Hmm sounds ok, not sure about the capacity though 3000m seems a little excessive. I presume if it is reinforced it can't be scooped if it contains items? If it can it pretty much negates the reinforce timer function. When reinforced are they able to be repped or do you need to wait out the timer ( like a pos), is the timer adjustable or a set time?
A link would have saved many questions.

I see all this info about stats, I would like to know how I will be able to get ahold of the ships after the 19th. Will they only be available in null, or will they be available at the empire SOE locations?? Also will their prices be comparable to present faction ship prices from non FW lp stores??

this is my guessing

u would find them in the lp store of any soe station

Prices will probably be non FW Faction prices, also i hope its pirate prices ^^

There isn't any link, this is all information from SiSi. There will of course be a Dev Blog at some point closer to Rubicon but for now all we have is hands-on testing data.

They don't actually anchor - this is important to remember. When they are reinforced you (the owner) can empty them and scoop them but you cannot put anything into them nor can you use the fitting service. The point of the reinforcement timer is to allow for picking up the depot before it is destroyed (they don't really have much EHP).

Way to go CCP Douc... Rise!

Why so quick to nerf best part of new expansion (well maybe 2nd or 3rd best, but my favorite)?! Whats next, are you going to take away Christmas?

Since these ships are designed for long term exploration runs I would ask you to please consider reverting back on drone changes and maybe cutting from other combat capabilities.

Thank you!

Has anyone even speculated yet if the BS version will keep covert cloak capabilities? I hope so! =D

I want a sisters of eve dreadnaught!!!!!

Pfft.

Faction Carriers. Now that would be something.

Something completely broken that is, but still.

Where did you find them on sisi, I looked they aren't under deployable equipment.
Surely if you have done hands on testing (don't know how) you took note of how much EHP they have?
Seriously, why would anyone bother reinforcing something they have no chance to kill. They should be able to be stolen from, with an aggression timer from the theft towards the owner. Otherwise it is possible simply to have these things all over the place filled with mods for refitting, loot etc and no chance of losing anything.

A dev blog closer to release?? It is just over 2 weeks until release, so we are just getting a bunch of untested stuff dumped on us that of course can and will need to be rebalanced (made to work as intended) at a later date.
CCP hasn't really thought rubicon through, everything so far seems rushed and half done.

Has anyone even speculated yet if the BS version will keep covert cloak capabilities? I hope so! =D

37.5% increase Scan Prob Strength, 5/5/5 layout + quite large cargo seems to me like the same patters as Gnosis. And Gnosis has no covert cloak capabilities. So I expect BS to have 7/7/7 layout, exploration bonus maybe cargo capacity over 1000 m3, but no covert cloak capabilities whatsoever...

• They aren't in the market listing yet - You can find the info by doing an item link on the word "Depot". The "Mobile Depot" is the one we're getting. The "Yurt" and "Wetu" variants are presumably not done yet and may not ship until after Rubicon does.
• There were plenty of them provided during the mass test. I happened to get a couple for my own uses. Also, Fozzie hands them out like candy if you ask.
• 5000 shields, 5000 armor, 7500 structure. The reinforcement happens after the shield is gone. They have a 50m signature radius.
• Reinforcement prevents the owner from using the refitting service. If you're in a fight and the target tries to put down a depot to refit mid-fight (which you can), you can lock the structure up during its 45-sec onlining timer and put it in reinforced mode before he has a chance to do much with it.
• Being able to have them here or there with mods for refitting is kind of the point behind them. They can be probed down and they aren't that hard to kill. I don't know how long the reinforcement lasts, but shooting them only gets you suspect flagged.

Honestly, please try to be a little bit less indignant toward someone who's manually looking up all this information for you, when you should know how to do it yourself...

Nerfing the ships to the point all excitement has gone, a new low even for CCP.

Yeah. Bittervet EFT warrioring ruins another promising line of ships.

You know, I was just thinking that instead of reducing the Stratios' firepower by limiting it's drone bandwidth, you could give it the same bonus as the Astero - 20% bonus to drone hitpoints. Then you could keep the 125m3 bandwidth (as a proper drone boat should have) while keeping its damage in check. This could be the signature bonus for SoE ships - tough ships and tough drones

You know, I was just thinking that instead of reducing the Stratios' firepower by limiting it's drone bandwidth, you could give it the same bonus as the Astero - 20% bonus to drone hitpoints. Then you could keep the 125m3 bandwidth (as a proper drone boat should have) while keeping its damage in check. This could be the signature bonus for SoE ships - tough ships and tough drones

you mean an almost useles bonus, Because sentries and heavy droen already have as much HP as a small cruiser. These bonus is useful for smaller drones, but almost irrelevant for the larger, already sturdy ones.

Then make it a mwd speed bonus or a tracking one. Pref the latter.

Full flight of drones please!

I was just thinking that instead of reducing the Stratios' firepower by limiting it's drone bandwidth, you could give it the same bonus as the Astero - 20% bonus to drone hitpoints

Yep we thought of something like this also, but really it's much worse. Like others said above, the hp isn't nearly as useful on the cruiser, and it's a huge damage nerf. 50% instead of 20%.