Can someone explain to me the reason behind a tracking buff for a frigate?

Can someone explain to me the reason behind a tracking buff for a frigate?

The fact that your flight will do the equivalent damage of 8 drones until an equivalent of 4 of them are killed eludes you? Or the fact that your frigate stores now the equivalent of 20 scout drones?

I would personally love to see the vigilant get a small buff to lock range (enough to make rails a viable option) and have the ashimmu's pg and cpu opened up a tiny bit, enough to cover the difference in meta 4 and t2 plates.

Other than that, looks good so far.

No ad-hominem intended, really. Sorry for that, my english is not perfect.

What I am trying to say is that if you do the math, the overall damage output will be much higher. Even with adjustments for multiple targeting/weapon cycling. More benefits for the bonus would be added resilience against EoE (sbs) and npcs, server optimization if/when scaling becomes an issue, good scaling of rigs like the drone durability enhancer for example (that went unused due to a nasty CPU bite), more effective drone bay capacity (20 scout drones for the new worm) etc.

The downsides for this change would be a nerf to versatility when using the hull as a support drone boat (by tying the bonus to a specific drone type and removing effective bandwidth for other types).

Overall, I really like it, and can already think of a couple of PvP applications that will make the hull very good (hell, the Taipan was better than it before the change).

Regarding your lore/narrative objection, think about all hulls that get big bonuses, from turrets/launchers to rep modules etc. Thats the same turrets and launchers used in other ships without getting the bonus.

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Sansha: Sansha needs help. The Nightmare is getting used, mostly as a PVE platform, but the Succubus and Phantasm are among the least used ships in EVE. That means we have an opportunity to try something new! The theme we are currently excited about revolves around afterburners. By giving a substantial boost to the velocity bonus from afterburners we create an extremely powerful frigate, a lot of new options for the cruiser, and affect the Nightmare the least, which matches well with the impact we want.




SUCCUBUS

Amarr Frigate Bonus:
7.5% bonus to Small Energy Turret tracking speed

Caldari Frigate Bonus:
20% bonus to Afterburner velocity bonus (was 5% energy turret damage)

Role Bonus:
125% bonus to Small Energy Turret damage (was 100% energy turret damage)

split weapons and being able to armour tank ... these are minnie traits .. the angel line needs more uniqueness and distinction away from minnie ships

First I will state that the Rattlesnake is hands down my favorite ship in the game. That goes for PVP and PVE and I feel like the drone number loss is going to be a significant disadvantage. Even given the increased HP on drones there are fewer drones for players and NPCs to have to target at kill. Its a pain to use Drones in PVE as it is and this seems to only make it worse.

I may be biased cause I love the rattle how it is and prefer minor tweaks over larger changes.

Caldari Frigate Bonus:
7,5% reduction to shield boost capacitor need

Not a hugely important thing, but I've always wondered why the Vigilant and Vindicator have green backgrounds and the Daredevil has the rust background of Minmatar/Cartel. Also, why the ship is colored Minmatar/Cartel while the other two have distinctive Guardian/Serpentis colors.

Why not extend the Worm bonus to all drones? If someone wants to use a single medium instead of two lights, why not enable that choice?

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Not a hugely important thing, but I've always wondered why the Vigilant and Vindicator have green backgrounds and the Daredevil has the rust background of Minmatar/Cartel. Also, why the ship is colored Minmatar/Cartel while the other two have distinctive Guardian/Serpentis colors.

because it's worse in every way and there's never any reason to ever do it ever

Pretty much, except for a quite theoretical paper scenario. But that's not the point. If someone wants to do it why not let them? In order for there to be good choices there also must be poor choices. Or questionable choices. Or indeed edge-case hail-mary choices.

Altho the worm is really my favorite at the moment it still feels as if the missile bonus is a bit misplaced.

Currently if you fit 2 rocket launchers on it you have 45dps coming from only those rockets.
A 50% increase on damage on only 45dps results in 67.5dps.

A bonus that gives you 22.5dps at best seems a little low (considering you will get around the 200dps from drones alone). And this is only with thermal and kinetic.

I would almost like to see the range bonus back on it since it feels as if that adds more to the power of the missiles rather than this little increase.

mmm.. i think the worm should have 3 launchers change the drones too 3 and reduce the bonus so there is a more even split of dps.. more pg and cpu will prob be needed for it