Sabre
....
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 600 / 300s(+8.333) / 2(+0.5)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 320 / 3.6(+0.132) / 1285000 / 6.41s(+0.23)

Why do all races have missile ships now?

I don't get it.. We don't see lasers or Ac's being flavour for other races :S

How does this work? Cap stays the same, recharge time goes up, but cap/s improves?
Also, I weep whenever a Minmatar ship is the least-agile in a ship class. But this all looks interesting, can't wait to try it on Sisi.

Typo on my part, I didn't have the change in the Sabres base cap (+162.5) in the OP. Fixed now, thanks.

Typo on my part, I didn't have the change in the Sabres base cap (+162.5) in the OP. Fixed now, thanks.

Gallente Frigate Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret falloff per level
5% bonus to Rocket and Light Missile explosion radius per level (was 10% bonus to small hybrid tracking per level)

And yet another ...

Buff everything, nerf Minmatar.

Holy crap - its like the end of days for minmatar.

Missile boats ahoy - with no range.

Autocannon nerformama - TEs down the pan.

Worst Caps by a staggering margin.

Command ship loveliness perforated with shotgun.

Lowest DPS marauder FTL (for the loss).

Dump on minmatars speed and agility advantages - they cant compensate with worst weapon systems. The is no 'flavour' in the racial minmatar its porridge (with lots of salt).

i was hoping for more radical changes that improve survivability, atleast a similar role bonus like the interceptor MWD signature bonus would have been great.

as it is they remain throwaway ships you put your alt in and hope you get a bubble off before you die.

Big bonuses to both missiles and hybrid turrets allow the highest damage of all the dictors if one chooses.

The 10mn AB plated fleet fits will be much improved after Rubicon.

Can I take this as a sign that you guys are never going to fix oversized prop mods, and that it's all working as intended? This is really the most disappointing thing here.

Do we start talking about oversized tank mods at the same time 'cos the whole 'fit 1600mm/LSE on cruisers' thing doesn't make any sense

I was really looking forward to the changes from a non 0.0 dessy pilot.

Quite disappointed.

From the stats I can not see a reason why i'd pick these over standard dessies or AF's (non 0.0 perspective remember).

I was really looking forward to the changes from a non 0.0 dessy pilot.

Quite disappointed.

From the stats I can not see a reason why i'd pick these over standard dessies or AF's (non 0.0 perspective remember).

And there we go, the Minmatar ships has the worst agility of the lot.
Yup, makes sense.

Why would you use a dictor out of nullsec? The entire point of it is to bubble, not to be some bad gimmick lowsec pvp ship.

I think you should remove fitting requirements from the bubble machine and give all dictors a role bonus that allows them to fit a maximum of 2 launchers. That way you don't have to gimp the fit to be able to do the intended job. Double co-processor and no guns fleet dictor fit anyone?

u wot

dictors are exclusively 0.0 boats. you don't fly them in empire, simple as that.

I think you should remove fitting requirements from the bubble machine and give all dictors a role bonus that allows them to fit a maximum of 2 launchers. That way you don't have to gimp the fit to be able to do the intended job. Double co-processor and no guns fleet dictor fit anyone?

perhaps add a new bonus to interdictors skills bonuses that reduce CPU need for Interdiction Sphere Launchers

And there we go, the Minmatar ships has the worst agility of the lot.
Yup, makes sense.

As i said, with the re-balance I was hoping that they are NOT exclusive to null sec, as they are the only tech 2 destroyer....

Why would you use a dictor out of nullsec? The entire point of it is to bubble, not to be some bad gimmick lowsec pvp ship.

Call me crazy, but if Interdictors are the only ships that can fit launcher, why give all four hulls the same bonus to the launchers?

Just set the rate of fire to whatever value is appropriate, and give the hulls a real bonus to the class.

HERETIC - The Heretic gets its missile bonuses applied to lights as well as rockets, and gains an extra launcher for people who want to fit it with damage in mind...

