Player Features and Ideas Discussion

For as long as I can remember, the way to catch poor souls in ships is to use an offensive warp disruption module. In the last few years, a new feature was added to the warp scrambling module that also disabled the opponents microwarp drive module as well as disabling their warp drive capabilities.

But a interesting feature, or annoying bug, depending on which side of the gun/missile your on, is the fact that when you are attempting to warp out, and you are pointed, you IMMEDIATLY STOP MOVING (dependent of course on how fast you were going to begin with of course).

For instance, I was flying my fun little mwd slicer today, burning around, when along came a cynabal! He was about 80k away from me, so i turned on my microwarpdrive module and aligned out to a celestial, with full speed pumping into my engines. He did the same, wanting my wreck to bejewel his mantle. I started to play a bit of cat and mouse, and i finally realized it was time to head out, so i overloaded my microwarpdrive module and was not currently pointed. Now i realize my mistake was not waiting to be fully aligned before hitting warp. He overloaded his point, and sucessfully pointed me.

This is where the "feature" kicked it. Due to me being in the process of warping, and then pointed, I STOPPED DEAD. Within 2 seconds i went from 4200 m/s to 0, and his guns ripped me apart.

In terms of roleplaying, why does this occur? I cant think of why. When you are scrambled, and your mwd turns off, you still coast for a good portion of time (all these time terms are in terms of frigate pvp, 10 seconds being a very long time).

In terms of coding, it would seem very easy to remember how fast you were going, and when your pointed, just keep up that number, or impose something similar to when your scrambled.

from my point of view, graphically, i was fully aligned, but the calculations did not believe so. I know many people have lost ships because of this, their speed being their main survival tool.

Please support this change, or atleast iterate on why this "feature" is the way it is.


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if anyone would like a demonstration, cause my description of the problem does not compute, i will make some sort of youtuber demonstration.

Tackle should only cancel warp, not rapidly declerate you (this also applies to people using suicide scouts to point freighters in high sec to then log in and tackle them with their mains currently at war with said freighter. The suicide scouts point the freighter, which rapidly decelerates the freighter. someone in a channel pointed this out to me, had no idea personally.)

+whan, supported. Neither rp or mechanic wise does this make any sense whatsoever.

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You sir have my sword, +1

+1 for bug fix

Supported, may have been dealing with the same issues. +1

I think it's a type of bug known as an oversight, in which the game client cannot enter warp and so it stops and waits for instruction. The problem is that it was already given previous instruction, to align.

Should make a ship align automatically if it fails to warp.
+1 for bug fix