Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hmm, interesting idea, I'll give it a bump.

No more near unprobable boosters, you won't even need probes.
Just one problem... how does this affect boosters sitting in a POS?

*edit* Also.... good god, your face... you should be a DUST toon, so that others may improve your face by putting a forge gun round through it *edit*

Yeah, linking in pos shields also needs to be removed.

So when you start the module it checks if you are in warp or inside a pos shield and returns an error if you are.
Otherwise it creates an anomaly and applies the boost.
Then on each second/tick it checks again (similar to a mwd vs scrambler) if you are now in warp or a pos shield and disables the module if you are and removes the anomaly again.

Actually now that i think about it the anomaly would have to move with the ship or be recreated on each module cycle or you could just mwd away too far before someone can warp to you.

Making them easier to probe would be a less drastic change and a step in the right direction, but i dont think it is the best way to do it. It would have to be a reduction in sensor strenght when you turn on a ganglink or an increase in signature radius.
An increased signature radius would imo be a huge nerf for boosting in combat since it makes damage application too easy.
And a reduced sensor strength would leave them more vulnerable to ecm, which would be annoying and reduce the offensive potential command ships.

So you want them to change boosting so you cannot boost while in warp? This is already how it works. Fleet assistance modules cannot be activated while in warp.

People would still park these near POS and it wouldn't change alot. Would you warp anything other then a blob to a large POS that has either enough alpha to insta pop your sub caps, or enough ECM to perma jam out your entire fleet while there is still an enemy fleet to contend with?

bump, because i think the currently planned changes are not enough

Theres no problem imo with ogb hard to probe down ganglinkers imho as these are usually used by small groups going up against larger groups (I miss unprobable battleships), as for POS links I think it might prove an interesting mechanic to have a non SOV POS module that provides links via script but only one allowed in any system (not 1 per corp or alliance, just 1 per system) and make it impossible to provide links within pos shields

I once mentioned this on the forum about the Command ships the unprobable T3s. there were multiple ideas given and i am happy to see that they are taking one i gave. the other one I suggested was a fun one. Cancels out the unprobable T3 ability.

The basic idea is simple. its spewing out all sorts of electronics and countering interference to make sure the fleet gets their nifty bonuses. you just make it easier to find by Increasing the ships signature radius for each active link running OR create a new line on ships called Electronic signature. that would just be a programming nightmare with how many times can we break things. lol

There are many possibilities in making it easier to scan with each active link running.