Ugly Eric
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Posted - 2010.05.21 05:41:00 -
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My idea of pimping the BOBS are quite different and not thought completely thru. They might not be thought on all sides of the coin, so if they are crap, do kill me (ingame) in horrible flames of death ;)
- Give them the allready earlier discussed cloacky bubble with slight implemention. Let the bubble cloak all uncloaked and uncloak all cloaked :) It would be a way to find cloakers. Easy, just fly randomly thru a system with AFK cloaker until you find it ;-) The cloaky bubble has few problems I were unable to find a satifying solution. A) If the bubble is 20km and there are 10 ships inside it, how to prevent uncloaking each other, or would it be ok to crash and still remain cloacked if inside bubble? B) If somebody is targetted, would it still cloak him? C) The size of the bubble? 5km, 15km, 55km? D) Should it need fuel?
- Give them a AoE weapon, maybe as simple as let them fit bomb launcher? Maybe new kind of bombs to BOBS usage only? A bomb that is immune to SB bombs, but not to other BOBS bombs? So that in a regular SB bombage, you could get one bomb more shot.
- It really needs to be able to fit warfare links. As for now a Cloacky sneaky gang is getting deacent gang bonuses only, if there is a skilled enough t3 pilot abroad, and frankly, quite often those t3's are fitted to something completely else (I may be wrong here, but doesn't the covert reconfiguration sub go to same slot as the one that makes warfarelink usage possible?). There could be created a bunch (three) new warfare links designed to covert usage. ... erh. ok the minmatar links are pretty awesome to SB gang already :p Speed, sig radius and propulsion jamming range. They really dont need anything else :) Should be so, that a BOBS giving fleet bonuses works only on a ship where is fitted covert cloaking device.
- Give the BOBS the covert cloak
- DO NOT give the BOBS more hp/resists/DPS. Leave it as it is, but give it some useful things, like those warfare links or the cloaky bubble.
- Give them increased fuel bay, so that it actually can "roam" around without a bunch of transport alts, but do not lower the fuel usage.
- Also increase slightly the jump range. Not too much, but so, that it would be a little more useful.
These were my thoughts of the Black ops battle ship pimpages. I know there may be some, that are technically impossible or it would ruin gamebalance completely, but as I have no experience flying a BOBS, only been jumped by one few times, so these are the things I realized. Also I think that in place of increased DPS/tank it should be given some more unique bonuses that fits into its role better.
Ugly Eric
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