Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Capital Size ship that can put up a bubble shield like a POS. The ship can't move like a cyno and has a timer that counts down that pops the shield when it's up. Consumes a resource as well. also makeing it have like a 500km distance from any gate or station.

the shield would only prevent fire and targeting from inside to outside or outside to in

Anyone could fly in and out of the shield

The shield ship can be targeted from within and the shield from the outside acting like a pos shield until it's killed or naturaly poped.

Would create a new way to have large fights and tactics

-ok flame away-

+1/2

I think this is possibility for use of Super Carriers in the future.
The fighters and fighter-bombers would be out there rather than the POS guns.

And lets be honest here, SC´s are seeing less and less use.. here would be one way of making them relevant again.

lol the meta already favors close range and speed fits this would just make it so ranged fits become that much more useless

Acctually most fits use sentrys/rails for long sniping. This would mean that a ishtars sentrys cant kill from outside shields and then a smartbomber could speed out, pop all drones, retreat and repeat.

All this thing would do is obsolete long range fits completely (as in, render them utterly useless), make some ships hilariously overpowered (imagine forcing a fleet to come into close range of your armageddons...) And make it so that logistics are basically a waste anyhow.
Reason for this last bit? Logi rely on staying at range of the main blob and evading fire as much as they can. Guess what happens when such a shield goes up between them and the rest of the fleet...
(If you want it to act like a pos shield, that means no target locks at all. Otherwise logi would become ridiculously OP and nigh untouchable, which would only encourage blobbing even more)

Make it a high slot module, fitted to supercarriers and/or titans (i think titans would fit the job description better). Shield bubble works the same as a POS shield, feed it stront or something to make it tough (POS shield melts quite quickly unless in reinforced).

Disables weapons of titans and -100% velocity, unbumpable, can't jump out, 500km distance from gate/stations, clone vat bay/hangar/fitting work.

Why? Mobile staging point. Which is what titans are suppose to be...

This thread discusses bubble shields and how I think they would best be used.

From what I gather, shield capitals have some capacitor problems but the are actually better than armour now. It is only that people haven't changed their doctrines as the capital fleets are so expensive.

As long as it follows the same rules as the regular POS shields and triage/siege modules. Meaning it can be targeted and shot but cannot be repaired or receive cap, cant launch fighters/bombers/drones inside, drains a large portion of cap, nothing inside can target outside and it requires tons of CPU and PG.

Who says supercarriers and titans need to be relevant? Supercapitals are horrible things that must be removed from the game. If making them utterly irrelevant so that nobody even builds them accomplishes that feat, then all the better.

Death to all supers.

If it pushes ships out, this would be completely broken for drive by DD imo.