Player Features and Ideas Discussion

FOF HAMs and Rockets - hopefully with a bit better targeting AI.

Defender missiles that are actually useful, possibly for fleet defense.

EWAR drones that have a decent chance of catching fast-ish targets (faction and T2 versions would be nice).

Even in a drone hit point bonused ship I am finding my drones very vulnerable to attack removing key DPS.

Drone Damage Control Unit

Provides Shield, Armour and Hull resistance bonuses (hull is currently zero and yet most drones have a fair amount of Hull hitpoints.)

High Slot Mod

Requires activation, and therefore vulnerable to neuting

Fitting requirements similar to turret weapons, sizes mean larger ships need appropriate sized mods.

Small - Affects Light Scout Drones CPU 9 PG 6
Medium - Affect Medium Scout Drones CPU 20 PG 82
Large - Affects Heavies and Sentries CPU 33 PG 1040

Drone Nanite repair field

High Slot Mod

Requires activation, and therefore vulnerable to neuting

Fitting requirements similar to neuts, sizes mean larger ships need appropriate sized mods to get range benefits for expected engagement ranges, ranges give a small amount of leeway to not be active against an opponent at the edge of the expected engagement range.

This Mod Repairs Hull and Armour of drones with range. Heavier Mods rep more.

Small 7.5km
Medium 20km
Heavy - 40km

My Idea is a high slot item that allows you to increase the stably of a worm hole so as to,
1) make the idea of wormholes more wanted by people that like the idea of the worm holes.
2) expend on a mechanic you already have in play
3)it adds and new set of ways to play with out adding to much

i also think that at some point i would hope to see a structure for systems that let you stabilize a worm hole long term maybe even permanent

thank you for you time.

Defender missile battery, small medium and large and x-large, for when I get a Titan.

I want to launch a hail of defender missiles from each battery, I would like each battery to go for the nearest in-bound trajectory missile, on activation.

Tec II defender missiles would be nice also.

These are ideas based on the already suggested idea and concept of "Field Generators".
Here's a different take as the stuff below are based on interacting with atrributes of ships that commonly are left untouched (or are simply undesirable).

I would call this one something like
"Designated Support Module: Sensor Link/etc"

Area of Effect/aura-based module variantes based on current support modules like:

Remote Sensor Booster
Sensor Link
Projected (aka remote) ECCM

I'd prefer these to be exclusively available for T1 "Support" cruisers such as
- Scythe, Exequror, Osprey, Augoror
- And perhaps T2 Combat Recon vessels, as a minor gimmick.

I'd refrain from T2 Combat Recon access since the buffs are significant and it is easier to balance as the T1 Cruisers can't tank all too much at all.

Similar in fashion like how it is with the 10000 CPU req on Covert Ops Cloaking module; these ships having a -99% bonus to CPU requirements to the suggested AoE modules.

Due to the fact that their superior T2 cruiser variants are already "well endowed", I thought this could be interesting especially for players who are quite new to the game but can also immediately find a welcoming hand from those who normally fly the expensive T2 ships in fleet.
Plus I don't see these ships that much in action.

Shall be hi slot modules; and only one may be active at a time.
Same could apply for a secondary set of med-slot aura-modules.
And just like with heavy/interdictor bubbles - There is no friend-or-foe.

When one of these modules are active, the AoE shall be visible in similar fashion to the anti-warp bubble effect of a Heavy Interdictor - but just as respective colors like red, blue, green, yellow/orange.

Players within receive the respective buff.
The magnitude of the respective buffs should not be extreme but should apply a decent addition to the current value of friendly ships' stats. The magnitude should be slightly inferior to the basic module (Designated Sensor Link < current Sensor Link)

What's the use of such AoE Module? (penalties and disadvantages are further below)
Can augment countless vessels within a radius of 10km with one distinct buff.

Types of AoE buff modules:
First, the classic variants like Sensor Link, Remote ECCM, Remote Sensor Booster etc

The new and unique ones (probably more interesting):

• "Gravimetric" - Mass reduction/Agility buff; makes vessels a lot more agile, allowing a significant improvement to acceleration and align time (Aura radius should probably be +10km)
Use: Best results for cruiser/battleship fleets; also great for shorting "transit/slowboating" from gate to gate
Could come in two flavors. Medslot aura makes ships more agile.
The Hislot variant does the opposite and makes ships heavier, sluggy, etc.


• "Magnetometric" - Apply's positive buffs that lowers sustained damage applied by turret-based weapons and/or missile-based weapons. (marginal magnitude!)
As an explanation, the module utilizies combination of grav and magnetometric fields.
Some of the projectile shots are deflected by the fields; Hybrid/laser could be explained by "mistargeting zero-G calculations" due to the fields' erratic frequencies. I'll leave the technobabble to you.
Missiles damage calculations could be done by virtually improving a small set of missile-dmg specific values like lowering Signature Radius of vessels, raising the Explosion Radius of the missile - things like that.

Remember, these are not a god shields as it only lowers damage marginally. In fact, I'd love to see their magnitudes higher, but therefor also come with a penalty. Something in the fashion of Good and Bad; you get here less missile and hybrid dmg but therefor more projectile and laser damage. But that is too complicated.
Nevertheless, remember it would be easy to take down a Scythe or any other of these T1 cruisers using these.

• "Unified Sensor Link" - Applies a sensor link buff to all ships within the aura, applying Optimal and Fallout buffs to turret-based weapons. pretty straight-forward.

I'll just leave it there, since more examples would just be tedious.

To wrap it up quickly,
AoE buff support modules; auras featuring Sensor Link buffs - as well as such that improve agility/mass.

do i really need to comment?

Fitting/Slots ideea


rigs for h/m/l slots

Jet Can Boobie Traps

Jet cans that have a bomb built into them...as a reaction to canflippers ORE designed this feature into jet cans which causes the can to explode inside the cargo bay of the thief's ship. This increases the risk vs reward.

Set as an option when a pilot jets his can, only other fleet/corporation/alliance members may remove contents.

Once the thief flips the can they will get a warning that the can had a bomb..they have seconds to jettison their cargohold, but there is a chance (50%) that jetting the cargohold will set off the bomb (risk vs reward). If the thief has the Hacking skill the chances of the Bomb exploding are decreased by skill level

If the cargohold is jetted the cargo is destroyed when the bomb explodes harmlessly in space.

On Explosion in ship:

• 75% damage to hull (it explodes in the hull)
• 50% Armour damage
• 100% damage to shields (the shield power supply is disrupted)

A further enhancement would be to allow pilots to set their wreck to have a boobie trap as well.

Perhaps this idea is better if it is introduced to the Sensor Links module, so that there is more sense to it and emphasizes on the interest of fitting these on Scythes and Scimitars (and other ships)

EIther make a new Sensor Link sort of module and/or add this to the existing Sensor Links modules;

For Sensor Links:
+ improves Missile Explosion Velocity
- Decrease Explosion Radius

~ The new buddy-buffing Sensor Link module for missiles fans
+ improves Missile's Max Velocity (thus more range, reaches target faster)
+ improves Missile Bay Rate of fire
// %-Magnitude shall be affected by Science Skill "Rocket Science"

oooh the horror of a warp scramble.... from 75km away.

Alternatively, Splitting the functionality of disrupting a ship from entering warp, to simply making a MWD inoperable will keep some semblance of balance.

Sorry Noslan, if there were web scramble drones, the best tackler in the game would be a Dominix. or a Carrier. This would greatly upset game balance.

But a useful idea is to have drones similar to web drones that work more effectively on MWDs