Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center

Hi M8s,

We're making huge changes to capitals with the Citadels expansion. Most of these changes are on Sisi now and we'd love you to get on there and help us with testing!

Notes:

• All combat capitals have reduced base Shields/Armor/Hull. There are now capital armor plates and capital shield extenders that you should use to increase the buffer of your capital ship.
• Carriers can no longer fit a Triage module. Carriers with a triage module fitted during the deployment of the Citadels expansion will be converted into Force Auxiliaries.
• Carriers no longer have a drone bay, instead they have a fighter bay and use the new fighter mechanics.
• There is a new module called a Networked Sensor Array. This increases the Sensor Strength, Targeting Range, and Scan Resolution at the expense of disabling the use of any offensive EWar (Warp Scramblers/Disruptors, Target Painters, ECM, Stasis effects, Sensor Dampeners, etc).
• Drone Control Units have been converted to Fighter Support Units. These now give a general buff to fighter damage and survivability.
• All other drone modules (excluding Drone Link Augmentors) also provide bonuses to Fighter squadrons (check show info on those modules for details)
• Advanced Drone Interfacing has been renamed to Fighter Hangar Management and now provides a bonus to the size of your fighter hanger.
• Generic drone skills (Drone Durability, Drone Navigation, etc) also provide bonuses to fighters (check show info on those skills for details).
• The Fighter Bomber skill has been converted to 'Heavy Fighters', and now gives a 5% damage bonus to heavy fighters per level.
• A new skill is being introduced called 'Light Fighters', this provides a 5% velocity bonus per level and is required for the operation of light fighters.
• A new skill is being introduced called 'Support Fighters', this provides a 5% hitpoint bonus per level and is required for the operation of support fighters.
• The fighters skill now provides a 5% damage bonus per level and is required for the operation of all fighters.
• Burst Projectors, more information will be coming in another thread soon!
• Supercarriers are no longer immune to Electronic Warfare (ECM, Target Painters, Stasis Webifiers, Stasis Graplers, Warp Disruptors, Warp Scramblers, Sensor Dampeners, Tracking Disruptors, etc).

All of these changes are on Sisi, and we'd appreciate you jumping on and helping to test them!

The current stats we're looking at for carriers is as follows:
Aeon
Amarr Carrier Bonus (per skill level):

• 5% bonus to Fighter damage
• 4% bonus to armor resistances
• +5 bonus to ship warp core strength
• 5% bonus to Weapon Disruption Burst Projector cycle time
• 2% bonus to Armored Warfare and Information Warfare Links effectiveness

Role Bonus:

• Can fit Networked Sensor Array
• Can fit Burst Projectors
• Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously
• Can launch Light, Support and Heavy Fighters
• Can lock at extended ranges
• 400% bonus to Capital Armor Plates and Shield Extenders
• 50% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener resistance
• 50% bonus to Stasis effect resistance
• 50% increase to Remote Electronic Assistance impedance

Stats (before skills):

• Slot layout: 6H, 4M, 8L;
• Fittings: 925,000 PWG, 725 CPU
• Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 230,000 / 490,000 / 270,000
• Base shield resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 0 / 20 / 40 / 50
• Base armor resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 50 / 35 / 25 / 20
• Capacitor (amount / recharge / cap per second) : 90,000 / 5630s / 15.98
• Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 80 / .036 / 1,700,000,000 / 84.84s
• Fighter Hanger (bay / launch tubes / light / support / heavy): 90,000, 5, 3, 2, 3 (New!)
• Fleet Hanger (bay): 50,000
• Cargo Bay: 1650m3
• Ship Hanger: 2,500,000m3
• Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 5,000km / 65 / 14
• Sensor strength: 154
• Signature radius: 18,870

Wyvern
Caldari Carrier Bonus (per skill level):

• 5% bonus to Fighter damage
• 4% bonus to shield resistances
• +5 bonus to ship warp core strength
• 5% bonus to ECM Jammer Burst Projector cycle time
• 2% bonus to Siege Warfare and Information Warfare Links effectiveness

Role Bonus:

• Can fit Networked Sensor Array
• Can fit Burst Projectors
• Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously
• Can launch Light, Support and Heavy Fighters
• Can lock at extended ranges
• 400% bonus to Capital Armor Plates and Shield Extenders
• 50% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener resistance
• 50% bonus to Stasis effect resistance
• 50% increase to Remote Electronic Assistance impedance

Stats (before skills):

• Slot layout: 6H, 8M, 4L;
• Fittings: 550,000 PWG, 975 CPU
• Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 500,000 / 260,000 / 250,000
• Base shield resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 0 / 20 / 40 / 50
• Base armor resistances (EM/Therm/Kin/Exp): 50 / 45 / 25 / 10
• Capacitor (amount / recharge / cap per second) : 80,000 / 5000s / 16
• Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 75 / 0.036 / 1,650,000,000 / 82.35s
• Fighter Hanger (bay / launch tubes / light / support / heavy): 80,000, 5, 3, 2, 3 (New!)
• Fleet Hanger (bay): 50,000
• Cargo Bay: 1740m3
• Ship Hanger: 2,500,000m3
• Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 5,800km / 55 / 14
• Sensor strength: 170
• Signature radius: 19,470

Nyx
Gallente Carrier Bonus (per skill level):

• 10% bonus to Fighter damage
• 5% bonus to Fighter hitpoints
• +5 bonus to ship warp core strength
• 5% bonus to Sensor Dampening Burst Projector cycle time
• 2% bonus to Armored Warfare and Skirmish Warfare Links effectiveness

Role Bonus:
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First

Anything new happening to dreads?

Yeah I think it is supposed to be 6/4/8

Well the Aeon is only half a hull anyways. So it makes sense that it has less slots.

Joke aside. It looks like a copy paste error from the Archon.

With the capital MWD capitals can fly 1000m/s. So no matter how much you web them, tbey will always fly about 500m/s unless you shut them down.

The Hels area of effect ewar bonus is useless, fleets usually focus fire on single targets and thus area of effect on target painter is by far weaker than other supers have. Please could you consider changing it to the other minmatar racial "ewar" ie. stasis webbing?

Bombs

Typical CCP, makes focus groups and promises to listen, giving players hope that they won't **** up this round of massive changes, then they ignore the focus groups and the play testing and make the bad changes anyways. Did Space Aids and Fozzie Sov teach you nothing?

I don't even...

People on the focus group noted it over and over... the Nyx and Hel bonuses are awful.

20% resists versus 10% damage.

You guys seem to understand that damage is not worth twice the bonus of resistances, since for a low slot, I can take an EANM II for a base of 20% to all resists, or a DDA II for 20.5% drone damage. Even taking into account skills boosting the EANM2 to 25% to all resists, that's still nowhere near a 2:1 ratio in power. Why are they so uneven here?

On top of that, the ewar bonuses for the damage supers are for the more situational ewars, so these do not compensate for the weaker first bonus.

Its a no-brainer to roll an Aeon or Wyvern with this design.

Bump Nyx and Hel damage bonuses to 10%/level (giving them a 20% damage bonus), and boost one of the Revenant bonuses to 7.5%/level to compensate.