Those are going to be a different dev blog

I can't read through 32 pages of posts, but after reading through the first 5. I realized how stupid or perhaps simply obtuse CCP devs are. You seem to believe that the cruiser hull re-balance is complete. News flash for you: now that you have altered T1 generic T1 cruiser hulls, you have impacted the relative performance of umpteen T2 and faction cruiser hulls.

The fact that you are now moving on to BC's and BS's whole ignoring the balance of cruiser hulls does not surprise me, since I lost all faith in the CCP dev's common sense long ago.

No, it's the fubar mechanics.

The effect should proportionally decrease if the numbers go up, so that a full squad gets only 1/10 of what a minimal one receives. A full fleet of 256 results in privates getting just 1/250 of the nominal link strength from their fleet booster, 1/50 from the wing booster and so on.

This also means a blob will have to make trade-offs in their fleet composition, because it will no longer be possible to have all the links for the full effect. Isn't that great?

Then, upon adopting this fundamental principle CCP may have their hands finally untied to toss around any ideas, make links buble-like, grid-wide, make them rely on capacitor heavily and so on and so forth.

Brutix: this ship role conflicts a bit with the Talos, mainly because the latter is more mobile and packs more punch. We want to explore options on how to turn the Brutix into a more reliable close-range brawler, while the Talos keeps a kiting advantage.

Myrmidon: this vessel is mainly fine, but it couldnGÇÖt hurt giving it a bit more drone bandwidth and bay to make it more of an improvement when compared to the Vexor.

Megathron: just like the Thorax on the cruiser level, the Megathron role will be changed slightly to make it less resilient, but more mobile so to make proper use of blasters. Think of it as a ship closer to the Typhoon in terms of speed and agility. Next to a Talos, it will be more durable, more flexible, but still cumbersome to have in small gangs.

Dominix: still remains a popular ship. It is fairly good, except for the drone mechanics themselves, which are terribly outdated. While we are not certain when this can be tackled, it definitely has high priority on our to-do list.

Hyperion: the hull could be improved, but again most of the issues come from passive versus active tanking problems

Only rational integers need apply

4.5 is a rational integer. So what happens in that case?

And what about skills?
I have bc lvl 5 and destroyers lvl 5. Does it mean that you will give me all racial destroyer and battlecruisers skills lvl5?

Want to make this clear to everyone, the stuff in this blog is not coming on the 4th with Retribution. This blog covers some of what we are going to be working on in the beginning of next year.

Give the Maelstrom comparable locking range to the Rokh.

Also strip shield booster bonus from battleships. Local reps are completely useless in blobs.

1. If you have the following skills:
Or will cruiser levels stay the same?

2.
Does these changes mean there's plans to shorten the racial training times? Aka make say Caldari Cruiser a 2x or 3x skill rather then a 5x like today?

3.
Are you making EWAR Battleships for all races?

4.
Is Gallente really that bad? I'm having tons of fun with my gallente pilot O.o And I've got near maxed pilots of all races

4.5 is a rational integer. So what happens in that case?

I think they could do the best of both worlds make one the Shield Boost and the other the Artillery Ship.

Maybe tracking, or Falloff on the Tempest, Dmg Bonus and 7 Turrets / 6 Mids 5 Lows. Or give the Shield Boost to the Tempest and make the Mael all Fleet.

No dont touch the tempest we dont want repping bonus for buffer tanked armor plated neut ship. We dont want repping bonus for shield buffer nano arty pest either. Its good as it is with either autocannons or artys. Also mael is good as it is. Mael should keep its repping bonus and autocannon option. Besides numerous mael alpha blobs in null says that mael is ok in blob warfare even with its repping bonus..

FYI, HBC does not have a doctrine using minmatar battleships at this time. It is either Rokhs with rails or Navy Apocs with pulse lasers (plus the rarely called for, oddball Dreamcats - Nightmares, so again lasers). So how exactly are arties dominating again? The largest nullsec coalition in the game does not use them anymore. If something is wrong, I could argue it is with projectiles, not the other way around.

In an ideal world warfare links wouldn't exist at all, I don't see how it improves gameplay to have a single ship in a large fleet be significantly more powerful than a single ship on its own by virtue of the fleet having some dude's alt in an unkillable damnation or vulture. Are numbers not enough of an advantage or something? idgi. Maybe CCP just wants command ships to kill off small gang and solo for good

But of course CCP is stuck with their awful policy of not removing mechanics once implemented, no matter how bad they are for the game.

EDIT: But I like your idea if we're gonna be stuck with gang links, which evidently we are

I don't like the new 2 vs 3% choice, I believe it should be kept 3 vs 5%, but only give the 5% to the one racial boost.