Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well from what I can see, it'll be fairly useless in fleet fights, and even in the larger gang fights. For PVE it'll also be semi-useless when frigs get in range due to the lack of tracking bonus on ones like the paladin, and the lack of web bonuses.

Also why the hell do they STILL have tractor beam bonuses? Get rid of them already, noone that has a clue how to play eve uses marauders for loot/salvage, we all use a noctis now, like your supposed to.

I was really looking forward to the changes, and while new models and a mini-siege mode sound awesome. The rest of the changes (and lack of changes) are going to make these garbage in the currently proposed concept. And at everything.

Another 2 cents

I'd rebalance Bastion module and make it depend on Bastion Trasnformerthingie skill even more like
+4% armor, shield and hull resistance per level (since 4% resistance bonus/lvl is a current standard bonus)
+2.5% to turret optimal and faloff per lvl (somewhat balancing with different turret types)
+5% to turrent tracking per lvl (to keep up with optimal/faloff bonuses)
+5% to missile flight time (since velocity bonus is already a Golem's bonus)
+2.5% to missile explosion radius (which on lvl5 will almost equal T1 rigor rig, is the only one missile damage application bonus left thus making it on par with CNR)
+5% cycle reduction on Bastion module activation per lvl
EDIT:
+15% to effectiveness of shield and armor repairers per lvl

and mb even up to

+20% chance of neutralizing enemy ewar attempt (so training this skill to lvl5 makes it ewar immune)

And a comment about the ship bonuses themselves.

Caldari: Tank, Range, Damage application x2
Minmatar: Tank, Range, Damage, Damage application
Gallente: Tank, Range, Damage, Damage application
Amarr: Tank, Range, Damage, Cargo?

Um... what? Cargo capacity for the amarr? Why?

No... Just no...

This is a huge buff to suicide ganking. Not having to worry about tracking or tackle? Yes please.

This is a really interesting move. I have a few things to point out:

The 90% web bonus is extremely useful, and I'm saddened to see that bonus removed. It is currently one of the major reasons to field a marauder, as it allows full damage application to just about any ship within web range. If it remained, it would make it extremely hard to "hold down" the Kronos or Paladin, as they can align, MJD, and escape to safety unless they are scrammed, and even a single web means anything within scram range will receive full damage from the marauder. EWAR immunity means you can't track them to save your ass either!. Still, I'm sad to see the bonus go, but I can understand why. That will leave the Vindi, vigilant, Ashimmu, cruor, & daredevil as the only 90% webbing ships.

A note on the MJD reactivation delay. This makes traveling through nullsec or lowsec in a marauder very safe. Everyone is familiar with the MWD-Cloak trick... well now we have the MJD cloak trick. Align, Cloak, activate MJD. You don't need to decloak (because the MJD auto-decloaks you at the end of its cycle). You don't need to worry about bubbles, as the MJD will shoot you out of a bubble. The only way you lose your ship, is if you get decloaked and scrammed within the 9-10s it takes your MJD to cycle. The 60s delay between reactivations means you can travel system to system and repeat at will, because it will take longer than 60s to travel through most systems (or you can hold cloak in the next system until the delay is up!).

The 8th High slot: This is very nice. The utility highs always make me drool when considering the Marauders for PvP, and extra fitting to utilize them helps immensely.

The Bastion... That just makes me smile! You suggested the bonus was mistyped, and it will be +25% Opt, +25% Falloff, and + 5s max missile velocity. This makes much more sense than the bonuses originally posted. As for the module/mechanic, it is pretty niche. Your Marauder will go from repping 500-800 dps, to x2.85 more (1400-2300 dps). I see this wonderful if destroying undefended highsec POS's. It is also hugely beneficial if shooting ships in a mission (where you can tweak your resistances to double that tank, or more likely, focus on dps). However, even a small gang can overpower that tank, and any partially defended POS can too. Cap will still be your main weakness, and neuting a BS dry is much easier than a dread or carrier. It essentially will rely on cap booster for life.

This is where I see the new Marauder used, tbh:

Highsec Mission running. Better damage projection, better tank, ewar immunity. MJD 100km's, siege, and blap ships coming in!

Lowsec & Nullsec Plexing: Same reason its good for Highsec Missions, plus it has risk-free travel (MJD-Cloak trick).

Niche Solo vs gang PvP.

I don't know where it will be used otherwise, but maybe I'm missing something.

I had a long think about how I might use this ship. I cannot think of a scenario in which it would be useful.

Neither can I construct a rational narrative to support bastion mode, so there's a problem there for me.

I think if you wanted to see these ships in PVP all you had to do was increase the sensor strength and make no other changes whatsoever. They were fine.

I am deeply disappointed by this proposal and cannot in good conscience support it.

My apologies.

God, I love you all so much right now. Just need to find someone to give me a Marauder & Skillbook for free, because I am niggard as heck!

Or just remove the Strontium bonus rom the Tactical Reconfiguration skill, and make it a bonus on the siege module.

So you have:

Tactical Reconfiguration: Allows use of siege/bastion modules. Higher ranks improve use of those modules.

Siege Module: 25-unit reduction in strontium use per level of Tactical Reconfiguration.

Bastion Module: 5% reduction in cycle time per level of Tactical Reconfiguration.

Note that this is actually how CCP Ytterbium worded the cycle bonus in the first post. He probably didn't mean anything by it, but it works a lot better this way.

Aha! Sure enough, lysdexia strikes again.