not sure what justifys a 50% increase in cost, i guess ill go for the astero since the stratios will be so expensive lol

Are these ships supposed to have the recloaking delay? Seems a bit misplace on a ship with a Covert Ops Cloak... Currently I have to wait 30 seconds after each gate jump to be able to cloak when I start flying around again.

Rather disappointing that they currently have the 30 second delay. They don't have all that much HP in case they encounter something either.

Damage Control II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Drone Damage Amplifier II x3

10MN Afterburner II
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I x2
Large Shield Extender II

Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
Heavy Neutron Blaster II x4, Void M

Medium Hybrid Burst Aerator I
Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II

Hammerhead II x2
Garde II x3

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EFT stats:
961.3dps OH (609.5 from drones)
25,709 EHP, cap stable at 66%

Being able to pray on the weak and defenseless, don't you think she's still very much OP?

I'm not sure if that's a good setup. You will die really fast in that.

Take a look at this setup i sat up: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3849307#post3849307

In fleet with bonuses to armor, you will have around 75k EHP, around 710 DPS, mods to take care of smaller ships and so on with that setup.

should the cruiser also have the cpu requirement reduction on cloak? or is it supposed to only have 400 effective cpu?

frigate needs another high, can't fit covops cyno, cloak and probes

Did CCP fix the issue with the 'smokescreen' covert ops cloak not working on the SoE ships?

Why no missile love?

It would seem that the cruiser is very much like the Arbitrator but better although i find it very disappointing that there is no missile hard points.

Is there any possibility that we could get even one of the high powered slots for missiles? Even just one turrent converted to missle would make me happy and go a long way to making missile users happy.

Any luck?

Keep up with current events M8

Rise and the rest of the CCP boys hate missiles. Seems they are doing all the can to rid the game of 'em.

Alright, the cruiser has some serious fitting issues that I think needs to be addressed.

It really isn't meant to fit an expanded launcher. That's why the CPU is set where it is.

What has been said by CCP about the new Sisters ships (the frigate in particular):

"strong focus on exploration and self-reliance in hostile space" and "make good platforms for a range of activities including probing, hacking, exploration combat sites, anoms, killing anom runners"...

But the problem with those statements, how can you do that without guns or bonus to drone dmg when you can only field a flight of lights? You say that the ship will be expected to be a cloaky probe ship, and that it will be self-reliant in hostile space, able to kill anom runners, but you only give it 2 high slots in which it has already been determined there will be fit a cloak and a probe launcher.

What kind of weak anom runners do you expect this thing will kill with just a flight of lights that are un-bonused?

I will agree that the lack of 5 drones on the cruiser is a deal breaker for the idea of a deep space PvE. You need 5 well skilled heavies or sentries to run nullsec sites.

How very fortunate then that the Stratios was in fact not designed with nullsec sites in mind and that those are actually intended to be under the purview of the yet-unreleased SoE battleship.

Why are you staying cloaked all the way to the gate, exactly?

i would like to write a lot about that, but i can only say: true, so true.

CCP Rise
looking super sexy

CCP Rise
and generally being kind of awesome.

Possible gatecamps, bubbles, smartbombers etc etc that may be waiting on that gate? I don't have a safe for every gate in the universe.