Destroyers and Battlecruisers skills are being split in four racial versions and being reimbursed

That's 107 ships either added or comprehensively rebalanced in the last year.

Let's see if we can beat that next year.

That's a good point, if the Domi's success is going to be centered around fighting exclusively with the sentries, then having any mobility with a fleet is going to mean abandoning a LOT of drones.

Should the domi really be abandoning drones to compete with the mobility of other combat battleships?

The domi should at least have a role bonus that increases sentry velocity up from 1 m/s, at least when being recalled to the dronebay.

Aside from the soon to be retired to pathetic station games and gate camps T1 Dominix; good changes.

Navy hull rig calibration increase

As miscellaneous note, we realized only having 350 calibration on Navy hulls didnGÇÖt make much sense since they are supposed to be improvements over Tech 1 ships. As such, with Odyssey they will autoretromagically have 400 calibration instead. These were not the rigs you were looking for.

That's a good point, if the Domi's success is going to be centered around fighting exclusively with the sentries, then having any mobility with a fleet is going to mean abandoning a LOT of drones.

Should the domi really be abandoning drones to compete with the mobility of other combat battleships?

The domi should at least have a role bonus that increases sentry velocity up from 1 m/s, at least when being recalled to the dronebay.

drone mechanics are already being looked at. so just because a weapon system is not as viable now does not mean it wont be in the future.

things to look foward to is:

Ability to use nanite paste on drones when they are in the drone bay

not having to recall drones when warping away for the drones to be moved to "in distance space" so that way you will not loose control over drones if you warp away.

sentry drones having the ability to move around at heavy drone speed but cannot fire. then you toggle the sentries to zero speed and gain ability to shoot.

small and medium sentry drones

ewar drones being balanced.

Moreover:
Increase tracking and optimal range will also help close range drones.

as an exploration solo 0.0 ratting ship my domi just got allot better.

So basically your saying the Dominix is a PvE ship. I don't like the idea of balancing a ship based on another mechanic overhaul (drones) that is not even remotely on the horizon. Anyways, enjoy your ratting ship. I will stick with other battleships that are combat capable.

afaik sentry drones for pvp in fleets is for carriers due to carriers ability to keep pumping them out en mass. if you restricted the size of a carriers drone bay by making a fighter bay and then a limited drone bay you would kill slowcat fleets.

All ships with a resistance bonus indeed.

That's 107 ships either added or comprehensively rebalanced in the last year.

Let's see if we can beat that next year.

How about no.

How about you slow down, let the players test these massive sweeping changes, and see what ships you have wrecked , what ships you have made OP, fix those, and THEN look at fixing T2 and pirate ships.

Just because you were in PL does not make you the expert on every ship in the game.

question what do you mean by reimbursed . If its just a straight skill point return on battle cruiser and destroyer than you are screwing over a lot of people. what happened to if you could fly it before you can fly it now.

I would like to raise a question regarding the extra-materials.

Extra-materials are not affected by ML research (less wastage on the BPO) and obviously are not returned when reprocessing the item, but those measures are meant to prevent players "creating" an influx of minerals in the game by building pre-patch and reprocessing post-patch.

Would CCP eventually remove the extra materials so if 2 years down the read i reprocess, say a hyperion, i could get the minerals including the extra materials?

CCP Fozzie, Rise or Ytterbium, I'd like to point out that after about two weeks of flying on Singularity, I still haven't seen an effective Navy Osprey.

I'm struggling to find an utility for it.

Can't fit HAMS, MWD and 2 Meta 4 LSEs.

Even with HAMs, it never reaches more than 420 DPS or so.

2 drones are useless and will be forgotten considering the very poor damage delivered by 2 light drones.

It's fast. And that's about it. There is nothing great about that ship except that it's fast. DPS is very poor, PWG is very tight...

All the talk has been of the racial skills and faction bc's, but I have a concern of a more mundane nature.

I seem to recall the maxim "If you can fly it before you can fly it after" being asserted for ship changes.

My industrial character can fly a fenrir, with the advanced spaceship* skill at 2. It is an alt of my main.

Freighters:

Now requires Advanced Spaceship Command 5 instead of 1.
Racial Industrial skill requirement reduced from 5 to 3.

Reading the above, I will now not be able to fly my fenrir? Or I am to pay 15$ to dual train so I can use something I could use before? Unfortunately my main is committed to something for his business atm so I can't afford to stop his training. Yet now I will not be able to haul my resources etc. :(

Please tell me I've missed something and I will still be ok...

*edited typo, apologies.

If you had read the talk about it.. It goes like this.. If your character HAD the skill, he will keep it. and can continue to train it. So if your toon already had the Minmatar Freighter skill trained, he will be able to fly the ship.

That's 107 ships either added or comprehensively rebalanced in the last year.

Let's see if we can beat that next year.

Destroyers and Battlecruisers skills are being split in four racial versions and being reimbursed