Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Mines are to indiscriminate. i would like to see them come in as a special type of drone. that you can control to suicide into ships.

Fully Agree with keeping them out of Empire space. Friend or Foe missiles do exist in the game. The Concept I am more thinking of if a blue wanders to close it would not go off. I am not saying remove the AOE effect from hitting the Blue if the mine does go Boom. This is the future afterall and not limited to Terran antique mines. But in the end if this ever does get put back in, that decision is the masses or at least the devs :P

Can't say I'm in favour of deploy and forget weapons systems.

Server load aside there are to many things in this game that can just be left to run without a player actually doing anything and adding more to that list doesn't strike me as a good idea, especially combat related items.

Before anyone says it I know POSes are automated but they are a significant investment in time and ISK rather than a fairly cheap deployable munition situated around a drag bubble or on a gate.

Not supported.

if i remember rightly there use to be proximity mines in eve once upon a time however it lead to all sorts of issues with concord pilots would set up there mines in null go high sec to buy a new skill book kill miners whatever and suddenly concord turns up and kills them why because some one in null just activated the mine in null sec but the owner of said mine is in high sec.

it is entirely possible i dreamed this up while high/drunk

yeah... that was back in 04 lol. But EVE used to have mines but due to being new it had alot of server issues, back then once you deployed they were deployed... like wrecks back in the day.. nothing despawned after X amount of time. I'm more of thinking have them time out like Wrecks. Player Deploys Mines after X amount of time They either just randomly Splode or get removed from the field by the server. This system is already inplace with Jetcans, wrecks, MTU's have a timer of 2 days I believe. Some anchorable items I believe are 30 days outside of a pos shield. I am more thinking have it at the same time frame of an MTU or even on the short end of jetcans. Mines get Deployed Strategically before an area is slated to get hot. Maybe an area coming out of Reinforce etc. Strategic use, cost wise also. They will make a big enough difference used on the field, But not cheap enough that people just spam them all over the place.

Also Concord has so bar been WAY better under control compared to back in the day. I haven't even seen them wander into wormholes in a long long time lol.

you could also make a min laying mobile structure that can be put in space and deploys a screen of mines. and limit so only so many can be on grid at a time.

I still have a anaconda mine blueprint.
laying a minefild would be tedious, unless it came with presets like probe scanning does. also matter of ownership. could have standard layers where doing so in high sec might get you shot, to covert ops layers for the sneaks

it would make small gang roaming even less desiderable, a gate heavily bubbled + mined would be impenetrable by anything but a big blob (which would be gated in by their titans so wouldnt even bother to touch it)

Wouldn't this make stealth bombers bombs obsolete?

Bombs are not targeted. They are completely indiscriminate and untargeted. They only go 15km in whatever direction you happen to be pointing when you launch it.

Also, mines were removed because they made the hamsters go into cardiac arrest. True, the hamsters are more physically fit than in previous years. But you can only expect so much from the little rodents.