Faster cycles don't make you use more cap. You spend the same amount of cap per cycle, and repair faster. If you're leaving your reps on indefinitely when you're at 100%, that kind of falls into "L2P issues".

No matter how you look at it, if you use a Repairer with this bonus, you ARE taking advantage of the bonus. How do i justify that you may ask. Well it's because of the nature of Armor Repairers. The thing about Armor Reps is that they're designed to give you your repair at the END of the cycle. This means that even if you run your rep in single cycles where you repair at exactly the same frequency as an unbonused rep, you still are given greater effect as your rep comes sooner. This also gives you the option to burst rep by turning your lasers off for a moment and allowing your rep to cycle a few times. Also it may be note worthy to know that cycle reduction provides greater Repair per second than does increase repair amount.

As some one who flies this ship often, i am OUTRAGED!

I realize that you likley moved the ship's 7 guns down to 5 because you think the bonuses make up for it (they DONT!), or that the hybrid changes will make up for it--THEY DONT.

Give it atleast 6 turrets, it's a command ship, not a cruiser!

and MISSILE launchers on a gallente ship? are you on drugs? No gallente in their right mind will ever train missiles!

The powergrid nerf doesnt bother me too much, There have been times that if i were to fit a plate i would NEED that 100, but it's not that bad. i see you want to keep it 'glass cannon' ....

only you're taking out the cannon part too!

SOLUTION

6 turrets.

5% Rof bonus instead of 7.5% (these things are cap hungry mothers, RoF bonus is a direct nerf)

lose the launchers. compleatly.

change the falloff bonus to tracking (like navy brute) 3% per level (to offset the tracking nerf you had in mind for rails).

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I dont know what on earth you're thinking, but a command ship needs to be powerful, useful..

not nerfed beyond all reason, given an extra and useless weapons system, RoF bonused to finish off its cap (which was bad to start), gah!

i would even live with 25mb drone badnwidth on top of ALL the rest of that, for the rest of what i suggested.

... and i love drones.

PLEASE consider this for the astarte.

I should think that after 61 pages of angry capsuleer reactions he's thinking very hard before posting any more suggestions. He has my sympathy, but it seems to me that he could do himself a favour by:
1. Studying the stats on production numbers of existing command ships (a reasonable proxy for desirability)
2. incrementally buffing the least used
3. waiting to see what effect that has on player uptake.

This would be the scientific method. Data driven, factual, devoid of all irrelevant opinion.

He would then have a credible defence against any flames directed his way, i.e. "The numbers don't lie".

Fozzie?

So what not only are they going to be ongrid they are going to have to run by squad? With a 250m mindlink in my head.

Not ******* likely.

Well, your answer didnt help me much, sir.