Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Pondering the idea that a neuted ship should take longer to align (not a great idea in itself) made me think of this:

Inertial Surge Drive
Redirects power from the capacity to temporarily boost Ship agility. Comes in sizes: 1MN, 10MN, 100MN.

• 200% increase to ship agility (EDIT: or equivalent mass reduction)
• Massive capacitor use (similar to that of an ASB without charges)
• Duration of 5 seconds or so. Less for Frigate size module.
• Low or Mid slot?
• [Edit] Sub-cap only module? Probably OP for capitals.
• [Edit] Big sig bloom when activated, similar to MWD.

Thoughts:
I see this module adding a lot to manual-flying pvp: pulse it on and off when you need to change direction really fast (sling shotting). It also provides a one-use "get out fast" module, for ships wanting to align fast and warp out at the expense of half their capacitor disappearing. Maybe useful for larger ships wanting to get through gate-camps, for example. EDIT: someone pointed out it would be useful for bumping too!

I don't like the idea of PvE-ers being able to get out faster with this (or anyone for that matter), but perhaps they need something now that the upcoming warp changes will give them much less time to react to a hostile entering local.

Like a MWD for agility?

Hmm., i give you a carefully +1.

(Because i am more of a tanky pilot rather then speedy so i dont know)

OMG inertia Machariel fit !

Like it.

Of course. Like any other active propulsion mod.

IMO, it needs a different drawback to be more usable.

This would generally be used on an MWD'ing ship, which is already drawing heavily on its capacitor. Most ships won't have the cap to utilize this unless its cap usage is reduced. The other use I see this is on 100mn AB cruisers that want to reach full speed more quickly.

Truth be told, I'd make it more like the MWD (x200% increase in agilty, significant but usable cap usage, -30% max capacitor when fit, Sig bloom). Make it midslot, which is close to penalty enough.

Also, if it uses a reduction in Mass instead of altering the "agility" attribute, you can make these size dependent, and neuter their effect on capitals.

The mass of a BS is about 100m Kg.
The mass of a Carrier/Dread is about 1,000m kg.

A battleship size mod, with a 20m kg mass reduction, would have a major impact on the BS's agility, and be useful to WHolers, although not game breaking. In comparison, that 20m kg mass reduction on the Carrier/Dread would be irrelevant in terms of bringing caps into a WH, and have little effect on its align time to boot!

Sounds like an interesting idea!

This would be a very interesting idea- and in fact something I was thinking that Marauders would end up utilizing before the 'microdread' role was forced upon them.

+1, I'd definitely try to fit these into certain builds for certain ships.

Wow much more feedback than I was expecting, thanks!

I totally agree with the idea of giving it a big sig bloom, thus making its use more for manual piloting, and less so for pure GTFO'ing!

Hadn't thought of its use in bumping - but I like it!

Still undecided of whether it should be a mid or low: Mid makes more sense, seeing as its analogous to a prop mod, but as someone rightly pointed out it might benefit armor ships a little too much...perhaps giving it serious PG usage (similar to AB) would alleviate this?

Yeah, mass reduction rather than agility increase may make it easier, but mass also affects many other things (like wh crashing!) and so I'd be hesitant to agree with it until all the implications have been thoroughly considered.