Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey everyone.

After taking some feedback on the changes and testing on sisi, we're going to give the Executioner back it's 3 powergrid, bumping it back up to 45.

Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming. We're going to keep watching and tweaking these ships.

Fozzie, I take it you're on the ship balancing team now? Seems like there's been a fair bit of shuffling, who else is in there now?

Nearly a bit too good buffing for the T1 Tacklers.


Tormentor, Idea 1: The Speed-Logistic
Role Bonus for Small Remote Armor Repper Cap use
- Range Bonus for Small Remote Armor Repper
- Armor Resistance

Argument:
- Capitals have Carriers/Supers as Logisitics
- Subcaps have T2 and incoming T1 Logistic Cruisers.
- Fast Ships have nothing that doesn't slow them down.


Tormentor, Idea 2: The Smartbomber
- Range Boni for Smartbombs
- Damage Boni

(and yes, you will see them in Alliance Tournament afterwards)


Tormentor, Idea 3: The Courier
We have currently no specialised Courier Ship.



Tech 2 Tormentor, the Pod Taxi:
Everyone knows the problem in big battles. Either you suicide, or let yourself shoot, or it will be a long way home.
(or your Alliance puts an Titan into a Forcefield)
How about a Pod Taxi? You can Dock your Pod on the Tech2 Tormentor, up to.... lets say 10x Pods and it is the first Frig with Jump Drive. If docking is too complicated, it can "Jump" up to 10x Pods from your Alliance in 1000m surrounding.
Or it become a mobile Jumpbridge that goes into "siege" during usage. ^^

A Jump Fuel Bay, no Cargohold, no Turret/Missile Slots.

I agree that the T2 variants should be looked at simultaneously with the T1 variants. Interceptors are all about two things: speed and light damage (they are great harassers.) There are two variants of interceptors for each race. One variant should specialize in speed but be worse at everything else for it (while still doing more damage than other ships that don't specialize in damage,) and the other should specialize in damage but be worse at everything else for it (while still having more speed than other ships that don't specialize in speed.) The T1 variant should do both jobs, but neither as well as either specialist. IE more speed than the high damage interceptor, and more damage than the high speed interceptor, but not exceeding either at their actual specialties.

The propulsion jamming bonus is just silly. As long as they can use a warp scrambler/disruptor, does the bonus really need to be there? They already have the advantages of speed and damage.

Your forgetting one specially little bonus that makes the t2 interceptor better than this t1 version still... signature reduction for interceptors is mega awesome and perfect as it is.

I personly feel that interceptors er perfectly fine right now as they are, at maximum they only need some small tweaking, but nothing huge

only thing I can think of is to make interceptors accelerate faster in warp to max warp speed, and come to complete stop faster when comming out of warp (perhaps a 15-20% bonus to acceleration/deacceleration of warp speed per level)

1. Finally introduce Blaze/Lux crystals
2. Harvest tears

I never thought I'd say this, but I can totally see myself flying the Condor for cheap tackle lulz with this change. Love it.

Might even make a passable kiting frigate. Hmm...

This is actually nonsense, at least when it comes to incursus (never flown an asb merlin). To tank a properly fit/flown assault frig/faction frig the incursus needs to be fit in such a way that; a) its incredibly slow (ab+ 3 amour rig nerf) and so can be kited effectively or escaped from by pretty much any frig not flown by an idiot: b) reliant on cap boosters, probably navy 400s if it is to have any neut protection meaning when it is getting kited it is dead no matter what; c) it has completely anemic dps unless the enemy just sits on top of it. Finally unless the reps are managed perfectly the burst damage from a gank frig like enyo will get through regardless.

Basically an incursus that has any chance of killing a non idiot enyo or daredevil (if that is even possible) will likely be kited and killed by a rifter that knows what it is doing. If it is fit to tank a kite (i.e. cap stable) it will not have enough tank to withstand a gank frig. This is basically how eve is meant to be. A dramiel or wolf is pretty much able to kite and gank an incursus at the same time.

The extent to which the incursus and merlin are op compared to ther t1 frig will be reduced by the continuing buffs of said frigs (even a dual asb merlin is very kitable). The rifter is a little sad at the moment however, even more so when these new tackler buffs are introduced.

so what class is ccp tallest working on?

and then cruisers? :)