ERIS - Eris is the next in the new Roden designs. Big bonuses to both missiles and hybrid turrets allow the highest damage of all the dictors if one chooses. However for most normal uses the big Eris changes are the huge amount of mass it lost (leading to much much improved speed and agility) and the extra fittings. The 10mn AB plated fleet fits will be much improved after Rubicon.

Gallente Destroyer Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret falloff per level
5% bonus to Rocket and Light Missile explosion radius per level (was 10% bonus to small hybrid tracking per level)

Interdictors Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret, Rocket, and Light Missile damage per level (was 5% bonus to thermal rocket and light missile damage)
10% bonus to Interdiction Sphere Launcher rate of fire per level

Role bonus:
Can fit Interdiction Sphere Launchers

Slot layout: 8H, 2M, 4L; 4(-1) turrets, 4 launchers
Fittings: 64(+2) PWG, 210(+16) CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 650(-1) / 700 / 750(-1)
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 700(+231.25) / 350s(+37.5) / 2(+0.5)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 305(-3) / 3.52(+0.145) / 1250000(-213000) / 6.1s(-1.11)
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 5 / 5
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 55km / 500 / 7
Sensor strength: 13(+2) Magnetometric
Signature radius: 85(-1)

Try again on the Eris, Fozzie. The "new generation" split weapon systems (as seen on the Minmatar Fleet Issue ships) are amazing and done 100% correctly. The Eris' new split weapon system is exactly the same "old generation" design that was deemed as bad and worthless and then targeted for removal.

Try again on the Eris, Fozzie. The "new generation" split weapon systems (as seen on the Minmatar Fleet Issue ships) are amazing and done 100% correctly. The Eris' new split weapon system is exactly the same "old generation" design that was deemed as bad and worthless and then targeted for removal.

Well, it has the best speed and with a nano it's the most agile and speediest dictor.
Standard lowslot is nano and gyro, and it will still perform amazingly. The Sabre is not magically **** just because the other dictors are not.

Interdictors ahoy!
Otherwise we've focused on getting the three under-performers up closer to the Sabre's power level while maintaining their own distinctive styles.

Interdictors ahoy!
The single biggest buff these guys are getting is from the already announced warp speed changes, where their 8au/s will allow them to get on their targets extremely quickly.

shouldn't interdictors be regarded as interceptor versions of T1 dessies like inties are of T1 frigs ...
i.e. smaller faster and able to use MWD's effectively without being popped immediately??

It really should be a ship (and indeed the whole Roden line) that lets you choose which weapons system you want to use instead of only 4 of each weapon hardpoint. It's not even about damage output. Balance that around having all of one weapon on the ship. It's about optimal range/max flight time, instant weapon damage, etc. This is a step backward, Fozzie.

Why do all races have missile ships now?

I don't get it.. We don't see lasers or Ac's being flavour for other races :S

dictors are t2 version of t1 destroiers, they are more skill intensive, more expensive and... and that's it; oh and they can drop bubbles so they can die in it;

Try again on the Eris, Fozzie. The "new generation" split weapon systems (as seen on the Minmatar Fleet Issue ships) are amazing and done 100% correctly. The Eris' new split weapon system is exactly the same "old generation" design that was deemed as bad and worthless and then targeted for removal.

Well DUH. fit an agility mod and its agile! And then fit one on 'any other dictor' and its less so. Its a nerf!

Minmatar are meant to be small and agile and fragile in place of slow and tanky. This puts them at the opposite end of the whole minatar ethos.

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

Well DUH right back at you, the Gallente and Amarr are both armor tank, so no way you fit nano on them, the Caldari has ONE lowslot, and you fit either DC or BCU. Minmatar is shield tanked with 2 lows for gyro and nano.

Bubble immune dictors

Does anyone else think 6/6 for Eris would work best? Full rack of hybrids? Gank Eris, anyone?

Or is that too stronk?

I see Roden Shipyards' design team are still inhaling paint fumes.

