Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No one sees an exploration battleship. Which is why it breaks theme with the other two. We all looked at the Astero and saw a covops exploration frigate, then we looked at the Stratios and clearly saw a covops exploration cruiser. When we got word of the Nestor anyone with two brain cells to rub together realized it wouldn't get a covops cloak, but most people looked at the theme of the other two and saw where they were going. Black ops. It's the only thing that made sense.

Then they posted the official stats for it and we all did a collective "What the F***!?!?". I doesn't matter what bonuses they give it, or how they tweak it. Without a jump drive it will NEVER keep the theme of the other two.

A jump drive, especially a covert capable one, would be a massive boost to the Nestor's ability to travel around Kspace but wouldn't help it at all in Wspace, where its reduced mass will really shine. A cloaked movement bonus would allow the Nestor to travel much more quickly from wormhole to wormhole, scouting its way through and running any sites it finds. I think a lot of us agree that the probe bonus is nothing more than a curiosity as no self respecting BS pilot would fly through hostile space without a scout, but the virus strength bonus and reduced mass would make it viable for running wh ghost sites and supporting a small fleet in combat. The major problem though is it would spend far to much time exposed and vulnerable without a cloak speed bonus to allow it to avoid detection and align cloaked.

EDIT: I'm not saying that having both wouldn't be awesome and allow the ship to roam where ever the wind takes it along side it's smaller cousins. Just that CCP needs to decide where they envision the Nestor being flown primarily, whether it is through the wild spaces of Anoikis, or the lawless expanses of New Eden.

Totally agreeing to both statements.

I respectfully submit that if the ring were rear-mounted, not only would it look akin to an oversized Stratios but people would also be complaining about that very fact as well, saying that it should have been mounted somewhere original to keep it from looking like a bigger version of the other ships.

Disciple Cax: your idea is interesting, but it's really weird and kind of unrealistic. Plus, you'd have to take into consideration all sorts of other things.

Joker Dronemaster: Eh. I like the Jump drive, but you basically turned it into an exploration pseudo-black ops dominix/sin, without covert bridging. The mid slots are useful, too- it can use those effectively. I'm fine with the current layout, especially now that we have mobile depots to mix things up with in-space.

The ship is good as is. A jump drive would be great, but it's good as it.

I'll take it the way it is now and fly it anyways- I've been waiting for this ship since the Astero and Stratios were announced

7-6-6 is fine, but yours would be alright too. I just like the ship already

I do see your point- but when I go out deep, I tend to fly something cheaper than this

I'd probably not use it much outside of PVE and probably wormholes, given it's design. I love the ship, but it'll be too expensive to fly around for a while.

And yes, I mostly play solo

I don't really understand the argument for having getting rid of these. If they are gone, they wouldn't be replaced with something else. They are there because it keeps theme with the other two Sisters ships, and it will likely get used by at least some people for the occasional ghost site or finding sites or for future content that uses hacking.

Guys, it's supposed to be a w-space useable battleship, and it's actually pretty good in that respect without being overpowered.

The problem is that because it's on SoE LP, it's just too expensive. If it were in literally any other LP store, it would be fine.