighters Lvl2: simple progression
LIght Fighters Lvl3: access to the T1 attack L-fighters
LIght Fighters Lvl4: part of the lvl req to train H-fighters
LIght Fighters Lvl5: Part of the requirements to access the T2 L&H-fighters

Heavy Fighters would follow a similar gradiant access scheme.

Access to the T2 fighters should depend on the lvl of the some of the fighter support/core skills.

For example T2 L-fighters would need Fighters Lvl 4 and Hangar Management Lvl 4. Where as Heavies would need those same skills to Lvl 5. I realize this would be months of training but I believe that with as powerful as they arem, even with the slight rebalancing they need, I believe it would be worth the grind to get them.

Next I would like to address the remote ECM for the super carriers. Strickly speaking as far functionality goes I think the duriation of some of the effects needs to be extended if only by a few seconds to make them truly viable. The requirements to use said modules obviously needs fixed. And I think the easiest soulution would be to make it so that you have to meet the requirement to train the doomsday skill to Lvl 1. Needing to be able to fly the Caldari Titan to use any of them is well the equivilant to an invisible game barrier. And everyone hates invisible game barriers.

And last but not least missile damages seems to have taken a searious hit. A buddy of mine and I tried a close range duel with seiged dreads me amarr him caldari. I was using concord beams with multi-freq lens and he was using equivalent torp fit initially and no matter what he did he couldn't come close to my damage out put and I was never in any danger against his many fitting attempts while I would have been able to beat him into submission everytime. The only difference being the amount of time it would take me. We will be test this further but these are our current finding.

If you read this far I thank you and 'Fly Safe'.

There will be no more drones at all on carriers. "Carriers and Supercarriers still have drone bays" is listed as a known issue/bug by CCP Lebowski.

There's currently no way that I could find to display stats on fighters - damage, speed, etc when factoring in skills/mods. That would be greatly helpful so I could determine I need 5 FSUs, 5 Damage mods, ect or if I only need 3 of them. Prefer to not be guessing.

While trying out the free supers, i noticed they can dock also in a Fortizar large citadel... Definitely a bug?