Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Please return BS to 3.0 AU warp speed.

I had a near essay written on this and why it is a good idea, but I think the easier question to ask is why cannot the T1 BS and BC's be allowed to keep up with each other and warp around at 3.0 AU.

Not exactly game breaking.

Yes yes make all the smaller ship warp faster, that is fine. But PLEASE return the older T1 hulls in the game to a reasonable warp speed so they don't get left behind to rust.

Perhaps if you cried less your hulls wouldn't rust so quickly :'(



Just joking, but I suspect that the old warp speed was before mission blitzing became such an institutionalised phenomenon, and CCP decided to (literally) put the brakes on it. I suspect a parallel might be when they rejigged it so that most FW missions could no longer be run in just a stealth bomber.

...because you've added warp speed rigs and are probably flying a Mach

BS still would warp slower due to align speed even if they had the same warp speed.
So this doesn't change the 'slower' bit, It just reduces tedium in warp.

And sure you can fit them for speed, you can fit all the smaller classes for speed as well and they will warp faster than a speed fitted BS also. Comparing a speed & brick fit kinda defeats the point.

*Drunkenly stumbles into F&I
Another battleship thread!

*whips gnarly looking suggestion box out of coat and ruffles through it
I'm seen a few more of these bs warp speed threads. No matter.
Here, try this one!
4au range jump drive module (midslot). 2000pg 100cpu fitting cost.
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*Chugs it
*Passes out by New Player Q&A

I am in the middle of upgrading my current Mega

Thanks for all of the replies.

Agree the T3 needs a nerf, I'm sure will happen in all due time.

But in regards to Battleships, the class did suffer post the warp speed nerf, I know that the alliance I was in stopped using them to the same degree. In particular mixed fleet types seemed to start to disappear. I know it is more efficient and easier to FC if all of your ships have the same characteristics but I miss running into mixed hull gangs.

I don't think that asking for a buff to warp speed to non faction BS is in any way game breaking and would reduce the tedium of sitting in warp between gates.

Is it fun to sit in warp between gates? I can understand it in an industrial but warships be go faster..

Battleships were historically in wet navies not slow at all.

So yeah CCP please look at this again, just a gentle buff please, not asking for anything crazy, just return them to where they were for nearly a decade.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the non quoted bits.
With T3's, have to say the idea of making them count as BC's not cruisers is one of the best I've seen. Then the T3's fill in the rather empty Destroyer/BC mid classes, rather than compete directly with all the specialist cruisers. And they become a lot larger sig wise and slower agility + warp, but the rest of their fire-power & tank (RLML Tengu excluded) is probably reasonable at BC size.
They'd still overshadow BS, and CCP have said that BS have issues relative to other classes, not just the T3 issue but in general BS struggle to be effective vs cruisers, but you are right that the T3C nerf is one of the big things that needs to happen.