Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Here are some thoughts:
1. the game has plenty of combat modules, but lacks in areas that are not combat... I found a good deal of space in areas that the game has yet to really impliment, but there are also gaps in the mainstay... so here is my list:

T2 versions of ALL drones, for T2 ships or just in general progression - and I think you should tie the models skins to the ships, like you did with turrets and laundchers... just for the sake of consistancy and favor.. so Khanid ships with say Hob IIs would have black and silver hobs, etc..

Heat absorbers for HS, something you can put into a ship, it could be a HS, a MS or a LS, "heat exchanger" which would help bleed the heat, we have nano paste so otherwise I feel heat is fine.

EW, how about some no active stuff:
RAM, LAM, MAM, GAM - x Absorbing materials, for say use on covert ops, in the MS, something to put when you just want to run around and most of your modules are going to be pointless as you cloaked most of the time... something like a module that would increase lock times of ships... hence you get no tank for it, in fact you might lose EHP, but you would have a more stealthlike hull and electronics/engineering... you could have absorbant materials, mountings, etc.. look at modern subs for inspiration on naming items... they could affect lock times, sig radius and the like... some new modules for SB, CO, etc. that would be something you have to limit to that class but which take up the so often times not used MS/LS.

I Often felt that EVE needed a module that you could mount small weapons on large ships and while not get a bonus you you could do something like this:

HS Lrg and Med sized modules [low would be pointless] the Medium allows you to put in two small weapons into a single HS, so instead of a medium pulse laser and the bonus, you get two small pulse in it's place, with no bonus, but you get something like an anti-aircraft battery effect... and the larg is 3 small... it would only work witth small weapons... rather a multi turret Hard Point mount module.

It could be shown as simply a single small weapon on the ship, it would have a single module in the slot, so graphically the same, but it would function as three small weapons, so you simply make a version of the module, put it in the small section, it uses 3x the same PG and CPU, and it's balanced by not being a bonused weapon as no med/lrg ship I know of has a bonus to small weapons. you could do the same with rockets and small launchers... in a manner of giving the large ships a anti-frigate/drone option over say fire-power on a combat role... much like the AAA cruisers of WWII, there they mounted something like 10x AA turrets instead of normal cruiser armaments.

T3!!!

I would really like to see, a DYNAMIC Description put on T3 ships... so that when you put the modules on, your bonus info is not just the standard - heat bonus... but it would show all the bones stacked from the ship in one place...

Cyno jammer: same as the ones that can cyno jam entire systems, but carried on a ship. The module effect could be system wide, but also localised (e.g. 100 km radius) or targetted (targetted ship cannot activte its cyno).
This module is a possible implementation for the nerf titan hot drops / power projection that seems to be popular on these forums.

Said it before, but mines!

Also instead of a cargo expander... drone bay expander? bandwidth increasing mod? dont need more drones in space but give the drone boats some love...

Different bombs for stealth bombers, perhaps with a continuous effect... area denial style? effects tracking, or range etc.

Do not know if this has been mentioned in an earlier post as I do not want to read through them all xD

Tracking Modules for Missiles
Similar to what the Tracking Enhancer and Tracking Computer does for turrets, but instead it affects only missiles. "Optimal Range" would mean more flight time and/or higher missiles velocity, and "Tracking Speed" would mean higher explosion velocity.

Tracking Disrupt Modules against Missiles
Similar to what the Tracking Disruptor does against turrets, but instead it affects only missiles. "Optimal Range Disruption" would mean less flight time and/or missiles velocity, and "Tracking Speed Disruption" would mean lower explosion velocity.

TIDI bubble :D

Capital Interdiction Bubble: no one warps out of the grid

Mods that can be fit to ships that expand either the bandwidth or drone bay of the ship. Small, medium, and large sizes. (5,10,25)

1) There needs to be a module to reduce your signature radius. I don't know why there isn't one. Basically an ECCM for target painters.

2) Rechargeable cap boosters. Change the existing cap booster module, so that it can take three kinds of "ammo" : full, one-time-use cap charges; full, rechargeable cap charges; and (rechargeable) empty cap charges.

If you activate it with full charges loaded, it will fill your capacitor, and if you activate it with empty charges loaded, it will drain your capacitor, and place full, rechargeable charges into your hold. Rechargeable charges enter your hold as empty when used, and one-time ones just disappear.

One-time-use boosters would obviously have cheaper recipes and blueprints.

Also, same idea for the ancillary shield booster, although with shield amount instead of capacitor

3) I'm sure many people in this thread have already mentioned self-destruct devices, which would be awesome if balanced reasonably.

No one has mentioned this, but it must be said: T3 strategic cruisers without skill loss when ship is destroyed.

Accidently posted this in the wrong section so reposting it here

I skim read some of the csm minutes & was thinking about some of the ship balanceing issues.

This then got me thinking, dangerous I know especially as I'm suffering from the seasonal lurgie, but I thought of a possible solution that might, if done right add some extra tactics variables for pve & pvp while addressing one of gallantes (read blasters / railguns) biggest problems.


So first the problem is 2 fold & specific to sniper & blaster ships.
Other than tracking the problem I want to tackle is todo with tank. for blasters to be effective you must close the gap as quick as you can while taking a pounding in the face & for sniping to lay any real dps you need to use all your slots for extra tracking/dps related modules.

The obvious thing todo would be to fiddle with the stats on the offending ships like the diemost etc.. however

Please read full suggestoins, contemplate brifely before flame grilling Big smile

What if there was a module that was a bit like a riot shield, or a grassy knoll, a kinda additional directional defensive layer. it could either be like one of :
a) maybe an additional layer that needs to be chewed through before getting to the shields.
b) maybe more very powerful shield hardner.
c) maybe more like a hardner with a chance of it being missed completely so say 60/40 chance the hit will be effected & this can be further affected by the attackers abilities, a igher skilled more accurate pilot will avoid hit more often etc...
d) or maybe a combination of the above.

Expanding this further there could be 3 versions
1) a less effective mobile version for the blaster in your face boats, which maybe might effect top speed.
2) a stronger one for snipers that has to be deployed & is stationary & tackes time to pack up/ un deploy.
3) a defensive GTFO one for those passive scout/ recon / industrial ships that covers the rear leaving the front exposed.

The vunerabilities of these would be the fact it is directional & ship equipped with this module will be very exposed from the rear so a swamped blaster boat will really need to fly wisely to not expose it's butt & simularily a sniper will be tied to the spot & very vunerable.

Further balancing thoughts other than tacking up cpu/grid/slot etc... maybe another alternative is the module dosn't actually add further tank atall but rather shifts the existing tank.
so for a simple example say a ship has 60 resists across all types. The module could shift the rear to the front so effectively hits from the front will meet 80 resists but rear hits will meet 40 resists.

this is early food for thought but I think it could be used by all races & would make some of the weaker ships very strong & viable in very specific situations but would go very horribly wrong if your out witted by your opponent or do something silly. This I think could be a good thing.

So thats my idea thank you for reading now over to anyone interested to comment, suggest or grill