Ships & Modules

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The Naga will probably have a split bonus: one for missiles, one for hybrids.

It is absolutely normal it gets to use cruises and torpedoes.

There was a reason to fly the Talos with web bonus, seems he lost it and most prob made those interested to fly it loose any hope to do something with other than gank orcas in belts.

ECM is way too much overpowered to put it in to that hull, but I wouldn't be surprised if CCP does.

The only one I can't fly is the amarr one but I'm willing to believe I have good chances I'll fly the one worthy for it's bucks.

i double agree on that! twice!

Another ECM ship for caldari, yep, that makes sense.

Strength bonus to ECM Bursts? A close-range, ECM-bursting torp boat? COuld be somewhere between hilarious and hilariously stupid.

I'm leaning toward the latter. We already have ECM frigates x2, cruisers x3, BS x2, and our mainstay BC has more than enough mids to load an lolecm failfit. Giving caldari more ewar platforms is a good way of saying "well, we just cba to balance non-heavy missiles and there's really no telling what we're going to do with hybrids. Here, take some more of this crap and make the minmatar pilots mad."

Perhaps not quite on the topic, but i'd like to adress this part.

It's not really that they are overpowered, they only do two things well: tank and spank (or: a reliable buffered tank, with a reliable damage output and moderate reach). The problem rather is that in today's EVE, those two things are too encompassing (or powerful, if you may). Perhaps CCP should spend more time making sure the landscape recieve a better functionality than to go around and adjust trend brought about by a stale sandbox? A simple way to fix "moar draeks" is to reinforce small-gang warfare in the 0.0 setting.

Most of the things flown alot, execerbated by fleet-presence in quarterly statistics, deal in very simplistic tank-spank or countering it. Drakes, Tengus, Abaddons (damage, resistance), AHACs (damage, sig) and Maelstroms (alpha vs. buffer). None of them are quite as potent when scaled down or put in an environment where the pilots are required to maintain more elements on the field or carry out more commands. In those settings, scaling them down to even mid-sized combat, they are still potent but not quite as omnipotent without numbers.

CCP sadly has a poor trend there with making everything more accessible en masse, these new tier 3 BC are no exception to that. I can easily call it now, that initially they will bring the element of distance (as field control) to the masses and back into trend to shake things up a bit, but long-term they will have a stifling effect on the game as a whole, by subverting elements from existing tools and providing easily accessible counter. Making a difficult game more accessible to new players is a good thing, but doing it at the expense of- or without considering balance is quite distressing for an MMO. Give and take, you know.

If there's any lasting, or slow, trend in EVE over the past handful of years, then it is that it's become more twosided and shallow. Larger thrive, smaller perish or cluster (look at PL), the political landscape more orderly and less facetted, and the separation between null, low and high more appearant (despite what Goons belive dom-anoms achieved pre-nerf). Soveriegn space is definately far less sovereign than it used to be. Access should also come in form not just resource.

The Naga? The Tornado and Oracle will be good, the Talos will become popular in it's own setting but not out of it and the Naga will be lumped in as a lesser option with either group. The best part about it is that the class seem related enough to at least not cause any direct exclusion from general fleets (ie., the ships are similar enough, as with Stealth bombers, that details about what is better won't affect participation unless you micro-manage efficiency to the extreme).

It has been said CCP does not balance ships based on PVE. Should ships be balanced based on the tendency of people to blob them?

When a ship does extremely well in blob warfare, while still being good in small gangs, and still being good in pve, and being dirt cheap, and being absurdly easy to skill for, I see no problem with labelling it as OP.