What if, for the Hyperion, instead of having a bonus to armor repair amount per level, it had a reduction in armor repair cap use per level?

Actually, with 7 / 4 / 8, the new mega has better DPS at mid ranges than any fleet ship but an Abaddon, competitive mid-long range DPS only eclipsed by the Rokh, and everything necessary to tank like the best of them except a little more CPU. Without that CPU, it can have a tank equal to a Rokh's EHP with an inferior resist profile, or a perfectly balanced resist profile with about 7k EHP less than a Maelstrom.

Give the ship 600 base CPU and it will be an excellent fleet ship. The slot layout is the entire reason it can - with the wasted utility high (yes, wasted), it can't compete.

The thing about utility highs is they only apply to certain kinds of PvP. None of the items you could fit there matter outside about 25km range, except for a cyno, which is not something game breaking. The only fits that use that highslot are the ones fitting neuts for brawling (RRs are a waste in today's game). The thing about brawling megas is they benefit quite a bit from 8 lows - absurd gank or very solid tank become options, whereas before a mega couldn't fit a solid tank, only a decent one, without gimping its DPS. And honestly, megas tend to deplete their target's tank before they deplete its cap.

7 / 5 / 7 makes it a lot harder to justify a mega in a fleet - even if it got its 600 CPU, you're giving up a magstab for a tracking comp. This means it stops competing with the Mael and Abaddon in midrange (DPS plummets) and is just an inferior armor Rokh.

8 / 4 / 7 changes nothing from the current game, and keeps the ship completely unable to compete at all.

This is a good slot layout. The Hyperion gained a utility high to boot - there is still a ship that can blaster brawl with 7 lows, 5 mids and a heavy neut. Except now it has an even bigger tank. Because they chose to put the Hyperion in this role, it becomes a ship that might just be fleet viable as well - because of that massive base armor HP, it doesn't need to stack 2 plates to get to the 120-130k EHP range.

In short, there is still a heavy neuting blaster brawler, and Gallente just gained 2 potential fleet doctrine candidates. This is a win win, don't even try to complain dude.

So what the hell is up with the domi change? To me that was always the iconic Gallente ship. It had hybrids and drones. For the drone and hybrid race. The gallente drone boats have never felt like split weapon systems, not so much as the projectile/missile set ups did. This gallente ship, is gonna be fit with projectiles now. It'll make the neut domi set ups better... but whose gonna fly a neut domi when the geddon does it better? What are you guys smoking? Out of all the battleships, the domi was one of the ships that did not need changes.

So, tristan, split weps, drones and hybrids.

Algos, split weps, drones and hybrids.

Vexor, split weps, drones and hybrids.

Domi... well damn guys these ships all work too good. Lets switch it up and try something different for ***** and giggles.

Ship rebalancing was going SO great until about the battlecruiser point. You guys just run out of steam or what?

Maybe give the Dominix a 10km per level range increase to MEDIUM remote armor repair modules. I say medium because that would still be useful for drones and not help it be anymore of a better logistics platform which a bonus to large remote armor repairers might.

Or maybe give it a drone control range bonus of 10km per level.

I think that would make it a great pure drone boat. Also I think having sentry drones able to be recalled at a distance would be great.

The idea seems to be that Gallente need an attack battleship (out of simple obligation to the roles format), the Megathron might be the least worst choice, therefore it gets to be the attack battleship. I'm not sure anybody who uses the Megathron is really interested in the extra agility and, indeed, the people who like the present proposal are mostly interested in turning the Megathron into a brick-plated competitor with the Abbadon, not a speed/agility competitor with the Tempest.

I think Gallente should have three combat battleships actually.

One very big difference. In 99% of circumstances where the Hype will be flown it will have 1 or 2 reps.

Thus, a non-plated Hype will be as fast if not faster than any plated bs it wants to chase down and beat to death. it doesn't need the Attack designation to do the job. It just will. -1 gun and +1 low finally gives it the Pg to fit proper guns And tank.

8'th low on the Mega will let it do whatever you want it to. More DPS or better resists. Either way it will be fast enough to be effective.

AND, we still have the Navy Mega rebal coming soon.

Get ready to shake the dust off. We're useful again in 3,2,1.

The only thing about a Megathron being "supposed to kick ass" is the fact blasters no longer have a very short range. Getting within 10km from other battleships isn't that difficult and if things go wrong it only takes 5 seconds to change for Null ammunition recently boosted and suddenly dealing serious dps at longer range.