Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to see transponder spoofers, a way to hide what your ship is from unfriendly eyes.

Either as a rig or as a low power slot item.

I'm sure it would make it much easier for a catalyst to sneak up on a hulk if it showed up on d-scan as a mining barge.


Of course that "hulk" might be a CNR/tengu hunting suicide gankers.

Better take a close look before opening fire!

Hardpoint consolidation modual

for Battleships. consolidate 4 large turret hardpoints into 1 capital turret hardpoint. and adds a damage modifier to the cap guns similar to a siege modual, but not as powerfull. link it to the advanced weapon upgrades skill. it would bridge the damage gap between BS and dread.

mini doomsdays for the black op battleships. \o/ hey stealbombers have bombs :P

I think there needs to be a philosophical change at team super friends. They should get out of module creation entirely. This puts the onus on the players to evolve the game to invest in it, to make things CCP could not have come up with.

Here's an Idea, a goal, and how to get there:

The Idea and a Goal:

Modular ships of every size. Similar to T3 cruisers. Changing the invention or reverse engineering process to provide a range of outcomes instead of a few possible modules.

For example: I do some reverse engineering to create a offensive subsystem, but instead of having only 5 possible out comes on one size ship, change it to 100 possible out comes on each size of ship. Have each based on the size of ship and skill level, and maybe some new implants that change your skill level. Have the most powerful out comes happen with the smallest chance as well with the highest skill level. This should balance the fact ultra-powerful subsystems are coming in the game with only a few are made each year. There could be even be a severe limit to how many runs are created the more powerful the item created.

This of course would throw a total curve ball at everyone who wants to PVP because you will never know what you are dealing with when you see 5 T3 frigates show up on grid, or god forbid one T3 battleship. This could be started with invention for new T2 modules. You could add a feature that allows for a random creation that could give you an assortment of effects. Of course you would need a standardized list with a base percentage for each type, based on skill level. Think of something like the item generation tables in D&D. As CCP comes up with New ideas for items they simply add them in to the table with a specific chance of being randomly generated. This both cuts out the need to announce changes to the module selection, and makes the sandbox we live in infinitely more interesting. Balancing no longer becomes a big deal, it becomes a back ground noise. A change in the percentage chance of something being created. This is important for numerous reasons the most important being that CCP has made the process political and they have lost almost every fight on that front.


How To Get There


CCP could break it down even further based on the class of item being created. If your inventing a new hybrid turret, you can shoot for a t2 module or a completely random outcome. You could either get a crappy meta 0 thru 4 version of the T1 module or something closer to a meta 12+ item. It could also have something useful like a high rate of fire or a wicked accuracy or just something crazy like a ECM effect on the ship being hit. All of this could be added in to the game by changing the table.

Now that we have invention out of the way ,this leads to the next improvement, which is adding all these new items in to the market. Instead of CCP just arbitrarily adding an item in to the market, make it appear on the market when someone sells the item for the first time. Until someone sells one of these new items, the stats and capabilities remain a secret. This leads to a whole new complexity to living in EVE's Sandbox. It also makes people think really hard about: do they make a billion isk or keep the item to them selves and have a serious tactical advantage? And if you find such an item in a wreck you can add it in to the invention process to try to get the same outcome (Give it a big bonus to inventing a similar or the same item)

This of course with be completely player driven. Those who love to invent like myself get infinite satisfaction, Knowing there is a possibility that I have created the only copy of a BPC and built a module no one else has ever seen. The next step beyond that is setting up a system where someone could combine a bunch of BPC's to create a one of a kind BPO they can research and improve. Make it difficult and with a strong possibility of Failure, and you will have an even more consternation about whether to possibly waste multiple copies of a BPC or get something truly unique. This should be implemented for all T2 modules so we as players can create BPO's instead of there being a dwindling amount of BPO's for a items that are commonly used by everyone. For those worried about there being a glut of new T2 competition, need not worry because all T2 items need Moon Goo and that will then be the bottleneck, not the knowledge base.


The Bonus for CCP

CCP takes them selves out of the political line of fire for creating new items, the players get a new level of complexity in invention, PVP, exploration, and the evolution of the Sandbox. It also creates a whole new dynamic for how much time, money and effort players invest in the Sandbox. CCP wants us to be hooked like a drug, Or as my ex Girlfriend called it my "other girlfriend Eve", then make this change to the game. This concept is completely inline with the vision so many of us have for EVE, It is the reason I have played for the past 2.5 years and the reason I would play eve for the next 10 years. I hope they take a very serious look at what I have proposed, and understand this is something I have been thinking about for quite some time.

Thank you for your time,

The Director of Evil, Alpha Strategy, In Umbra Mortis,

Doukyou

Expanding on fuel blocks.

So let's see where the idea of bundling can be expanded.

Siege module / Triage Module: Strontium Cathrates become ammo.

Adding variations to current fuels through scripts + Strontium + cap 800's: Scripts dictate the "type" of ammo that the stront becomes. For instance, adding Targeting range and optimal range scripts would change the bonuses to focus on a sniper setup, while tracking and scan res scripts focus on moving targets.

Stront can now be classed as ammo, and can be put in an ammo hold.

Oh yeah, I just went there.

Heat Sink

Can be used in high,med or low slot.
Works in the same way as an overheated module but with the opposite effect (radiating cold instead of heat)
Requires charges (coolant since its already a PI manufacturable product)

So ... CCP ... you are reading all these ideas, .. right? Would you mind posting a link here and now to a locked thread where you are compiling the ideas and sorting them based on what you plan to develop and what you plan to ignore? It would show us that you are actually listening to us and thinking about our feedback. It would also let us know which ideas have better chances of seeing the light of day .. err, space .. than the others.

Edit: And no, Xavier Theakstone, the counter to covert ops is making your own ops more covert. And to catch the ship, you can always counter with bubbles, intercepters, and smartbombs to name a few. And while I don't support the tactic for various reasons, there is always the infinitely effective tactic of spending hours littering hundreds of jetcans around a gate to decloak anything that jumps through. Fix it CCP, so that after a player has created 5 (or 4 or 3) jetcans, his oldest jetcan pops upon creation of the next jetcan. When covert ops can't cloak from hundreds of jetcans or can easily be decloaked from all these new decloaking modules you guys have been suggesting, then the covert ops cloak becomes worthless and you might as well fly a normal ship with decent dps and other bonuses.

can u make the TD drones and SD drones more effective? recently they have no use in battle, especially in little and Medium size.

u guys just buff the web drones, why not buff the TD and SD drones too?

2 modules and related scripts to consider



Mass Manipulation Field

Creates a static bubble around the ships hull that shifts or artificially masks the mass of the vessel up or down in accordance with a fitted script.


Projected Mass Manipulation Field

Projects a static bubble around a target ship that shifts or artificially masks the mass of the target vessel up or down in accordance with a fitted script




Mass increase Script

used in one of the above modules to increase mass


Mass Decrease Script

used in one of the above modules to lower mass






USE: its pretty simple..it adjust the mass of a vessel for any mass related calculations.
can be used to prolong the life (mass limit) of a wormhole
can be used to collapse a wormhole quicker.
might be enough of a shift to sneak a carrier into or out of a wormhole you otherwise couldnt.
can decrease fuel consumption on bridges.
could be used to adjust the push of prop mods
could be used defensively to decrease the push of enemy prop mods

ööö I do not know if this is right place , but is it possible to divaid cargohold modules, so that some of them would extend ship maintenance bay, other would extend Orebay and some would extend corporate hangar.. and so one ?
Then you could choose a bit differend setup for your own goods transport ship.. when you need to transport ships, ore, or just different goods