The Navitas also looks a lot like the Exequror.......

Gonna get replies posted to a bunch more of your questions and comments here soon, but have a meeting to run to. Expect walls of text in this thread later tonight.

First off IM glad the Tristan became the new drone boat that fits it much better.
On the other hand the navitas, will it become a middle frig? And if so will it be rehauled cause it personally doesn't look like one. And if there is not going to be a gallante middle frig ima.be disappointed.

Any way we can get that drone HP changed to Drone Speed, and like... really fast speed. That way the Tristan could become a pretty gnarly anti-frig, especially anti-ceptor (t1, atron, and t2, Ares, versions)

BTW, is the navi going to be a kiter/sniper now?

They tried a speed bonus on the Maulus, it didnt end well.
i like the drone buff, but i would still like to see it lass as a drone hybrid ship and more of a drone ship.

Repair paste on drones:
I like that idea, maybe someday (no promises).

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So from the changes in the frigs its logical to presume that we are going to see 10% bonus to internal amour repair amount per lev applied to ships like the brutix and hyperion...

This is really awesome for small to medium sized gangs as it will give said ships a strategic advantage... but for fleet fights alas this bonus becomes moot.


As far as i understand the effectiveness comes from how the Armour is made (dense crystals)... now presumably this special amour achieves a higher re cohesion when induced with nano repair bots that are emitted by the Armour repair systems...

Now what does this have to do with a large fleet you ask?



Well a huge component of fleet warfare is Remote Repair logi ships...

The basic mechanism (nano repair bots) are emited by both internal amour repair mods and remote armour repair mods...

Logically it would make sence that the bonus that allows internal amour repair mods to be more effective per level would also work external INCOMING remote repair. (i.e. the beam from the logi ship)

what this would do is scale the bonus and make gal ships with that bonus the "go-to" fleet ships...

While there is absolutely no basis behind this thought at all, they might give it 5 medium drones, the Ishtar can field 5 large as a crusier, so why not 5 medium for the Ishkur

Hello, as theres been discussion on drones themselves and having a dev reading this thread i'll slap abit of my point of view onto this.

One of the main problems for drone usage especially for drone boats is losing your drones. Losing drones can happen rather easily and show a main drawback for drones. They can be shot down which ofcourse is understandable but on top of it, it's way too easy to lose them when disengaging.

Now fozzie also spoke of sentrys regarding tristans tracking bonus and this is the drone type that faces the "loss during disengaging" the most.

So i'll suggest that all drones be fitted with a warp drive which they can use when returning to the drone bay. Basicly working in the same way as probes at the moment, you recall drones and they warp back to your drone bay. Ofcourse those drones can be recalled to warp back in only if you're within drone control range.

This kind of change would go along way to making sentry drones from awfully awkward in pve to can use in pvp.
On top of this, you'd actually be able to get your normal drones back home without them dieing during that 30 minute flight back from chasing something.

Another change i'll advocate here is a change to current normal drones, give amarr drones the same stats as minmatar ones, ofcourse with their respective damage type, and then give caldari drones the same stats as gallente ones with their own respective damage types. Why? I have gallente and minmatar drone specs at lvl 4, caldari at lvl 1 and amarr lvl 0. This pretty much sums it up.

Now on tristan itself, looks nice, but howbout adding a speed bonus to drones also? Distinguishing it as a drone boat slightly more and giving teeth against very fast ships (this is actually something i'd like to see following onto all drone boats iin the game).

How come the breacher doesn't get a 10% shield boost bonus per level?

The incursus get 10% armor repairer effectiveness per level.

I think the Incurses is a fair match for the Merlin but I have to agree on the condor.

I have started seeing number of condors lately, even lost my rail cat to one, tracking disrupters seem very common and almost all Hookbills have one if not two. Proposed kestrel could also end up being very dangerous.

Is it a problem with caldari ships or tracking disrupters, the difference between them and other e-war even the dreaded ECM is that they are useful/crippling even on non e-war bonused ships.

As it is right now, what gallente ship will EVER use lights or rockets??

The Worm!!!!
Caldari drone ship + Gallente rocket ship