Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center

Hello everyone and happy Saturday!

Today I'm here to start collecting community feedback on a potential package of missile balance tweaks. These changes aren't confirmed yet and don't even have a release date, but if we do decide to go forward with them they would potentially arrive sometime in the summer.

The goal of these changes is to help improve the balance between the cruiser-sized missile systems and make the choice of what missiles to fit more interesting. We have also been hearing from you folks that Rapid Light Missiles are continuing to feel quite oppressive in their extremely strong combination of burst dps, range and application.

Here's the package of changes we are considering at this time:

• Increase Rapid Light and Rapid Heavy launcher reload time from 35s to 40s (~4% sustained dps reduction with no burst damage reduction). This change would reset the rapid launcher reload time back to the original values from when they were first converted to a burst damage system. It is a slight reduction to sustained dps while not impacting burst damage


• Change ship missile range bonuses to not apply to undersize missiles
• This would mean that the following ships would have their range bonuses only apply to Heavy and Heavy Assault Missiles: Orthrus, Caracal, Cerberus, Onyx, Osprey Navy Issue, Cyclone, Drake, Drake Navy Issue
• The Barghest range bonus would also be changed to only impact Cruise Missiles and Torpedoes
• The Mordu flight time reduction would also no longer apply to undersized missiles
• This change would only affect range bonuses (missile velocity and missile flight time) not damage bonuses


• Increase all Heavy Missile damage by 5.6%. This would be a general buff to HMLs and more than compensate for the longer reload time on RHMLs leading to a slight buff for them as well.

As I mentioned above we don't have a proposed release date for these changes yet but we want to start gathering community feedback and get the discussion started. Thanks and happy Saturday!

HAhahahha good one.

1st april. I can only assume this is fake. No more ships would use rapid light anymore with these change, and wtf barghest without rapid heavy?

Increase all Heavy Missile damage by 5.6%

lmao

HMLs still on death row waiting to get exonerated next appeal is possible in 4 years

Having tested these changes out, this seems like a great idea.

Assuming that this isn't an April Fools joke, if you're going to nerf rapid launcher range then maybe buffing Heavy Assault Missile Range would be a good way to promote some new gameplay around it. They're pretty underused atm because of their pitiful range, but with a small to moderate range bonus they could replace RLMLs on some ships.

please seriously consider deleting rapid launchers. look at the stats on a RLML cruiser, then ask yourself what the point of T1 destroyers is

What would this do for oversized missile launchers?
Will the reload bonus of the jackdaw still affect my rapid light missile launchers on said hull?

you know something like:
[Jackdaw, *Jacques D'aw]
Navy Micro Auxiliary Power Core
Navy Micro Auxiliary Power Core
Thukker Micro Auxiliary Power Core

5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive
EM Ward Amplifier II
EM Ward Amplifier II
Missile Guidance Computer II
Missile Guidance Computer II

Rapid Light Missile Launcher II
Rapid Light Missile Launcher II
Light Missile Launcher II
Light Missile Launcher II
Light Missile Launcher II

Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Ancillary Current Router II
Small Ancillary Current Router II




Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile x20
Missile Range Script x3
Scourge Fury Light Missile x20

a pretty good change re: nerfing rapid lights; however i think heavies need help in a different department than raw damage. they are currently destroyed by a single smartbomb regardless of how they are grouped, and you don't need to be particularly skilled to do it either.
here's me just turning on my smarties and destroying torps: http://i.imgur.com/5x7IDBP.gif note that grouping does not matter as the missiles take 100% increased damage for every missile added beyond the first.

another thing i'd ask while you're tweaking medium missiles, would it be possible for an extra launcher on the cyclone? it is currently massively underpowered in the firepower department, and only really has a slight speed advantage to show for it.
it has only 6.66 launchers where its sister ships [drake, brutix, hurricane, harbinger] all have 9. an extra launcher would bring it up to 8 launchers, and allow it to join the ferox which also has 8.

also agreed with RLML needing a fitting change, i would choose cpu++ personally as it's more missiles to control

Tell me more