Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Covert tech 3s come at the price of 400 million+ and take months to train for, same couldn't be said for interceptors. However I do not support the idea of nullification in that case either, I've disliked the concept of nullified tech 3s for a long time. In my humble opinion it would be best to remove them from the game.

-Interdiction nullified.

-Insane drope in the time to reach the target and to be able to lock when in grid with the target.

And i still see people asking for more lock range.

Ceptors will be so incredible after rubicon...

No ship needs bubble immunity. Just need CCP to remove the ability to anchor mobile bubbles within 40km of gates. This removes the original problem, of having gates super-bubbled over 100km in range in order to protect ratting operations.

You already cannot anchor GSC's within X amount of range of a gate. No reason to be able to anchor bubbles either.

Not only would it make carebearing in 0.0 not as safe, but it would be a big buff to the usefulness of HIC and DIC pilots since large blobs trying to lock down systems would have to make sure they have bubblers on gates, rather than just hell-bubbling them.

Please don't nerf the Taranis!

The ship is nearly never flown in FW lowsec. And for obvious reasons: the list of frigs you can engage solo in a Ranis is really small. Two thirds of the t1 frigs can already defeat it handily. It also needs to run from AFs and two of the four faction frigs.

That said, it does still have a niche role as an anti-kite. And that's due precisely to its potential ehp. If you take away some of that ehp, the ship will be truly useless except in fleet. And there it's outclassed by the fleet inties.

I get that you want to keep the Ranis weak compared to the new Raptor. But I'm not sure I get why. It's already a ship whose glory days are long gone.

Please don't nerf what is already too weak. Alternately, give it a third drone to at least match the comet.

+1 also to not nerfing the Taranis. It's EHP is already too thin to deal with a number of AF's and normal frigates, and there's a real risk of it becoming pointless if it's not actually able to hold its own in a fight. Bubble immunity and warp speeds are nice, but really, I think people are more interested in having ships that perform in pvp (even if it's in a more specialized role, such as brawling). It'd stop being the best choice for anti-inty actions, and the cheaper ships (e.g. the incursus) will end up taking its place in many scenarios.

If interceptors can't hold their own in a fight, then I'm not seeing what their point is - pinning an opponent down will inevitably require some pvp action. Perhaps a large fleet of them might work, but that's not an option for many players (who go solo or in small gangs), and when large fleets do exist, it's usually a 'special' occasion.

But isn't , for example, the Ares supposed to be specialize for that (although Rubicon seems to be changing that)? Not that I consider interceptors to be cheap... but given that they are tech II ships, I would expect a better performance given the cost and training effort.

Exactly, I dont even want them better then T1 frigates but I want them slightly better then they are currently. And now on the Sisi they are worser in hp, speed, etc.

The logic is clear, now they can warp so fast they "would be" too imba. But thats not true as far I can think of possible engagements. If they are faster at the target the fleet is now slower at it. So they need to hold the point longer. Thus need more survivability not less.

That doesnt mean they should be unkillable. Also its not only the interceptor that is now faster in warp and out of it.

I got 99 problems, but acceleration aint one.. F*** my bs will be slow as s*** now...

But the Taranis isn't fine... the faction frig buffs (i.e. the Comet) already made it rather obsolete. Needs more structure OR significantly more speed. Emphasis it's structure tanking niche or give it the speed to catch things the comet can't.

I'm pretty sure that if CCP try hard enough, they can allow us to enable/disable nillification with the same interface that is used for stuff like jump drives/briges - from "capacitor menu".