Is there any plan to give black-ops the covert-ops cloak?

Though is was not mentioned in the minutes, do you have a plan for the Orca in the command ship rebalancing?

Not in the stopgap change. I won't rule it out as an option for the future however.

Ytterbium and Fozzie stated that their vision for a future BO revamp (after the initial jump range/fuel
change) was that it would include two lines GÇô a combat-oriented BO and a bridging/covert oriented one.
Alek stated some reservations about having bridging-only Black Ops, arguing that simply bridging and
flying around cloaked was a bit boring -- they should want and be able to fight. Two step suggested that
maybe a price reduction would be a big help alongside making them more useful.

Please rebalance the Pirate frigates, especially the Worm, it needs some serious work.

I love the BO stopgap changes!!! You are my hero! I didn't actually see when they were going to hit tranquility in the notes. Can you please release this in the retribution point release?

The black ops skill on most of the ships is kind of wasted

I don't think you understand the extreme usefulness of the black ops skill.

At level 4, the Black Ops skill allows your Black Ops ship to travel faster cloaked than uncloaked.

Why is this important? Because it allows for "instawarp" out of cloak.

All ships when they uncloak have to get up to speed (3/4ths of their total speed) in order to go into warp.

In a Black Ops ship, with the skill at level 4 for example, your cloaked speed is faster than your uncloaked speed, so much so, that once you hit 1/2 of your total speed while cloaked, you can uncloak and instawarp (because you'll already be at 3/4ths total uncloaked speed).

With level 5 skills, a Redeemer needs to reach only (roughly) 48% of it cloaked total speed to be able to uncloak and instawarp, cutting out a lot of align time.

Why aren't T2 Covert Ops frigates a re-balancing priority?

T1 Exploration frigates got a boost last year, when they were given huge drones bays. It ought to be a priority to give a similar boost to Covert Ops frigates, so that it makes sense to use a T2 for exploration and the subsequent site exploitation.

Not in the stopgap change. I won't rule it out as an option for the future however.

Because T2 != better T1, it means specialization in a certain task. Covert Ops frigates specialize in covert ops duties on battlefield.

Something I'd really like to see: points removed from cap ship e-war immunity while in siege / triage. One really annoying game mechanic at present is fighting a dread or carrier in siege / triage. When it drops out of siege / triage, attackers have only a moment to re-apply points before it can jump away. Allowing a triaged cap ship to be pointed will have no effect while it's immune, but will mean that it can't simply jump away when the cycle ends. If you want to rescue it, you need to wait for the cycle to end and destroy the tacklers, just the same as if it were a tackled BS or BC.

Perma-immunity of super-caps is obviously a different story.

But I'll look silly taking a T1 frigate into exploration sites. I want a T2 frigate for exploration.

I think you should nuke the cap on tier 3 bc's as well as mobility..

And maybe make them a bit tighter on fittings.

Greyscale asked the balance team if they were happy with any T2 ship now, compared to T1, and Fozzie responded that they were only happy with Assault Frigs. Greyscale then summed up the comparison between T1 and T2 by using the relationship between AFs and T1 frigs as the model.

Please tell me carriers and dreads are getting some love this summer?

In regards to the lack of use of the Eos, widening the types of links that it gets bonuses for is a band-aid at best. The real solution is to make Information links desirable, which they presently are not.

A big part of the problem with the Eos has been that for years and years, the only EW worth anything was ECM, and an armour tanked drone boat is not a good match for a wing of shield tanked ECM ships

Okay, so with the new scheme, the vulture will have bonuses to Information and Siege, Damnation has Armor and Skirmish and Eos will have Information and Armor. That means Vulture for ECM-based fleets and Damnation for armor fleets - especially if it remains the only armor command ship with the armor buffer that it has. The Claymore being Siege and Skirmish will remain a popular wing ship for shield fleets.

Have dampening and turret disruption become real popular in fleets? Otherwise, the Eos will remain not being used.

There's also the issue of CCP generally moving EW to EW-bonused boats and nerfing it in non-specialised ships.

EDIT: That said I don't think the possibilities of Tracking Disruptors for fleet use have been fully explored.

The proposed changes to the jump range and fuel costs will be welcome. But I personally don't like the thought of 2 black ops ships, the black ops skill on most of the ships is kind of wasted, it could be used to implement better combat bonuses and the velocity buff could be changed to a role bonus removing the velocity penalty from the cloaking device.
An idea that I would like to see on one in specific is the Sin, give it another turret hard point and change the hybrid damage bonus to a hybrid tracking bonus.