Player Features and Ideas Discussion

While you certainly are at max warp speed quite often, you arent there for long and so what you heard is correct, you will spend most of your time warping around significantly below your max warp speed. Unfortunately the issue seams to be in the rusty core code of eve and can thus not be fixed without commiting huge resources to it. As it stands currently those resources are needed somewhere else more, thus the issue wont be fixed for a very long time.

You should actually test it. If you do you will find out it doesn't do anything significant. On the 12-hop route I tested, variation in the speed of the undock had a greater effect on the total travel time. In other words, for a 15-minute travel time the implant made a difference of perhaps 5-10 seconds.

So, what you are saying is, you really want the implant to give more than 15% because 15% is pathetic.

At least, for freighters.

As you point out, this is not giving a hauling toon much of an advantage, and the bigger influence is align time and acceleration into warp. Most hauling ships are slow and sluggish, so the way to fix that is to address the problem (slow align) with implants, such as low grade snakes or similar.

Freighters are boned no matter, because they are unable to fit rigs or low slot modules. 15% of 0.75% is nothing.

For smaller vessels with higher base warp speeds, 15% is useful. Especially if you rig the ship and it has a high agility also. You can be in to a belt in nullsec and scramming a guy in half the time of a normal frigate.

The problem with adjusting the efficacy of the implant is that going from 15% to 50% will still not help a freighter, but 15% to 50% on a base 15AU/s speed is significant. Add in two warp rigs and you could easily get to 25/s.

If you have, eg, an orca and you dont want to worry about cargo capacity solely, you can rig it with low friction nozzle joints to address the align time, and/or i-stabs (for manual flights) or nanos (for autopiloting). You can also fit warp core optimisation rigs, to increase warp speed.

The key is also getting synergies going if you want to make many faster trips in a hauler, without having to haul >75K loads (eg; contract hauling for ISK/jump). Assuming you never get podded, low grade snakes are a good invesment, as is the warp implant, and finding a mix of agility modules and/or warp speed rigs.

You may also find, for smaller cargo contracts, it is much faster to have a properly fit out blockade runner, deep space transport (for the tank) or for low-value contracts even a Bestower / Mammoth / Itty can make longer journeys faster than an orca, and still not risk suicide ganking and loss of collateral.

You are ******* ******** you piece of **** Droidster, put some ******* scientific thought into it before you go on a ramble of "testing" when your "testing" is utterly mindnumbingly stupid.

First of all you have to put experimental variables up that you keep constant, e.g. YOUR ******* SHIP, YOUR ******* SKILLS and most important of all THE ACTUAL AU DISTANCE BETWEEN THE WARP DESTINATIONS IN THE SYSTEMS YOU ARE PASSING THROUGH.

1. Open up your ship hangar, notice the au/s speed.
2. Plug in implant, notice the difference
3. Find a system at 100 + au
4. Initiate warp, take time from warp to land.
5. Plug out the implant, measure again

And then biomass yourself and uninstall EVE --REDACTED--



Removed racist remark.
--ISD Cura Ursus

Ammzi u r a distgrace, plz b more polit.

I would say the exact opposite is true. This implant would be utilized more on ships with slower warp speed because the acceleration and deceleration time are the same regardless of your end warp speed. I can't remember the actual numbers on how many seconds it take, but if it takes 10 seconds to accelerate to 0.75 AU, you will have traveled a much shorter distance then a ship that can warp at 13.5 AU. So from system to system, you will actually benefit more from being at your max warp speed longer in a freighter, then an interceptor.

Granted it could be that there are better implants out there to save you time because implants that reduce align time, will help you in every system you are travelling in unless you have a webbing alt. Other then that, the warp speed implant will only outweigh the benefits by having larger systems so you achieve the increased warp speed for a longer time.

I have not tested it, but there will be a set AU distance traveled for every ship, that will make it more beneficial for agility implants or the warp speed implant. From there you will have to check your route for the distances you will travel to see which one will be more beneficial for you.

I think you may be right. First person in the thread who actually has conducted an experiment.

One possibility is that there might be an actual bug in which all ships are being accelerated at the same speed, but for different durations. In other words the distance traveled is being calculated as though the frigate and cruiser have the same acceleration, but since the top speed is higher for the frigate, it is acclerating for longer. So, if the distance traveled calculation is wrong then the frigate could actually end up going slower because it spends more time doing acceleration/deceleration.