This is bothering me more and more.
Why are marauders getting their speed and agility nerfed? MJD? Align speed 20s. 20s is 2.5 times slower then it is now. I usually spend 2-3 jumps between missions and do have to align frequently - this align time is ****ing me up greatly.
Speed - another thing - torp golem DOES NOT need MJD. It has 40Km firing range, and I use it only in missions that benefit from that DPS at that range. Speed 80 instead of 120 is a 33%decrease. WHY? Again, I don't need MJD to warp 100KM all I need is 10-15 km to travel per mission. For those who can "get to any point within 2 jumps": yeah, but what are you going to do in a torp Golem when you are 100Km away from rats after first jump?

A somewhat better Missile boat for L4 becomes a low speed, slow turning brick, that you have to jump around with MJD, instead of just flying like a normal ship...

No t2 resists so they remain absolutely garbage outside of Bastion(even worse than before due to mass agility and velocity, oh and drones! nerf) so they'll be crap outside of soloing or 2-3man PVE stuff.

I'm sorry but I'm absolutely NOT impressed with this. It's actually the Oddesey/Rubicon change(s) I'm least impressed with.

They may even help with people running different types of incursions.
Last time I checked there was a specific type of incursions that no one runs due to ewar (sorry, I don't run incursions so i'm not sure which ones it is).

in all seriousness i would bring back the idea of making the marauder a "Luxury Battleship", since they clearly don't want to make it actually good at anything, make it fun. Some example bonuses:

increased drone bay
salvage drone bonus
salvage bonus
better loot quality chance on targets killed by marauder
ability to accept and complete missions from outside of station
better tractor bonus / capitol tractor
mining bonus (why the **** not)
add a little billboard
free fireworks
walking-in-station inside ship
ability to manufacture ammo on the go from loot/salvage
ammo bay
load drones from cargo into drone bay
fitting services
update info for hilarity
make bastion mode into luxury mode
give it a hacking bonus because why not

You know, what would be something cool and kind of useful.

In bastion mode

1. Double the gun cycle time
1. Double the alpha.

There. Suddenly there's a use for them in PVP, you don't really up the DPS at all and it's nifty in PVE.

How does double the cycle time and alpha not up dps????


Am I on crazy pills or something?

How does double the cycle time and alpha not up dps????


Am I on crazy pills or something?

Would you like to re-read what you wrote there and think on it?

Hint: 90% web...

Edit: And I was referring to reverting the falloff bonus back to the web.

I believe what he is referring to make the guns/launchers take twice as long to fire but with twice the volley damage; same dps, but you get crazy alpha. Don't know how much I like it, but I must admit I would be interested to see it.

Nothing but arty boats.

I firmly believe that CCP is trying to get this type of ship in PVP - .

They could always compromise:

• T2 resists on the base hull
• Keep the 7.5%/lvl local repair bonus on the base hull
• Make Bastion slightly better than a DCU II 15% shield resists, 17.5% armor resists, 65% hull resists (only bastion or DCU can be fitted at one time)

This would effectively give all the hulls a low slot if you planned on using a DCU in your fit. It satisfies the call for T2 resists to help non mission based PVE. It is still equal to or better than the TQ version when tanking missions without bastion. And if you choose to use bastion, you recover the low slot of a DCU, have better tanking potential and range. That would be something I could get behind.

Webs do not fit the new kronos and would be a waste of a mid and an unused bonus.

I'm a fan of this.
I would like the T2 resists.
I would like the current hull bonuses to stay as they are on TQ.
CCP can decide the specific amounts of % shield resist, % amror resists, and % hull resists for use of bastion mode.

It is a sort of compromise between the two options that are/were proposed changes.
A damage bonus of some kind in bastion mode would actually make me consider using it.

GOLEM

Role Bonus: 100% bonus to cruise missile and torpedo damage, 100% bonus to range and velocity of tractor beams, 70% reduction in Micro Jump Drive reactivation delay

Caldari Battleship Skill Bonus:
10% bonus to cruise missile and torpedo velocity
5% bonus to cruise missile and torpedo explosion velocity per level

Marauders Skill Bonus:
7.5% bonus to Shield Boost amount
10% bonus to effectiveness of target painters per level


Slot layout: 8H(+1), 7M, 4L; 0 turrets, 4 launchers
Fittings: 8500 PWG (+2000), 715 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 8000(-200) / 6100(-1200) / 7000(+300)
Shield resists: 0% EM / 50% EX / 47.5% KIN / 40% THERM
Armor resists: 50% EM / 10% EX / 34.375% KIN / 58.75% THERM
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 6325(+700) / 1150s (+226.1s) / 5.5 cap/s (-0.5)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 85 m/s(-20) / .12 / 114195000(+8995000) / 19s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 25(-50) / 50(-25)
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 95km(+5km) / 105(+32) / 10
Sensor strength: 14 Gravimetric
Signature radius: 450(-125)

New Kronos is probably the most pointless ship in the Gallente lineup

Web bonus would make it viable.

That's all there really is to it tbh.

And with most things MWDing around or attacking at much longer range than those webs it means that most ships can escape you. The kronos is too slow to effectivly use those webs and with all of those bonuses to damage projection and active tanking its clear this is no in your face brawler but more of a heavy sniper. The vindi is a much better ship to use with webs due to its faster speed meaning it can chase down its prey.

Webs do not fit the new kronos and would be a waste of a mid and an unused bonus.

The 'new' Kronos is too slow for that - the old Kronos was fine. As to being a 'heavy sniper', a falloff bonus is a wasted bonus with Railguns, as the fast reloads allow you to always have the correct ammo loaded and not be shooting deep into falloff. Now with blasters, a better bonus, but not at the expense of webs, while also becoming fat and slow.

If anything, this just further illustrates the identity crisis of the 'new' Kronos, hence my earlier comment about reverting this back to TQ attributes, which everyone already uses, get the bastion/MJD bonuses sorted then move on from there.

It's a Duvolle boat at the end of the day - blasters are Duvolle's 'thing'

Again, even the best webs will only cover antimatter range on blasters and the vindi will do that job a lot better. A ship that cannot move is a very bad ship to give a web bonus to.
CCP are not going to give us a poor copy of the vindi.

So is there any truth to the rumor of the new Golem ship that looks like a platypus?

So is there any truth to the rumor of the new Golem ship that looks like a platypus?