# New Mechanic - Battleships "Frigate Escape Bay" **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** singularity\ **Created:** [February 20, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995 "2020-02-20T17:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![San\_Regal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/san_regal/32/187310_2.png) [@San\_Regal](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/San_Regal)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/195 "2020-02-21T01:49:43Z")
Sounds like a fun change for roaming with a group of battleships. ---
**Author:** ![Runa\_Yamaguchi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/runa_yamaguchi/32/197532_2.png) [@Runa\_Yamaguchi](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Runa_Yamaguchi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/196 "2020-02-21T01:49:56Z")
I really think CCP dropped the ball on this as it could have been so, so much more. Imagine a titian getting popped and its “escape” is a dread. That dread gets popped and _poof_ out comes a carrier. Then when that dies, a BS…then a BS…followed by a C and then a desi and frigate with a vette being the last ship before your pop… This Russian Doll content would have been absolutely great…too bad all we get are frigs… Let’s hope they expand on the idea! ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/d/4deabeb19600ee9cda07e9a711ef02c3d11b8ea8.jpeg) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/a/0/a0443ccd0e8352c98d53e552d0fe6e22f2863a1b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Theron\_Larkis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/theron_larkis/32/170573_2.png) [@Theron\_Larkis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Theron_Larkis)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/197 "2020-02-21T01:52:20Z")
Personally I think it’s a silly idea that has no place in EVE, but at the same time I’m kinda interested to see how it works out for different play styles. ---
**Author:** ![Dornier\_Pfeil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dornier_pfeil/32/188246_2.png) [@Dornier\_Pfeil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dornier_Pfeil)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/198 "2020-02-21T01:57:30Z")
This is EvE. You should always assume your ship is forfeit the instant you press undock. This mechanic is a way to increase longevity in a fight. Maybe it’s a useless longevity. Maybe not. You don’t have to use it. Does insuring your ship also mean you are planning to lose it? I’ve never heard anyone arguing against insurance using the logic you are demonstrating here. But I suppose you believe anyone using insurance is planning to lose their ship. Bollocks indeed. ---
**Author:** ![San\_Regal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/san_regal/32/187310_2.png) [@San\_Regal](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/San_Regal)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/199 "2020-02-21T01:59:10Z")
You could sort of explain the lack of escape bay on larger hulls by the fact that they have other types of bays, fuel bays for jump drives, ship maintenance bays, freighter doesn’t but one could argue it’d eat up precious cargohold. ---
**Author:** ![Daoden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/daoden/32/271841_2.png) [@Daoden](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Daoden)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/200 "2020-02-21T02:10:05Z")
Ill prolly put a frigate in there with smart bombs, to properly whore in on all kills. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/201 "2020-02-21T02:10:12Z")
Don’t see why not. The Nestor already has a ship maintenance bay, and since it’s a battleship, it will be getting this “frigate eject” bay as well… ---
**Author:** ![Cassian\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cassian_anders/32/242583_2.png) [@Cassian\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cassian_Anders)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/202 "2020-02-21T02:31:01Z")
Definitely one of the coolest ideas I have seen. If EVE Echoes implements titans which can hold multiple ships so that they can be used as forward operating bases I hope they bring that to EVE Online as well. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/203 "2020-02-21T02:32:24Z")
There will be no mobile phone trash “features” in our beloved EVE Online, thank you… ---
**Author:** ![Algathas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/algathas/32/397229_2.png) [@Algathas](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Algathas)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/204 "2020-02-21T02:35:03Z")
> [@Dornier\_Pfeil](#): > > But I suppose you believe anyone using insurance is planning to lose their ship I don’t bother insuring ships as I never fly an individual ship enough to likely lose it before the insurance expires. Yes, anyone using insurance is planning on losing their ship, otherwise insurance is a waste of money. ---
**Author:** ![Beast\_of\_Revelations](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/beast_of_revelations/32/413187_2.png) [@Beast\_of\_Revelations](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Beast_of_Revelations)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/205 "2020-02-21T03:04:44Z")
I think the attempt is great, and I applaud CCP for making some kind of attempt to do something with battleships since they caved to the battleship-haters years ago. Now, will it be pointless? Useless? I have no idea, but probably. But do I support the attempt, in lieu of nothing else? Yes. Viva la CCP! ---
**Author:** ![Cassian\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cassian_anders/32/242583_2.png) [@Cassian\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cassian_Anders)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/206 "2020-02-21T03:36:22Z")
Did you even play the beta bro? It’s basically EVE with a simplified interface. ---
**Author:** ![Australian\_Excellence](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/australian_excellence/32/367782_2.png) [@Australian\_Excellence](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Australian_Excellence)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/207 "2020-02-21T04:01:54Z")
> [@QuakeGod](#): > > It will make for some even juicier high sec battleship gank killmails in Uedama…. It will make them cheaper lol Can’t smartbomb their expensive pod when they come out in a tanked frigate, which can also take the mods from the ship they just lost lmao ---
**Author:** ![Herzog\_Wolfhammer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/herzog_wolfhammer/32/452132_2.png) [@Herzog\_Wolfhammer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Herzog_Wolfhammer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/208 "2020-02-21T04:07:25Z")
Um… I … f\*\*king love this idea. Holy cow you guys. It does not matter if this is effective or not, or what the deal is. It’s just new and cool. Let me guess, CCP must have some new people working there? Hopefully this gets implemented before their souls get sucked out. If not by coworkers, then by the usual "hurf blurf everything sucks and I hate life gank gank gank and ISK ISK ISK " crowd. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/209 "2020-02-21T04:18:54Z")
That’s why you keep another 3 or 4 catalysts there who aren’t a part of the original gank to pop the frigate, and then their pod… ---
**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/210 "2020-02-21T04:22:20Z")
Ah, spare catalysts. You make it sound so easy. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/211 "2020-02-21T04:24:01Z")
I highly doubt that gankers will give up that easily. There are plenty of ways it can be done. They aren’t just going to pop the battleship and watch the pilot fly off unharmed in their frigate, implants intact… ---
**Author:** ![Scipio\_Artelius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scipio_artelius/32/408264_2.png) [@Scipio\_Artelius](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scipio_Artelius)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/212 "2020-02-21T04:31:33Z")
> [@Tiberius\_Amzadee](#): > > larger ships will suddenly have trouble tracking a sudden swarm of small target signatures If you get to the point where you have a sudden swarm of frigates in your fleet, you’ve already lost the battle. FC will be trying to disengage by that stage. A couple of ships could be useful, but once you start losing your main fleet, the fight is pretty much over. ---
**Author:** ![Herzog\_Wolfhammer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/herzog_wolfhammer/32/452132_2.png) [@Herzog\_Wolfhammer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Herzog_Wolfhammer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/213 "2020-02-21T04:32:27Z")
What a smart boy you are ---
**Author:** ![Zirconium\_Solkaze](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zirconium_solkaze/32/173693_2.png) [@Zirconium\_Solkaze](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zirconium_Solkaze)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-mechanic-battleships-frigate-escape-bay/220995/214 "2020-02-21T04:42:22Z")
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