Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is an easy one, and would probably have a few tactics result from the more creative types.

Create a macro, like a bookmark, that would cause your ship to jump into hyperspace for 10,000KM.

This would be specific, in that it based off of whatever direction the ship was facing at that moment, so it would be a zero align, just accelerate maneuver.

Variations might be possible, just like the warp to, to set different distances.

Now, obviously gate campers and station campers might object, as they like having their targets need to align. This gives them a few more seconds to lock, point, etc.
What they might overlook, is that it can also be used BY them, to conceal their gate camp.
(They hop out, vanish from grid, and reappear with little warning after their target starts aligning for a regular warp)

Not at all.

It is so easy to overlook the acceleration requirement for warp, but on most ships that are slow to align, they also accelerate quite slowly too.

On ships that are considered fast to accelerate, they already align at about the same rate.

There is a slight increase in speed to warp, but not nearly as much as you imply.

The major bonus to this, would be station launches. However, since those are very predictable in direction, people already BM these safe points to warp to on exit, if they expect trouble. Not much changes there.

Easy.

PvP occurs most often when one side or another is overconfident in their abilities, or unconcerned with the consequences.

More tools a careful pilot might use builds this confidence, like having a fire extinguisher makes people think they need no longer worry over fires.

Will gate camps catch less, if careful and alert pilots have one more tool?
No.

The careful and alert pilots plan around obstacles, this would result in them taking more risks, based on the belief they could manage their risks better.
Unconcerned pilots won't bother with it anyhow, they want to fight, and possibly showed up for that reason.

I would like this, I could work good tactics using it in a hulk to be less gankable.

It is a tool. It can be dangerous to use, although it is more likely to be helpful in many situations.

I think it would be interesting if people stumbled across a deadspace complex that way.

It is not intended to beat gate camps, although you seem to disagree with the other fellow who thinks it is a get out of jail free item. I already pointed this out as false.

No, it's a tool, albeit a simple one to program in. For the amount of effort it would take the devs, the return for the players would be far more significant.
(It just needs to use math based off the ships current axis to create a false bookmark at X distance. Fairly simple really, especially when compared to things that need to turn)

The detail is striking only in the fact that it is not in the game already.

If we had the ability to generate bookmarks and move to them on our own, someone on the client side could make the macro. Of course, that would shift the UI to accept it, but not by a lot.

We did not 'need' calculators either, way back when. But after they were created, and explosion of creativity and productivity resulted from them.

Same idea, but even simpler than the calculator.

Make them manually in the systems you frequent most often, and call it good man, on the fly 'false' bookmarking would just further diminish PvP.

Oh- and it would still be abused to hell and back by people making retardedly deep safes 200 AU off things...