Seems there turning the old ships into the new Navy Ships (least the good old ship's).

The Domi needs something. I can't quite figure out what the heck its missing, but it is missing something. There has been talk about an updated Dominix model. I'm thinking that would help.. well it would help a ton ( A refresh on the spacepotato, spacecow, rottensneaker, floatingturdmobile would help ).

Fitting wise... I guess the question is that no one has really fit out a "Pure" droneboat, and used it to great success. The main question that I can figure is... well what do we do with the highslots, they have no bonus. THe armageddon is getting both a Neut range bonus, plus its high slots can fit any weapon system (getting equal launcher and turret hard points). Yes it is unbonused but it gains flexibility like the Prophecy. I'm fine with that.

The Dominix does need something. I believe It needs a bonus to the Microwarp Drive speed of drones. It needs a way to get Heavy Drones moving fast enough to warrant their deployment. The Algos has it as a role bonus.

Algos
Role bonus:
25% bonus to drone microwarpdrive speed

That might do it. It would give the Dominix the option to deploy as a sentry platform, or to muscle its way into 40+ and closer range and use its highslots for rails/blaster mix as well as giving the Heavy Drones more movement they need to deploy out and be effective (Rather than the heavy drones spending 20 to 40 seconds MWD over to the ship to go blow it up.

Gallente Battleship Skill Bonuses:
+5% and Drone microwarpdrive speed.
+10% Drone Damage, Drone hitpoints, Drone optimal range and Drone tracking speed

That would probably do it. Though I'm not totally sure heavy's even having 25% more mwd speed would be enough for them (for mediums and lights, definetly, but heavies...).

Id love to see that rep bonus gone from the Hyperion so its more viable for fleets, perhaps a falloff bonus would be more appropriate?

The problem with repair bonus' is you are limiting the ship to 1 function, Maelstroms suffer the same fate and to a lesser extent, Astares, Myrm's, Cyclones (which.most people fly buffer tanked!).

I know some people will call herasy at the suggestion but surely if you are doing tiericide to make ships get used more then surely you should remove the bonus' like this that shoehorn the ship into 1 role.

Im getting ready for a few slaps but I had to speak my mind, sorry :)

CCP, as said many times in this thread already, the active tanking bonus on the Hyperion ensures that it will never be used in fleet engagements because it will pop after the first enemy volley.

You state that you don't want to give up on active armor tanking and that's fine on smaller ships, but active tanking only works in solo and small group PvP engagements. Generally speaking however most people simply don't do small group or solo PvP in battleships, especially armor battleships as they're too slow and cumbersome, so this means that the active armor tanked Hyp is really only ever gonna get used in PvE.

To give it a meaningful PvP role the local rep bonus either needs to be replaced with Local AND Remote Rep or better yet simply do away with it, raise the armor HP and instead give it some help getting into range of its targets like a 10% bonus to AB and MWD speed or a 20% range bonus to stasis webifiers or warp scramblers per level. In doing so you'll solve many of the blaster boats problems and might make the Hyperion a decent choice for fleet PvP.

Fleets move, you know. Constantly.

Sentry ships that aren't carriers are losing their DPS every time they do an on-grid warp. Not viable to be completely frank. No one fights standing still.