The cloak is an integral part of exploration, but was suggested to give them the marauder treatment as to nerf there PVP a bit while not ruining there PVE side.

So many people forget.. Having a CovOps cloak does not mean you can just deloak and lock. T2 Covops have a bonus for locktime.. This ship does no.. When you decloak you are looking at 10 + actual locktime before you can do anything. Half the ships it will face can warp or speed off before that time is up, the other half have 10 seconds or so to apply their own damage instantly.

If your views were accurate, this ship would be op.. but it's not, this ship can't just decloak and blap anything.

And that's before the simple idea that a smartbomb renders this ship DPSless.. And that drones aren't instant applied DPS like turrets.


Someone said earlier this would take on any current Pirate cruiser ? HA.. It's not gonna break a Gila. Vigilant will destroy it without a sweat. It won't be able to keep up to a Cynabal.. and who cares about an Ashimmu lol.

So many people forget.. Having a CovOps cloak does not mean you can just deloak and lock. T2 Covops have a bonus for locktime.. This ship does no.. When you decloak you are looking at 10 + actual locktime before you can do anything. Half the ships it will face can warp or speed off before that time is up, the other half have 10 seconds or so to apply their own damage instantly.

6 seconds with covops trained to IV, or 5s at lev V.

Or zero, if you decloak and drop drones, and assist them to someone else.....

Good tip

Sisters of EVE are an international humanitarian science-and-religion organization, according to their info panel.

I like the idea of exploration bonuses, but is there any plan to incorporate some kind of remote boosting or repair feature in some capacity? Like a bonus to repair modules or drones or support activity?

Well i don't run around using ECM so that won't help me much when i get blobbed by cloaky pirate cruisers in a plex >_<

Also i just hate all things that can warp while cloaked, to many thing immune to pvp in this game.

No they don't. Covops cloak recalibration is 10 seconds, -1 second per rank in Cloaking. So 6 seconds. It's the same for every ship that fits a covops cloak, including this one. What this ship doesn't have is a reduction in covops cloak CPU use.

Gila? You own the **** out of a Gila. Your ship has the same bonuses they do except you have 300 more base PG, 50 more base CPU, and an extra hardpoint.

Also fit a tracking disruptor and you will easily own the **** out of any Cynabal/Vigilant/Vagabond/Proteus.

It doesn't have the same bonus.. Read the info.

It has a bonus to drone Hitpoints (HP) not damage. Gila has both.

5 bonused large drones and 4 unbonused turrets on the Stratios is basically the same damage output as the Ishtar, but the Stratios has nearly 50% more HP and the resists aren't much lower if you have Amarr Cruiser trained to 5. The Stratios also has much higher agility than the Ishtar, a bigger drone bay, and other stats a close match with the Ishtar, and with the same slot layout. Powergrid and CPU are higher on the Stratios, though that can be for fitting lasers and cloaking devices/expanded probe launchers.

All in all, it looks like the Stratios if left unchanged may usurp the Ishtar and become a superior Heavy Assault Ship for both hit-and-run tactics as well as toe-to-toe action. I would consider reducing the Stratios' drone bandwidth to 50mbit/sec. That's plenty of bandwidth for blowing up anom rats, especially with the turrets you may also have fit. It also leaves a lot more room for alternate drone types when a pilot doesn't feel obligated to put large drones in. But with a bit lower damage output than other cruisers, it will be decent in combat but not something you'd normally use as an ambush craft.

Food for thought.

No they don't. Covops cloak recalibration is 10 seconds, -1 second per rank in Cloaking. So 6 seconds. It's the same for every ship that fits a covops cloak, including this one. What this ship doesn't have is a reduction in covops cloak CPU use.

Gila? You own the **** out of a Gila. Your ship has the same bonuses they do except you have 300 more base PG, 50 more base CPU, and an extra hardpoint.

Also fit a tracking disruptor and you will easily own the **** out of any Cynabal/Vigilant/Vagabond/Proteus.

5 bonused large drones and 4 unbonused turrets on the Stratios is basically the same damage output as the Ishtar, but the Stratios has nearly 50% more HP and the resists aren't much lower if you have Amarr Cruiser trained to 5. The Stratios also has much higher agility than the Ishtar, a bigger drone bay, and other stats a close match with the Ishtar, and with the same slot layout. Powergrid and CPU are higher on the Stratios, though that can be for fitting lasers and cloaking devices/expanded probe launchers.

All in all, it looks like the Stratios if left unchanged may usurp the Ishtar and become a superior Heavy Assault Ship for both hit-and-run tactics as well as toe-to-toe action. I would consider reducing the Stratios' drone bandwidth to 50mbit/sec. That's plenty of bandwidth for blowing up anom rats, especially with the turrets you may also have fit. It also leaves a lot more room for alternate drone types when a pilot doesn't feel obligated to put large drones in. But with a bit lower damage output than other cruisers, it will be decent in combat but not something you'd normally use as an ambush craft.

Food for thought.

The Stratios have the base hp of a T1 cruiser, and their resist.

If you ignore the resist bonus, sure.

Like a Maller you mean ?

You're not helping your point by saying that.

1st!!!

I notice on the picture posted by CCP rescue deployable units.?
What role do you think these can have, definitely humanitarian.
Possibly instawarp tractor with projectable shield for rescuing pods during a battle before they can be podded? Or can they eject your pod if destroyed in a secure protection device?.

If the former Could make one of these in a fleet really helpful?

Hiiiiii

I'm very sorry you guys had to wait 60 pages for us to comment here. If you didn't know (we tried to be kind of quiet about it) we had a company trip out of the country this weekend and weren't anywhere near the forums for several days.

I can't say anything yet on the ships because I have to catch up quite a bit of reading first and then probably chat with the balance team. Thanks a lot for all the feedback and I promise to be back shortly with some comments.

If you aren't removing the covops cloak, I hate you.

The cloak is the whole point of the ship. It would be yet another drone cruiser without it.

So make it better or more interesting instead. There is no level of badness you can give this ship that will compensate for it having a covops cloak.

Cloaky T3 already are better, and what harm have they done already ? I'm really curious.