Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is... pretty much the opposite of true. Sure there are people who go around high-sec ganking to pad their killboards but they tend to choose targets that are profitable rather than just shooting anything that moves over a certain ISK value or they join one of the numerous war-dec corps around. Ganking high-sec mission runners with T2 fits doesn't tend to get you much beyond casual mockery whenever you try to show off your killboard.

2 weeks and not a peep from a single Dev on the state of this class?

I completely agree. In this state, the Paladin gets 12,500 cap with Capacitor Management lvl 5 which is pretty insane for a battleship. Although I wont argue with more capacitor if they are giving it to me, I cant help but think that with that much capacitor, the capacitor capacitor bonus would be much better applied to something like large energy tracking for instance.

I also agree that the web velocity factor bonus is completely inert. I mean, these ships are slow and not very agile, so unless you land right on top of them, you are not going to get a web off. If this was like a 15/20% bonus to web range then that would be a different matter entirely.

You then however come onto a different issue. They largely incentivise you to fit mjd's on these things as well. Add that to a scram/disrupt in any pvp environment and you are only left with 1 free mid for anything else which many people would use for a normal prop mod, but then you're stuffed if you want to use rep fits and need a cap booster. Obviously you can say "just dont fit a mwd/ab or the web" which is entirely true and with that crappy bonus to the web, i would probably remove that so i can use dual prop. This issue also affects the Kronos as well, but I do think that the Kronos and Pally should drop a high so they can get a 5th mid slot. Do deffo get back to me on anything you think that i have overlooked though.

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So will the weapons timer make it undesirable to use bastion mode in hi sec missions? For example i want to do the bonus room of angels extra. Warp in activate bastion mode kill everything. then have to wait 15 mins to dock up and complete the mission? Maybe this could be addressed with the promised LV4 missions revamp by allowing missions to be accepted/completed remotely?

What CCP is actually trying to do is make marauders more like pirate BS (good for PvE and PvP) without giving them characteristics that make pirate BS good: dmg, speed, overall universality. This is why they fail. They introduced a couple of weird bonuses that are supposed to compensate for that, but pilots will still chose pirate BS over marauders. At the end of day pirate ships are more coherent at what they do and easier to fly. When flying marauders pilots will need to apply some strange tactics just to make use of the incoherent bonuses that they have. For PvE this may work but for pvp, where every second counts, doing strange stuff does not pay off.

Minmatar have the worst T2 resists. It would be good for PvE, terrible for PvP.

I seriously think everyone should get kin/therm as their T2 resists. EM and exp T2 resists are horrifically underpowered as these damage types are so rare.

Loki resists are stupid, but sleipnir resists are good.

What u write is also very good and would solve many issues. Unifyning T2 resists to Kin/Th would balnce tanks out, balance laser dmg (no need to improve lasers!) and many others. This would however leave the gallente underpowered as the kin/thr is their only dmg type. Sure they have massive dps but at a cost of point blank range.

The weapon-timer is one Minute, not 15. Your´e confusing it with the PVP-Timer

Also, base capacitor should get +25% bonus.

Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 8000(+2375) / 1000s (+76.1s) / 8 cap/s (+2)

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Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 10000(+4375) / 1000s (+76.1s) / 10 cap/s (+4)