Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think its commonplace in science fiction that spaceships have to calculate their jump coordinates before they can make their jumps. My proposal is to introduce something similar to Eve.

Allow capital ships to jump beyond 5LY ranges, but to do so ships need to make jump calculations. These calculations are managed from a new tab in Capital Navigation-window and would take from few hours to several days.

Stuff:
- Only doable when in space. Docking, tethering or logging off halts the process
- Cloaking would increase the calculation time
- Only one calculation at a time. Allow storing finished calculations
- Ejecting resets all progress
- Ship is not required to be at starting or destination system to conduct the calculations between two systems


I believe that this mechanic wouldn't benefit large alliances. Spies learning jump destinations or offlining structures where calculations were run might pose serious threat. Or enemy would simply deploy cyno jammers.

Smaller, tightknit groups or individuals would benefit the most from this mechanic. Relocating assets or projecting their meager power over larger distances.

Thoughts?

You obviously didn't put too many of those into your idea, if you declare it impossible to use halfway through the post.

I don't want changes to jump fatigue or jumps less than 5ly. Those would work as usual.

It would be done while cloaked in safespot or within a pos shield.

no no dt halts it ejecting resets it. see much more reasonable

If warp mechanics changed I'd vote for wh40k setup.


YOu may not land where you wanted....the tides of the warp said screw you and your plans.

Or another fun option is your ship is basically destroyed, if only because chaos demons have infested it and killed everything inside. Since eve doesn't have chaos demons...they'd have to improvise here.

Long calculations take several days. Logging off/downtime halts the process. Pos shields are being removed. cloaking slows it down. concept is very poorly thought out.

why exactly is them having their caps logged in more disadvantages for larger groups than others? and why would i have to announce the system to my members?


also you do understand the limits on power projection were not just put in place for large entities right?

Knowing where someone is planning to shove capitals would be very valuable intel nonetheless. And 300 Nyxes + support would travel as normal anyway.




Alliance would have to inform their capital pilots the systems from where they are jumping and their destination. You wouldn't want this intel to leak, would you?
Then your cap pilots would have to keep their boats logged in, in space to do the magick. Larger alliances always have stragglers, people with jobs and family, who didn't log for few days and miss mails and notifications.
And spies... Do you trust your alliance? Would you leave your cap ship afk overnight at pos? You could do it cloaked in safe but it would result longer timer.


Small groups and solo players who don't have trust issues would have easier time travelling and crossing region gaps.

'Hey guys we're deploying to venal, set your calculations to H-PA29 and try not to end up in Rakapas you bunch of scrubs'

How would that scenario be any different to the recent imperium move from Lonetrek to Delve, which took at least a week just for the main body? A week in which our destination was not secret at all, when we had caps, supers and subs straggling all over the game, and nothing major happened.

And how would this work when pos are removed?