Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well the main theme of SoE ships so far is exploration/a lot of solo work. I'd rather be able to use a ship to its full potential on my own than have to be working with others for it to work at its best.

However, if they ended up like that, dualboxing 2 of them could be interesting.

Some ideas for some better role bonuses, first is similar to ideas already posted:
Swap the the turret range bonus for a 50% rep range bonus, I say only 50% to give it a bit more forgiveness for fleet repairing, but not enough of a range bonus to outclass the logi cruisers. This is more of a combat medic type ship verses a dedicated support ship so its rep range should be fairly short to keep it in the front line, and it has the tank to survive there.

My next idea will either be hated or loved:
Drop the probing/analyzer bonuses for a limited bridging/jumping ability. Basically an alternate use of the Micro Jump Drive module that would allow it to bridge in a small fleet (and by small fleet I mean the mass equivalent to 10 battleships), 1 minute module activation cycle within which to bridge ships with a 10 min reuse cycle timer, and force the ship to jump to where it bridged the fleet at the end of the module activation timer or when it hits the mass limit which ever happens first and its own mass counts towards the mass limit.

Not sure how short of a jump range to give it and still keep it useful. I was thinking a 5ly range with NO benefit from the Jump Drive Calibration skill or any of the other jump drive efficiency skills. Reusing the Micro Jump Drive module just seems to me to be the fast way to implement this. Perhaps by a script? You load the script and the next time you activate it it acts as described in prior paragraph.

Required skills for this would be, Micro Jump Drive Operation V and Astrometrics V, I wanted to have it need Jump Portal Operation, but that needs Jump Drive Operation V which would be overkill since this wouldn't be a true jump portal.

The logic behind this is its supposed to be a combat aid ship so being able to bypass gate camps (by jumping) to get where it needs to be makes sense and since one ship in and of itself is not much aid letting it be able to bring a few friends with it makes sense to me.

As far as what type of cynos it would be able to bridge/jump to I am undecided.

So do we really need to get into why solo and battleship are a bad idea when put next to each other?

If you give it a rep amount bonus, the only thing it will be used for is repping your own drones in PvE.

RR battleships are common in small gangs in nullsec, but only cheap T1 hulls like the domi and geddon, no one will ever benefit from a PvP perspective from a rep amount bonus.

HOWEVER...

If you give it a rep RANGE bonus, a whole world of possibilities are opened up.

Cause let's be honest, does a bear really need a rep amount bonus to keep their sentry drones up when it's 500x easier just to recall and re-deploy.

Logistics in PvP has NEVER been about AMOUNT of RR, it's always been about range and survival.

The Tristan, Ishkur, and Worm are all crying in a corner right now! You need to go say you are sorry.

Should this ship get a covops cloak. No. Should it be able to jump through a black ops portal? Yes.

Should it be able to make blackops portals? No.

You removed a turret and an entire slot.. also, this would end up having energy turrets with 125% bonus to optimal range- maybe you should revise this

Can't say I've ever thought to myself I wanted an armor rattlesnake

I see what you're saying- but if it's a fixed bonus, it'd just be a role bonus. Also, the original gave a 50% boost to optimal, so why cut that in half if you've already removed an entire turret?

SoE is about Exploration/"Red Cross" types of work. Why throw another PVP ship into the mix. I would rather is be more of a PVE ship for the exploration aspect. We have enough hulls that can duke it out with each other. I think this one, as well as the Cruiser and Frigate should be more focused on the exploration aspect.

I edited my original post to make it a bit clearer. I still think 4 large turrets and 5 drones would be enough to allow it to defend itself in a fight.

We could redo the bonuses like this: