Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Now, I know what you are thinking. "Rebalance current Tech III before adding new stuff". If I were suggesting ships, that would be a valid argument, but here, I'm suggesting modules. They are not for surpassing current Tech II modules: they are simply intended to be more versatile.

What Modules for Tech III?
Only the more general items would be turned into Tech III. Items that do not have a general variant that are fairly essential, such as armor hardeners (not including reactive armor hardeners, because that isn't quite generalized), will be grouped into a single item.

Module Subsystems
Tech III modules can fit three subsystems each: two general subsystems and one thermal subsystem.

General Subsystems determine the basic role of the weapon. Only one General Subsystem can be active at one time, but you can freely switch between General Subsystems in space by right-clicking the module and clicking the "reconfigure subsystems" option. This takes around 60 seconds for most ships, but Tech III ships can reconfigure subsystems much faster at around 10 seconds. General Subsystems are fairly important in determining the overall performance of the weapon. Some might increase damage but reduce rate of fire, making it an high-alpha weapon, while others might increase optimal range.

Thermal Subsystems vastly affect the performance of the weapon. They, however, only become active while overheating. Railguns might have a thermal subsystem that greatly increases tracking speed while overheating, whereas Blasters might have a thermal subsystem that greatly increases optimal range while overheating. Lasers might have a thermal subsystem that completely removes capacitor usage, increasing the ship's resistance to capacitor neutralization, and Artillery might have a thermal subsystem that increases rate of fire immensely but produces a massive amount of heat, forcing it only to be used in short bursts. Tech III modules produce less heat when attached to Tech III ships.

Tech III modules allow a crafty pilot to outwit and outmaneuver opponents that don't anticipate it. For example, a sniper fit could be fitted in such a way that it could quickly be converted into a close-range brawler, or vice versa. Fragile speedsters could buckle down to pummel ships that try to pursue it. Burst tankers could reassemble as slow-n'-steady tankers. High-powered, short-range Stasis Webifiers could be turned into low-powered, long-range Stasis Webifiers. Isn't that what what Tech III should be, versatile? That is what all of you have been calling out for, am I correct?

The balancing Issue that CCP is facing is that Versatile is not supposed to be better then specialized.

This is something that they must be careful about

Tech 3 modules should be inferior in performance to Tech 2, but much more adaptable through a much wider use of scripts.

That is essentially what I was suggesting, but no, not scripts per se.

to answer the above in order they are raised:
1. I think that for T3 it is perfectly acceptable to have multiple lvl V prereq's, it is a limit of it's branch, and it can do so much, also, I think that the loss of sp makes it more of a choice about T3 vs T2 vs T1, you don't fly a T3 into a situation where you're going to lose it unless you're end game-stage

2. if you can't refit in space (without the aid of carrier/POS) why on earth would you choose T3 over T2? refiting in space is this "win button that has me really worried"

3. they would be need to have little to no impact upon ribbon prices - the damn things are highly (maybe over) -priced anyway, but can't be a way of getting rid of spare sleeper salvage, and I haven't yet found a T2 item that doesn't need morphite
and minerals can be mined in the exact quantity - sleeper salvage is set proportions (at least on the uber scale)

4. but it's not the only disadvantage, they'd need a large (or highly specialized) skillset, probably would cost a lot, most of which are unavaible to new players, unless you want to turn EVE into a pay-to-win game

I await your reply (that said, I for some reason don't like the idea, but that's neither here nor there....)

Wtb Interdiction Nullifier module.

Cool idea anout T3 rigs btw +1.
Meantime other modules (except that rigs) - no way. CCP still can not handle with T2 and meta versions of new modules (AAR, ASB, RAH, MJD), and gave no place to big amount of useless modules, like armor platings.

I like the idea and can see where you are coming from, its easy to consider that say a webbing module for instance could be configured for range or velocity bonus giving less than specialized ships but more than non specialized. There is always the issue of balance, the same can be said for the ideas like tech 2 capitals or tech 3 battleships and frigates.

In one hand I can see how I would like to be able to use scripts and in the other I can see how this might be a bad thing but I am open minded and can see how this could be balanced via long reload times, another idea for tech 3 modules could be as simple as heat sinks for overloading longer, I can also see these being tech 3 ships only I'm afraid.

lol .. I just think of them as modules ...

if you think it's that worthwhile .. go ahead make the post, I wont mind

this has a measure of merit - since T3 hulls are supposed to be changing monsters
except that the main point about rigs is that they're non-removeable....