Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi there, while messing around in EVE today, I thought of a (in my opinion) a pretty good idea.

If the player has the correct computing, tracking and other needed skills, you could right click on a ship, select "Set Collision Course", and your ship will ram the other ship at full speed. This will also disable your shields making you slightly more vulnerable to attack. As well as this, if the enemy ship moves significantly, your ship will miss.

Depending on the mass of both ships and the status of the enemy ship, the ships will either collide causing minor damage to each one, cause major damage, or possibly, if the ship you are ramming is large, your ship is destroyed with minimal effect on the other ship.

This would enable some pretty heroic actions under some circumstances, i'd love to just ram my failing ship right into an enemy one just to help my corp.

Anyway, thats just my two cents.

I like this in theory but I don't think it would be very practical in game.

Ramming is always suggested. But its just not practical in the real game of eve. IE High sec. I have always wanted to ram a ship yes, but there is no way to integrate it into the game without making it impractical like you can only ram when aggressed, then people will complain because why the hell can they not ram anytime. Its a two ended sword. Just like self destructing damage.

The only way to fix this would be for eve to change completely. IE mutable undockpoints and HUGE undocking sections so no ship would appear inside of a another ship or could be camped easily for a ram. Warping in to a location beacon would have to be much much larger to keep ships from bumping.

Short story is there is to much close range ship to ship stuff going on right now to make it practical. the game would need a complete reworking to make it far. so once a ship crosses a certain point He has crossed an aggression threshold and will get aggression if he has not left in said amount of time.

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This could be a short range weapon where ship speed and mass were factors. It would end up just doing limited damage once, though, limiting usefulness. I would suggest that it equally damage attacker and victim, but offset by skills. That would be the only way it would almost fit into the mechanics of Eve. That said, with the physics in Eve not being reastic (ever warp into a rock and go flying?), this does not fit into the system.

Also, "disabling shields" is not appropriate for Eve in any circumstance. MWDs used to reduce shields and capacitor (and further back, armor, I believe). That just created bias toward armor tankers. Other games, maybe, but not Eve.

Really, mass wouldn't be so much of a factor.

Reference:

While numerous other ships were firing on the Executor (Super-class Star Destroyer) in Return of the Jedi, the killing blow was delivered by an A-Wing fighter smashing through the bridge of it.

So, even frigates would be capable of doing massive amounts of damage as it would cause explosive decompression of the ship.

Constantly suggested? Yes, almost as much as nerfing cloaks is suggested.

Feasible? No.

Solution? No ramming attack, GTFO, Biomass.