Unfortunately that has more to do with heavy drones sucking and less to do with the ships being pigeonholed into sentries.

Well lets be honest after looking at the presumed stats for the Nestor. The addition of exploration stats to a battleship poses a new obstacle for players making this possibly a new type of ISK grinding method with ghost sites and plenty of exploration sites spawning over the course of the day in New Eden. I like the idea of the ship but the stat benefiting remote repair needs a remission by chance. A game changer for exploration battleships is the allowance of battleship size triage module capabilities which allow for the player community to use this for different activities such as PvP, Incursions, Null Sec exploration, Factional Warfare, and possibly even Dev Destruction Events (hey at least we try to kill them). Point is that maybe a TRIAGE module fit specifically to be lesser in comparison to a Carrier size triage module is something that might be a twist in the Sister's of EVE since the true secrets of their cause is preservation of New Eden no matter the means.

Another idea is to add 4 types of SOE ships:

Assault Commanders

Ships of this class have advantages towards DPS and Speed. This will also allow the Dev's to institute a possible battleship size boosting ship that gives various fleet command bonuses. This adds another glitch in the system for PVP parties

Logistical Support Vessels

Ships of this class can gain the ability to use the Triage module and have certain features that limit is overall effectiveness in a combat situation without fleet support. This will satisfy most incursion pilots and possibly allow for more room for other ships that go both ways as of armor, shield, and omni-tank firing platforms.

Exploration Platforms

Ships of this class involve stealth and scanning to track sites and other players very quickly among the system the ship is located in. The current set-up is pretty standard for what is needed for these types of ships.

Interdiction Brigades

Full on scrambling ships that are hard to kill and jam. Bonuses for drones and a role bonus that benefit the survive-ability of the ship overall.

The 7/6//6 could be cool, but the bonues need to be untangled.

Is it a repper, a tanker or a damage dealer.

The scanning bonus needs to go, who the helll is going to probe...welll anything...with a battleship.

Best suggestion so far imo

which end is the front?

Well lets be honest after looking at the presumed stats for the Nestor. The addition of exploration stats to a battleship poses a new obstacle for players making this possibly a new type of ISK grinding method with ghost sites and plenty of exploration sites spawning over the course of the day in New Eden. I like the idea of the ship but the stat benefiting remote repair needs a remission by chance. A game changer for exploration battleships is the allowance of battleship size triage module capabilities which allow for the player community to use this for different activities such as PvP, Incursions, Null Sec exploration, Factional Warfare, and possibly even Dev Destruction Events (hey at least we try to kill them). Point is that maybe a TRIAGE module fit specifically to be lesser in comparison to a Carrier size triage module is something that might be a twist in the Sister's of EVE since the true secrets of their cause is preservation of New Eden no matter the means.

CCP, now your Nestor looks like this..

After a second thought if it would get a 6th turret it would also become useful for incursion, as drones (sentry) or not that popular there. Besides, like I said, it currently has less dps that domi...

What about just making lasers it's primary weapon and drones secondary?

idea.. remove turrets. make it like 6/6/8 or 5/7/8 or even 5/7/7

keep exploration bonuses.

give it blops like cloak but raise the speed% while cloaked to like 300m/s

100% bonus to drone dmg or +1 drone per level of galente BS

also shield/armor/energy transfer amount/range

and have it like a subcap Carrier with an exploration twist with a maint bay for holding the SOE frigate in (fitted)

also give it corp bay and refit ability. could be useful for wspace

and if all the above needs are met i guarantee it will be worth the 2bill price tag

ps. needs better scan res.

No.

No pirate ship has drones as its primary as of right now. Don't go trying to make CCP cater to a specific community.

The ship will turn out however it does, and I'm sure I'll enjoy it, but I don't want this going the way of the Marauders.

On the contrary, I'd appreciate a ship with very few turrets, but perhaps a +1 to number of drones controlled per Gallente BS skill, and a 250 mbit/sec bandwidth- then it'd be the first purely true drone boat.

On the contrary, I'd appreciate a ship with very few turrets, but perhaps a +1 to number of drones controlled per Gallente BS skill, and a 250 mbit/sec bandwidth- then it'd be the first purely true drone boat.

No pirate ship has drones as its primary as of right now.

