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[kalaratiri]

Now with Details

Hi

I am very relieved to finally show you the Sisters of EVE Battleship, the Nestor. We weren't able to get it finalized before Rubicon went out, but that's alright because now it makes a nice Christmas present (just kidding it's not until (late)January).

We all agreed that keeping the covert cloak theme was not going to work for the battleship. Instead, we've kept the rest of the exploration feel from the Stratios and Astero by giving the Nestor hacking and probing bonuses, but instead of cloaking it will receive a bonus to remote armor repair amount, drawing on the Sisters of EVE themes of aid and relief. On top of that, the Nestor (as designed currently) has incredibly low mass - around half the mass of a normal Battleship. This should make it very popular in wormholes. The rest of the attribute layout follows the principles from the other Sisters of EVE ships pretty closely, as do the bonuses.

Here's the details:

NESTOR

Amarr Battleship Bonuses:
4% Armor resistances per level

Gallente Battleship Bonuses:
10% drone damage and hitpoints per level

Role bonuses:
50% bonus to remote repair amount
50% bonus to large energy turret optimal range
50% increased strength for scan probes
+10 virus strength for relic and data analyzers

Slot layout: 7H, 6M, 6L; 5 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 11250 PWG, 680 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 8900 / 9950 / 9900
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap/s) : 6200 / 1044 / 5.9
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 92 / .18 / 56000000 / 13.97
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 125 / 500
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 75km / 85 / 7
Sensor strength: 24 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 465
Cargo Capacity: 700

It will be acquired in the same way that the Stratios and Astero are, via Sisters of EVE LP stores. Here are the LP offer specifics:

Nestor
1,000,000 LP
100,000,000 ISK

Discount Nestor (From the Sanctuary)
800,000 LP
80,000,000 ISK

Nestor Blueprint
600,000 LP
150,000,000 ISK

Discount Nestor Blueprint (From the Sanctuary)
400,000 LP
100,000,000 ISK

I wanted to show you guys some art, but wasn't able to get ahold of the newest version today so I'll edit later with it.

Hope this is exciting! Let me know
o/

[Synthia]

The mass is for wormholing.

unsure on the covert cloak though.

[kalaratiri]

The mass is for wormholing.

unsure on the covert cloak though.

Yeah, I have now read elsewhere that it will not be covops capable. Removing that from OP.

[Desiderya]

Yay CovOp Smartbombcamps. 

[Korsavius]

Wasn't quite what I was hoping for aesthetics-wise, but still badass regardless. Spacenuns flying battleships...lord have mercy on all who oppose them.

[kalaratiri]

Yay CovOp Smartbombcamps. 

The mass is for wormholing.

unsure on the covert cloak though.

Yeah, I have now read elsewhere that it will not be covops capable. Removing that from OP.

I can put it again in caps?

[orange]

It could be that it is more Orca than Battleship, or at least that is what I would want in an Exploration-flagship.

- Add in a new set of Command Modules geared towards improving probes and hacking
- Give the ship a modest hangar-bay (~300k m3*) and corp-hangar, refit facilities (basic carrier)

Just some random thoughts.

*Orca has a 400k m3 bay; a Frigate is <30k m3, a cruiser is <120k m3, a battlecruiser <270k m3

[Lyn Farel]

 

[Desiderya]

Yay CovOp Smartbombcamps. 

The mass is for wormholing.

unsure on the covert cloak though.

Yeah, I have now read elsewhere that it will not be covops capable. Removing that from OP.

I can put it again in caps?

My reading comprehension sucks. Thank you for the clarification.

[Vincent Pryce]

Picture of the Future with text.

Space blender brings relief aid of whipped cream for the needy.

[Myyona]

Perhaps a Logi Battleship?

I fear the price of this thing will be disproportional to its actual usage value.

[Morwen Lagann]

Perhaps a Logi Battleship?

I fear the price of this thing will be disproportional to its actual usage value.

Of course it will, just like any "pirate" faction ship.

Doubly so if they do the same thing with the LP store where SOE stations offer it at 50% above the Sanctuary LP store cost that they've done for the Astero and Stratios, since the highsec prices will end up determining the market value.

I happen to think it's actually a good system that gives highsec and lowsec dwellers access to normally nullsec content at inflated cost, though I think 50% might be pushing it for a battleship. That's around a million LP per ship if we use standard prices for battleships from LP stores - more for the built hull.

[Katrina Oniseki]

That's around a million LP per ship if we use standard prices for battleships from LP stores - more for the built hull.

Wrong. The BPC is 600,000LP, the built hull is 1,000,000LP. At least if you follow the Astero/Stratios pattern.

Schere did some math for that one, since I'm a kat and kats don't math.

The SoE prices are exactly the same as other pirate faction prices if you go through Sanctuary, more if you go through SoE or Food Relief. So what we did was extrapolate using Pirate BS prices seen today. For reference, the Vindicator is 800,000 LP fully built.

Astero:
Fully Built - 80,000LP Nullsec ~ 100,000LP Highsec (The relationship is 4/5)
BPC - 20,000LP Nullsec ~ 30,000LP Highsec (The relationship is 2/3)

Stratios:
Fully Built - 240,000LP Nullsec ~ 300,000LP Highsec (Again, the relationship is 4/5)
BPC - 80,000LP Nullsec ~ 120,000LP Highsec (Again, the relationship is 2/3)

Nestor:
Fully Built - 800,000LP Nullsec ~ 1,000,000LP Highsec (Relationship would be 4/5)
BPC - 400,000LP Nullsec ~ 600,000LP Highsec (Relationship would be 2/3)

[Morwen Lagann]

That's around a million LP per ship if we use standard prices for battleships from LP stores - more for the built hull.

Wrong. The BPC is 600,000LP, the built hull is 1,000,000LP. At least if you follow the Astero/Stratios pattern.

I was thinking of the wrong number for the BPC, but the hull will be 1.2 million. Base value for BS hulls from pirate factions is 800k.

[Katrina Oniseki]

Edited my above post with math