Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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My cloaky proteus can do 719 dps with a 78k tank while having the ability to web and scram a target.

Alright, after a lot of feedback and discussion I'm going to share what will likely be the last set of tweaks to the Stratios and Astero before launch.

We feel that while there are significant weaknesses in the cruiser that do balance it against major abuse, it's simply too strong in its current state. The combination of the covert cloak, black ops portal access and extremely high damage potential make for a ship that does a bit more than we are comfortable with. To tone it down slightly we are going to lower the drone bandwidth to 100mb/s and the drone bay to 400m3.

The ship will still have very high damage potential and will certainly still be very powerful overall.

This also makes me feel better about some other small changes that improve the ship, so we'll also be increasing the virus strength bonus to +10 and changing the laser cap use bonus to a medium energy turret optimal range bonus of 50%. We will also extend the virus strength bonus to the Astero.

Please post with feedback, but keep in mind that these changes are made after processing tons of feedback from the forums, my visit to EVE Vegas and a lot of internal discussion.

Thanks

I don't think you know what you are talking about really. If CCP nerf t3s into the ground, it will destroy wormhole pvp or just turn it into a blob fest like in k-space.

My cloaky proteus can do 719 dps with a 78k tank while having the ability to web and scram a target. The Stration might be able to reach that damage by wrongly fitting it with a shield tank but it will still be a piece of shite that is only good for ganking and blobbing. If you fit it correctly with an armour tank and drone tracking mods, you will be lucky to get 500 applied dps out of it.

For your information, no T3 can outperform a T2 ship in it's specialized role. Personally, i think the standard Tech 3 fits are fine but if you don't agree, you are entitled to that opinion.

The fact that you see nothing wrong with a faction fit, implanted cruiser that cloaks, does 720 DPS (albeit at point blank range only), has an 80k EHP tank and gets a bonus to scram range existing at all, much less being used as a baseline for what is balanced, only proves my point.


e: Incidentally, I can fit a Stratios to deal 722 DPS at ranges greater than "point blank" with 52k EHP and the ability to web and scram a target and fit ECCM.

changing the laser cap use bonus to a medium energy turret optimal range bonus of 50%. We will also extend the virus strength bonus to the Astero.

The ~wormhole perspective~ doesn't justify things being OP any more than anyone else's perspective does, sorry.

I'd still like a satisfactory answer as to why drone ships are -1 slot count. If its because of the tired argument that drones offer utility, then the obvious argument there is that ships that have primary weapon systems other than drones are afforded a tremendous amount more utility with their drones, because they don't have to sacrifice any damage potential in order to use utility drones. Yet, drone ships that use drones as their primary weapon system have to say "ok, I'm going to not do any damage and use EC drones instead." Why is it that a Drake, for example, can use all 6 launchers AND a flight of EC drones AND get +1 slot count over a similarly-classed drone ship?