Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think the last set of Navy/Fleet Battlecruisers went over well, don't you?

With Pirate Battleships spiking in price, Machariel, Nightmare, Rattlesnake fleets get more expensive to field!
A NEW NICHE OPENS!

We don't too hard on the turf of the other navy battleships though. And the truth is the whole class of navy/fleet battleships could use a little love, don't you think?

The 25% blanket role bonus to optimal + faloff seemed to work well as a modest niche-creator for the battlecruiser class ships, which were struggling relative to other ships and relative to their performance in previous years. Using moderate role bonuses instead of trying to fine tune base stats and dps bonuses can be an attractive option to help create ship-specific or class-specific niches. The idea is that you want to open up new possibilities that don't compete too much with the roles of other similar ship classes.

The Armageddon Navy, Typhoon Fleet, Scorpion Navy, and Dominix Navy are all variants of vanilla utility/support ships, and could be given cool role bonuses that fill a similar role.

Example Support Role Bonuses:
Geddon Navy - 25% Bonus to Energy Neutralizer and Nosferatu Strength
Phoon Fleet - 75% Reduction to Stasis Grappler Heat Damage
Scorp Navy - 100% Reduction to Target Spectrum Breaker Scan Resolution Penalty
Domi Navy - 75% Bonus to Structure Maintenance Bot Repair Rate

The Tempest Fleet Issue, Megathron Navy Issue, Raven Navy Issue, and Apocalypse Navy Issue all have a strong combination of offensive capabilities and mobility, and should receive a role bonus that complements this role.

I suggest:
Tempest Fleet - 50% Reduction to MWD Signature Radius Bloom
Megathron Navy - 25% Bonus to MWD Speed Boost
Raven Navy - MWD *Reduces* Ship Mass by 50%
Apocalypse Navy - 25% Bonus to AB Speed Boost

And that leads us to the THIRD AND FINAL role bonuses!

It’s about time we finish off the navy battleship class, amirite?

These ships would be slow, with poor maneuverability. Signature radius like the broad side of a barn, drone bay nothing to die for. All of them would be able to fit the largest size long range weapons. They might be good at, I dunno, sustained damage in structure warfare and large fleet battles?

Rokh Navy Issue
Caldari Battleship Skill Level: 10% Large Hybrid Turret Optimal Range
Caldari Battleship Skill Level: 4% Shield Resistance
Role Bonus: 50% Reduction to MJD Cooldown
8 High Slots – 8 Turret Slots
7 Mid Slots
5 Low Slots

Maelstrom Fleet Issue
Minmatar Battleship Skill Level: 5% Large Projectile Turret Rate of Fire
Minmatar Battleship Skill Level: 7.5% Large Projectile Turret Faloff
Role Bonus: 25% Reduction to MJD Cooldown and Cycle Time

8 High Slots – 8 Turret Slots
7 Mid Slots
5 Low Slots

Hyperion Navy Issue
Gallente Battleship Skill Level: 5% Large Hybrid Turret Damage
Gallente Battleship Skill Level: 7.5% Large Hybrid Turret Tracking
Role Bonus: 25% Reduction to MJD Cooldown and Cycle Time
8 High Slots – 8 Turret Slots
4 Mid Slots
8 Low Slots


Abaddon Navy Issue
Amarr Battleship Skill Level: 5% Armor Hitpoints
Amarr Battleship Skill Level: 4% Armor Resistance
Role Bonus: 50% Reduction to MJD Cooldown
8 High Slots – 8 Turret Slots
5 Mid Slots
7 Low Slots

I fantasize about these things.

there all high slot heavy, you could flex one in but it will change the dynamic of it.

Does OP know the price spike of those is an intended move from CCP when the change will go live.

Can't wait to fly Arty Abaddon Navy Issue.

Hmm, that's true. It was a functional blanket buff to a group of ships that were struggling compared to their relative strength in previous years, though, and that could certainly be argued for in the case of the existing navy battleships. I'll edit that. Thanks

The Geddon navy is specifically NOT a neut platform as requested by the player base during the initial changes to the Geddon.

1) You start off talking about BCs and to be honest i have no idea where you are going with that because you list nothing but battleships afterwards.

2) Ive always seen the navy versions of battleships as doing just the opposite of what you want which is to dump their support roll in favor of a more generalized role and making them support ships also will reduce diversity not increase it.

3) I personally would rather their be fewer bonuses to prop mods since it makes such a huge difference in how a ship plays in game. A 25% damage bonus certainly effects game play but sig bloom and whether you can still use your prop mod to burn away from being pointed or not is a huge factor in both pvp and pve (since no bonus is 'free' if i get a Micro prop mod bonus i must lose out on the ship someplace else to balance the ship and if im using an afterburner this hurts me twice, once because im not using a bonus and again because some other aspect of the ship gets nerfed).

4) There are already ships bonused for jump drives and having more and more ships able to pop around space with little in the way of effective cooldowns is not a step forward for EVE.

5) finishing off the navy battleship lineup is fine but lets let CCP decide what they should ultimately be designed to do.

Hmm... what about a logistics marauder, much like a FAX? It would be a T2 BS. These thoughts are all totally off-the-cuff, I've not thought them through AT ALL.

Bastion module increases reps AND cap usage of remote assistance by 100%, inversely scaling to the time remaining down to 0% when the module cycle ends.

This would promote tactical choice of when to activate bastion, much like a FAX

Bastion module would allow 25% of reps through to marauders (bastion active)

This COULD promote marauders as ships of the line, given that they can fit a rather obscene buffer (playing in pyfa for 5 minutes I broke 350k ehp and I'm positive that more can be had). Defender launchers solves the issue of bombing runs given that marauders have like 3 utility high slots. Their natural counter would of course be an enemy fleet with enough alpha. This would admittedly be an extraordinarily expensive fleet doctrine.

Mixing both dps and logistics marauders in with regular battleship fleets would provide interesting tactical opportunities. Logi cruisers would handle the bulk of the triage, whilst the logi marauders are ready to drop the big reps on whatever needs it the most.

Active bastion blocks cap boosters and receiving remote assistance

This would keep their cap dreadfully unstable, forcing them to make tactical choices about how often they bastion.