Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It doesn't particularly make a lot of sense that you've moved these ships away from speed and toward survivability. Their purpose is to interdict and obstruct fleet movements with bubbles. Having a faster warp speed (even at the cost of ehp) was more in line with this philosophy. Increasing ehp? I mean, come on, let's think about this: these things are destroyers. They're not going to survive. If you want something tanky to hold a bubble, use a HIC. These differentiated themselves as quick bubble platforms (capable of overtaking even a small, fast frigate fleet), and they excelled at this much more. Now, they're "tanky" (what?) destroyers that are as slow as T2 frigates.

edit: Additionally, it feels like this latest round of changes moves the ship away from "specialization." If the community really wants a tanky T2 destroyer, then make another line of real tanky destroyers from the newest ones that is just that: an actual tanky T2 destroyer made to destroy things. Don't shoehorn these specialized fleet interdicting ships into that role as well.

Interesting!

Good:

1. Won't get asked to fit double bubbles anymore!
2. Might be able to squeeze in a scan probe launcher!
3. One low on Flycatcher continues to make Caldari pilots cry!

Confusing:

1. People try to shoot things with dictors?
2. People think dictors survive a big fight?
3. No matter what changes, I'll still get told to fly a Sabre.

Question about their description:
Can fit Interdiction Sphere Launchers

Shouldn't the be
Launcher? Seeing how they can only fit 1 not multiple?(Same with marauders and bastion)

While reloading, take the opportunity to blow up some enemy frigates and support like a boss.

Hrm, that is gonna make things different then, yeah. The numbers are fairly well tuned, though. I guess it's easier just to adapt. Thanks for the information :)

technically i was first

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3740749#post3740749

The version 2 pass is much better; especially the changes to the bubble launcher mechanics and survivability. Good job CCP.

Oh -- one other thing -- could I request that, in some future release, that the UI be tweaked to show a reload timer on guns and other reloadables like the ASB and the new interdiction sphere launcher? One of the things I hate about the current interdiction sphere launcher is there was no way to tell when it was ready to launch a new bubble. The new one won't really have this problem, but the reload timer is long enough that some sort of visual indicator of its reload progress would be appreciated.

You could display it like the gun cycle timer -- a circle that slowly gets drawn around the outside of the module's icon to indicate reloading progress. Maybe make it a different color than the gun cycle timer, and have it draw counterclockwise (compared to the clockwise action of the gun cycle timer.)

Wow.

So the moment someone noticed that the Heretic is actually, you know, better than the Sabre in certain scenarios, you nerf it and buff the Sabre.

Also, congrats on listening to the most idiotic suggestions. Launch 3 probes in rapid succession? Why would you ever need to do that - launching two is already suicide.

One interdiction sphere per ship - do you really think that all of a sudden fleet interdictors will fit guns/scram? They won't - because at the end of the day all of it remains useless. The only thing you can bet on is that now fleets will have to have double the amount of interdictors...

Slow warp speed? I don't think you understand that an Interdictor needs that warp speed advantage to do its job.

MWD bonus? Yay - CCP has no idea what to do, and is handing out overpowered bonus' left and right. Good luck killing a Sabre with a well-timed bomb. It shall now join the ranks of AF immunity wise.

Roll back the changes. V1 was okay - the only thing that needed to be fixed was the Eris, by giving it more CPU. Everything else was reasonably buffed.

And please stop listening to people that have never flown the ship.

Updated changes are great. These are actually ships now instead of "coffins" as Fozzie put it.