Player Features and Ideas Discussion

lol coming from a player of a mostly sovless entity, yah i would expect you to be entirely in the griefing camp on this.

They're not really worthless throwaway ceptors when they'll cost at least 100m each.

Damp
ECM
Other small ships that WILL track ceptors

Can see interceptors getting through bubbles and making you **** your pants in paranoia of someone flipping the station services

But cannot really see the flip actually happening unless the system is just empty. In which case, working as intended? Unpopulated space must go.

I could see making the fitting requirements for the T2 link (the one with the ungodly range) high enough that a frigate would have a really hard time fitting them. But for the short range one? Yeah, let the trollceptors have at it at that range.

Why not make the link expensive. Make them 2 bil each and that will stop the trolling. Also make the link act like a triage or bastion module where you can't move while using it so it doesn't matter which hull you are in you are stuck and ready to be shot. Taking SOV shouldn't be THAT easy to take.

They're called damps. Plz Mr. Interceptor, tell me more about your 250km lock range...

I really don't like that we are throwing out one extreme of gameplay for another. In this case, we are throwing out big fleets centered around high HP barriers in favor of making everything susceptible to individuals.

We the players have developed networks to accommodate the former, but the latter aim at getting more people involved. I think we need content for both groups, all TZs, and all FCs interested in sov skirmishes. These networks are important for the game, so it would be better to add new goals and let organization spring up around them rather than wholesale deprecate them

To that end, keep the requirements for entosis modules low, but restrict their effects to SBUs or a few other infrastructure components. Leave the other structures the way they've traditionally been. Let's rely on skirmish fleets to make systems vulnerable or invulnerable to heavy ship deployments. Entosis links are a great way to regulate the viability of cyno inhibitors, or other invulnerability mechanics. This puts a soft limit on super cap deployments since they aren't going to split up and be spread all over a constellation, and rely on skirmish fleets to make objectives vulnerable.

I really don't think it would be a problem if the capitol systems of player empires had big generators that made their core structures largely invincible if their peripheral systems are not harassed, even against massive blobs. No headshotting player empires without a sustained campaign.

It was important in that past that we had an ecology of big HP walls and small HP walls upon which the big walls depend, and we just didn't have that, which was why we felt sov wasn't fun since you could only participate directly with a large group. Fozziesov as presently conceived simply doesn't promise content for all.

An ambitious approach would have content for individuals, content for small gangs, and content geared to large groups. At present, we are making large group content rely solely on player escalation, which could be somewhat problematic, and potentially just as dull as timers. A better approach puts timers a little varied in time, and allows lots of content for smaller groups between timers. The very best and most pitched form of skirmish content would be the kind that moves timers back and forth in time based on successful contests over these new sov buttons.

You're solving a problem that doesn't exist.

There's more hyperbole and utter bullshit around these modules and ships that may fit them than the next i-gizmo 98987987

The modules in question have been named as a Link. So I think there is a reasonable possibility they may be restricted to CBCs, CS, and link T3s.

CBC's not ABC's though