Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This post is for CCP. This was already posted in the General Discussion forums and it was not welcomed by the gamers community who only posted negative replies instead of helping improves the basics of this suggestion. It is also not meant for those who only believe in the SC nerf bat because I don't know how 20 nerfed SC's against 20 other nerfed SC's will resolve your problem.

Here is the idea instead of nerfing the Supercarriers.

Time for CCP to reintroduce the Mothership and give it the unique role such name deserves.

Only one Mothership can be owned by an alliance but available anytime by directors to assign to a qualified pilot when needed. It would not be player owned but alliance owned.

Mothership would be totally invulnerable to any ships but other Moms and would cost hundreds of billions. It would have the ability to only lock other Mothership and Supercarriers.

A ship that can eat Supercarriers one by one and slowly cut through an enemy Mothership.

Having such unique ship and role would greatly help with the actual Supercarriers problem and here is why:

It would be a tough decision to deploy 20 supercaps on the field without knowing the enemy Mothership location or availability. If you go with the gamble and the enemy cyno his Mom few minutes later, then out of 20 Supercaps, 16 dies and only few manages to get out luckily. The unique Mothership weapon could be a single weapon like target powercore overload system or such. This new mechanic can also be used to deploy few SC's as baith for the enemy Mom to show up while the real things happens somewhere else.

The mothership can only be called for reinforcements only if enemy Supercaps or Mom is present on the field. This to avoid dominance of the entire fleet by fielding the Mom with 20 Supercaps agains a station for example. Once the enemy Supercaps has died or warped off, the Mothership would have to cyno out using some timers if there are no enemy Supercaps or Mom on the field.

We would need to design a mechanic that will allow maximum 2 moms on the field. Both moms would have to decide either to engage the enemy Mom or the enemy Supercarriers. If one Mom decides to go with the SC's while the other decides to go with the Mom, then that very single decision may mean the lost of your Mom.

You get the basics of the idea and I think there is something to dig here to rebalance the game without creating a new balance problem.

If you only wants to destruct this idea then I suggest you continue to use this post: Motherships > Supercarriers


Thks,

Mar

Let me clarify your useful comment:

The first Mom can cyno only if there is an ENEMY Mom or ENEMY Supercap in which case the second Mom can not be friendly and can only be cynoed by the other side.

I'm always amused that some people think the best way to solve the overpowered-supercapitals problem is to introduce another, even more powerful supercapital.

what sigras said, im more focused on point 1 though.

For a good example on how not to break point 2 check out my escort carrier idea. It introduces a significnatly weaker ship to counter something much more massive than it. Practically every ship in the navy can sink an escort carrier without much more trouble than a HAC the size of a battleship.

i do have to say this is the worst motehrship idea so far, then again there are only two I know of and the other one is much more significantly better. His idea is that a mothership would function as a mobile outpost that anchors from system to system between down times with self defeneses and services based on the what is installed in her modules.

*creates shell alliance, places mothership alt in said alliance, sets alliance red. will now never not have two motherships on field at once, literally cannot lose*

Better? Arbitrary limits like that are just begging for abuse.

I've mentioned this in another thread (ideas for making a nomadic life easier, https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=83733), motherships should be a literal mother to ships. A floating station, one that would likely require her pilots to be both roqual and titan capable before even stepping foot into her.

Yes, the costs would be huge to build such a massive vessel, but her role would help ensure that only a few alliances will actually field them. Especially alliances that do not wish to sit in one spot!