Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok, my bad. I saw 50 and 100 and immediately thought percentages.

Still another mechanic to balance. Still a stealth nerf to anything except straight buffer tank.

As for people not understanding your idea, as the OP you are responsible for communicating clearly. The 4th ghost hitpoint comments are accurate summations of the idea stated differently from your preferred verbiage. So telling someone these are wrong is bad.

I would not like seeing anything in flat percentages because that would make smaller ships suffer too much unless the amount of disruption was calculated similar to how a smaller faster ship can take less damage from a larger missile due to factors such as it own speed. there never should be any stacking effect, so the disruption effect stays the same it does not go higher or lower then the intended balance. Another missile hitting only renews the effect but only after the current effect has ended. The final product would also have current ship resistances play against the effect. To do that would simply use current shield or armor skills into the calculation. i know this sounds like a lot but in current pvp damage and resistance and ecm etc... are already working in the background.

My disruption missiles will help against the impending drifter invasion !

Serious question here: How long, exactly, have you been playing EvE?

Do you understand how fights between major and minor powers work? Oh, your idea will reduce reps by 50hp, that's all well and good, until you realize that people in this game get together in fleets of hundreds. There's already enough crying about how Ishtars are overpowered, now imagine a fleet of 100 Ishtars capable of making enemy logi rep through 5000hp of damage per volley before repairing the damage done by the drones. Last fight we had in Querious, I was part of a fleet that had over 200 Ishtars in it. 200 Ishtars times your 50hp per missile rep reduction, and yes, we could have easily fit a launcher onto our Ishtars.

The only way to prevent the above from happening would be to make it totally non-stacking, which makes it totally useless.

They touch the logi by breaking the tank on the logi. Like every other weapon system, and with a longer range than the vast majority of their weapon size, so you can theoretically stack far more DPS ships hitting one logi that turrets can.

Also, they have selectable damage, predictable application, application irrelevant to your current motion, are capless, can be coordinated into truely heinous alpha strikes if everyone is flying the same thing and doing it right, have launchers with ridiculously good application for their class and frightening burst DPS when heated (RMLs) and so on. That they tend towards mediocre application and DPS (still beating the crap out of projectiles) is called balance. No, they aren't dominant. No, they aren't what they used to be. No, missiles aren't particularly competative in fleets or loosely coordinated small gangs. Yes, they can be made scary powerful and viable in well comped and flown small gangs and are a good choice in certain kinds of solo.

That the current kiting meta does not favor missiles does not inherently mean they need a massive buff or more single purpose mechanics. Some launchers and hulls need fixed, primarily torpedos and heavies, and the SBs that make torpedos so hard to balance need to be iterated on at the same time they fix torpedos.

Your point is valid you could do that, but what weapon is yet fit for that purpose, i think missiles have the opportunity and function for the effect.

Missiles are probably the best weapon system to tack something like this onto. Conceded.
Now, please give evidence that such a system existing at all is good for eve.

The niche use is useless when you could be really applying those damage. All it does is slow down kills for missile ships who already have to wait for their damage to apply.

Well how much damage does ECM do ? it is still used, i think there would be a lot of coding to complete for even things we think are basic, well do you track all these variables during a fleet fight / or squad fight, or do you fit your ship the best way you can by training your skills the highest they can be, then do the best you can in the situation. And at the end of the day game balancing passes sort out any balance issue. Having unpredictable things you can't track happening is a good thing for eve in pvp area.