Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think that anchorable bubbles without expiration times shouldn't exist. I'm sure you've seen the pictures of drone lands gates being locked down with 100+ large T1 bubbles. It doesn't cost a damned thing and provides near-perfect safety.

Nullification is fine. Bubbles already posed little to no additional effort for interceptor pilots and in most cases, T3 cruisers fitting the modules are already so hamstrung they either have to invest heavily or remain useless just to avoid getting bubbled.

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No. Combat means risk, and not moonwalk through everything.
Especially Instawarping Inties are a pain. They are an uncatchable cancer for fights they dont want, still a threat if you have a bunch of them.
Plus, they are abused to be a risk-free travel and transport method. Which shouldnt exist in EVE.

Blockade runners already are cloaked. Beeing Nullified makes them uncatchable and 99,9% safe. MWD + cloak is 90% uncatchable already.
Shuttles are way too cheap to be anything than a better POD. Make them warp a bit faster.
Yachts shouldnt exist at all. Cloaky and Nullified, with the option to put WCS and tank on it. Thats such a terrible idea. Remove the lows and/or nullification please. Or at least set aligntime to cruisersize.

Of course they should exist. They add so much tactic to the game.
Let them expire by fuel or time. Thats fine. I'd prefer Fuel for that, as it would allow you to have it run as long as you want, while forcing some logistics to deploy.

nullification should be removed from all ships with modules or cargo

it's the antithesis of what the game is about. it gives you free, unstoppable intel or guaranteed safe transport of goods.
nullification removes skill from the equation of scouting, or high value small volume transport.

i think travel should still be basically guaranteed safe, because any removal of tedium is 100% necessary with eve online in its current state

however 100% remove it from ships with guns or cargo. noone knows any good interceptor pilots these days, because there arent any, because you're in an overpowered pile of ship and dont need to be good

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interceptor deaths before nullification were pretty much all from landing with a sabre in a bubble or jumping into a sabre and trying to warp

nowadays ceptor deaths are due to going afk or thinking you can fight something you can't - you'll never die from being caught anymore

I'm against nullified combat ships (primarily T3C's). I feel that including it adds a bit too much strength to them. However, I like the thought on nullification in regards to some specific ships:

I'd love to see Interceptors changed a bit, with four having nullification, better tackle bonuses, and dropping their combat bonuses (Ares, Crow, etc), and four being oriented towards combat but without the nullification bonus (Taranis, Raptor, etc). They would still function as travel ships and could still be used as fast tackle, but would be weak (weaker) in terms of combat, while the ones that are decent at combat won't have the nullification.

I'd also love to see Blockade Runners given nullification. I was surprised a few years back with how the Transport Ships were revamped. I had figured that giving Blockade Runners a bonus to Warp Core Strength and nullification would have been a shoo-in idea (considering the historical use of Blockade-Running ships). The cargo scan immunity strikes me as an odd thing for a ship that's supposed to be difficult to catch (again, "difficult to catch" based on historical usage of their real-life namesakes).

If Blockade Runners were given nullification, however, I think they should have their cargo sizes reduced so that they can get 10k m^3 at the absolute max, using T2 rigs and faction expanders. Historically, they were small ships meant to slip through naval blockades, moving too quickly for the larger ships to catch / keep up with, and too fast to reliably hit with cannon fire. They didn't have a lot of cargo space on them.

As for anchorable bubbles, they should exist, yes, as they serve a useful purpose, but they need to have one of three changes: a large minimum distance from each other (large enough to prevent overlap on even the T2 large bubbles), a decay timer, or generate a killmail. Generating a killmail would probably solve the problems in a much more enjoyable way for the average nullsec and wormhole resident.

I have removed an off-topic post.

To copy what I said in slack -

i feel that nullification suits what a ceptors meant to do, a yacht is fine, shuttles i'd actually say no, as it becomes a fairly risk free way of moving your pod

t3 interdiction i feel should have more of a draw back than just "you cant do anything else with this subsystem slot" it should penalize, rather than just not benefit

blockade runners, no - Getting through a bubble is the job of the pilot

as for bubbles, i'd rather they have a cargo that they slowly consume, meaning they have to be maintained, and attackers can send forward scouts to just nick all the ammo

to be fair it does. it gives no low slots and is slower and less agile but i agree more could be done i'm in favor of a resist or hitpoint penalty (god knows t3s have enough to spare)

Some other pilots believe that the nullified inty is a risk free travel ship but that is not true. That's why we DO NOT use intys to haul goods at PushX. They are hard to catch but they are easy to smartbomb and it happens all the time and it even happens in null. Like every other good balance it has its advantages and disadvantages. It is quick and nullified but it's also weak and fragile.