Seriously, scrap the split damage nonsense and give Roden ships a theme other than 'kinda crappy and unfocused'

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

It's not about what ratio of hardpoints.

I see Roden Shipyards' design team are still inhaling paint fumes.

Seriously, scrap the split damage nonsense and give Roden ships a theme other than 'kinda crappy and unfocused'

And yet another ...

Buff everything, nerf Minmatar.

Holy crap - its like the end of days for minmatar.

Missile boats ahoy - with no range.

Autocannon nerformama - TEs down the pan.

Worst Caps by a staggering margin.

Command ship loveliness perforated with shotgun.

Lowest DPS marauder FTL (for the loss).

Dump on minmatars speed and agility advantages - they cant compensate with worst weapon systems. The is no 'flavour' in the racial minmatar its porridge (with lots of salt).

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

This is what happens when you mix nuclear warheads and antimatter.
Roden Shipyards needs to reevaluate there concepts regarding weapons and either become a full missile production line or become the opposite of Duvolle Labs and focus on long range hybrids.

Make flycatcher and heretic more fleet/big gang oriented (resist bonuses + missiles). Giving heretic resist bonus and not giving it to flycatcher makes little sense as for me.
Make sabre and eris more solo/small gang oriented (more damage dealing and more maneuverability compared to heretic and fc).
Make each dictor 8 high slots and 7 gun slots.
In terms of basic agility/mwd speed: sabre > eris > heretic > flycatcher (in the end fc might appear to be more agile because of shield tank).
In terms of damage dealing: eris > sabre > fc/heretic.

And that terrible split weapon system on eris needs to be removed and changed to full hybrid bonus.

what's the point of an explosion radius bonus on frigate sized weapons anyway??
rockets already have lower explosion radius than guns sig res

T1/ Faction rockets - 20m
T2 Rage - 34m
T2 Rage with GMP lv5 - 25.5m

guns - 40m

T1/ Faction Light missiles - 40m
T2 Fury - 69m
T2 Fury with GMP lv5 - 51.75m

Learn to missile formula.

Signature radius: 85(-1)

There is alot of talk about double bubble dictors... why not just upgrade the launcher to have two bubbles per reload? Or some mechanism that effectively tturns two launchers into one...

That might be a better solution then designing the ship to fit two

Or better yet, make it impossible to fit 2, and not change anything else.

at least allow them to use their MWD in a bubble

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

Thats a hictor, different ship, nothing stops a dictor from using its MWD in a bubble

Why do we need 3 dictors that use missiles? The heretic has incredible potential as a laserboat but it simply doesn't have the CPU to properly fit missiles thanks to the huge CPU requirements.

Also Fozzie, do you think is normal that even after this rebalance dictors will have a much larger sig radius that some cruisers?
like really, aren't they supposed to be smaller than a cruiser, in between frigs and cruisers if i'm not mistaken?

non empty quoting myself:




HERETIC
Signature radius: 75(-8)

FLYCATCHER
Signature radius: 80(-10)

ERIS -
Signature radius: 85(-1)

Sabre
Signature radius: 70(-5)

That would **** off a lot of people. .. I like it

It would also make the game bland.
Double-bubble dictors did not get popular because two bubbles over each other are simply better than one.

They became popular because they enable tactical options in fleet positioning that a single bubble dictor can't. So reducing this would really just remove tactical depth from the game.

So far I am stunned by the split weapons discussion on ships that rarely fit more than one or two token guns - and the changes are not radical enough for me to see that changing.
What I do like though the proposal of a "Can fit 2 interdiction sphere launchers" role limit and then go lighter on their fitting.

The cap/s increase from 1.5 to 2 is huge, and I'd like to see that for myself on sisi; but, a dictor should really not MWD more than 40-60km after dropping its payload before it switches to a short ongrid warp into safety. And the cap was always enough for that.

