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The T2 module gives a nice bonus compared to the T1, but it doesn't affect duration. I think the max duration on the T2 module should be increased to 3 minutes.

I just read through this as I'm now interested in command ships and not sure if this was mentioned earlier: Shouldn't the dedicated command ships have the same role bonus as the force auxiliary, and carriers etc have the 100% bonus listed for Command ships? It would make more sense that the dedicated command vessels have a better bonus than combat vessels.

Gotta say, the change to the Evasive Maneuvers link seems very heavy-handed. All of the other boosts have remained close to their current strengths - for example, the current Shield Harmonizing/Passive Defence links increase resists by 25.9% if fielded on a max-skilled CS with the correct mindlink in, whereas the new Shield Harmonizing/Armor Energizing links increase resists by 21.6%. However, the Evasive Maneuvers link is going from -34.5% sig on a max-skilled CS (plus a 15% improvement to agility from the mindlink) to -16.7% (plus a 16.7% boost to agility). Sig reduction is certainly a powerful effect, but not necessarily more powerful than increasing resists or reducing rep cycle times, and certainly (IMO) not so much more powerful as to justify being whacked so much harder than the other tanking links.

Can you add to Evasive Maneuvers as a compensating factor an effect that increases a ships Warp Speed to 3 AU/s if it is normally less than that?

That's cool, I guess. My main problem with that whole setup, though, is just the sheer volume of range-increasing skills. First of all, it's just boring. 3 consecutive skills that do the same exact thing, in the same exact way, with the only difference being the magnitude. There aren't many places this exist in the game without at least some small qualitative differentiation between them. Gunnery/Rapid firing and MLO/Rapid launch are all that come to mind. Other skills tend to differentiate on the breadth of their application.

The damage skills, for instance:

Surgical strike - damage bonus to all turrets.
Medium Energy Turret - Applies only to medium sized lasers
Medium pulse spec - Applies only to T2, medium-sized pulse lasers.


There is also an inherent diminishing level of value on further range increases, as most fleets are just never going to be -that- spread out. Another 12.5% maximum range is not necessarily another 12.5% of range-related "value". Sure, the skill makes a number bigger, but since the realized effect of that number is boolean (Close enough to receive bonus? True/false), and the previous ceiling was already "big enough" that in most cases, it's hard to care overly much about the increase. Mining fleets seem like the largest beneficiary, here.

Is there not something more interesting you could do with at least one of those skills? Maybe consolidate the range bonus down to using just two of them and do something else - anything else - with the third?

Please, don't. It's not like DPS on practice. There is only tiny moment when you apply bonuses to teammates, and if one of your teammate (or even you) failed to be in needed range at this moment, he will fly without bonuses next cycle. In quick kitting fights it happens a lot.

From this point of view I'd like to have booster cycle small enough so I could reapply bonuses to teammates as quick as possible if he missed previous cycle, and the duration of booster effect to be long enough so teammate could miss one-two cycles and still fly with bonuses

On practice on sisi now it works like this:
- newbie command destroyer has cycle 1 minute and apply time 1 minute, so teammates have to catch every cycle to fly with boost.
- skilled command destroyer has cycle 1 min and apply time ~2 mins, so teammates could miss one cycle but still fly with boost all time.

It's balanced I think ...

Why are the tanking bonuses not being left as they are atm? Links are coming on grid and they are getting worse. At the very least, they should stay the same given all the totally unnecessary burst mechanics you've added.

The old warfare specialist skill that gave you a 50% bonus to the warfare link bonus has been removed with nothing to replace it. Hence, the net decrease in bonuses all across the board.

Englisch bleibt für mich eine Fremdsprache. :-) please be aware of that

a) Let us assume for a second - that I have all the skillz for the old system. // Pilots, there should be many, have invested heavily to reach the status. // You want to balance their whatsoever losses as well.

b) Your statement "Activating a Command Burst will generate a weapons timer and therefore prevent the boosting ship from jumping through gates or docking for one minute." Now - that's interesting. Maybe it's only me - but a minute - I mean an entire minute - really, that can be an ultra-long time in New Eden. Think about a moving fleet or an escort-job for something valuable. They do what in future ... they can't jump into the next system ... without leaving their booster behind. To me : a No No - a minute is way too long. My opinion : 30 secs .. will be already tricky ... but could work. Needs more discussion ... o7

The only reason to have a boosting ship in the fleet is for the boosting ability, you mean? ... well, yeah, but that was the same before this change, so...

We won't have to push the button every minute. It's a module that auto-cycles, same as the current ones, same as most high-slot modules. you don't have to micromanage it manually unless you want to (aka flipping off the auto-repeat switch).



Tell us Marauder pilots about it. ;)

Most fleets shouldn't be needing to boost while landing on a gate, so... the only tricky part is with super-fast fleets in systems with gates very close together. In a PVP fleet, though, FCs often call for fleets to hold together on a gate anyway, will just have to do that now and then for the booster's timer to elapse before gate is green and jump jump jump.