Have you ever flown in a recon or EAF gang with Eos/Proteus support?

-Liang

That's what the Proteus is for... derp.

-Liang

But we're not talking about the Proteus here my friend, we're talking about the EOS.

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Have you tried flying the Eos with a recon gang while traveling through hostile space?

I think itGÇÖs a better combat ship than people give it credit for. ItGÇÖs a T2 brutix not a T2 Myrm. Think of it as losing a few turrets and gaining a few drones to create spare highs for warfare links.

I would like the rep bonus to be 10% like the Incurses and Proteus.

Info war could use a bit more flexibility; it feels very useful in specific situations and not much else.

I would perhaps like the links to boost positive modules, at the moment it affects tracking disrupters, ECM, Sensor Damps etc. It could be changed to boost tracking comps/links, ECCM, sensor boosters etc. I think this would boost its versatility.

I do hate the drone bay bonus just give it the drone bay and give it something useful.

Sir, that would be the Astarte, the Eos is a fleet command ship, it has 2 purposes in life, giving bonuses and tanking.

As such its Rep bonus is terrible for its role.

I really like rep bonuses on blaster ships, because rep bonuses actually work in the same engagement types that blasters do - small gangs.

-Liang

Would you say this kind of active tank is usable if armor rep rigs would be replaced by damage rigs? To avoid speed loss. In exchange more armor resist mods in the low slots...and maybe a 800mm plate to get some buffer. Tho I think pure resist and even better rep could be nice in small scale PvP.

Umm.. I'm sure you mean they'd get a 10% higher scan res? 10% reduction to signature is evasive maneuvers.

-Liang

Everyone knows the EOS is ****, this isnt news, move on.

Would you use proteus booster or loki booster for small gang?

If you're so afraid of ecm put a remote eccm - 120% bonus to sensor strength if I'm not mistaken - I think PL vs Hun reloaded match showed how effective that is.

If you want me to use gallente booster maybe I should have bonus to optimal and falloff and tracking. Gallentians can use some extra range.

Edit: The sensor strength link is good in theory, why is not used? Does this need a buff?

I do think that the e-war range link and sensor strength links suck though

(mining is not combat related, does not count)

This list makes sense, but there's a problem with racial distribution of those links.
In this one Gallente don't have unique links (thus there's a chance that we won't see this approach fixing Eos problems) and there's too much gunnery. Maybe you'll want to replace it with something for drones ("unmanned warfare"? lol). Also I'd give a cap warfare group more fluff-based name ("attrition warfare"? I'm bad with making up names).

Although you'd note that those are huge changes in the leadership department (especially weapon links) with all the consequences it'll be associated with.

On a side note, IIRC CCP wanted to change boosting mech a bit (no OGB), so maybe we'll see some changes to fleet command ships in the future (like, making them better at doing something on the field).

Consider this to be just a personal remark as I'm not in a position to judge about real problems with Eos or IW links.