The vulnerable phase for a dictor in a fleet fight is after dropping the bubble(s) with effectively 0 transversal to the targets. With the sig bloom from MWDs, this is a near guaranteed hit and instalock from HACs, and sometimes even locks from BS.
With specifically fit HACs I have little issue, although one could make it a bit harder for them. But really that should be the job of point defense frigates.

That would **** off a lot of people. .. I like it

They became popular because it lets you ignore that stupid bubble timer thats part of the skill, thats really it, now you can launch bubbles every 30 seconds or so instead of every minute and its just a work around their cool down timer, in essence double bubbles makes that skill bonus for lowering bubble launch time a non issue.

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ERIS - Eris is the next in the new Roden designs. Big bonuses to both missiles and hybrid turrets allow the highest damage of all the dictors if one chooses. However for most normal uses the big Eris changes are the huge amount of mass it lost (leading to much much improved speed and agility) and the extra fittings. The 10mn AB plated fleet fits will be much improved after Rubicon.

Gallente Destroyer Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret falloff per level
5% bonus to Rocket and Light Missile explosion radius per level (was 10% bonus to small hybrid tracking per level)

Interdictors Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret, Rocket, and Light Missile damage per level (was 5% bonus to thermal rocket and light missile damage)
10% bonus to Interdiction Sphere Launcher rate of fire per level

Role bonus:
Can fit Interdiction Sphere Launchers

Slot layout: 8H, 2M, 4L; 4(-1) turrets, 4 launchers
Fittings: 64(+2) PWG, 210(+16) CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 650(-1) / 700 / 750(-1)
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 700(+231.25) / 350s(+37.5) / 2(+0.5)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 305(-3) / 3.52(+0.145) / 1250000(-213000) / 6.1s(-1.11)
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 5 / 5
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 55km / 500 / 7
Sensor strength: 13(+2) Magnetometric
Signature radius: 85(-1)

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The sigs are fine, dictors are already hard enough to kill when they are moving at the speeds they move.

Does anyone else think 6/6 for Eris would work best? Full rack of hybrids? Gank Eris, anyone?

Or is that too stronk?

They have to be somewhat frail, as they have a very unique job, stop a fleet from moving.

The best way to address this (although probably too late now) is in a similar way to how old command ships worked:

1) Give the old interdictors stats geared toward small-scale pvp / gatecamping, much like the proposals in the OP
2) Use the newer destroyer models to make 'fleet interdictors' with bonuses to speed / agility / EHP.

I'm sorry, despite the good effort, this is NOT the way to go with the rebalance.

Dictors need 3 things to work properly to make them unique and useful for their price.

1. Get rid of Warp Interdiction Spheres and make 'dictors and hictors the only ship able to field Mobile warp disruptors. Hictors would keep their highslot point. This frees up their fitting quite a bit, and makes them invaluable ships to have in null and wh space. Hictors are as valued as they are because they not only perform a unique and extremely valuable role (supercap points), they also have the fitting and toughness to be useful in a brawl. Making Dictors the "smaller" versions of these also keeps in line with the skill progression they have, just as you have been doing with Assault frigates and HACs.

2. Drop a high slot (or two) for fitting slots.
If Interdictors become the only ships that can field Mobile Warp disruptors, they don't have to fit the warp interdiciton sphere launcher, and can balance their fitting a bit better. The inherent problem with destroyer balancing is that CCP is still actually stuck on the tier system, in respect to slots for ship classes to a degree. Since the destroyer falls between the cruiser and frigate size classes, but it also has an in-born role with its inception, it suffers from slot misappropriation. Interdictors are not t1 destroyers, and thus do not need a full 8 high slots for direct offensive power. Dropping one or two highs and keeping the missile or gun limit on each to 6 would allow ships like the flycatcher to finally, FINALLY be freed from the horror that is having a single lowslot. It is beyond awful that dictors got balanced into a corner like this, and is one of the many reasons that they are underused in direct pvp situations outside of popping bubbles for camps.

