Player Features and Ideas Discussion

looks like a fun new wolf pack too me. One thing I don't understand what do people think they will being useing a solo fleet interceptor for the lock range is fine everyone should be used to fighting the extra lock range rig for when your useing a booster and the rest of the time you can solve your problem by assigning a squad leader.

I like this.

This wont reintroduced interceptors back into frigate combat dynamics. They've been completely overshadowed by their tech 1 counterparts.

There was a time not just 1 year and some months ago when ALL frigate classes were viable but no more...

I suppose I am underestimating Interceptors but I thought I was doing so based on experience. You have shown me my error in thinking.

Please inform me (in all honestly I'd like to know). How Interceptors immune to warp disruption bubbles will revolutionize warfare in eve?

Mind you. The changes to the Malediction and Crow alone will already increase their effectiveness in combat solo or in fleets, MINUS z immunity. Mind you, I have not found bubbles in of itself an issue when using a frigate in 0.0. Things like insta locking Rapiers, Lokis, Proteus and be more dangerous. Even offensively dropping bubbles on anything else and flying around them with interceptor while being able to leave said bubbles with little effort is already possible.

NO. I find immunity would be more useful to a solo pilot instead of a fleet of frigates.

Anyway. Tell me what I'm not getting or understanding? Can a Sabre backed up by a fleet of 20 Oracles bubbles and hold down a fleet of 20 Condors? Same question but with a fleet of Harpies or Retributions?

note: that said I can see it revolutionizing life in 0.0 as far as traveling and it may be the prefered choice for avoiding engagements.

What a let down. These ships need more lock range.

At all 5s a post-rubicon Stiletto still falls short of locking past the range of an overheated Warp Disruptor II.

Instead of giving us the illusion of choice why not drop a slot from each ship and roll the sensor buff into the hull?

Other ships that received the tiericide treatment were given the targeting range necessary to perform their role. Why is it suddenly a prohibitive balance issue for Interceptors?

Dude is suggesting a Crusader with 2 damage mods and damage rigs. Put on highest tier small lasers and cpu mods and it may need 1 rig for powergrid too. Then his numbers are some what accurate. Thing would have like 3500k ehp or what not and just a man size meta 4 damage control tank.

Aye to not being impressed and with the AAR on an Taranis it would be interesting to see. Hardly anything worth caring about though. BUT fu*k combat Interceptors anyway. I'll be in an assault frigate thank you very much or a Crow or Malediction running away in circles around you like a burning HO3.

Fozzie


1. Make the interdiction nulli be based on a RIG you can purchase and put on a interceptor only. This will cut down on some of the strength rigs will give this ship.

2. Make a warp disruptor mod that uses scripts that only a interceptor can use.

Scram Script- short range and 2 points

Disruptor script- Long Range 1 point

Focus Script- script like a focused beam can only be used on Titans and Super carriers

This will allow the captor to fit one mod freeing up other slots. he chooses what script based on course of action.

3. Defining the battle field is a must here. your changes are nice but the ship will still be useless in game except for a 0.0 to high sec shuttle. Any gang that roams the gates will kill this ship faster then his fleet can support him in his tackle ability.

1. This argument doesn't make any sense. Are you against the bubble immunity or would you rather it be a rig if it needed to exist. In rig form you're limiting the number of possible fitting combinations. Hush and enjoy the intercepting bonus lol

3. You know the game is in a sad state when people think like this. ANY good interceptor pilot (regardless of region) will tell you that these changes (in addition to the warp speed changes) are enormous boosts for fleet (big & small) or solo operations.

2. This isn't an awful idea, but we've already got this sort of thing for HICtors. IMO if something like the HICtor module were to be scaled down to frigate-sized combat, it would be for the Interdiction class and not something as fast and mobile as Interceptors.

It's always had that.

Awesome, now one can fit the big pulses on the Crusader, do MOAR! paper damage and DIAF from only being able to apply a fraction of it due to tracking. DLP's with tracking bonus is just able to do the furball tango, no way in hell same will apply with bigger guns. resulting in extra fittings going unused if one want to actually hit stuff.
Remove cap bonus (or see point three);
- Gun count.
- Some of extra fittings
+ Extra 5% damage or change to 7.5% RoF keeping cap bonus (depends on whether you actually want the Crusader to be on par with Taranis/Claw of course)
+ Dollop to base capacitor.
= Tracking version of Slicer sans range.
NOTE: It only has ONE midslot for Goddess sake, it needs at least the same considerations as the Claw to be competitive seeing as it has worse base tracking and a cap requirement for guns with the inherent vulnerability.

Why would anyone in their right mind ever fly the Malediction if the Gallente overbuff Ares is available?

Only minute variations in numbers throughout with both being equally proficient with rocks/missile but Ares has a built-in gun option while keeping its utility high.

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Rocket crow will be devastating .. scram range out to max flight range, TD and ASB for tank. You sure you want to add tank and not remove some?

Raptor looks good provided it will have enough room to run some light rails and not pigeoned into blasters. Maybe make the gun bonuses 7.5/7.5 rather than 5/10, in the very least change damage to RoF .. it comes off as a "tanky interceptor" which is absurd.

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Taranis as is, reckon you might even add a drone without doing harm assuming the horrible EC-XXX are finally removed from game or made relevant (read: balanced) again.

Ares gets the overbuff. Must have been hard to restrain yourselves and not do same to Taranis so kudos to you all It needs a sacrifice somewhere, saying that it is either gun boat or missile boat when both configs perform on equal terms with dedicated hulls is naff.
Decide which toes to cut (ex. 50+% less cargo) and get to it ..

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Claw and Stiletto not getting more than cosmetics is good, already incredibly strong (Claw) and versatile (Stiletto) largely due to capless weaponry.