Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So long as we don't return to the days of set-orbit and winmatar, then I couldn't give a damn about ACs.

Fixed that for you.

Why not put some imagination into missile's don't limit it to modern day missiles, why not attach the technology of the micro jump drive to the missile itself creating missiles that are "almost instant" - with a small spool up time

could only be for heavy missiles but that could be expanded

Soooo delete rapid launchers and fix heavies properly? Does anyone use rhml? I haven't seen it.

lol wat? first of all for small gangs and solo speed has always been and will always be dominant. simply put a fast ship can dictate range, escape predators and catch prey.

secondly this game currently favors weapons that apply damage regardless of target speed and range. IE drones and LML / RLML.

and by speed do you mean Drone boats? they're not that fast matter in fact they're some of the slowest cruisers in the game. the issue is they out run anything that can out gun them (which is not much) and, and anything that can catch them they can apply perfect damage to out tank out nuet and generally face **** anything on grid.

BSes don't suck, CBCs suck because most of them got nerfed in to the ground.

As always it was never the heavy missile that was the problem but still ships are being balanced around the modules they use instead of the other way around. In 2 more years we might finally see this addressed.

As for BC and BS they have internally metricated that these ships shall have glass ceilings of performance in various places and ways. Take a look at battleships themselves will get about 110k tank without dipping in to faction gear. For the raven hulls you get 90k. It's almost as if fitting the way they're meant to be done is actively penalised and we're all meant to fly around fruity non-conformist fits that focus on speed or impressive artistic displays or something.

Case in point: polarised weapons. These are ridiculous but if you watch some of Rise's old livestreams this guy really deeply believes in risk/reward it's just a shame he came up with this ******** idea instead of something more useful. Polarised weapons are an answer to a question noone was asking.

And this lateral solution generation is probably being applied to other areas of the game as well like instead of making concise and predictable changes that everyone wanted they're doing tangential modifications to things noone cared about. Perhaps to get people to use them more (but secretly noone ever will because putting a ribbon on a turd doesn't fix the problem of it being a turd).

#1: true there isn't any difference from last year, the year before that and so forth. That is the tactic of all good pilots fighting numbers since getting caught gets you killed

#2: May I add that light missiles do apply as close to 100% of their damage as we can get, hence my unpopular proposal of applying that to all of them.

Heavy missiles used to be a long range weapon system. Now the Ferox makes jokes about Drakes and the Drake looks very sad at the end of the docking ports pilots leave them in.

Suitiona is right out the Raven except for the pricetag which brings me to
#3: and ontop of that they made them twice as expensive as they for with no reason, hence James' threadnaught about battleships and battlecruisers.

Just to add my 2 isk here.