Command Ship model changes

Most likely the thinking is that those two be more geared towards putting in NOS or Neuts instead of extra damage, and balanced accordingly.

We shall see, but I have my doubts. I've use this as an expensive gun boat for quite some time and accepted the cost and risk. Not sure it's worth it now.

Oh and since when do we use effective turrets, as any kind of metric? I would much prefer to know the actual % loss tbh.

Astarte:[/b]
+100 Armor

Shifting strength between the bonuses adds an extra 1 effective turret (11, vs 10 in the initial proposal and 10.9 on TQ now).

Medium Hybrid damage bonus changed to 7.5% per level of Gallente BC
Medium Hybrid RoF bonus changed to 7.5% per level of Command Ships

Eos:
-300 Shield
+500 Armor
+300 Hull

We're moving the gang link bonuses for command ships back to the command ships skill, at 3% per level instead of the 15% role bonus.

I recognize that a lot of people are unhappy with the existence of active repair bonuses on half of these ships, but I think that giving all command ships buffer bonuses isn't the right way to go. I believe that the four skirmish bonused command ships will all be viable for people who choose not to use the repair bonuses after this patch.

As far as our beloved wh-space is concerned, heavies are well protected against smartbombs atleast in direct vicinity of a wormhole. Given the combination with a chance at skirmish links, the mwd-bonus to heavies also looks quite favorable. Given a scenario as some ***hat bumping you off the hole, and especially away from sentries, might force you to jump while abandonning your sentries, which cannot occur for heavies. In null, the concept of sentries in a smallgang (and you'd surely use a damnation beyond that) is somewhat flawed, and it's direct concurrence for being a fleetship is given by the sentry-bonused Ishtar, that also got damage mitigation by size speaking in its favor.

I believe that by having no sentry bonus for the Eos nothing has been lost.

I can totally follow up on you gazing at a tracking bonus to med/small drones, that would be somewhere between fantastic and gorgeous. Though with web/scram on a frigate, the applied dps from Ogres is existant and in case of berzerkers, not even bad at all.

I think the price movements in TQ probably represent the quiet 'smart' money folk who have seen this truth, while others have an uninformed whinge here in the forums.

So it seems to me that the Astarte is a reasonable option for close-in fighting, and the EOS is a better option for keeping the command ship at range, or countering a fleet that has ranged damage projection.

if it had been given a sentry drone range bonus, it would have been seen as a mega-buffered dominix with a smaller sig radius, gang links and good self-repair (You can get more EHP on an EOS than a domi).

They're already nerfing the domi's sentry bonus because it's OP.

You can still put sentries on it, with 2 DLAs, a couple of omnis and a target painter it's going to be a real PITA to anything within 100km.

Command Ship model changes

The problem with medium laser and AC platforms right now is with skirmish links a fed navy web, which isnt even that pricey, goes to >25km. That means a blaster ship typically has no problem getting into close range and can't really be kited unless the laser or AC platform has a range bonus.