This minus the ridiculously lego block looks nice in my opinion. Also those quad rear thrusters are "Meh" and can go. We only need the ring of thrusters and the fore mounted aux thrusters.

Agreed that it has an overly lego look to it however the more "streamlined" look to it is visually appealing. I disagree with ya about the quad rear thrusters tho, I really like them on that updated Hyperion Concept.

When I think of pure drone ship, I see these bonuses applied.

Dominix

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

Role Bonus:
150% bonus to Remote Armor Repair System range
20% bonus to Logistic Drone repair amount

Larger drone bay is a must too.

Notice I didn't put in any remote rep cap bonuses. It still has to juggle between drone and cap mods to be effective in a fleet. This ship is also limited by complete destruction of its dps. It spare highs could have neuts though.

I would go so far as to say zero turrets but you need one in order to activate assisted drones. Thats another thing CCP needs to work on. There needs to be module buttoning of drones on the hud in order to activate assisted fleet drones, or something to that effect.

I secretly hope that the hyperion gets a polish like the Stabber did. I fear that it only gets a slight polish though.
We'll see what the future brings for the Hyperion, if it gets a new design that's as good as it's new stats then I will be very happy.

Please leave the hyperion alone. It's fine as it is.

Making a model desgined to carry eight guns carry only six is just silly.

It doesn't need more drones, it doesn't need less mids, it doesn't need a utility high, and it most certainly doesn't need another low.

The powergrid it can use, but again it doesn't need it. certainly not if you're going to be decreasing the number of guns.


So in essence you borked this on up completely.

Borderline OP Hyperion is best Hyperion. Don't care if they won't make fleet doctrines for it if I can rampage across low sec with it.

It will be one hell of a solo BS though.

Wouldn't call it borderline OP, you can't field Ogre IIs unless you forsaken any chance of ever killing a frigate and you already lost some DPS with the 2 less turrets.

It will be one hell of a solo BS though.

I dare to say that boosters and probably a slaveset were involved in that fight.
But yes, it is one extremly strong ship if active tanked.

The Tank is strong, but the DPS aren't that great. But I happily trade some DPS for a utility high. A Heavy Neut can be worth so much :)

Can't wait for the changes to happen :3

/edit: forgot Off-Grid Boosters.

It's entirely possible. Though on Duality I never lost in a 1 on 1 with my Hyperion to another battleship, even some that were fitted specifically against me. My fit was slightly unconventional but hell did it work.

Even so, boosters aren't too uncommon for small gang pvp, where the Hyperion still shines brightly. I don't think it will see much use in large fleets but the Megathron I am almost certain will be seen more in large fleets, albeit it may not become a staple.

Or probably won't, rather.

Two things: Duality. Arranged 1vs.1. Nothing more to say about your "experience".

Now start playing "real" EvE low-sec and come back ...
Pr0 tip for all wannabe EFT warrior: even an awsome solo battleship is worthless when solo battleship fights are non existent / instant death.

Hyperion will NOT be awesome for solo pvp in lowsec for one special reason:

It lacks a midslot.
You either have to play without a propmod, allowing you to fit neutrons, or you play without ECCM, which means a griffin alone could be your demise.

On paper, the ship is awesome, but ingame it's easy to counter. A still remains aa strong ship, but as I said it's easy to counter.

So wait, 6 or more mids are now required for an armor ship to be viable in solo pvp? What a ******* joke of a rebuttal....


As for it being easy to counter... Going to be far harder to counter than a Sleipnir or Maelstrom due to far more drones and a heavy nuet. Both The sleipnir and Maelstrom have done bang up jobs in lowsec.

Hyperion will NOT be awesome for solo pvp in lowsec for one special reason:

It lacks a midslot.
You either have to play without a propmod, allowing you to fit neutrons, or you play without ECCM, which means a griffin alone could be your demise.

On paper, the ship is awesome, but ingame it's easy to counter. A still remains aa strong ship, but as I said it's easy to counter.

Sounds like you need to hop in a navy Dominix if you really need six mids to solo in an armor-tanking ship.

All I'm saying with that is, you will get killed easily, because you have to either fly without a propmod, or without eccm, if theres a BB or a Falcon and you have no eccm, the fight's already over.

Dude, the fight is more or less over in any ship if you're solo and a hostile gang you're fighting has heavy ecm support....

You're just bringing up over the top extremes in an attempt to disprove that the Hyperion is going to be beast mode solo ship...

Lucky for us (the non idiots) it's patch day and we can start trolling the space lanes in our new 2k+ tank hyperions with over the top drone bays, utility high, and 1.1k dps.

Hyperion is a great solo ship, i never denied that. I just said it's not as awesome as people think it to be, and by no means OP, since it can be counterd easily. Almost every lowsec fights ends in ecm spam, this kills the ship, but to be fair, that kills most ships.

@ExAstra, almost every little lowsec guy has ecm either fitted, or drones, or an alt in a falcon. Being hotdropped or getting into a gang is far less frequently, though not uncommon :3

/edit: I like how people react as if I'd claim the hyperion is a bad ship, i love this ship already and now even more. I just say how it is, the ship is strong, but easy to counter.