Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I like these, except for the cyno disruptor. We all know why tundragon wants that.

Here's a thought

The idea of repping shields by sending waves of energy at a ship or using the capacitor is a good concept. However repping armor with waves of energy does not make sense since the nanobots supposedly materialises out fo thin air to rep the armor.

They should make armor reppers use 'ammo' called nanites (similar to nanite paste). Each armor rep module has a capacity for certain amount of nanites and uses them to make repairs while using some cap to 'activate' each one. A repping cycle would consume 1 nanite per x amount of HP repped and if you wish to overload it instead of causing heat damage, all you do is use like 4 nanite per 1.5x amount of HP thus draining your charge of nanites quicker. If the nanites is depleted you can reload them from the cargo bay. Larger modules will have bigger capacity since they have to rep more but then the stored nanites have to be more to compensate for bigger ships

Loggies would fire a 'missile like' charge that contains pre-activated (by loggie cap) heavy-duty nanobots that starts to rep the target as soon as it hits over a couple of seconds maybe to make a HoT effect.

Also then when the onboard repper is out of nanites and out of spares in the cargo, the loggie ship can send another 'missile like' charge that when hit transfers nanites into the cargo bay and starts to reload the repper to start the repping cycle again.

There can be a similar HoT effect for shields my launching a 'missile like' pod towards the target and starts seeping shield energy as soon as it hits. (but then shields already have a HoT called passive regen )

Any feedback would be nice since it's my first post

How about a "Tracking Device".


Might be fired by a "Expanded Probe Launcher" or a new "Tracking Device Launcher", it would attach itself to the target shp and then allow you to track the target. If the target is in the same system as you, the probe might give you a bookmark of the target's current location. If the target is in a different system, it might show the target on the star map. A whole range of different tracking probes could be offered giving a variety of lifespans and tracking range.

e.g.
current system tracking device- can only track ships within the current solar system
short range tracking device- can only track ships within 3 jumps of your current system
medium range tracking device- can only track ships within 7 jumps of your current system.
long ranget tracking device- can track targets up to 10 jumps from your current system.

Different probes could have different lifespans before they stop working (internal battery runs out!) e.g
15 minutes
1 hour
4 hours
1 day

Further variants of the tracking devices may or may not work if the target docks.

So rather than destroy your target outright, you could follow them, see where they like to go, etc in the hope of finding lucrative trade routes (if tracking a trader) or setting an ambush at some time in the future.

How about a 'Market Research Drone"?

You would program the droneto warp to a designated system and lookup the price of a designated product.
You would launch the drone and have to wait for it to warp to it's destination (the further away the destination, the longer the wait). You would then get an evemail from the probe once it had reached it's destination and looked uop the price. The probe would then be lost once it had completed it's mission

How about herding your scattered ideas and fencing them in one single neat post?

Another kind of Remote Rep capability.

Rather then repairing your tank like our current modules do, this mod would simply give the target additional shield or armor.

It would stack with all current logistics bonuses.

If your additive repair were to keep a target alive past the point where the unrepped version would be dead, the ship will stay alive until you remove your rep.

An obvious one seems a script for the Target painter, Range or Intensity,

Drone Repair Bay (Small, Medium, Large and Capital); repairs like-sized (in the case of Capital, Fighters and Fighter-Bombers) or smaller drones while docked with the ship and the module is active. This would also require that the armor and hull damage levels be visible for docked drones.

Auxiliary Systems Pods (Low/Mid/High) each add one slot to the respective level, at the expense of increasing the CPU and energy cost of all same-level modules by 10%. It would be even cooler if you had some pod grafted onto the side of your ship haphazardly making your already asymmetric ship look like some mutant barfed it up.

This would be a HUGE change but change the %damage mods to reflect how much damage get's through instead of dissipated into space, except that the percentages are cumulative against the total (not what gets through each layer).

For example, if my basic T1 ship took 100hp of Explosive damage, then 50hp (50%) of the damage would applied to shields; the armor another (10%) 10hp and the hull a whopping 40hp (100% - 50% - 10% - 0%). With a basic T1 Damage Control Unit, my ship's situation would improve; the shields would take 57.5hp, the armor 20hp and the hull would take no damage (total damage has dropped from 100hp to 77.5hp).

Then, allow modules to take damage based on armor and hull damage versus the amount of hit points the ship has; either ablatively (averaged) or randomly. Modules take damage the same as they would heat damage, and be be repaired the same way (nanite paste). Armor and hull repair systems should then be buffed a little to also repair medium and low level modules in addition to simply adding hp (this means these units can also repair against overloading).

Now we have some room for a new module: force-fields. reflect damage into space and occupy high slots (like weapons). A basic T1 force field might give 10% resistance, and a T2 unit 20%. Force-fields are active modules and extend beyond the range of the ship to protect others (like POS shields). Unlike POS shields they do not have hit-points and never have massive resists. The radius of the shield would be 1000m for small, 2000m for medium, 4000m for large and 8km for capital force fields. Only friendly ships (fleet/corp/alliance) can enter the field, everyone else ping-pongs off like any current ship collision.

Could make for some entertaining engagements where a blob gets "dispersed" by a neutral ship dropping a force field in the middle of an engagement. Boom, everyone's pushed outwards.



This would also coincide well with my other suggestion of having exterior heat-sinks (high slot modules; which could also be called something like ablative armor to not be confused with the low-module weapon upgrade of the same name). It can absorb both thermal damage from high module system overloading as well as adding to the general armor hit-point pool (although not nearly as well as armor plates), allowing for ships with spare high slots to opt for a little more tank instead. Heat sinks cannot be repaired and by absorbing the damage, will disintegrate over time. This requires routine replacement of the heat-sinks if equipped.

Change drone omnidirectionals to lowslots, or create a drone module akin to a tracking enhancer for the lowslot, and then change the omnidirectional to use scripts for drone optimal/drone tracking. Having omni's only in the midslots makes it extremely difficult to properly fit a drone boat that can have drones that are hard hitting and track well, to the point that its almost always better to just try and use a turret based ship instead.