Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Line of Sight & Firing Arcs.
Not sure i understand what the point of this would be, what would it bring to the table that warrants the dev time?


Multipurpose *anything*
eve is designed to be a trade of, if you want ecm drones you sacrifice your drone bays ability to hold damage. What would the trade of be if drones could do alittle bit of everything without making then useless? Seems like a nightmare to balance suitable for all different bay sizes and drone bonuses.


Boarding Actions
Don't hold your breath, most likely this was just an example of a legion map.


Ramming
No, this would not work and/or be a nightmare to code. The added content vs dev time and cost is way out of whack.


Self Destruct as a weapon
Would be kind of cool and shouldn't be too hard to code since smart bombs already exists.


Removal of gate ganks/blob warfare
Not removal, but if you spend the time to be safe i think you should be able to avoid them. My thoughts about this would be something like sending a probe through the gate and waiting for it to return with a readout of what's on grid on the other side.


Flack
Overlap with smart bombs and defender missiles.


Ship Crews
Always wanted this as well, question is what it would bring to the table that rigs and modules doesn't already bring. Runs the risk of being redundant. Thus making it wasteful to spend dev resources on it.


NPC Pilots
Much prefer people doing as much as possible in eve. And they already haul things.


The Q-ship
The concept is cool but it would break FW pvp. You scan a plex and make a decision to jump based on that. You don't know if they are inside or outside so scanning a novice and that returns an atron you jump in only to find a "Q" cruiser on the jump. Would make it unplayable.


Minefield
Coding something to appear differently for some people sounds hard and costly. Also seems like fleet fights would become a cluster ****.

The ability to use terrain creatively to gain an advantage in PvP beyond having your battles at a station? Immersion? Plain ordinary logic that you can't shoot someone through a small veldspar moon?



In this case the trade off is drone bay space and bandwidth for versatility. These only work as well as the next size smaller drone, with all the space and bandwidth requirements of a larger one.



Tends to kill your own drones, plus all the issues using smart bombs anyplace but 0.0



Depends on how you implement it. Base stats should be worse than a module, but crews should have the ability to improve over time.



You're basically saying that it''s a bad idea because it would require players to come up with new strategies? I wish to god we had that sort of reasoning around in the old days. We'd still have guns inside POS sheilds and no cap ships whatsoever.

Ok i see what you're going for with the LoS, i really don't think it is realistic from a coding perspective. Imagine the vectors that would have to be calculated in large fleet fights to make sure nothing is covering your shoot. Insane. You would tidi fights of 50v50 in a heartbeat.

The price you pay for versatility in every other instance in eve is worse stats for many things instead of good stats for one thing. This drone would be useful for only a handful of ships since most ships that use drones in a meaningful way can just field different flights for different things.
The ships that can't do that often has such a small bay that you can't fit a larger drone in there anyways.
While i enjoy the concept of versatility, i just feel that this is impossible to balance in a way that both this drone and the normal drones stay viable.

Regarding crews you would have to have a ceiling on bonuses, that ceiling has to be high enough to warrant the dev time but low enough to not discourage pvp. If the ceiling is to high people would start to be hesitant to bring their highly leveled ships to the field, like implanted clones today. And it would be a mechanic only pve people would use. And if the bonuses is to small.. Why bother?
Seems like this sort of addition would be best suited for new mechanics all together, not as another rig slot that adds 2% shield boost.
If for instance boarding ever becomes a thing or PI becomes more involved this could serve a purpose.

I'm saying that it breaks it based on how plexes work. The tactic this would force would be to warp at a distance. Giving legitimate targets a 100% chance to run and preventing the Qship from killing anything. Solo and small gang Pvp would die since you would have to roam with enough people to guarantee that you could overcome whatever class this ship would be.
Would create a horrible dynamic.

Depending on what ship you're in and size of the plex, sure.

As a whole i don't see it adding much. Sliding is 100% sure fire to escape so still just adds more escaping.
FW is designed to encourage even fights. No matter how you look at it this breaks that design either by enabling easier ganking or discouraging more fighting.
I can't speak for other areas of space but do we really need more ways to encourage asymmetrical fights?

Nono, i like the concept. Not sure it would translate well across all the different areas of play.

While i agree with your point regarding meta the example is again about flying in numbers large enough to just straight turn the tables and again giving incentive to the gank or be ganked playstyle of eve. Personally i think we have enough of incentives to give eve the flavor but still have it be possible to roam solo. But its seriously close to only being about linked gangs jumping only on targets they are 100% going to wreck and running from everything else.

At the larger scale of things, even if those isolated situations occur the major impact this would have would be more caution, more gangs/ganks and more running away.

Personally, as a general rule, i want mechanics that gives incentives for more fights and for more even fights.

Planets, Moon, Asteroids, Gas clouds, dust clouds, Stars... All of them could affect the flight direction.


In fact Eve had LoS in the days before I started playing. A Veteran can explain you why CCP took it out of the game.


All EvE ships have crew. A Frigate has none, but bigger ships has at least 2 people maintaining the ship.
http://www.evereader.org/eve_reader_episode_0.mp3

Yes, in most battles everyone takes 3 shots and kindly logs off without dropping drones at any point.