Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Improved Cyno Cloak
Allows the ship to cloak both itself and the cyno it is generating. The cyno disappears from the overview.

Covert Smartbomb II
A covert smartbomb may be activated under any kind of cloak, and damages wrecks and debris, and even damages cloaked ships within range.
High slot
15 HP damage to each damage type (60 HP total)
Cycle time 1s
Area of Effect: 4000 m

This idea is for the lonewolf

D.A.P. could stand for Drone Aided Probing

In T2 (or why not T3) typical probing frigates you should be able to use the D.A.P. drone.

This drone helps you probing as long as it orbits your ship AND as long as your ship is not cloacked.

A compatible and dedicated probe launcher and consumable probes must be used in the D.A.P. probing.

The 'aid' could be a simple boost in probe strengh...or maybe it's a better idea to review the entire probing minigame???

I hope so, cause exploration is a big part of eve sandbox style.

cheers to all

Here are some ideas:

Regenerative Armor:

Part of the reason shield buffer fitting is so popular is because shields recharge on their own whereas armor does not. Here is a solution:

The Energized Regenerative Membrane.

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This modules already exists and it currently adds something like 15% to your armor amount, which is nice. Instead, the regenerative membrane should also slowly regenerate your armor.


Poison Damage

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Playing some fantasy RPGs lately, I came to realize how awesome and deadly poison is. The idea of poison in general should be brought into EVE.

Destructive Nanobots - SciFi's Poison

-These could be fired on special missiles, or launched from a launcher/turret. The ship that gets hit has nanobots splashed on it that start disrupting the ship and causing damage over time that has to be either repaired or you have to wait until it goes away naturally.

-Another idea is that these could hurt the target ship in the form of heat damage. Heat on the target ship starts to build up for a period of time, eventually damaging or even burning out modules if the victim is unlucky.

T3 Titans

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YES REALLY! Wait, don't haul me away in a straight jacket just yet, hear me out first!

-When Titans were designed they were intended to be rare, once in a blue moon monster ships that destroyed everything, but were extremely expensive and rare. CCP has stated on many occasions that they thought it was a cool idea, but underestimated the amount of income large alliances could have, resulting in the current problem of stacking.

-T3 Titans would be configurable versions of the current Titans, the subsystems could allow them to fulfil different functions that on their own would be far badder ass than what we currently see out of Titans.

-Most importantly (and why this idea isn't as totally insane as all you probably think), T3 titan blueprints should only drop from Sleeper NPC's, and the number of blueprints to EVER be dropped should be a really low number (like 3-5). This would insure that these ships are extremely rare and can never be replaced. Only 3-5 of them could ever exist, and once they're gone, they're gone forever.

-With rarity comes power, these should be absolutely the most evil things to ever grace New Eden. Something like this:

*The old doomsday, with at least a quarter of the new doomsdays damage.

*Maybe the ability to warp cloaked (if properly configured with subsystems).

-Fighters/Fighter Bombers (If configured)

-Other ghastly things

The cost to build these should be astronomical, with the materials all coming from Wormhole space.

You probably still think I'm crazy, at least give it an honest look over. The whole point behind the original idea of titans was for there to only be one or two in existence, this would fix that, with a badass new ship that would be feared by all.

The Kamikaze Module
Fits in a high slot
Is loaded with Bombs
Can fit on specific Kamikaze ship that is fan based frigate T2 hull * like the Tier 3 Bc's
On T2 /3 Destroyers and on Stealth Bombers.
has 3 dmg components
1)The bombs loaded into the module
2)The bombs held in the cargo bay
3) the overloading of the ships warp core(standard 5k uni dmg area of effect)

Max Damage is 50K hp in a 3 km range, the warp core breach creates a time / space vacuum that quickly implodes the dmg effect area, thus limiting it's overall size.
The T2 version, like T2 bombs decreases area of effect while increasing dmg dished out.
Draw back
Destroys the pilot's ship and pod.

Module skill, lvl effects how many bombs can be loaded. Level 5 gives way to? T2 bombs anyone? More dmg in a smaller area...with the T2 skill shrinking the area while increasing the dmg output. For this Kamikaze Module it would only allow the use of T2 bombs with their base lvl 1 dmg.
Has a base 30 second initiation timer that can be leveled down to 0 with skills
Gives general warning "Some DeCrunch has initiated Kamikaze module" ... because knowing it's coming would be such grim fun, it has to be shared.

