Stop being bad and fit c-type adaptives

The Hyperion shouldn't have to lose its eighth hi-slot. Look at the model. Having eight turrets is literally modelled into it. I'm OK with having the Megathron losing some drone capability and losing its launcher slots but you can't take away the Hyperion's eighth turret. It'll look wonky as hell.

The rate of fire bonus on the Megathron still needs to be addressed, as it causes a lot of issues.

Most of the Gallente changes make no sense

Giving the mega an extra mid is handy for that eccm, but as previously stated dual booster active setups will still fail because acitve armour reps are ****. (AAR's are even worse imo)

The hyper has now been made even worse - losing a mid means those realy fielded active setups wont have enough cap. why not get rid of the active bonus.... it makes no sense... ahhh!

I dont understand why the Gallente are the only race not to have an 8 gun platform thats any good for 'ship o the line' doctrines.

Go back, read it again, and start over.

Megathron:

Gallente Battleship Skill Bonuses:
+5% Large Hybrid Turret rate of fire (replaces large hybrid turret damage)
+7.5% Large Hybrid Turret tracking speed

Slot layout: 7H(-1), 4M, 8L(+1); 7 turrets , 0 launchers(-2)
Fittings: 15500 PWG, 570 CPU(+20)
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 6300(+89) / 6500(-141) / 7500
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 5800(+175) / 1087s / 5.02 (+.15)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 122(+7) / .117(-.0046) / 98400000 / 15.96s (-.63s)
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 75(-50) / 75(-50)
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 72.5km / 95 / 7
Sensor strength: 21 Magnetometric Sensor Strength
Signature radius: 380(-20)

Most of the Gallente changes make no sense

Giving the mega an extra mid is handy for that eccm, but as previously stated dual booster active setups will still fail because acitve armour reps are ****. (AAR's are even worse imo)

The hyper has now been made even worse - losing a mid means those realy fielded active setups wont have enough cap. why not get rid of the active bonus.... it makes no sense... ahhh!

I dont understand why the Gallente are the only race not to have an 8 gun platform thats any good for 'ship o the line' doctrines.

Yeah, lets not balance a ship around available content... With this argument, we may as well balance everything with t1.

If you're having cpu issues, just like the mega and geddon have had in the past, go and fit a c-type adaptive instead of a t2 eanm. It pretty much solves the problem. If you're afraid of risking a "cheap" dead space module then go ahead and fit a co-proc.

Not sure how i feel about the loss of the utility high, i always brought a heavy neut with me.

Rise,

what was the original reason to change the Mega?

Does it achieve something now that it couldn't before?

What is it supposed to do?

I would say
a) leave the slot layout as it is currently on TQ
b) if you just really really have to change it for undisclosed reasons, please go back to 7+1 - 5 - 6 as it is more Gallente than this Amarr clone without the armor HP or fittings to use rails & tank.

Ah yes, the Armageddon vs Dominix.

I do want to look at the dominix power grid and see if it we can't find a better balance with the Armageddon, by adjusting one or the other.

I think the drone bay thing is kind of odd. Up the ship line you have Amarr with more bay, less bandwidth and Gallente vice versa, but at the BS scale you really can't give a drone ship less than max bandwidth, and you don't gain much from having more bay than the dominix already does. I didn't want to lower the dominix bay, so we just set the armageddon equal.

Another way to fix this would be to extend drone bonus to all drone effects, to actually make the mythical "drone utility" a reality. Halve ECM drone base strength while you are at it. This would also differentiate the Domi and Geddon, one would be a true drone boat, other a nasty ghetto Bhaal.

Also, I see no reason to not extend the native drone control range of Domi now to better suit it's sentry drone role.

+1 for the new hype/mega changes :)

multibox fleet of logi-dominixes, here i come!

One last thing to mention: Personally, I really think sentry drones should move some, even if its only to return to bay. We need to talk some more about this internally and look at ways it can actually be implemented, but a change to this effect could have a very positive impact on the Dominix and I don't think its a very unrealistic goal.

I think "Sentry" drones should orbit the parent ship unless the parent ship MWDs away :). realistic I dunno, but would be cool to watch.

Rise,

what was the original reason to change the Mega?

Does it achieve something now that it couldn't before?

What is it supposed to do?

I would say
a) leave the slot layout as it is currently on TQ
b) if you just really really have to change it for undisclosed reasons, please go back to 7+1 - 5 - 6 as it is more Gallente than this Amarr clone without the armor HP or fittings to use rails & tank.