Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center

Hi Space Friends,

Coming with the December release, we're going to be releasing a feature we talked about at EVE Vegas 2016.


Defender Missile Skill
The skill, Defender Missiles, will no longer require Missile Launcher Operation. All alpha characters will be able to train this to Level 1. The skill will provide a 10% per level bonus to Defender Missile velocity. No other skills will effect Defender Missiles.


Defender Missiles
Defender Missiles will no longer shoot down missiles aimed at you. Instead they will launch at a random bomb (non-structure) within its flight range. A single defender missile will kill any bomb. These defender missiles can only be loaded into a new defender launcher (described below)
The Defender Missile I has a base range of 30km (45km at max skills), and a flight time of 3 seconds.
During the December patch downtime, all existing defender missiles (and their blueprints) will become the new Defender Missile I


Defender Launchers
The Defender Launcher I can only load Defender Missiles. It may only be fit to Destroyer class vessels (Destroyers, Interdictors, Command Destroyers and Tactical Destroyers). Once activated, it will scan local space for any bombs,and if it finds one within range, launch a defender missile to intercept it. If it doesn't find any bombs within range, it will still cycle.
The Defender Launcher I has a 120 second reactivation timer. It doesn't require a launcher hardpoint, and has low fitting requirements (10 cpu, 2 powergrid), but uses some capacitor (50gj) to activate. You can only fit one defender launcher.


Command Destroyers
Command Destroyers receive at 50% role bonus to decreasing the reactivation timer on Defender Launchers.


Bomb Changes
Bombs now have a Minimum Velocity of 1m/s that you must be traveling at before you can launch. This is to fix some issues that can happen when your velocity is 0, causing the bomb not to move and just explode on you.


You can checkout these changes (and more) on Sisi soon. We appreciate any feedback you have!

Cheers,
CCP Larrikin and Team Phenomenon

waste of goddamn time

fozzie sov was enough of a nerf to bombing already, this is totally unnecessary

noone is bombing currently in eve because you reliably cannot predict where the fight will be and bombing requires some setup time

these changes would have been good 2 years ago

now adays test and friends are literally flying around in the most bombable doctrines in history but noone can be bothered bombing them because its impossible to predict where engagements will happen and super dds are just better bombs anyway, not to mention the general power creep of ehp/speed making bombs harder than ever to land

in adition 0 velocity bombs was some of the hardest **** to pull off and almost never saw any use so removing it for no reason i dont even understand, you just dont want people to be able to innovate?

thanks for the final nail o7 bongers

here is a suggestion because i guess i should be constructive

make them target drones or anyone using ecm on you instead

My god you guys seem to have some serious love for destroyers lately.

So in order to guard your fleet effectively, you really need to put these almost directly on top of your existing fleet (which to need them would be something slow and heavy, say battlecruisers or battleships)... But they're destroyers... so realistically one or two bombs gets through and they're going to explode due to the low EHP of destroyers, especially when sig-bloomed by MWD.

They'll probably get annihilated by a small wing of RLML caracals anyway prior to bombs launching, but I'd say a passive bonus resistance to bomb damage wouldn't go amiss when fitting to destroyers.

We don't need more Destroyers, or in fact small ships love, we need CCP to fix T3c, BLOPS and Battleships.

I think CCP is trying to get Alpha clones involved in fleet as Dessie's pilot with a use, thus the Defender Missiles change (fine enough) and the use of combined fleets (ok).

However, as already stated, Dessies will just be alphaed off the field before Bombers commit. Looks to me like another indirect atempt to fix Battleship's vulnerabilities while trying to not actually touch Battleships.

IMHO, Defenders would have seen such a better use as a battleship module.

lol

It's not like we have some kind of a ship class that serves no purpose right now other than doing anomic agent and team missions.

This is by design. We want to ensure there is plenty of counter-gameplay to destroyers screening a fleet from bombs with defenders.



Given the random nature of the defender-to-bomb targeting, this would make defender missiles mostly useless, unless used en-mass.


Thats a cool idea. Part of the effect of this change is that we have additional design room with bombs, such as hardier bombs, or new types of Ewar bombs. To clarify, we're not promising these things, just suggesting at some of the design space this change enables.

So, in regards to how it selects a bomb, is it truly random or does it pick the closest one?

There is a difference? A bomb will do damage to whatever is in range when it explodes no matter who launched it.
Just don't activate the module if friendlies are bombing close by.