After a second thought if it would get a 6th turret it would also become useful for incursion, as drones (sentry) or not that popular there. Besides, like I said, it currently has less dps that domi...

What about just making lasers it's primary weapon and drones secondary?

This should make it very popular in wormholes.

Why would anyone want to fly this?

I can get the scanning bonus from a cov ops for <50m
I can get the Drones PVP with a Domi for 10% of what the Nestor will cost.
In PVE I can get it out of the Rattlesnake for a 1/3 of the cost and my tank wont interfere with damage output.
I can't take it though a black ops as a logi ship as the Sisters theme would seem to lean towards to begin with. Even if I COULD do that the range on the reps is abysmal.

Even if I WANTED to use it to explore. It can't warp cloaked or run bubbles, its really just a loss mail waiting to happen moving about in low/null sec. For 1/5 the cost i can fit a T3 to cloak, run bubbles, do the scanning and hacking and not have a pretty much guaranteed loss mail.

You asked us which way we would like to see the ship lean.
May I re direct the question back to you and ask what is it exactly YOU had in mind.

I get the lasers and drones as being part of the theme of long deployments. It also fits with the other ships in the series. Doesn't it make far more sense both LORE wise and practicality wise to have the Ship be a faction Black Ops battleship? It would Fit the theme of exploration by bridging the Astero and Stratios cruisers into deep space or QUICKLY slinging them to a disaster site to render Aid. It would go along with the "Shuttle bay" part on the picture. Remove the laser bonus, give a logistics bonus and limit it's damage to a flight of drones for self defense.

Lets think about this along the lines of how the different factions ships are built to support one another. The Astero is a small nimble scouting ship. The Stratios is a flexible cruiser for exploration and DPS when you need some attack power. The Nestor is a relief vessel that specializes in getting the other craft to hot spots and disaster sites quickly and uses its hospital and shuttle bays etc to do it's whole humanitarian thing.

Its supposed to be delivering sacrifices to the Jove. Shouldn't it, yah know, deliver/send something somewhere :P

The great thing is with a few small tweaks you can make just about everyone happy.

The low mass and logi bonus's will still be useful to the worm hole folks, the PvP inclined will finally get the Battle Ship class /Blops capable logi ship they have been asking for for years. The PVE folks will get an armor tanked Rattlesnake for use in areas where the shields native resists are weak.

Drop the scan bonus. Give Logi Range bonus
Drop hacking. Give Blops

We can certainly discuss this amount vs range thing. Can you guys help me out saying specifically in relation to it:

Do you feel you need added range to be able to run PVE content, or just to PVP, or both?
Are you asking for bonus to amount AND bonus to range or bonus to range INSTEAD of amount?

Not sure when it gets to sisi but there will be plenty of time before release to play with it.

Shortversion: Real support BS or real exploration BS.

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.
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

NESTOR II: The Sisters Disaster Relief Vessel

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
5% drone damage and hitpoints per level
5% bonus to drone repair amount per level

Role bonuses:
50% bonus to remote repair and remote shield transfer range
50% reduction in capacitor need for Remote repair and remote shield transfer
50% increased Range for remote capacitor transfers
50% bonus to salvager range

Slot layout: 6H, 5M, 8L; 4 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 11250 PWG, 680 CPU(Adjust as needed)
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 8900 / 10050 / 9500 (Shifted some hull into Armor to follow Amarr ships)
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 6200 / 1044 / 5.9
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 101 / .18 / 70000000 / 11.97 (Added some mass for the ship maintenance bay/fleet hangar
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 125 / 375
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 75km / 85 / 7
Sensor strength: 24 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 465
Cargo Capacity: 700

ADDITION:

Fleet hangar: 10000m3
Ship maintenance bay: 300000m3

YeahGǪ no. If we're going to create sub cap escort carriers, they should be something entirely different

NESTOR: The PeaceKeeper

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
10% drone damage and hitpoints per level

Role bonuses:
25% Energy turret Damage
50% bonus to large energy turret optimal range
10% Reduced Capacitor need for energy turrets

Slot layout: 7H, 5M, 7L; 6 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 11250 PWG, 680 CPU(Adjust as needed)
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 8900 / 10550 / 9000
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 / 400
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 75km / 85 / 7
Sensor strength: 24 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 465
Cargo Capacity: 700