Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Its hard to find a reason to fly this ship.

To justify its price i would give it +1 drone per gallente BS skill level and cap the bandwith to 100Mbit/s.

I am not sure about that.

There seems to be this idea that despite costing twice other faction battleships it has to somehow be "balanced" to about the same power level so as not to be "OP" and give ppl wiuth SP and ISK to burn some sort of huge advantage.


Thing is if you are charging twice the price but "balancing" it too match overall the performance of stuff at the cheaper price why on earth would people not just get the cheaper item ?

This one's niche is exploration. Give it a Covert Ops cloak and you'll have thousands of happy campers...

Right, because they're so fast those darned things...

Actually, by fitting a cloak you enable the Nestor to fill two roles. Exploration and cloaky logi.

The only place a battleship hull can effectively be used as an exploration vessel is in low/null sec or wormhole space and for that you need a cloak.

If it had a cloak, it would fill the current gap in the cloaky logistics role. Currently we have T3 that can be fitted this way but their limited range makes then useless for anything other than spider tanking. With a covert cloak, the nestor would be brilliant for small gang pvp, especially in wormhole space where lots of people are rich but not every corp has 5 guys to fly a guardian/basilisk in their fleets.

Guys, a problem alot of you are forgetting, the Nestor's cap life is horrid, worse then an abaddon. This ship needs a cap transfer bonus to be useful, or needs a better base cap, or a bonus to reduce amount of cap required for each repper

This is quite a nice ship.The main layout is reminding me a lot of the Eos.
-5 Heavy/Sentry
-Pretty solid turret support
-Remote rep also used to be tied in with the Cmd. Ship Class.

So why don´t u rank this 3rd sister-ship a Battlecruiser.Instead of downgrading a battleship hull- upgrade a BC, to something that would sit on top of the food-chain of the faction BC class. A lot of its aspects would fit in nicely with some of the roles a small gang FC may want.

The Tier 3 BC Large Turret Bonus could find its way in to justify a solid isk-/LP-sink.

G´day

Especially if you fit lasers like they want you to. Lasers and remote reppers on this thing is a hilarious thought to be honest.

When I first saw the Nestor, and its drive located at the front, I thought that perhaps that was the precursor to how the stargates were going to be constructed, by using the "Nestor" (i.e. it's capital ship replacment) as the "base" station, and establishing a "construction beam" to the "cruiser's" rear-facing warp ring, after it had been flung out amongst the stars via whatever mechanism they're supposed to get there (Wormhole? Slingshotting around a black hole?).

Maybe that's a bit ludicrous, but perhaps that idea could be adapted to allowing the Nestor to "bridge" to the Stratios by synchronising their "special" warp drives together, i.e. not using a cyno or covert-cyno at all. In fact, it would decidedly NOT be able to jump or bridge to an existing cyno or covert-cyno beacon. Nor would it be allowed to use a covops cloak; as has already been pointed out, that would make it overpowered (but I'm ok with the cloaked velocity bonus). Just the bridging capability alone would give it its "special feature" that some are asking for.

To give it a chance of being detected, it would require a period of 30-60 seconds or so to "synchronise" the drives of the 2 ships before establishing a "warp conduit", i.e. you can't get in or out quickly. It's not meant to be a hot-drop ship.

Once the bridge is established, only small mass ships could go through (frigs? cruisers?). If that's overpowered, then perhaps only ships with the special warp technology could use it, i.e. currently, just Sisters ships.

Should you be able to bridge to the Astero?

Should the Nestor be able to jump with it? (which wouldn't make sense, as the bridge would be broken.)

What range would it have? (I would think it would be smaller, as it's not as strong as a cyno beacon.)

Would not using existing cyno mechanics force the creation of new mechanics, effectively nerfing this idea forever?

Would that place too much pressure on the systems with Sisters agents in them now?

I'm still not sold on it not having a ship fitting array, if you're arguing that people can just bring a Personal Depo, then why do carriers, and Orcas and various other caps have this ability? :P

Having such an array on a SoE BS just seems to make sense, especially for it's WH orientation. A Personal Depo, whilst small, isn't ideal to carry in some instances, maybe your fleet is going to spend a month or two exploring WH space, we want to maximise our cargo space, and 5 ships all carrying a PD just sits with me wrong. I don't want my fleet sat waiting for 5 Anchoring timers to tick over in a WH, 1 timer, and 4 ships refitting off the "mothership" sounds much more comfortable. This of course is entirely personal opinion, maybe it won't work, maybe PDs are just the future, but without a "Share with Fleet" option for PDs I'm not going to be entirely sold >.<

My two cents, I don't mind the price of the thing so far, it's going to be hella-steep, but I'll still buy it probably. I'm looking forward to our SoE exploration fleet my corporation is putting together.