Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Yeah good point. With the recent balancing Navy variants just seem to do it better, let alone tech 1 BS's.

I get the feeling we'll see a difference once the modules are finished being rebalanced. Nice work CCP on the turrets and armour reppers, much better for the fitting side of things even with maxed skills.

We already fly this fleet setup in Incursion.

They don't really need more remote rep but cap use bonus for remote repair modules and a bit more range would be cool.

You can try the channel "The Ditanian Fleet", it is the biggest armor Incursion channel with lots of gangs, I think they try to form a paladin fleet atm to. The Paladin fleet(9 Paladins, 2 Oneiroses) is flown by a smaller armor channel and we use the RR ability's often to help the logis out(since we utilize the RR ability's to drop most of the tank and only use 2 logis) or to keep the ships alive if logis are late or disconnect. It is a pretty impressive gang format and would probably not work with faction BS, since they lack the remote rep ability's and the extra T2 resists on the armor to work with our fitting concept(1550 dps puls laser marauder with 62k EHP).

Is there a way we can like... Petition you to spill the beans!

I'm dying to get some sort of hint about whats going to happen to my ship!

Is this for Marauders?

Why only low sec?

I can understand not in high sec, nothing jumps to that area, but are you wanting to leave out null sec?

I'd be ecstatic with an original idea/theme for Marauders.

I have just recently achieved the ability to fly a marauder but to be honest unless they walk out of rebalancing with some kind of actual unique feature like bombs or wormhole junction capacity then I wont even train the skill past level 1.

in all seriousness and without thought towards new featurea I think that based on current rebalancing trends you'll probably see the marauder class get a bit tougher, have the sensor strength increased and have the role bonus changed to 50% mwd and possibly toward agility.

If it does go that way not only will I be not flying one ever but I will be extremely disappointed at the total lack of creativity when it comes to a ship that literally takes more than 2 months to spec to 5 even with a +5 clone. They don't need to be mini dreadnoughts with siege modules or any other gimmicky crap that belongs on capitals. They need a reason to exist outside of highsec and a reason to actually pick a fight instead of always waving a big "gank me!" sign. If CCP genuinely intend to fix this class they need to ignore the attempts at making marauders in to battleship T3 or dreads and move the class towards being the centre piece for a gang. Reduce their utility in big fleets and make them very strong 1v1 for a tech 1 battleship. If that means rr powers then so be it but I still don't see that getting them into low or null when t1 stuff does the same job much cheaper.

that is why I suggested bomb launchers because its a null only feature which. if marauder role bonuses were the ability to shoot bombs and jump through covert bridges and could fit a 5th weapon that would add a lot more value to them as back line killers than they themselves being the cyno ship or being able to cycle mjd faster

It could work.

Perhaps take HAC bonuses and transpose on to marauders?
Kronos gets %5 capacitor bonus per level when a MWD is fit
Golem gets +10% velocity and +10% flight time bonuses. Maybe also gimp with kinetic damage bonus only?
Vargur: more stupid projectile bonuses.
Paladin: 10% capacitor use bonus for lasers

Simple changes like that will define the ship. It follows a sensible progression from earlier designs.