Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I can agree with some that perhaps reworking carriers for high sec will be too great of an accommodation, but perhaps a t3 battleship could be designed as a flagship. It has half the high slots so only half the firepower, but has better defenses and improved resistances. Also, the ship can accommodate corp hangers and other facilities that other capitals have, nut scaled down. As a result of being a small mobile base, it loses significant cargo capacity. The ships may or may not be able to control 5+ drones at a time. They would give FLEETS only 50% bonus to targeting, 50% bonus to tracking, and then 10% to damage (gallante ), 10% to missiles (caladri), 10% to shields (minmatar), or 10% to armor (amarr). Maybe or maybe not a 7.5% bonus to gang modules. Finally, these ships can only be bought by a corp leader with only one per corp. These corps have to have a reasonable but significant member count and be at least three months old. If that doesn't keep them placed more as command ships, a policy could be implemented that if your corp losses more than three in it's lifetime, it may have no more.

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so this ship is one per corp and leadership only. What happens when you new guy is a former leader of another corp and has it. he has to sell it when starting out a foot soldier?


and you have more restrictions than titans. What did Molle do to you that he only gets 3 of these? Dude rides his ships hard....blew up like 4 titans iirc lol. Also corp hop to buy new ones. Or even better, what happens years later when the corp has no original leadership. New guys going wtf....I can't buy because copr lost 3 4years ago?


That targetting bonus.....dude....spider remote sebo, be much cheaper for the gate camping you got planned for this. this ship gonna be like 900 mil easy......bit of overkill to kill a friggin transport on a gate. Seriously. This not even a bonus useful for real pvp in 0.0.....you got 100+ bs to target, don't worry more than enough to go around bro. Protip: max out skills to target. Line up 6+ targets.....that 6th one be all targettted by the time first or second one primaried to death.

Or how about we just be able to sell all them. I hate being forced to keep even just one.

I made the suggestion on the old forums a while back that instead of nerfing super carriers and titans,

They could actually create a new t2 bs based off the teir 3 models.

These t2 ships would have tremendous boosts to damage output with the loss of quite a bit of tracking/increased explosion radius for missiles.

The heavy damage output with low tracking and increased explosion radius would keep these ships from being OP because they wouldn't be able to do much against anything smaller than a sub capital ship.

They would also get bonuses towards smart bombs, however, there would need to be some sort of balancing act to keep these ships from being disco balls loaded with smart bombs.

Perhaps they get a buff to range and damage of their smart bombs, but are only able to fit 1 per ship. That might help.

These ships would not be designed to go out solo hunting, but a suicide fleet set simply to burst capitals and flee if possible would work.

The base point of these ships would be to fit into mixed fleets.

If you mix them in with fleets, then you warp in on an enemy fleet and start raping, they warp in a cap fleet, you warp in a cap buster fleet, they warp in another mixed fleet to pop the cap busters, you warp in a cap fleet to pop those ships, they warp in a cap bust fleet..... It's a chain reaction..... These ships would actually help to balance the fleet.

Now, to keep these ships from being too expensive, perhaps the game can basically just state that they only require a few minor added parts over the normal t1 version. Enough to increase the cost of these ships by 50-100%...
This way the ships are cheap enough to risk them in pvp but not so cheap that you can just buy and buy and buy at little loss due to insurance.

There would still need to be some isk loss factor in there, but not as much as per say, the loss of a raven vs. a golem.

I think it would work, and it would require much less effort for CCP to implement than trying to balance supers and titans...

Simply balance them by adding another ships that has little change to the t1 version.


Perhaps these ships can even fall under the marauder catagory, basically creating a pve marauder, and a pvp marauder.

Eon Magazine had a small piece about this, they are working on it but with everything, there is no date to when it's done.