A long time ago I explored the possibility of an AB bonus while discussing revisions for the Gallente line-up; the only way it would ever work would be with a corresponding downside - an inertia GÇÿdrawbackGÇÖ was the most sensible (i.e. increased straight-line speed with reduced turning ability), but based on some preliminary testing for every 10% increase in AB bonus you'd need a minimum 5% increase inertia (realistically it would probably have to be nearer to 10%), otherwise the whole thing becomes ridiculously overpowered just as it did when the devs released their version on the test server.

In short, AB bonuses don't really work, hence why you won't ever see them.

Hi,
Instead of giving them all a bonus to the penalty (50%) on the sig radius for MWD's, how about a 200% velocity bonus to Afterburners instead?

That's too much.

A 50% bonus might work, though.

Thing is, this only changes larger ship damage projection abilities on Assault Frigates. Doesn't shange their mechanics otherwise (You can still scram it). With an afterburner... You have to deal with the speed. Thats potentially game-breaking, while a micro-warp drive sig reduction really isn't.

no with the boost they recived (more fitting more slots 1 more bonus) they dont need a role bonus at all
a AB bonus would really make them OP making them untouchable by anything that dont use small guns and of course with the tank/gank they have they are no match for any ship that's supposed to use small guns

Or i could, you know grab my vindicator dual 90% webs comes to a 99% velocity loss, so going 2km/s thats now, what 20m/s? or grab a curse and neut the AB off, or grab my loki and blap it at 30km after webbing it twice, there is still larger solutions, many of them, some even BS sized.

AFs with oversized 10MN AB sounds like a terrible idea

That was the problem last time and unless the bonus is restricted to 1MN ABs then it's a bad idea this time too. Although I would very much like to see one at maybe 50%, not 200% that is way over the top.