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Entitled much?

If you don't already have the prerequisites trained for most of these modules, you probably need to train some more skills anyway.

Thanks for answering some more questions. Hope you guys will keep up feeding us information.

Are there any plans to reduce the build cost on Titans/Supers as part of these changes?

Do you have a place for drone control units in the future?

Are the rumors of Drone navigation, durability etc not applying to fighters in the future true? (I have been told it was said at vegas)

Why is the EWAR immunity number only 50% in an environment where 250 man ewar fleets are the norm? Do you expect stacking penalties to keep the expensive huge ships (supers/fax/titans/dreads) from being bricked by 250 mil worth of maulus's or griffins? Where is the counterplay for the capital ship pilot against a fleet of ewar ships 100+ km away?

Are scan resolutions of supers going to be buffed to compensate for their new weakness or do we have to live with the 35 second lock time to get the griffin that just bricked our billions of isk ship? Are the ships going to retain their current high sensor strengths?

With how easy it will be to tackle a super, what kind of ability to fight back will we have against say 50 svipuls and T2 frigate logi?

Will our fighters be able to kill enemy ships before getting completely shredded (in above scenario) now that we cannot rep our own fighters in combat? What is the purpose of a 'long range DPS and EWAR' platform that can go 500m/s and be tackled by a handful of frigates? What kind of options will supers have in close range combat since *that will be primarily when they are under attack*

Are capital sized smartbombs still in the works to cover this gap?


Tl;DR now that small ships in small gangs are already dominant and new ships are being introduced every patch to make them *more* dominant, what is the cap or supercap pilots 'counterplay' to these small groups of T3D/frigates/inties/T2 dessies?

Edit: more I thought of

If capital neuts will be ineffective against smaller targets, why the buff to HIC range? Essentially it has been made so even 3 defensive officer neuts in the highs of a super won't be enough to neut out a hic at the end of its point range, they will be far less effective in falloff, still retain their slow cycle times and therefore be much easier to cap boost under. This is essentially nerfing one of the few counteplays supers had against HICs down to 1/2 strength. With the removal of point and scram immunity, why was this necessary?

Are there any plans at all to address the difficulty of moving/owning a supercapital outside of a blob of 100+ of them? With phoebe and watchlists and "50 rifters" being the plan, why has the *main* defensive neuts of these ships also been cut to 1/2 effectiveness? Will capital neuts be what covers the gap with sufficient target painting?

Bro. Why would I train Armor Layering V on a capital pilot? What about Shield Upgrades V? Neither of those are currently worthwhile to train for any cap pilot who's flying caps. What about sensor comps? What if they introduce more skills that are prereqs for whatever new skills they're going to be introducing? I'm not entitled because I want information as soon as possible, I'm being proactive. Not all of us are in **** tier alliances that can run crying to daddy mittens when someone gives us a booboo, we actually have to defend our stuff by ourselves, and being able to do so rests upon us being as prepared as possible.

Unless you change the binary and chance-based nature of ECM, ewar resistance won't mean a thing, as a single griffin can jam a super even if its not consistent.

I sincerely hope you're planning to give ECM a pass and simply change it to reducing number of lockable targets based on a formula instead. (and while you're at it make those particular recons far less fragile)

On the roundtable Larrakin said that the locking penalty for the siege module will likely removed since the high angle guns can be balanced apart from capital guns which doesn't need long locktimes as balance pass.

Addressing the most important part: DEFINITELY 'Hand of Bob'. It would be such a good talking point and example of how players can affect the universe.

Some of my questions:

With the new modules, how much thought has been put into utility high slots? Dreads and regular triage carriers don't really have much variation in their fitting. Depending on the plan for the new fighter system (high slots instead of a drone bay?) there might not be much room there either. Supers seam to be the only ship class with a decent amount of variation.

How much of a de-buff on current capital guns are we looking at? As it stands, a couple dreads with proper support can apply to sub caps (mainly BS and cruisers). Will the new balance pass render XL weapon systems 100% incapable of applying to BS and below? That's going to drastically change WH cap escalations and how they're implemented. I'm expecting a DPS nerf to match the new structure mechanics. Not sure if a projection nerf is entirely necessary (short of placing lasers or the revelation in line with all other dreads).

Is there a cost target on T2 XL modules? Meta modules are incredibly expensive now. Add in new skill books for T2 weapon systems and the cost of a full T2 fit dread will be through the roof. Match that with the EHP nerf and they could be rendered useless if the "juice isn't worth the squeeze."

Is there any plan to modify the base cost of current capitals and their corresponding modules? Based on the current market conditions and the plan additions of more expensive modules a 30-40% decrease in production materials wouldn't hurt and would "take the class off the pedestal" so to speak. As it seems they're going to be placed more in line with the frigate-cruiser-BS progression the cost reduction would match the cost to the performance.

The funny part is where we heard the rumor from in the first place.