Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok here is my new idea. Ships have Damage reduction against different ship sizes. This is an early work and I know that sig plays a part in damage but this is a way to create a more diverse fleet as smaller ships would have a longer survivability with large ships on the field and this would not change ship stats. So here it is.

Frigs get 125% damage vs drones, fighters and fighter bombers. 100% damage against everything else.
Destroyers get 125% damage vs frigs. 75% vs drones and 100% against everything else.
Cruisers get 125% damage vs destroyers. 75% vs frigs 50% vs drones 100% vs everything else.

You can see the pattern this will make it so ships have a fighting class that they should aim to fight in. This would make a Frigate that gets a tackle on a BS very hard to shake off and require fleets to have a variety of ships to counter the other fleet. No new ships are introduced and this would make fleets very dynamic and fun IMO. This is just an idea I would like constructive comments on this if you don’t think it would work please list why.

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So what your saying is a battle ships should be better just because its bigger. That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. What I am saying is with my idea you would need to field all ships in fleets if you want to fight not just BS that can alpha anything. Frigs shouldn't be 1 shotted there is no game play value with that.

This.

The mechanic is already in the game (as with all the mechanics you proposed in your other thread). Please stop and think if your idea is redundant before posting.

Then get rid of the 11k alpha then. I understand transversal but I also understand that when 10 BS's have a frig locked up there is little to nothing that frig can do to not die. Battle ships hit most smaller ships for way more then they should. Yes if you can get under the range of there guns then you are safe but most times you cant survive before this happens. Now before you come back at me with I do this all the time sorry I'm not Elite PVP like you. All I am suggesting is that sig radius isn't enough of a factor with BS's to frig sized ships. ESP when they have there MWD on.

So with what your saying dictor pilots should just be disposable in large fleet fights.

Yes, they are. What's your point?

Then you shouldn't post it in the first place. People have told you that "smaller ships are easier to hit" is already in the game, in the form of sig size, and your proposal is to make it completely broken.

Sig size in Eve is already working as intended. /thread

Well, when those tackle interceptors and tackle frigates land alongside heavy interdictors in close quarters, supported by close-combat battleships and T3 battlecruisers, the interceptors, frigates and interdictors hold down the entire enemy fleet whilst the battlecruisers and battleships nail them down a bit. Logistics weave between these ships keeping everyone alive.

While all of this is happen scout in whichever fast ship burns his way to a location a hundred odd kilometres away and everyone warps onto him. Or a covert operations ship was there already and they warp near him with a storm of sniping battleships and sniping T3 battlecruisers with their own logistic support. The snipers continue hammering the enemy keeping range. The battle is eventually won.


Or when fast, tough logistics ships fly into close combat alongside tough, hard-hitting armour HACS (Armor Hacs! ARMOR HACS! ARRRRRMOR HACS!) and butcher everything they touch. Interdictors hold the enemy down whilst the Armour HAC Fist Company ruins it.


A group of frigates supported by a high-skilled destroyer or two roams through lowsec. A covert ops scout or two hangs a few jumps ahead or behind, scoping out targets and reporting in.


A cruiser gang with swift, Nano-Hurricanes and frigate/interceptor tackle support supported by their scouts roams through lowsec, combing their ship fittings and skillsets to complement each other.


Some bastard flies anything and dualboxes a Falcon. What a bastard. Unless I'm that guy, then it's okay.


An unfortunate Titan with his Nyx or two is held to the floor by a group of interdictors. The alliance puts out a call for an immediate fleet. A cyno ship slips into the system, heavily escorted by swift Strategic Cruisers and fast, light tackle. They light up a cyno whilst more and more small-ish gangs filled with interdictors, cruisers and battlecruisers pour onto the Titan. The cyno goes on. Capitals land. Capitals butcher enemy capitals.


And you still don't see diverse fleets of ships?

Is that because you fly the same PvE battleship in level 4 missions and your idea of a 'diverse fleet' is a corpmate in another PvE battleship, so you think those are the only fleets in the game?