Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Bonus to defender missiles and bomb priority for defenders and higher damage against bombs.

Suddenly defenders.

I have often thought on something like this, although mine was more designed as an IRL CIWS weapn system.

A small turret that loaded with small ammo (sure you can fit it to your battleships utility slot but its going to need ALOT of ammo) that turns incoming missles (and maybe frigates??? i've seen those things chew through boats on youtube) into mush...

You could have lasers drain BOATLOADS of cap instead of chewing through ammo, and maybe have different types/ranges... Rails having a longer effective range but a lower chance to actually HIT or needing more shots/hits per missles then the more inclose blasters?

Might make for a cool role in a fleet to combat bombers, a few guys rocking around in destroyers with a rack of these things being kept on hand to keep the bombers in check? With them getting a high priority for OPFOR to take down if they have bomber support, or NOT and then doing a cool double fakeout type thing...

Ofcourse you could just make defenders do something and save a lot of work, as cool as though the idea of a thrasher with a bunch of full auto chainguns Zipping around the fleet RACING to get into range of the incoming bombs before everything turns into a mushroom cloud is... (I can see the eve video already)

This goes too far the other way, and makes bombers entirely useless.

Undo warp speed changes

Suddenly battleships are a thing.

I'd rather have Battleships be a thing over bombers anyday of the week

Yep. It would be much better if CCP retasked Defender Missles into a proper Point Defense Module. Smart Bombs can be useful... but not in High Sec.

Such a module would auto target until destroyed the nearest missile or bomb then move to the next.

Such a module will fit in a high slot, use a lot of CPU, a decent amount of cap, have a fast cycle time, and have a short range - no more than 10KM.
The module will also reduce the scan resolution of the ship since the module taps into the system's sensors but in turn it auto-targets based on locked ordinance and nearby bombs.
Only one module can be fitted to the ship, uses a rapid pulse laser to perforate the incoming ordinance into uselessness.
The module is either on or off and reduces overall cap (module maintains a stored charge) and drains cap while firing.

A more advanced version could allow discrimination to auto-target only bombs or only missiles.

I like this idea the best. A defender module that is either on or off and auto engages threats. Defender missles honestly suck now even more than before. Sure they were bad back when you could load them onto a rocket launcher and have to spam the fire button for the split second a missle is coming at you. But now you can only fit Rapids with defenders and still have to spam the fire button and hope that the module lag does fire a defender into space after you have already been hit. Like the useless C-Ram in Afghanistan, mortars would hit then the stupid thing would fire off into the air.

Sig radius for missiles and bombs would be very small, by the time anything could lock the missile or bomb will have detonated. The exception would be long range lobbing of Citadel and Cruise Missiles. A PD module would work best by re-purposing something that is currently in the game from obscure and near uselessness to something useful.

This actually is a very fair change. Its not like these beasts flutter around like nano-inties.


It wasn't unbalanced to bombers either imo pre-change. As both the bomber and the bombed you still see the kills. As well the people who actually do the right thing in bs fleets was the minority. You get way more who do it wrong to see the bombs take effect. Hit MWD, go deer in headlights, or the most basic warp to spotter and just sit there....in the mass of ships that did the same thing (me, after landing I'd get my space first thing).