"100% bonus to range and velocity of tractor beams" is an outdated bonus, especially after Noctis introduction.
Either make this bonus dependent from Marauders skill to achieve Noctis-like results, or increase this value to 500%. After all, now we have reduced MJD reactivation and 40km tractor range is not viable anymore with 100km jumps.
And I'm not even going to mention highly demanded salvaging bonus..


Other than that.. AWESOME!

Update here.

BASTION MODULE

Increases shield and armor repair amount by 100%

Extends all large turret falloff and optimal by 25%

Increases all large missile max velocity by 25%

Has a cycle time of 60 seconds.

When in bastion mode, Marauder is immune to EW but cannot be remote assisted in any way

When in bastion mode, Marauder speed is set to 0 m/s, mass is increased by a factor of 10, cannot warp. Also receives a weapons timer that prevents station docking or gate jumping. Weapon time should not require the user to drop weapon safeties in high-sec (being investigated)

Only one may be fitted per Marauder, cannot be deactivated before cycle ends

Uses 10 CPU and 100 powergrid to fit

Uses no specific fuel or capacitor - we were discussing the use of Heavy Water as fuel. However, it doesn't really provide any gameplay (as CCP Rise mentioned, capacitor is the main limiting factor in combat with those ships). Plus it adds more consumables to a class that already commonly uses charges for weapons, cap boosters and need to keep cargo for possible salvaging.

Skill requirements: High Energy Physics 4 and Energy Grid Upgrades 5

Role Bonus: 100% bonus to large (specified) weapon damage,

100% bonus to range and velocity of tractor beams,
70% reduction in Micro Jump Drive reactivation delay

(Specified) Battleship Skill Bonus:

5% bonus to capacitor capacity
7.5% bonus to Large (specified) optimal range (instead of 10% bonus to the velocity factor of stasis webifiers per level)

Marauder Skill Bonus:

7.5% bonus to the velocity factor of stasis webifiers per level
5% bonus to large (specified) damage per level

i believe the original idea of the marauder was so that you can salvage loot and do the mission at the same time. This was the reason for such a long training time, but now with the intro of noctis, the newer players started to question the reason for long training time for marauder when other ships can do the same and better. I think it is only fair that the marauder get a nice boost to its salvage + tractor beams to keep the tradition.

Just another thought, and admittedly spitballing.

What if the bastion module only kept these traits:
standard movement restrictions
increased range
EWAR immunity
cant be remote assisted

removed:
the additional tanking attributes

But add:
Transforms into a heat + energy efficient, but immobile platform.
No penalty for overloading modules while in bastion mode. (or maybe no penalty @ thermal dynamics V)
optional: Cap use for all modules decreases by x%. (10% ish?)

The only thing that concerns me with any change in ship ability, Is whether or not it can still be used as it was before it was "rebalanced." To have spent 1.5bil+ on a ship that is central to my gameplay, and then one day it can no longer be used as such is at the very least frustrating.

Better yet, who overloads when their ship and fit worth over 10 billion (probably) relies on those modules working...
I wouldn't risk flying that expensive of a ship, and I sure as hell wouldn't risk overloading anything on it.

I would stay aligned, with an MJD and be ready to GTFO in a moments notice... Even if I was running a lvl 1 mission, lol

Well if they're adding a new auto-salvage deployable structure, thats going to make the salvage bonus on the marauder pretty useless.

Anybody notice how CCP put up the original new marauder plan, got 219 pages of feedback, and completely ignored ALL OF IT.

They just said the original plan is going on sisi. WTF do they even ask us for feedback for??

You think the Golem transformation is impressive?

You have low standards....