Player Features and Ideas Discussion

could be interesting ... at least for small gang fights...

but once you get into the big fights "just kill him" becomes easier.

Sounds interesting, yes. At all practical for Eve? No.

lol, I do say yes to life, but I say no to ideas that would be far more trouble to implement and run than the benefit that they would give. Simply put, multiplying the targets on a field by half a dozen at any given point in time, and causing targeting different systems on a ship to shut them down, would be painful for both the devs and the game itself and wouldn't really add much of benefit to the game.

As I said, sounds interesting, but it's not at all practical.

And forum warrioring might not make me an expert on what would and wouldn't be practical, but that combined with a few years of playing the game and a few years as a programmer gives me a fairly solid grasp of what is and isn't good for the game and what's realistic from a programming standpoint. And, yes, fun is one important factor, but this idea is less about fun and more about an interesting quirk to combat; one that would be tough on the servers and a pain to implement and provide little to no upside in most fights (and would typically impact performance in a fight because of the extra resources required to track all the different subsystems).

I do like this idea. I think it has some potential in the eve universe. But it needs to be simplified

For instance, being able to target the pod in the ship is a bad idea. If that where to happen then you might as well just go out and pvp in your pod. The ship is suppose to completely encase the pod in armor so its safe for the pilot to fight in. So i dont think that being able to target the pod is a good idea.


But as for targeting certain parts of the ship:

You can target the ships weapons. But instead of adding a completely new mechanic for this damage it can just be heat damage. (like overheating them)


You can target there Navagation, make them fly a little slower, do heat damage to an afterburner, increase there align time


Target there warp core, something like a few seccond warp disrupter, deal heat damage to MWD's


Target shields, lower the resisntence of the shields by a little bit, do heat damage to active shield tank mods



Target armor, Lower the resistence of the armor by a little bit, do heat damage to active armor tank mods


Target drone sensor, temporarily lose connection to drons in space, unable to launch drones for a few seconds


And while targeting any of the systems your still doing damage to the ship just not as much as hitting the ship and not the systems.

A good idea when fighting something much bigger then you. (frig tackleing a BS)

Somehting like that. I dont know just a quick thought



mxzf, with practicality in mind there are other space games with this mechanic in play. Like Star Treck online. It is a good mechanic for them, but it is a highly instence game. So i do agree that it may not be practical in Eve Online as of right now but maybe in the future it can be somehting they think about implementing.

Yea good points.. I should try WOT lots of people on here talk about it.

Targeting options could be expanded but yes, it would have to be in a simple yet easy way because after all how many sci-fi things have we seen where the engines get knocked out, or the bridge gets targeted directly.. altho if we did add this, minmitar ships would be screwed because you just gotta target the duct tape

yup, you nailed it.. it would have to be balanced depending on the levels of shield/structure/armor.. but then it becomes crazy and not really a "game dynamic"

maybe this could be more for making POS bashes either go fast, or at least make them more interesting