Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Based upon and "oldish" devblobg, command ships should be rebalanced for this summer xpack. Going to be interesting to see what they do with them all. As it currently stands t1 BCs have more total slots than the commands (excluding sleipnir and claymore), which honestly makes 100% no sense.

Why does the Hookbill get essentially 3 bonuses?

"Caldari Frigate bonuses: +20% to Kinetic missile damage, +10% to EM, Explosive and Thermal missile damage and +10% to missile velocity per level"

Every other ship in this class clearly only gets two bonuses. Is there really any reason to give the ship the bonus for other damage types? Or if somehow you think the current state of affairs where the Hookbill is the best should be preserved, and somehow it deserves 3 bonuses, how about shaving that 10% range bonus to 7.5 or 5?

Another disappointment Fozzie. Take another week to think about this stuff before posting it all. None of this appears to be balancing things off of the already skewed state of affairs.

On a T1 hull where you just have 25%, you use the unbonused ammo and are at 80% of your normal damage. On this, without that em/exp/therm bonus you'd be doing a tiny fraction of your kinetic damage, so little that there'd be no point ever doing it.

Indeed. It's like saying "+10% to shield extender effectiveness, +10% to armor plate effectiveness".

Unless Lili intends to rainbow fit her launchers. More power to her, I guess.

What crossed my mind from the first post on this thread.

Also, I think the art department needs to break out a new shape for the Slicer.

Once they fix scorch it'll be useless.

This is a bit off-topic, but could you please consider giving all ships with single damage type bonuses (especially the drake) a halved bonus for other damage types? It wouldn't make a big difference for PvP, because people will almost always use the main damage type, but would be that much more handy for low skillpoint chars who can't just take another race's ship for each rat type. I've been running missions in a drake with my alt, and while it performs just fine against most rat factions, bloodraiders and sansha's nation rats are a real pain now, because you lose 50% of your dps when switching to mjolnir missiles, as opposed to 25% before the combat BC change.

The Hookbill has (and keeps) this. Why shouldn't other ships get it?

Why reduce the Slicer's capacitor performance? In my experience it is pretty damn near perfect, neither too much or too little.

Might one suggest an alternative route to distinguishing Navy hulls .. a role Navy bonus akin to those sported by the other faction hulls (ie. pirate boats). Not as big mind you, half or one third would suffice .. just a little somethin-somethin to set them apart and make up for what effectively is a loss of the slot they previously had on the T1 hulls.

Would have to do some serious soul searching though, find that nugget that epitomizes each of the four races, something that can ideally be applied to all of a races navy hulls.

Or you could go K.I.S.S. on their asses and opt for ~10% extra resists somewhere, or 1/3-1/2 of what is granted the T2 hulls.

Or you could say that Navies incorporated sleeper tech after the success they had with the T3 adoption and slap a bit of heat resistance on them ..

Hmmm.
I have to agree that a modest heat resistance bonus on all Navy vessels as a role bonus would add a certain logical flavor to them.

I'm quite happy with these changes