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This post is my extremely scatterbrained thoughts on citadel DPS, ewar, and the lack of fitting variety. This post is focusing on mediums and larges.

Variety

Currently, there isnt much of this. Your options for highs are filling your hardpoints, then neuts and maybe point defense batteries (if you rig for it on your large).

Mids at the moment consist of webs scrams paints and nothing else, the other modules are way too weak.

Lows are limited to BCUs, and missile enhancers, fitting mods are never needed and never worth it.

Combat rigs are also super limited. For a medium, you fit one of each missile application rig and one locking rig. For a large, you fit missile, locking, and maybe point defense. The ewar and neut ones are either niche or under powered.

Ewar:
The good:
Paints are new and give a 72% sig modifier with stacking penalties, great for missile application.

Webs slow 70%, pretty happy with these.

Scram is a scram, 10 points isn't bad, but its not enough to hold a super unless you have 3.

The bad:
Damps for citadels do 31% unscripted (62 scripted), Pos Damps used to do 50% each, and could not be scripted (65% with faction). Jams were almost always a better choice for poses though.

Jams have a unscripted strength of 5, and a scripted strength of 10. For reference, old pos jams had a base of 15 and a racial of 45 (25/76 faction). They are exceptionally weak.

Tracking disrupts do 34.5% unscripted (appears to be just guns at the moment), and I see absolutely no reason to use them, your sig is near infinite and you can only damp one ship.

(Have not had the chance to try out an XL, frankly not interested in them)

Damage

A Astrahaus fit for maximum subcap DPS does:
Fighters: 2025 from 3 templar wings, + 2 heavy/support squads.
Missiles (2 BCUS, highest damage): 1177 DPS, 353 medium damage and 176 low.

Total of 3202 DPS

A Fortizar fit for maximum subcap DPS does:
Fighters (Amarr for best mix of application/dps): 2700 DPS from 4 templar squads (Rocket salvo included) + 1 support/heavy squad.
Missiles (3 BCUS, Highest damage missiles): 1889 DPS from high, Medium and low damage missiles are 556 dps and 283 dps.

So a total of 4596 DPS with some really questionable application (Even with dual web + paint). So you end up paying 10-15 times as much for a citadel that is twice as vulnerable with very little dps increase. You do however get better slot layout, a lot more ehp, and a market, but you don't gain much in defense. A single triage repair cycle is enough to tank a large indefinitely.


My suggestions:

Large DPS up across the board, they need to be able to defend themselves.
Ewar made useful
More low slot options then 2 missile mods
More module choices (see below)
Make your own bombs do less damage to your own fighters
Make it so that a defense fleet holding your citadel is benefited by your citadel in a meaningful way.


Modules I'd like to see added: Remote reps, remote cap, burst projectors to l/xl citadels, fighter enhancement mods, aoe support mods (remote sebo/remote tracking comp, ect) , mid range grappler (30km optimal?), more choice in combat related rigs, capacitor booster/rechargers/flux, A low slot or rig that trades tank for damage or damage for tank, remote resistance enhancer, Suppression module (Hic points + jams + webs to 0 + paints a target for a short time with a long cooldown. Requires a lot of cap and fitting.)

15k explosion radius for anti capital missiles, not too great even against web/painted targets. Ill test this out.

I meant titan ones, but I guess your right. Removed that bit.

The pos damps and jams were to strong imo the 10/20 they ate at now is much more balanced for ecm same with how damps work
There are also a lot of mods missing like the tractor repulser and fighter damage mods

As for fitting mods these will be needed if you want to max out and use all of your service slots it's just atm there are only 3 in the game. Once manufacturing reactions and research come out these things are going to be starved for fitting

Something that could be neat (but probably hard to implement) is giving citadels the ability to make bookmarks anywhere on-grid using the new tactical UI. It would give defenders the advantage of warpins and perches, and it kind of makes sense with the lore.

Actually, this would be interesting for any command ship.