Wormholes

/ me looks away in shame..
Eh. ok but still.

Chitsa or James, can you guys ask if it still can jump holes while in bastion mode?
It would make them more used in w-space if they can in my opinion(collapsing hicks less needed).
Maybe even have a negative bastion mode where it become much lighter so they can jump in light.

Or add a jump drive script wich instead of making it jump, just make the battleship lighter(like a battlecruiser) so it has more agility and less mass. With the disadvantage of only being able to do that the cycle of the jump drive(and make it unable to diable before the end of the cycle).It should make BS as mobile as 100mn tengu's.

Ah the WH elite again.

There are more WH's below C5. Many of which people have been saying for years are far to safe. Largely because of the annoyance of trying to siege a POS without dreads. Maybe this will bring more pew to the lower class WH's

Also could be fun to see the effect on high sec POS operations.

This is exactly what I'm thinking, mini-dreads as bad-ass siege ships to finally pop all those terri-bad poses :)

Even if they COULD, it would only effect high class wormholes since most lower wormholes have a mass limit under 1 billion...

You'd only need to use them to incap the ECM mods, and could then swap them out for less expensive ships to do the bulk of the bashing.

Did you guys even notice the 10x mass multiplier when you hit the button? They will be the opposite of skinny HICs. Every wh you jump through will have me (or me and 2 of my buddies) cloaked and waiting. You jump through, I (we) uncloak and push out bastion buttons and jump though. WH pops and you're stuck (locked in or locked out - my choice). HIC bubbles make them look like shuttles and bastion activation turns my kronos into a thanny. (check my math... 100 mil BS times 10 = 1 bil thanny)

If this is how it works - you are all missing the point.

I am waiting for some tools to be available, but the 30% resist bonus on top of the resists gained from a DCU/other resist mods with *NO* stacking penalty will make these a tough nut to crack for smaller wormhole gangs of 4-5 people, and it will still take a while for larger groups to DPS their way through.

We've been discussing counters/tactics all morning in -EOL chat for dealing with a potential group of these, and while neuts are awesome, a cap boosting armor ship or a dual ASB golem/vargur may be problematic unless you have a medium sized gang with you. Since we hunt anywhere in packs of two up to 20 at peak, this may make our hunts interesting....

I mean, imagine decloaking your falcon at 80km? If they had one artillery fit vargur in a t3 fleet, your falcon is dead (you can't rep alpha). Its now Scorpion or Widow or go home if one of these things are around--not to mention, they can't be jammed when deployed. As I also mentioned, the shield fits don't have to worry about neuts as much if setup right. A small group of 4-5 of these would be nasty to run into/very hard to crack for a gang of the same size.

Of course, I don't claim to be the most pro theory crafter around. (Ask Ayeson at Hard Knocks Inc.--one of his first memories is of me microwarpdriving straight into my own bomb... that I just dropped on a Vagabond--it didn't end well, lets say, but I've learned a helluvalot in the years since). However, I can see some very... very interesting and frustrating uses of these things as brawlers.

However, as has been pointed out, due to their mass size, you won't see blobs of these beyond home hole--and I'll laugh if someone tries to use these with dreads around.

You're filter challenged.

No, the guy he mentioned is. He never said that he was the one who found them. He said that the other person should catch up.