Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The tracking bonus along with 4 mids will make the thorax a bloody frig killing machine.. Which is important if you're roaming in low sec since getting killed by one frig is rather depressing.

The tracking bonus is great, and not just for rails. Stop being bad.





This, fitting at least one repper on a cruiser really should be a valid choice.. As it is it really isn't which is VERY pirate unfriendly since we often need to travel under GCC which means needing to rep up a lot. Even if it wasn't for that it would still be nice for reppers being a valid choice for a ship with no tanking bonus simply because you often can't dock for a long time while roaming and not being able to repair up is really not ideal.

With the change to Caracal, what does that mean for Caracal navy issue? Because after the change all advantages that its navy issue have is 1 more launcher slot (that deal more damage).

You do realise that Ion Blasters + Null hit out to 5.3km + 7km and you can hit out to falloff x2 which means a total possible range of 19km. You could even put a Tracking Computer into that additional mid slot for 6km + 9km (total 24km with x2 fall off).

You also have the option of using web drones (yes lol, web drones. They really need to be more useful) or strapping the new OP mod which is the Tracking Disruptor on. Means no frig can hit you at 24 km even with missiles probably

Liking these changes EXCEPT why in gods name do you guys insist on giving Minmatar ships missiles? It just makes them worse. Drop a hard point/high altogether and give the stabber 5 guns instead of four and **** off the missiles. It just means Minmi pilots have to train two complete weapons systems AND support skills to get the best out of the ship.

Just get rid of all split weapons systems. It makes no sense, it's annoying and makes no one happy. Please, pretty please.

Fitting an active armor repper will always be sad joke in comparison to active shield considering the advantages of active shield reppers and now the ASBs. If you fit buffer and one repper for the after fight repping you are sacrificing on your buffer while the reper won't help much in a fight. Even with a 10% repper bonus you need two reppers to make it viable tactic for combat, and if you do that you need a cap injector and of course the mwd and whoops where did my grid go to fit any guns worth mentioning.

The after fight mechanic you seek would actually be better served by giving the regenerative membranes and platings a true regenerative component in addition to the raw hp bonus. It could be a very slow regen, nothing like a shield regen, but a regen none the less. So you could go ss for a while (tens of minutes) and have armor damage very slowly repair. This would boost some modules that see no use except maybe on a supercapital. And it would address the problem you raise.

Well if all the attack cruisers were like stabbers then yes they will fulfill a role the bc's can't

Well at least CCP acknowledges that there is a problem with armour tanking



Maybe we will finally get to the point where active armour becomes a viable alternative to shields.
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Maybe some day

Or maybe some defender launchers, if they ever become useful. Either way, the stabber is still a little weak in the deeps department. Another turret, more drones or even just another low slot would bring it to more practical levels, while still keeping it out of the "damage dealer" role.

practical for 'heavier than frigate speedy tackle,' that's for sure!

Forget defenders. They've been broken for a long time and not due to being pre-nerfed. Apparently the coding and performance issues on them are a real problem. Sure we'd probably all like something like point defense turrets or defenders missiles or flares to chuck out and cause missiles to miss. But they all have technical problems or too much server load to overcome it appears.