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fiiiiiiine. you were reading earlier though, but i think maybe your question was answered before your first post a few pages ago. And I just like to pretend to be mean.

No, these changes aren't coming anywhere near to the winter expansion. You have plenty of time. There is no date.

My plan for reading threads quickly is to just scroll quickly and only read the posts for people i have set to positive standings or CCP employees. Everyone else is just speculating, asking questions, or repeating answers that have already been given. You can go through pages almost as fast as your computer can load them.

Typhoon

I said a while ago i would personally like to see the projectile bonus replaced with a Target painter bonus, not useful on most ships but would benefit a torp boat. Additionally to facilitate this i would drop a high to a mid as with 5 launcher slots 2 versatility slots should be sufficient and 5 mids are needed to make a painter viable. 5 launchers is sufficient but not overpowered provided the phoon keeps its current drone bay + bandwith and also provides a diffrent flavour to the raven (mobile, armor tanked, reduced range, reduced base missile DPS, additional drone DPS &/or versatility)

Command Ships:

First seems odd that all 4 races get skirmish WF for T3s

Second regarding bonuses being given remotely:

At the moment there is already a bit of an issue, as a skirmish WF link user when in a gang the ships that most benefit from me are quick an agile (mainly inties) now if we are chasing a target the inties will need the bonus the instant they land to help survivability and help tackle so even as it is i cannot enter warp to join them without hurting their and my effectiveness so i am actually encouraged not to go to the fight on that basis alone. While i have not PvPed for a while my past losses and kills show i put Command ships in the thick of it and i would rather that was the way forward.

With that in mind i have 2 linked suggestions which i think actually benefit command ships but at the same time encourage them to come on the field.

1. Have a decay timer for bonuses (say 5 minutes) - providing that you have been on grid with a bonus provider within the time limit and their gang link is on you receive their bonus (in some ways its a bit like a positive combat flag). During this period you continue to recieve the bonus even if you or the bonus giver leave the grid. If you both remain on grid the timer effectively resets each cycle of the WF Link modules. Prefereably you should even be able to change system and keep the bonus but perhaps halve the time left on the timer.

2. Allow WF links to be turned on while in warp so that ships warping into combat are not punished (yes this applies to warping out as well but if you can warp in and out of grid repeatedly in a command ship without getting tackled you will be pretty busy)

There are a few other issues such as if a WF Link is switched off then back on again when you are on different grids do you get to regain the bonus? (personally i say yes again)

Oh and i would make mindlinks more common the prices of those are getting a bit silly.

sad to see how they want to reduce the most versatile bs to some khanid wannabe.

sure it requires many skills to max out, but its perfectly fine on each subset of skills too :/

eve really needs more of those ships, not less.

QFT

I would encourage everyone else who wants to keep the Phoon as is to voice your discontent with the changes as early as possible so CCP can see how much we love the old boat.

Quoting myself so i can get an answer on this.

Incorrect, you're confusing skillbook requirements with Ship prerequesite to "activate" it.

If you loose BS5 of the race, you'll currently be purged from your ship. But you'd have to be pretty stupid.. as dying in an AlphaClone affects the highest multiplier skills.. and there are a lot more you'll have to burn through before loosing a BS5 skill..

Ahh sweet. Thanks for the answer

With very few exceptions the Amarr have ALWAYS favored drone use and usually have good sized drone bays. The Prophecy is basically following in the same line as the Armageddon, which has a large drone bay in addition to it's powerful lasers.

While I too am personally fond of missile boats (I am rather fond of Khanid ships) the use of drones as a strong secondary weapons system in all other cases has been clearly spelled out since Tiericide was first laid out.

Well perhaps the Prophecy might get a HAM bonus as its secondary bonus if they don't decide to put a e-war bonus on it would be nice if they didn't it will no doubt have launchers either way.

Ok, the command ship changes are the right direction, but the wrong implementation. dual bonuses are great, but if you do it the way its listed now, you will just homogenize the command ships. if you intend to give them dual bonuses, dont just double up the existing, make a whole new set of gang links based on the current skills. The difference is make the new bonuses one defensive bonus and one offensive bonus. (armor tanking defense, hybrid damage bonus for offensive as an example).

Also, will there be any changes to or new gang implants available to provide a dual bonus? like a variant implant that gives half of 2 bonuses instead of a full of one?