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So one of the main strategic targets of blops will be removed in the summer bring them to a point where they are not useful for much more than a quick meaningless brawl. Thanks ccp

It in the patch note i read.

Ratting carriers?

Okay so the pros to this so far:



-Blops are now as manoeuvrable and rapid at deploying as they should be, they can out travel larger ships and Jumpbridge networks, which makes sense for them being clandestine ships that prey on the weak.

-Blops pilots who like to wait out their blue timer (such as myself) now have much less time to wait and this has aided in planning jump paths and travel times.

-New 'tripple' jumps are now possible along we emergency exit jumps, both open up new options to highly experienced pilots


Cons~

-My main concern for the future of blops is that 'some' future ideas for them revolve around using them to disrupt services and sov
(I will state now that i vehemently oppose this due to the current amazing tactics and changes to battle you can make with just one experienced blops)

-As Time goes on and more smaller and more resilient ships are deployed its becoming more obvious that blops (with exception to the SIn) lack a great deal of capability of engaging on battles that are more than a few seconds long (excluding one or two ultra-exceptional cases). The main reference im making here is Carriers.....Since the change no blops can actually stand up to a carriers fighters, now whilst it is true that you can jam a carrier.....Trying to find more than 30 people to jam, neut and DPS ONE person in a carrier and still getting slaughtered is a bit ridiculous. Theres no good reason why carriers should still be a a great ratting boat, whilst also being able to fend off all but the largest of groups.



-Potential changes to blops to help counter new emergent ships

- (MODULE) Wave-Form Destabiliser (Neuting/Damage/ECM varients)

A fittable module that turns the 'shockwave' produced on jumping in into a hostile action, this module upon completing a successful jump will drain the capacitor from nearby ships, npcs and drones in an attempt to Super-re-charge its capacitor. Other blackops ships fitted with this module are immune to this effect.

The idea of this is to focus on blops advantage of short and controlled fights, without making them over-powered in normal combat situations.

so for instance, a well placed covert cyno and a group of say 5 blops bbattleships, could severly damage several squadrons of fighters, making it easier for the blops to actually fight carriers and even the playing ground a little.


-Potential change to blops on the front of 'SOV'


~not sure about this yet, but im brainstorming ideas

the different blops already fill very different niche roles m8 you don't use a redeemer for a sins job

that is the role of all blops but it is not their individual role in a fleet

each one handles a fight differently and each one is better suited to deal with things better

like if the enemy fleet is a bunch of small ships the sin shines here

do they have a lot of DPS? then the redeemer handles that the best

want to take on a cruiser fleet widow is your man

alpha and GTFO from range? go panther


while these are not the only niches they fill and there is also areas of overlap once you get to know the ships you will find they all have plenty of advantages and disadvantages that make each one a viable ship depending on what the fleet needs. BLOPS are probably the only ship class in the game where there is no clear winner or useless black sheep. CCP did a great job with the balance of these ships both within their class and in their role within the game itself. Could there be a few tweaks? sure nothing is perfect maybe a bit of cpu here a few extra m3 in a drone bay there but nothing that warrants a balance of the class as a hole or anything that is worth the risk of CCP going in and breaking something.

I spent a few minutes trying to show how easy this is to patch over but, tbh you are right on these points.

However there is a second issue, wasn't capital power projection nerfed for good reason? How else do you accomplish it?

Just a thought here... what if you give the jump drive itself on the ship hp and heat. Each jump damages the drive and heats it.

Letting the drive cool down prevents damage multipliers. Then have repair rate curves, heat damage multipliers, and damage thresholds to balance on. Why do big titans have worst cooldown times? All that damned high tech shielding on the drives that is why, you should see the spec sheets those pencil pushers come up with....****, that lore practically writes itself.

The "workaround" then is to switch hulls and jump again, but, I am skeptical that ends up being so broken.