only glanced over it, but why do you want to make the sacrilege another laser boat instead of a missile boat?

3. Defensive ships are a very tricky thing to do. A large tank is all dandy but an enemy is always going to attack the low hp/high dps ships first. A defense ship should have a reason why the enemy would want to face the bigger tank but the reason shouldn't be more dps (the attach ships role) This is almost a paradox.

5. The destroyer defensive ability is a bad idea: it is abusable and it removes player freedom and skill(i.e. the other fc has no choices with regard to calling primaries). A pure 'tank' class isn't good game design, other games have shown this before and other games will show this again.

1. holy dps/ehp/slot/bonus/speed inflation! Surely goals can be met without the increased stats?

2. T1 ships should not have role boni, neither should they be assumed to fly with perfect skills. T1 ships are generalist and/or educational and/or isk efficient ships. Role boni and high sp assumptions shouldn't be necessary and certainly not both. (I'm looking at your bc's)

That my friend, is a lot of change. I'm practically drowning in it.
Perhaps I'll update this post further when my thoughts gather.

A fun read.

I bet the OP is Yotuo from the blue republic.

Can you make more variance between the tier 2 combat frigates?

Also, the idea of attacking cloaked in Stealth Bombers is a little extreme no? Would you still be concorked in high sec? At least they can't point targets while cloaked (I'm sure that's how you intended it since you said High Slot modules only can be activated while cloaked?).

EDIT:
I also recently joined RvB (less than a week ago) and I know what you mean by playing EvE "the way is was meant to be." Although I miss the null sec paranoia

Soooo a cheapy T1 frigate should have more EHP than a Hulk?

That would go over so well...

There is so much win here I am not sure where to start.

I guess I will start where I am comfortable, bombers.

Being a bomber pilot I have often fantasized about a "heavy bomber" but had never been able to think of something that wasn't OP. I am pretty excited about your cruiser sized bombers. But, I guess there are other things about this that I don't get.

Are bombers visible if viewed from the correct 3D direction, being 2D they are flat...so that would mean they should be seen from one orthogonal angle but not the other two....

Being able to attack while "cloaked", sounds like a great idea, but what happens when you have like 50 bombers pouring in torps from invisible positions? If the other guy doesn't have the right number of these new destroyers, then they are up the creek so to speak.

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I guess I like so much of this, but I wish we could discuss different parts in different places.

There are a lot of changes and I like that. I too have been in and out of eve over the years and I have done everything from cap blobs to 1v1 and I have often felt that there were roles missing from the game that should be addressed. One that you added that I like a TON is the defensive ship.

The ability of one ship to provide a defensive shield for ships behind it is awesome, combined with the new bombardment ships is amazing.

This kind of thing provides the complexity needed to end the FOTM Blobs that have plagued eve for way too long. IN my own time it has gone through spider tank BS's, armor hacs, drakes, etc. It is not fun to fit 300 of the same thing and role around.

I think this happens because there is just not enough conditional complexity in combat (like your defensive destroyers coupled with bombardment ships).

In summary, +1

Why hasn't CCP hired you yet?

I like the idea of bombardment battleships (assuming they only cost as much as a regular battleship now) being able to put out the hurt of current dreadnoughts onto capitals and as well as bombardment frigates and cruisers being able to contribute in the same manner (but far less dps). This is much needed option as these ships would be available to most of the EvE population and would bring an end to the reign of supercaps.

Question... what happens to dreadnoughts themselves after these changes?

Also to that guy above me, this game needs more diversity on the battlefield itself. They may as well call this game "Battlecruisers Online - The Drakes Flight through the Hurricane"

In EvE there is a concept of Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Nope?

If eve were to become a rock paper scissors game then it would break. You'd turn combat into countering the hard counter for the hard counter for the hard counter of a hard counter, and there would be no room for the players finding out what they want to fly, and having other alliances have to figure out how to counter that setup in a way that works for them. If you put a X > Y > Z > X
Pattern on the entire ship design line of thought, then you might as well make eve a game of chess, only a lot less fun.

a lot of reading in this and I read the majority of it before I came to my conclusion that its all good IF you were recreating eve all over again and calling it something else.

Currently as it is, you implement this and the entire game changes and will most likely break.