This to me just shows your disconnect with the game. Have you ever flown a minmatar ship where half of your hardpoints are dedicated to one ammo type (missiles) and the other to another type (projectile) . Yes I understand what you saying "BUT IT'S NOT A COMPLETE 50/50 SPLIT...) this is true, but when you have to choose fitting 5 of one type and 3 of another, then it is pretty dang close to a 50/50 split. Just because it is a 70/30 or 60/40 split doesn't mean that it still isn't a split platform. Seriously? And you are a DEV? No wonder your suggested remedies look like crap to most of the player base.

Rather than try to make the BC a less desireable class of ship, why not give this class a buff, similar to what you did with the Frigs/ cruisers? You are ruining the area of the game where the majority of your players play. BC class ships are the backbone of EVE. If you screw up these ships people will leave in droves, because they grow out of the frigs, there is nothing in between until they get to larger class ships.

Seriously and stop screwing up the cane!

Well I guess that is it. Come on Harbinger. Come out back . Time to put you out of your misery.

Oh come on!
It cant fit beams... because of a power grid! Since when did amarrians have problems with PG? And if I cant put beams on Harb, then why are there beams at all?

Since when did amarrians have problems with PG?

Oh come on!
It cant fit beams... because of a power grid! Since when did amarrians have problems with PG? And if I cant put beams on Harb, then why are there beams at all?

I'll comment directly on the Prophecy.

Prophecy.
WiIl it now perform better than the Myrmidon.. probably with exceptions. The prophecy has now turned into the wildcard ship. It will be an armor tank, but now it has complete access to every weapon system and every damage type. Yes it is unbonused on the hull, but you can fit any type of turret AND any type of missile. Hell you can set the ship to be a blaster boat, an Artillery ship, a Missile boat... and it now has drone access and the option for another Mid slot (which it desperately needed). If you think of your fleet being all shields.. yes the prophecy sucks.. you run an armor fleet though and the thing is now one of the best boats out there. You gain no damage bonus to turrets, but now you can shoot every ammo type, at multiple ranges, and field any type of drone you like. Prophecy, great versatile ship for armor fleets.

Caldari:
Drake is fine, no one cares for that stupid high slot.
Ferox looks good now, I like it.

So minmatar pilot here, but doesn't a capacitor bonus mean you can use more cap demanding crystals that do more damage? -1 turret too with just a tiny DPS increase means that the Harby will be competing for versitility with the hurricane.

Dude. Keep calm, everything is going to be fine.

The Cyclone was a split-weapon platform. It is not anymore with that change. 5 launchers and 2 turrets aren't what I call "Split weapons". Just look at the Raven. It has 8 slots, 6 launcher hardpoints and a couple turret hardpoints. If I use your logic, the Raven is a split-weapon platform.

Same goes for the Tempest actually. 6 Guns, 2 launchers. Is that "split weapons" ? No.

And except for the removal of a single medium neut, the Hurricane is still fine. Just need to add like 60 or 80 PWG so it can armor tank efficiently too and it will be fine.

But it gets an additional low slot, so you could just fit one more damage mod. It's effectively a 4%/Level bonus (if you have BC V) for the weapon of your choice.

Will there be a graphic update of the prophecy to give it -as a droneboat now- more visible dronebays?

We'll be following the same general idea as previous tiericide classes, except that the former Tier 3 BCs will continue to require more minerals than the Combat BCs due to their role and use of large turrets.


I'm not going to make promises until we have the planning for Summer further along, but we'll be getting as much done as quickly as we can time and resources permitting.

Just curious but since the Minmatar Command ships also use the Cyclone hull, should we expect to see the Minmatar Command ships forced into being missile boats too?

Taking a Wild Guess (mhm, totally wild), I'd say one turret and one missile-based.

This doesn't really seem to fit with how the smaller ship tiericide went. If each race had 3 battlecruisers, why not give them 3 different roles?
With these changes we'll have 2 combat BCs and a big gun attack BC.
Seeing as BCs are intended to use gang links and form the platform for dedicated command ships, why not treat one of these like you did with logistic frigs & cruisers?
Make the "Tier 1" BCs combat ships as you've outlined (though drop the active tank bonus for Gallente) and make the "Tier 2" BCs "Command Ships Lite"
I'd assume the lite/entry command ships would get a good buffer bonus (7.5% bonus to resists vs 5%), no damage bonus, and either a bonus to a gang link or the ability to run 3 without a bonus. (or something else, you're the designers, not me)
TL;DR: It seems non-tiericidish to make all BCs direct combat focused when they have a history with Gang Links.

Can we quickly talk about active armor tank and drones?
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Any thoughts? Besides "we'll look into it between now and the heat death of the universe", I mean.