At 497 mill still. I was on board earlier.

Yes , pretty please , give rattler another high . It makes sense .

It's a good buff but can be much better .

so, you can get the max dps out of an mach/vindy using 4 out of 20 slots, while on rattle you need to use 6 out of 19 slots; is that ballanced?

I think given the amount of vamps a bhaal can fit, this might be overpowered (much more so than the ashimuu/cruor - and probably means that in reality the ashimuu will rarely be used).

While Rattlesnake loses more things than it gains and gets gimped on top of it all. 5 drones are better than 2.

Just give us an extra mid slot on the Rattlesnake and the current 400m3 drone bay on a BATTLESHIP we trained for and you won't be shitting on your customers.

After the "ohh shiney" factor wears off people will realize medium and heavy drones still suck. People trained the rattlesnake for its versatility and now that is being taken away with a bare minimum operational capacity of drone space and removal of missile velocity bonus.

Frigates are an issue as Lights and mediums are unbonused so you best kill them at range, quickly.

But apparently, if nothing changes it is a medium range cruise missile sentry boat?

So Mjd would be needed purely for escape i guess. As if a few frigates gets through you are pretty borked otherwise.

No what I am saying is that you have 25km less range and time to shoot them in and if you fail, it is harder and takes longer to kill them, If you are overwhelmed and you MJD away, then you have to wait for 25*10 seconds (over two minutes) burning towards them , before you can reengage them with your sentries.

Of course you can kill them eventually, but it's Not exactly improving gameplay is it?

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Like I said elsewhere in the thread, you have enough to deal with these Rattlesnake people to give people like me a little symmetry just for kicks and giggles.

So we can complain about the turrets on the rendering of a Machariel not being balanced, but we can't complain that the RS is still a gimp when compared to the other pirate BS's?

After the "ohh shiney" factor wears off...

Do the right thing and just give the Rattlesnake the extra mid slot it needs along with the extra launcher. We trained for versatility, not specialized high DPS.

because that would allow a target painter for torpedoes and give it back the damage it needs from the omni nerf.

It would then have 20 slots, the same as two other pirate faction BS.

Plus with the new passive low-slot omni modules this leaves more room in the mids for tanks (so this effectively translates into another free mid slot).

U 've took the decision to add another low to the nightmare. Fine but what will happen, most of them will fit another TE and remove a TC then add another invul or resist hardener . Here start the funny part... resist capped with 600 dps at 160 KM + with more than twice the tracking of a machariel , 3000 pg and 400 cpu free + 2 utility med and 2 utility high .

I don't know if in iceland u call that balanced , but we re i am we call that OVERPOWERED.

Oh lord!

This thread is fun.

Just to stay on topic.

Rattlesnake is great
Nightmare is great
Vindi is great
Mach is great

Roll out the changes.

The battleship line is a bit trickier as it needed to follow the new guristas flavour without being OP. Having 7.5 sentries and 7.5 launchers with the choice of any sub cap launcher is incredibly versatile and borderline OP

I have flown mega with less EHP, lets just put it that way

Improved Heavies with the issues solved, would match with currently bonused sentries, but either way most of the suggestions offered by people do a better job than the current suggestion in the OP.

The amusing part about this is that it would put the effective DPS of around 14 heavies on the field.

Citadel cruise missiles will hammer cruisers. What exactly makes you think cruise missiles, the most widely used weapon in level 4 missions, are unable to land their damage?

Sir!
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The question is not in dps balance or will the new two sentry damage as old five ones...
I beg Your pardon, but this is not rebalance...