After reading more posts,
Kudos to Uylear Aliastra for a similar idea.
And please oh please don't give away our cloaks to being scanned. There are far too many things that can decloak one already.
Living in WH for several years now and my firm take away is this.
I HATE LOCAL!
Leave me the peace of being invisible.

anti-cloak field generator
this module would fit hics and work much like the warp generators do with scripts avaible that would allow to either focus the feild in one direction or create a bubble like effect. the bubble effect would have a reducing chance of deloaking vessals depending on the range the hic with the script you would be able to increase your chances but limit the area of effect.
an example would be that you are exspecting a cloaked vessal to jump through a gate you would use the script to focus in area of gate ,or you are hunting a afk cloaky near your home station, you would use your bubble effect.
these affects would have the same or near the same restrictions as the warp feild generator does(like not being able to be reppped or warp with active)
it just seems silly that advanced races would allow there enemys to simply sit in there space and spy on them with out trying to find them .
thinking of the cloaked ship as a submarine and the improved hic as a destroyer deploying depth charges

Turtle Field Generator:

High or mid slot item.
Generates a field around your ship that can not be penetrated for 20 seconds. Other ships can target and take hostile action, but their weapons will not cause damage due to the field.
Your ship can not hold locks or activate modules while the field is active. You are also frozen in place. The field can not be reactivated for a minute after the initial 20 seconds.

Carrier Docking Module
High Slot
Fits only to carrier class
While the module is active, pilots may dock inside the carrier up to the volume limit of the ship's ship maintenance bay and repairs the ship's shields over time. Docked ships travel with the carrier when it jumps or warps, but not when it docks in a station. When the module goes offline, or the carrier docks or logs off or DCs, all docked ships are undocked back into space within 2500 m of the carrier. This does not apply to un-piloted ships stored in the hangar array.

Sm/Med/Lg Drone Enhancer
High slot
25% bonus to drone hp
+5/+10/+25 bandwidth and m3 to the drone bay, respectively
+1 active drones
Fitting requirements vary to scale with ship sizes for frig, cruiser, and battleship hulls respectively.

I think CCP just needs to completely revamp how the current titans work. Making a limited-edition tech 3 titan would just give unthinkable power to large alliances, and then nobody would ever get a chance to have one of their own.
Make the titan a mobile POS. It jumps into a system and then pops up a POS bubble and deploys POS guns that detach from the hull. Give it the ability to repair ships in the bubble (over time), a gigantic fleet cargo + ship maintenance bay and a persistent cyno. Maybe keep the doomsday, but really just remove the "giant f***ing gun" aspect of the titan. As long as it's just a big fat gun, it will continue to be mass produced and fights will continue to be determined by "I have moar titans than you, bro" (which was NOT the original intention for titans). Making it a mobile command center makes the thing into the flagship of a fleet, just like it was supposed to be. It will be at the forefront of SOV warfare because it will be an instant operations center for the assaulting fleet or a rally point for the defending fleet. Not only that, but it will add something to Eve combat that it has never really had: modifiable battlefield terrain.

Just a few quick ideas:
(sorry if some have been posted before)

1: Damage controls
I consider DC's to be more or less unfair.
In fits that are CPU intensive one has to sacrifice a lot (potential dps or tank) just to fit one.

Shield tanks & missile fits have to sacrifice 30 cpu, that could go into guns or tank.
Armor tanks could use this cpu for warp disruptors webs ...etc.

Make DC's to need:
Power = 1 or 0
CPU = 1 or 0

Reasoning:
In my experience Larger ships have less problems fitting Damage controls than cruiser/frigate sized ones.

Changing this would cause a drastic change in how people fit their ships.
All of a sudden they will have 30 free cpu, that could be used on something else.

This will stir things up and make many ships much easier to fit, while other less used ships viable.

Ballistic control systems
Make Ballistic control Systems use less CPU.
I see no reason why they need 40 CPU, 30 CPU sounds more reasonable, also lower the meta CPU needs.

Other ideas:
Launch bay accelerator module: low slot, % bonus to rate of fire

Warhead upgrade: low slot, %bonus to missile damage and? %explosion velocity

Precision aiming computer: medium slot, %bonus to chance of hitting a target in fallout range.

Capacitor Guard: high slot,
30% chance of protection against NOS, per cycle
30% chance of Neut working like Energy transfer arrays.
(meaning your enemy gives you cap instead of neutralizing it) per cycle
Cost ... small/medium/large... according to size.
cycle time : 1-1.5 nos or neut cycles of respective sizes.

T3 Weapons
The core idea behind T3 weaponry is to not be as powerful as T2 weapons, but with the ability to switch between two modes and that full heat damage doesn't destroy them but only shuts them down while they cool-down. Can only be used on T3 ships and should require weapon specialization to IV for both modes.

Adaptive Medium Laser
- Beam mode / Pulse mode

Adaptive Medium Accelerator
- Railgun mode / Blaster mode

Adaptive Medium Cannon
- Artillery mode / Autocannon mode

Adaptive Medium Launcher
- Boosted mode (missile velocity) / Rapid mode (Missile ROF)