Leave the virus bonus. It doesn't need a MJD bonus with that super-low mass, either.

What battleship has 10.5 highslots?

u know what.. **** it... if u want a ship in the theme of exploration to go alongside the astero and stratios then give it a jump drive and the ability to jump to covert cynos. that way it fills the ability to be a heavy ghost site runner without terrible navigation via gates.

itd be like a Blops light, introducing people that dont have a bs5 skill to black ops. No ability to bridge, just to jump. Unfortunately equipping it with a jump drive means high powered module repping goes out the window and gets large repping bonuses to logi drones

and ffs no covert ops cloak.

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When has price ever stopped us from blobbing the ever living hell out of something overpowered?

If price was no obstacle from massing titan fleets why would it be an issue on a billion isk BS hull?

Getting from point A to B in null/low is precisely the reason why this ship needs a covert cloak.

It is intended to be a exploration / support ship. Without a cloak there is no reason for anyone to fly these ships outside of high sec. All we are left with is the a logistics ship with a worse rep range that a T1 logistics frigate. Even if it had better range it's still just another logistics ship to add to the other 16 that already exist in game.

The argument that this ship should not have a cloak is an arbitrary one. People said the original Stratios would be OP, so CCP changed it to reduce its damage capabilities. Why can't the same be done with a battle ship?

If CCP reduced the number of turret slots (shouldn't have any to begin with) then the ship would be perfectly fine with a cloak. We would finally have a cloaky logistics ship with the added benefit of being able to dish-out okay drone damage (nowhere near as good as a domi).

... Instead we are going to sit here arguing, postion our stupid ideas for 150+ pages and when the ship finally gets released, it will be yet another uninspired, overpriced toy that brings nothing meaningful to EvE gameplay.

Aerodynamics don't matter in the vacuum of space, but the ship hull design makes absolutely no sense. Someone tried to be a little too creative me thinks. Kind of like the Celestis, just horrible, ugly ship.

What battleship is able to travel safely anywhere BUT high sec? Oh yea none. That's why you have them brought out OR come out in a big gang. Doesn't need bastion, or covert ops. Do some of you honestly think before you post this stuff? Only thing that MIGHT be nice, but honestly isn't needed is allowing it to jump through cynos. It has enough bonuses, and as long as you are creative you will be able to find a few uses for the ship. Lay out is fine also. Leave her be. She already has an ungodly amount of bonuses and will be able to have a good role in PvE, WHs, exploring, and prob even PvP. Stop asking for more, if you aren't happen with it, don't fly it.

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I wouldn't listen to you if that was your attitude towards me.

I went to null for sites, it's tanker than a hyperion, has the output of a domi, can do its own scaning, and is built to work in small teams.

If it had a cloak it would be un unstoppable monster, if it has a spotter it can go anywhere, and it does have navigation bonuses: 2.5 au warp and the align of a shield BC. It's the only battleship I've used that's light enough to do the MWD cloak trick.

If you give it a cloak it literally is a covert-ops logi and covert-ops battleship at the same time, neither of those things has been done for a variety of reasons and doing them at the same time would be broken more than I can state.

Use the ship on the test server, then complain.

Please guys. Why do you start asking for a covert cloak and the RR bonuses? Just drop RR already and make this ship usable to support exploration. And yes if that means it will end up as a 2 billion (or whatever) non plus ultra anom and DED runner (which does not nessesarily mean most DPS), so be it.

I'm not even going to bother repeating myself on the cloak issue

Personally I think the third option + a general nerf to its tank + a removal of its RR bonus is what is needed to balance a cov ops cloak on it. With the inherently slow lock-on times of battleships this thing would be terrible at locking down targets coming out of cloak either way. Plus when a person takes an un-insurable 2+ bisk ship into PVP that ship should rock in my opinion.