Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Even if they do, I'd consider this more like an exploit, rather than intended operation.
While rails are inherently immune to such things and hit instantly. So what's the reason?

Maybe this is the way should be - cruise missile will only be usable in PVE. There are weapons that are useless in PVE - blasters - so that would be a kind of symmetry. If that fair enough?

Why would Cruise missiles being fast enough to slip past a firewall (if the timing happens to be right) be any more of an exploit that using Smart Bombs to screen an entire fleet?

Could you do this with making caldari more power as they already are. Most flown t3 is tengu everyone want tengu. Everyone flown drake. Soon its everyone flown raven. I am seriously worried that my eve experience after odyssye is going to deep garbage. You are making too many hard changes for one update. I would personally tell my friends to wait for over this expansion because you will be dealing with lot of balancing issues after this update. There are too many changes to the old working eve that I enjoy.

Yes please buff the faction that already is one of the most viable source of money. Highsec, lowsec.. You can make their ships also invulnerable and don't forget scramble immunity.

This change has the subtle impact of doing just what you are asking. With a significant damage increase, the explosion radius increase mitigates that for smaller targets. For targets that would have been larger that the new sig radius already it's a straight dmg increase. For targets smaller than your explosion radius your damage should remain close to what it was, BUT if you paint their signature radius up the target painter gets more "room to work". So with appropriate target painting you should be able to realize a good portion of the DPS increase. I know this does not fix everything about target painters, but it does enhance their role a bit.

The most flown T3 is the Loki, followed by Proteus > Legion > Tengu.

The most flown BC is the Naga, the most flown combat BC is the Cane.

Wat

Good changes.....


But completely worthless when it comes to long range PVP.


1: Any ship on grid can be scanned down in 5 sec.
2: Caldari in general is the slowest locking race in EVE.
3: Missiles will take over 10 sec to reach target.


Combine that and you have a very cool concept on paper, until you take probes into account. And you realize that you are scanned, pointed and going down in a ball of fire before your missiles have even started doing any damage.



For this to actually be worth anything, CCP need to change the scanning mechanic.

And no, increasing" warp to" range on grid to 250km does not fix it. As anyone with half a brain will just be loitering just outside grid and wait for stupid people coming in at range.


TL:DR

Cool on paper, worthless in reality, until CCP fix the 5 sec scantime to get warp ins.

I tend to agree with this (although Cruise equiped ships will be a lot better able to defend themselves at close range than they are currently). Since scanning is being redone we'll have to see if this long standing issue is addressed.

I'm tired of sniping (gun or missile) not being viable in any kind of large engagement anymore due to unrealistically fast probe use.

Sounds great. Keep doing stuff like this and you'll catch CCP Fozzie in likes.

+1

I wasn't talking about after these changes but where we are heading with this kind of changes. These changes still won't fix the pvp problems with them which results at some point with even more speed added and more and more until they are almost instant.

Terrible change. Can't hit anything with cruise missiles before and now it's even harder.

ffs