Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Annihilator is a low- health extremely high damage ship. It has 3 doomsday systems, 9 high slots, a bonus to doomsday damage, spool- up time, and cooldown, has a role bonus that it can move while firing a doomsday, has alot of capacitor, and is fast (enough to outrun dread or titan tracking), however it has less ehp than many battleships and a penalty to capital armor and shield modules(plates/extenders, resist mods etc.), and is limited in ability to actually kill subcaps without aoe doomsdays

Can you please give me a longer, more counstricitive response

Entire fleets of what? And I was hoping that it would just demolish caps but get demolished by sub- caps
What do you suggest to make it balanced?

Delete the idea entirely, because something that can sit there and vomit three lance DDs into a subcap fleet is laughable.

With three lance or sickle DDs, it will eat entire fleets of subcaps. With three standard DDs, it will eat caps.

Why do you want a ship that can destroy subcaps by the fleet, nuke any regular cap it comes across and put a sizable dent in any titan or super, all on it's own?

I think the Polaris Frigate can do just that. Problem is, you need to train Polaris to level V first.

Why do people always think any turd of an idea they squeeze out here necessarily deserves a "constructive" response?

Some ideas are irretrievably awful. This is one of those.

They already made this ship. Its called a svipul

As a basic design goal, some anti-capital ship that is extremely weak vs. subcaps sounds pretty good. However, as others have mentioned, what you just described would be very unbalanced. There are now AOE-style doomsday, and 3 of them stacked would shred subcaps. 3 normal doomsdays would make it unbalanced against titans, since it would cost a fraction of the price but produce dramatically more DPS. In addition, capital sig is just too large to effectively speed tank a dread's guns, so it would need to be smaller.

To balance it, you could potentially give it a huge nerf in doomsday damage and restrict it from using AOE doomsdays in a T2 battleship hull. However, I personally don't like it. It would cheapen doomsdays, and I like them where they're at right now, as amazing, but rarely seen weapons.

In my opinion, a logical alternative would be a T2 variation of attack battlecruisers, maybe with only 2 highslots: 1 for a capital-sized gun (no high-angle guns allowed), and 1 for a mini-siege module (which can't be activated in highsec). It would pump out substantial DPS vs capitals, and would have a lot of mobility before it fired, but would be completely helpless against subcaps and would be immobile and vulnerable for a minute or two while it sieges.

next time post you idea after thinking more than 10 sec, maybe you get a better response.

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At least you can't fire it remotely through a cyno field this time.