Kikusama
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Posted - 2013.12.03 21:11:00 -
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CCP Rise wrote:Hi
I am very relieved to finally show you the Sisters of EVE Battleship, the Nestor. We weren't able to get it finalized before Rubicon went out, but that's alright because now it makes a nice Christmas present (just kidding it's not until (late)January).
We all agreed that keeping the covert cloak theme was not going to work for the battleship. Instead, we've kept the rest of the exploration feel from the Stratios and Astero by giving the Nestor hacking and probing bonuses, but instead of cloaking it will receive a bonus to remote armor repair amount, drawing on the Sisters of EVE themes of aid and relief. On top of that, the Nestor (as designed currently) has incredibly low mass - around half the mass of a normal Battleship. This should make it very popular in wormholes. The rest of the attribute layout follows the principles from the other Sisters of EVE ships pretty closely, as do the bonuses.
Here's the details:
NESTOR
Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level
Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
10% drone damage and hitpoints per level
Role bonuses:
50% bonus to remote repair amount
50% bonus to large energy turret optimal range
50% increased strength for scan probes
+10 virus strength for relic and data analyzers
Slot layout: 7H, 6M, 6L; 5 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 11250 PWG, 680 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 8900 / 9950 / 9900
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 6200 / 1044 / 5.9
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 92 / .18 / 56000000 / 13.97
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 125 / 500
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 75km / 85 / 7
Sensor strength: 24 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 465
Cargo Capacity: 700
It will be acquired in the same way that the Stratios and Astero are, via Sisters of EVE LP stores. Here are the LP offer specifics:
Nestor
1,000,000 LP
100,000,000 ISK
Discount Nestor (From the Sanctuary)
800,000 LP
80,000,000 ISK
Nestor Blueprint
600,000 LP
150,000,000 ISK
Discount Nestor Blueprint (From the Sanctuary)
400,000 LP
100,000,000 ISK
I wanted to show you guys some art, but wasn't able to get ahold of the newest version today so I'll edit later with it.
Hope this is exciting! Let me know
o/
Much love for providing us with new toys, CCP Rise o7
As a friend said, this would've been lovely in 2007. I haven't played during that time, but I think I understand the gist of it. I'm pretty sure it's fairly obvious. The current EvE battlefield isn't really a place for a ship like this.
How this ship could be made to work is of course the players' choice, but in a PvP scenario it isn't really useful. It has drones and a drone damage bonus, spider tanking capabilities, a low mass, but this will not make it withstand let's say dreadnought fire, even without 90% webbing. A few target painters and range bonused webs will do. And, contrary to popular belief, wormholes do not lack dreads.
I understand the thoughts behind not giving this ship a covert ops cloak. What would be lovely though, would be a black ops jump drive. Make it a Black Ops Faction BS. It could act as a logistics ship for blops drops and support them with drone fire. The slot layout is ideal for either shield or armor tanking, so you kill two birds with one stone.
I believe this will give this ship good PvP usage outside envisioned some normal scenarios like WH exploration, further more, it'll help it. Let's say you're in a WH, after bagging some nice loot and your only exit is a null/lowsec system. You move a cyno alt in range of that system, pop through the WH then jump out immediately. It will also make it justify its price tag, from what I can tell it'll be at least 2bil ISK after the prices settle, so basically you can buy 2 Bhaalgorns or 2 Vindicators or two Machariels or... And yes, I think that in the case it gets a black ops jump drive its pricetag should be maintained.
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