Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center

Hello everyone!
We're planning a huge set of module tiericide in our March release and this thread will serve as the feedback location for changes to Gyrostabilizers, Heat Sinks, Magnetic Field Stabilizers, Ballistic Control Systems and Drone Damage Amplifiers.

The biggest impact of these changes will be the addition of lower-CPU damage modules. Under the old stats, there is very little reason to use anything below T2, which is better in every way. Compact Gyrostabs, Heat Sinks. Magstabs and DDAs will now be available with just 25 CPU required. T1 damage modules are also being given a significant buff to reduce the gap between them and higher-tier modules.

We are also bringing Minmatar/Angel BCS out of the wilderness and buffing them up the same level as the Caldari/Guristas equivalents.

Here's the most recent iteration of the numbers:
[img]http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67557/1/DamageMods.jpg[/img]

We're very interested in your feedback on all these changes. We'll be releasing them to Singularity next week if all goes well, so that you can try these and all the other module changes planned for the March release. Please use this thread for passing along your feedback, and we'll be reading.

Thanks!

First

The biggest reason nobody fits meta damage modules to save CPU right now is that meta Gyros/Heat Sinks/Magstabs actually use MORE CPU than T2 at the moment.

These compact versions are a pretty huge upgrade for combined performance and CPU savings compared to the non-faction offerings available before. We might consider dropping them further but probably not until we see how these first changes shake out on TQ as this will open up a lot of new fits.

Fair enough. I'll play around with some fits, see if I can find some where fitting these makes sense.

would it be possible to make the pirate damage mods shoot faster (therefore doing more dps), running out of ammo and/or cap faster while empire ones have larger damage bonus, but not as much rof?

Consider 1.08 and 1.09 for T1 and compact damage modifiers, rather than the current 1.07 and 1.08? Maybe even 1.07 and 1.09?

Even 1.09 to 1.1 between compact and T2 is huge. I don't think if you bring them up another full percent you'll have people lining up to use t1/meta4 mods, but it might happen occasionally.

Chiming in for a fourth time to say that I definitely use M4 damage mods because of the price difference compared to T2. I go out of my way to get more CPU into my lowslots so that I can pay less for T2 mods. Make an additional version that is as good as T2 with +4 (like it is now) or +5 (because for some reason every tiericide released today has to be a nice round number of fitting).

While we're looking at damage mods, I have never understood why Ballistic Control Systems use so much more CPU than turret damage mods for the exact same benefit. What is the rationale for this? Missiles not named 'rapid light' are in a pretty poor place already IMO, so it's always seemed strange to me that they get shafted on their damage mod fitting too. Is this something that could be corrected while we're busy changing damage mods anyway?

It's still a nerf - particularly where rapid launchers are concerned.
And I still want the old BCS icons back.

Finally the damage mod tiericide and the ONE thing you needed to do was give a low CPU alternative to the T2 module that didn't totally suck. And you failed.

Before tiericide: T2 if you have fitting, Faction if you don't have fitting, but have ISK.
After tiericide: T2 if you have fitting, Faction if you don't have fitting, but have ISK.

You present zero new options. Go back and try it again.