I agree that these changes seem underwhelming. I think the focus should be on tanking. The Heretic getting an armor resist bonus and the Flycatcher a shield one. Both with plenty of slots in the primary tank for a robust fleet interdictor. The Sabre and Eris should both something akin to the Tornado and Talos. Fast, high dps, lightly tanked small gang machines. Bump the Eris up to a 3rd mid at the expense of a low, choose one weapon system (preferably hybrids) and go from there.

The sigs are fine, dictors are already hard enough to kill when they are moving at the speeds they move.

What about rolling the interdiction launcher bonus into the base timer of the module and adding a 7.5% to hull resistance in its place?

This is really stupid and I have to question whether you've ever actually flown a dictor or used a mobile warp disruptor. Mobile bubbles are not a replacement for warp disrupt probes or the hictor bubble generator.

Then please explain, o wise goon, why dictors must be so underpowered to use the all-important interdiction sphere launcher? Also, I said nothing about removing the Hictor's ability to use the Warp Disruption FIeld generator.

Ask CCP. I think the sabre's in a good place firepower-wise but the entire class needs some kind of survivability buff.

Then please explain, o wise goon, why dictors must be so underpowered to use the all-important interdiction sphere launcher? Also, I said nothing about removing the Hictor's ability to use the Warp Disruption FIeld generator.

I can definitely agree with you on that last point, and towards the end I said if they don't remove dictor bubbles from the game, they should at least drop the fitting reqs a bit so the ships don't get penalized for CPU so much for using them. Would you think it'd be good if they rolled at least part of the firing rate bonus into the ship, left a utility high on all of them, and buffed HP, resists, and gave extra slots? I'm just frustrated at how pathetic they are in actual combat. I mean, if you have one camping the gate, it should at least be able to contribute to the fight if you catch something with your gang you know?

what game are you playing ?

This is really stupid and I have to question whether you've ever actually flown a dictor or used a mobile warp disruptor. Mobile bubbles are not a replacement for warp disrupt probes or the hictor bubble generator.

Why are we seeing an Eris with split weapon bonuses? I thought the new Roden would be able to fit either/or, not be compelled to fit both. With only 4 turrets and 4 launchers, one is forced to use split weapons. At least with 5 turrets you could fit a cloak and 2 sphere launchers and have a single weapon system. Now with that set up, we'll be forced to fit an oddball launcher or turret.

Please fix the hardpoint mounts to not force Eris pilots to use split weapons. You guys phased it out of Minmatar T1, made a GREAT way to choose which weapon system you wanted for other split weapon ships (namely Minmatar Fleet Issues), and fixed the Ares' Roden bonuses for either/or. Now, you have a throwback, old-style split weapons system on the Eris.

It really should be a ship (and indeed the whole Roden line) that lets you choose which weapons system you want to use instead of only 4 of each weapon hardpoint. It's not even about damage output. Balance that around having all of one weapon on the ship. It's about optimal range/max flight time, instant weapon damage, etc. This is a step backward, Fozzie.

Interdictors ahoy!
Were making the Sabre the new Rifter, get 0wned Minmatar lololol

4% bonus to armor resistances per level (was 5% bonus to missile velocity per level)

The best way to address this (although probably too late now) is in a similar way to how old command ships worked:

1) Give the old interdictors stats geared toward small-scale pvp / gatecamping, much like the proposals in the OP
2) Use the newer destroyer models to make 'fleet interdictors' with bonuses to speed / agility / EHP.

This is an excellent idea.

Also, jesus christ, don't put mandatory split weapons on the Eris. It sucks enough already.

I'm still not seeing any reason to fly any dictor other than the Sabre in any situation small gang or large fleet, given that it's the only one with a sane slot layout, but at least the margin isn't quite as huge. But whatever, harder to get outraged about this compared to some of the other ship classes in recent memory, and at least the interceptor pass was good.

Given the nature of gallente being able to do both armour and shield

Can someone tell me which is the objectively best one? Flycatcher looks un inspiring for a first glance. it's slow and has low dps.

