What if we made a drone only battleship, something like
High slots: 4 (0 turrets, 0 missle slots), 6 mid slots, 7 low slots, 2 rig
Bandwidth: 125
Bonus per lvl:
20% damage, ehp to drones
10% drone speed
Role bonus:
100% drone track speed
Have you heard of a Dominix?
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Only been solely flying it and min/maxing it for 3 years. What’s it like?
Better than the ship you are proposing, as far as I can tell.
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Just use a Domi.
The maximum effective* dps you can reach witha domi without the use of guns is 786. And to do that you need to sacrifice a lot of tank. This fixes that. The track speed for this reduces the need fire omni’s, and the 100% drone speed, negates the need for nav comps. It’s 100% more effective drone boat.
I’ve been for 3 years. I want an upgrade.
Then use a Faction/Navy ship. You aren’t going to get a ship that does what you want exactly.
That’s a lateral change. Same as a rattlesnake. That’s why I’m here, to suggest a t2 upgrade to the only proper drone boat battleship.
You are asking ‘Please give me a perfect missioning battleship for exactly my purposes’.
CCP don’t do changes based on selfish aims, they do them based on a serious lack in the ship lineup. Drone ships exist, drones are the primary weapon on them, the secondary turrets/missiles are not a game breaker.
There’s a serious lack of drone boats. Name a single other battleship that could be considered optimal without the use of guns and missles. Sure, it’s selfish to want a better boat, but I’m almost certain out of all the players in eve, I’m not the only 1 who wants to get a t2 version of the domi that isn’t as poorly done of the dni (making guns a primary focus) or selling out our drones to make a missle ship like the rattlesnake.
Shield tank it, more DPS
Wouldn’t make a difference and actually weakens it in most cases.
And I want people to stop proposing terrible ideas that only suit their personal gameplay without a single thought to the rest of the game’s ecosystem. But we can’t all get what we want.
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If you want to bring up the ecosystem, explain why a proper t2 drone boat would harm it. Maximum effective dps for it would still be lower than a t1 standard ship at ~11xx, there’d still be drone travel time, they’d still be a 1 trick pony and have the same weaknesses, so what exactly is the issue? Sniping would be almost as good as a nightmare?
You’re still looking for a carrier.
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If I had to make an educated guess why CCP wouldn’t want a more powerful drone boat could be summed up in 2 words
Drone bunny.
You could ship up to a carrier. Or even a supercarrier. Now those are drone ships, and an upgrade from a battleship.
Dominix is a drone ship too, but in case you’re looking for an upgrade, there are options!
Let’s take for example the Megathron, it’s a t1 ship, when you outgrow it, you can move up to a vindi or a kronos.
Getting into an apocolypse? You can upgrade to a paladin.
A typhoon? Rattlesnake.
All battleship upgrades.
What you’re saying is:
If I want to upgrade from a domi, I have to change ship sizes. And go from 600dps, to 12k dps. And go froma ship price of 400m to a ship price of 20b…if they’re even that cheap.
What you’re saying is moronic.
Counter point. Any other type of coordinated fleet…or multi box.