Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How feasible is such a thing ?

a smaller SR means that all ships will have a harder time hitting a ship enabled with this device
Missiles will do less overall damage
Turrets will have a bigger chance to miss

People whinge about the overall effectiveness of missiles all the time.
Missile users claim they are less effective than turrets
Turret users claim they are too effective with not enough downsides
They both can't be right.


So I see this module taking up a mid-slot
It's should reduce SR by x%
With fitting costs similar to other mid-slot tanking modules
Should it also have a 'limit of 1' aspect ?, like the damage control does.

#option 2 (comment suggestion)
a rigging module
Reduces SR by x%
drawback affects speed or shield amount

You dont need less signature, simply increase your speed, it does have the same result. (Thats not even true more speed is even superior!)

perhaps we could have an mwd skill that reduces the sig radius penalty from the module

a rig option could work too

what drawback would fit though ?
Power Grid maybe ?

I actually made a fairly long post about this awhile ago that I can't find, except is was in relation to a recon rebalance with shifting TPS over to a caldari secondary ewar mod, and introducing remote signature radius damping as a new ewar mod for minmatar along with the current setup with webs on t2.

And to clarify, they DO actually have the module you're talking about in-game; it's called an 'active stealth field', and it's used by concord ships. You can either find it as a fit someone has saved in-game or look it up in the metadata.

In relation to the local sig tanking module, that makes quite a bit of sense, especially with things like kite cruisers. Would you consider the local sig tanking module to be a highslot mod? I could use it being used as such, since it could help with both pve and pvp; ships like the stabber would really benefit from something like that.

Do you think this would be good in conjunction with a rig that reduces the sig radius bloom for mwd? Or that said rig would be a good idea in the first place?

As has been suggested before, it could be a possible bonus for equipping ECCM. Currently ECCM modules only serve to combat jammers while e.g. tracking computers have a benefit without being turret disrupted.

Also sensor strength already plays a role in probing down a ship, together with signature.

Finally, it being a mid slot module fits with armor tanks having lower signature compared to shield tanks.

In this case it could be similar to shield recharge vs shield amount. Having a high recharge % can be compounded by also having a large shield buffer, same for capacitor (though harder given the difficulty of fitting cap batteries). In this case having a low sig and a faster speed could be more effective then running in to stacking penalties that come with just increasing velocity.

I liked your idea but maybe in different approach.What if specialized ships existed that could fit this module which would work like stealth technology.It would reduce a lot the signature radius so harder to scan target etc.Like stealth planes we have now that they can even fight.If those ships are too powerful give all the ships this module but with really high requirements in powergrid cpu etc.

These actually exist- but we can't use them- "Active Stealth System" there's "stealth system", "medium active stralth system", "large active stealth system" and "Huge active stealth system.

They'd be awesome to use!

Couldn't find them in markets or contracts.

The thing is they might be a little too OP in the pictures you sw us.Maybe some balancing would work .Also maybe an anti stealth mod so everything is balanced and have counters .Or they could be limited to special ships or electronic ships.