I've never understood why these ships are so fragile. Hictors have ridiculous passive tanks so they can stand up to fleet firepower but dictors can't survive against a single T1 frigate or a battle industrial (especially the newly buffed ones) without logistics or ewar backup.

Because unlike a HiC they dont need to stay on field for their bubbles to function. They have a completely different style.

Because unlike a HiC they dont need to stay on field for their bubbles to function. They have a completely different style.

ERIS - Eris is the next in the new Roden designs. Big bonuses to both missiles and hybrid turrets allow the highest damage of all the dictors if one chooses. However for most normal uses the big Eris changes are the huge amount of mass it lost (leading to much much improved speed and agility) and the extra fittings. The 10mn AB plated fleet fits will be much improved after Rubicon.

Gallente Destroyer Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret falloff per level
5% bonus to Rocket and Light Missile explosion radius per level (was 10% bonus to small hybrid tracking per level)

Interdictors Bonuses:
10% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret, Rocket, and Light Missile damage per level (was 5% bonus to thermal rocket and light missile damage)
10% bonus to Interdiction Sphere Launcher rate of fire per level

Role bonus:
Can fit Interdiction Sphere Launchers

Slot layout: 8H, 2M, 4L; 4(-1) turrets, 4 launchers
Fittings: 64(+2) PWG, 210(+16) CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 650(-1) / 700 / 750(-1)
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 700(+231.25) / 350s(+37.5) / 2(+0.5)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 305(-3) / 3.52(+0.145) / 1250000(-213000) / 6.1s(-1.11)
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 5 / 5
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 55km / 500 / 7
Sensor strength: 13(+2) Magnetometric
Signature radius: 85(-1)

Slot layout: 8H, 2M, 4L; 4(-1) turrets, 4 launchers

4 turrets, 4 launchers

This is an excellent idea.

o wise dude, can you explain how the hell will you be able to bubble a fleet with a mobile warp distrupor???
do you even know that they need some time before they get online? or that they can be locked and killed by any ship out there?
like really, stop postig if you have no ideea what are you takinb about...

I'd like to see the bubble firing rate bonus removed from the hull, given to the launcher itself as a baseline ROF (who cares about making it a hull bonus when nothing else can fit them) and have that bonus replaced with a useful survivability bonus like resists or a sig reduction of some kind. Even if they just copied the covops cloak revamp (set it to 100cpu and give the hull a bonus to fitting) it would at least give us a bunch of extra CPU to play with when all of these ships are extremely fitting limited.

I've never understood why these ships are so fragile. Hictors have ridiculous passive tanks so they can stand up to fleet firepower but dictors can't survive against a single T1 frigate or a battle industrial (especially the newly buffed ones) without logistics or ewar backup.

The mids and lows are another issue, especially on the Eris and the Flycatcher. The slot layouts on these two ships are frankly silly. The Eris should go from 2/4 to 4/2 and the flycatcher should be switched from 5/1 to 3/3. I'm aware that this homogenizes the fits quite a bit but the result is that both of these hulls end up being more competitive with the sabre for small gang work.

I believe the actual interdictor sphere launcher needs a revamp. Sure years ago it worked for the scale of the game, but thankfully the game has grown since then, specifically fleet battles.

I propose you limit the sphere launcher to only one fit at a time. Change the rate of fire to 3-5 seconds. Remove the bonus to the sphere launcher rate of fire and make it +1 to amount of bubbles in the launcher clip with a base amount of 0. At level 1 interdictor you can carry one bubble in the launcher and at max skill, level 5, you can have 5 loaded. Now have the reload time decently long.

With this you have a launcher that fullfills the needs of today's fleets and allows fitting room for a more logical tank so the pilot can be more than a 15 second hero. Also when the launcher is reloading, the pilot can bail off the battlefield or stay and perform some other duties like anti-tackle role without being gimped due to 2-3 launchers and a cloak.

