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Tsk tsk, management trying to get involved, as always :/

Good point, but the common increase and reduction terms are nerf and buff. And a buff hardly implies an OP change, at least in my mind. Mostly because many seem to want unconsidered power creep and thus dislike any reductions.

fleetboosters working like warp bubbles is cool stuff.

but not with the current grid mechanics, there should be a default grid of at least 1000km around all places where fights might happen

Overall first impressions are interesting. Thanks in advance for consulting, I'm sure the community input will help overall.

Proph as a drone boat ? Personaly i'm not getting it. As a HAM boat maybe. It would fit with the semi-split laser/missle amar philosophy atm. Crowd sourcing should make this better.

Cyclone/Cane - Both are fine. The genuine issue here has nothing to do at all with the hulls. It's AC's. Fall off makes no sense in any logical analysis. Combined with dial in damage selection, no cap use, and to a lesser degree tracking enhancers, there is little incentive to fly any other race of gunship. This is the root cause that you need to be addresing, not hull changes.
( Or as a stop gap measure, Fall Off Disrution Script for TD's )


Brutix - Technicaly there's nothing wrong with it, other than a semi useless rep bonus. It's not genuinely in conflict with the Talos. It's half the price of a talos hull, less than that when fit. Medium tech 2 blasters have a much lower skill requirement than tech 2 large so the barrier to entry is less of an issue. Leave it alone in general. If you realy want to buff it, add 25 to the drone bay and keep the banwidth as is. This way you can get a spare flight of smalls to be flexible. Idealy swap the rep bonus for a HP or better yet resist bonus and problem solved.

Myrm - Un-nerfing the myrm's bandwidth is not going to solve much tbh. The real issue is heavy drones are to slow. They have serious issues catching kiting drakes or worse cane's. Using mediums instead of heavies is like using assault launchers instead of HAM's on a drake. You give away to much dps. This is again an issue of the hull being fine but the module needing to be fixed first.

Mega - I'm not liking where you headed with this atm. Reducing it's already fragile tank in favor of more dps doesn't seem like a solution. It's already borderline in terms of pg vs the other races to fit tank. This makes it less than ideal for PvE let alone pvp. Resist bonus would again be a solution, or HP ( why do Amar have exclusive territory here ? ) and another 50 in the drone bay would help. This needs to be crowd sourced more. There's a reason this ship is fielded less often than all the other races.


Hype - The only tier 1 that doesn't have 125 m2 drone bay and it's Galente ? 175 with 125 bandwidth would be a good start. Then the active tank issue needs to be looked at. As it stands right now the Hype is an excellent ship as long as it has cap boosters. When they're gone so are you. Being stupidly slow doesn't help it in the least either. Having the fewest number of low slots of any tier 1 just add's to the fail. The rokh, babbon, and mael have all found a place in null and LS doctrines, the hype is the only one looking for a purpose.

Domi -- Fine as it is. A tough of pg would be nice but as with the myrm the problem isn't the hull it's the weap. Heavies are just to slow to be effective. To a lesser degree rails need to be looked at. Overall they just dont compete well in pvp. Thus the reason you see so many ac myrm's and domi's.

Astarte/Eos - How about swithcing to a sheild rep bonus and giving them some mids ? On the bright side anything you do will be an improvement considering how bad they are atm.

Guess what, those 30-40 man gangs exist in part because 10 of the same players cannot compete with your 10 man offgrid boosted gang in the first place. You're part of the problem.

If you're looking to make info links more useful, give us some neut/capacitor bonuses with them.

not sure what you mean by neut bonus to a link but certainly cap and fittings need to be looked at.

I meet all the requirements for flying field command ships but never trained for the fleet command ships (missing information link specialist). After the change will I still be able to fly my sleipnir/absolution or are you going to require the terrible fleet command skills for all CS?

"Let us repeat again: if you could fly it before, you will be able to do so after the change. "

Quote from the devblog.

I might be thinking too simple but can't you just set the boost range to the mining links to systemwide and the others to "on-grid"? Or are people going to complain that people mining should have a booster in their belt because boosting mining from a POS also gives the miners an unfair advantage? This eliminates the discussion rolling back to mining where I think it has no relation.