Player Features and Ideas Discussion

as it states, we forgo one of the modules to install a cyno beacon.
since we have the citadel up and paying for it, lets allow it to have beacons npc space. maybe it costs charters per hour like high sec poses.
one balance would be that it cannot have a cyno beacon if player owned space if the alliance doesnt own the space, however, in npc space, all you need is permission and you can drop a mod in.

or we can make it a rig. im easy like that.

new guys could start running missions and selling charters for citadels. plus, it could get folks into specific factions (ammatar perhaps? thukker?) where most folks dont run those missions.

another balance, it might cost a good amount of charters per hour. could be as much as 2x a large tower in hs.
i think towers still need charters in hs, i havent dropped one in years. if not, you can still use the figures.

^this. At least that way people can kill the cyno, since iirc having one lit breaks tether.

indeed it does

On a pos there is the risk that your cap is going to die. There is a reason our cynogen modules are all named some variation on 'bugzapper'.

There is no risk at all if you can jump directly into tether without even having to put up a sacrificial frigate to light the cyno for you.

Why do you think that capital ships need to be less risky to move around? Why do you think that asking a friend to light a cyno for you if you can't be bothered to do it yourself is too much like hard work?

Why do you think it is wrong that the biggest ships in the game are less simple to use than the smallest?

It's likely that this will be a function of the Stargate class of structures, which probably won't get tethers as a result to maintain some risk. CCP haven't announced how that all will work but there has been basic mention that jump bridges will get some form of replacement.
And as mentioned above, you can just gate jump them.

But i wanna play my MMO alone

Idk if there is a delay on tether (I don't stick around to look) but you can dock well before you session change invuln is over and no way you get bumped out of range in the few ticks before you can dock


Adding a tether delay and making it possible to scram one jumping in is just going to require the freighter pilot to have a third alt and ecm fit to the citadel



And there will not be a citadel equivalent for everything there will be a replacement for almost everything but not a citadel equivalent. For example citadels will not get a form of jump bridge.


There can be no turret weapons for citadels do to how turret based weapons work.

Damage application. Turrets break down when the host is so big and ppl are commonly fighting within its sphere so when calculating trans you would almost always be at 0m. This mmeans they would either be balanced to apply like crap inside their sphere or they would be gods at tracking just a few km outside it.



(Remember a citadel are big they are even bigger when you remember their size is not the model but the docking radius)