What do you think about dropping a high for a fitting slot, assuming they all get 7 highs with 6 weapons? If they fix the launching system for them, do you think it would be appropriate to do that if it gives them more survivability to launch more bubbles and, you know, actually shoot back?

Why do all races have missile ships now?

I don't get it.. We don't see lasers or Ac's being flavour for other races :S

I believe the actual interdictor sphere launcher needs a revamp. Sure years ago it worked for the scale of the game, but thankfully the game has grown since then, specifically fleet battles.

I propose you limit the sphere launcher to only one fit at a time. Change the rate of fire to 3-5 seconds. Remove the bonus to the sphere launcher rate of fire and make it +1 to amount of bubbles in the launcher clip with a base amount of 0. At level 1 interdictor you can carry one bubble in the launcher and at max skill, level 5, you can have 5 loaded. Now have the reload time decently long.

With this you have a launcher that fullfills the needs of today's fleets and allows fitting room for a more logical tank so the pilot can be more than a 15 second hero. Also when the launcher is reloading, the pilot can bail off the battlefield or stay and perform some other duties like anti-tackle role without being gimped due to 2-3 launchers and a cloak.

The best buff dictors could get is a proper visible cooldown timer on the bubble launcher.

usually the matari stuff is the most agile in eve. whatever you touch, you seem to be changing this. So, from now on the matari interdictor is the least agile one, looking at the align time stats. Eve's basic principles have changed since Fozzie.

Buff to split weapons on Eris - thumbs up!

Great fun for those of us who actually spent the time to skill up both guns and missiles.

Not sure why you kept the single small drone, though.

Bubble immune dictors would be wtfbbqop. Just saying.

Rest of your feedback I'm looking into and taking note of, keep it coming.

Well, yes and no. Somebody earlier suggested that they be immune to their own bubbles - which I guess technically might be pretty hard to do, but would make sense. Essentially a dictor should be allowed to warp out of its own bubble hence making it much easier to survive a large fleet battle but still be caught in another bubble.

What about a halfway measure... create the Small Micro Jump Drive?

Dictors would have a limited ability to jump out of bubbles to reposition, but can't use it alongside every interdiction probe cycle.

Let me tell you why this is wrong. (...) It's still the most agile and fastest dictor with a nano fit to it.

one fitting slot won't give you enough survivability to 'drop bubbles and shoot back', people will still not want fleet dictors to bother trying to shoot things, rather they'll still be tasked with dumping bubbles and just trying to live

No it's not, if you nano the others, it will not be, and if you have a 1 low slot, you still have the choice to do it or not.
Paint it as you wish, you're forcing a nano in the Sabre so he can be what he should be by default.
WITHOUT a nano, MWD ONLY, is the Sabre still the fastest hictor?
If is not, then mass/agility/speed were not tuned up right.
So now Minmatar have to nano (a module available to all others) to be able to have his racial speed/agility back, kk.

Somethings look good some things look a little... confused.

If you're giving the 4% armour resist to the heretic I get the feeling that its role is that of a fleet vessel. Therefore given the racial dispositions I'd recommend some changes such as...

Heretic - 4% to armour 7 highs 5 launcher slots 3 mids 4 lows
Since fleet usage doesn't require a full set of weapons and the extra low can provide added survivability.

Flycatcher - 4% to shield 7 highs 5 launcher slots 5 mids 2 lows
Same idea as above. Less damage for that extra low that the hull could really use.

Sabre - more or less the same 8 highs 7 turret slots 4 mids 2 lows
They are more skimishy and get the extra weapon slots

Eris - 8 highs 6 turrets 6 launchers 3 mids 3 lows
Also skirmishy and a bit more versatile than the others.

I would also argue that the sabre and eris get a tad lower sig radius than their caldari and amarr counterparts.

Tldr;
Caldari and Amarr get 4% resist a level. Sacrifice a high for extra low. Lose a few launcher hardpoints.
Minmatar and Gallente have the full 8 highs and a full rack of weapons. Lower sig radius. Eris gets 3/3 mid/lows