Ships & Modules

Denying capitals from using Stargates simultaneously or within a short period of time from each other is a balance decision, absolutely.

To outright deny them all indefinitely is just lazy.

Ok, fine.

Capitals are meant to move by cyno because the beacon lights to the entire system, basically broadcasting to anyone interested that a capital may be entering. This is intentional. Obviously, gate jumps don't light up a system the same way.

In fact, cynos are meant to provide tactical points at which combat can/should occur. Without the beacon, that doesn't happen, and that's bad.

As for why a gate timer wouldn't work so well... you do realize that all it would take to tackle a cynoless cap would be to jump your own cap through before your gank, right? Silly carrier reapproaches gate only to have a Moros jump through and siege.

Bottom line is that cyno travel was put in place for a reason. Capital travel without cynos means no cynos are lit and there's no beacon showing incoming capitals. Gate travel would also limit the effectiveness of cyno jammers, which are rather a big deal in null. Incursions also cyno jam systems, which presumably is also a fully intended mechanic to limit investment of capital ships on those fronts.

So no, I don't think your timer idea really solves anything, and yes I do think it creates more problems than you realize.

Look, it's been said many, many times already: just get yourself a damn cyno alt and go for it. Buddy program one and you can have it up in less than week for the price of a single plex. If you decide it's something you want to stick with either keep the account or gang up with some other people to make it work for you. But at the very least, you ought to try it the way it works now before you propose massive changes.

I think you may have misunderstood me. I was never proposing that cynos and jump drives be removed. Those will still function, and to move more than 2 capitals in any sane amount of time that would be the only way to go about doing it. Make the timer every 30 minutes for 1 capital, per stargate. No problem. It can be long, as long as it's possible for just one to slip through every now and again. It's not totally unreasonable is it?

I guess I'll have to get an alt, but man. Having to compromise immersion to just function normally after years of playing the game. That's not really cool.

It's hard when EvE is the only hardcore persistent MMORPG on the market. Certainly the only one involving spaceships.. it's hard when this is true and it tends to reject your playstyle. Frustration tends to build up in me, I'm sorry if I might come across as cold or rude. I don't mean that. I just like going at it alone, and when the only game close to what you want doesn't like that playstyle much it can mess with your head.

Seven years since reading about the infamous impoc incident, thinking that was just the coolest thing ever, and immediately signing up for an eve trial.

And you are still making me lol ^^



ahahahahaha, AN alt? If you're serious about running l5's you're gonna need 2 or 3 of them. In case you missed it before, you'll get less than a 50% hit rate on l5 missions, they'll give you gated ones you can't take a carrier on.
You'll need to be pulling missions from multiple char's if you want to chain l5's the same way you would chain l4's, I'd also really recommend having one of them go gung-ho on social skills so you can reject a good amount of missions even when in reject cool down.

btw I wouldn't really call this 'function normally', I'd call this min-maxed cashwhoring endgame for a solo player.

bring back AOE DD

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Well my solution does not make it easy for me to move about through different systems, it just makes it possible alone and without an alt; without destabilizing null sec sov systems or anything since it would take forever for an actual feel of capitals to travel that way.

Both people get what they want so I don't really see an issue with it.

As for the mechanics, whoever the server receives a packet from first goes through, the other person is denied. It's 30 minutes per stargate but not on both sides, just the individual stargate. So I could go through, and come back once every 30 minutes as long as no other capital ships use it. And, let's be honest, even if it were possible to use a stargate I doubt many would, so it would rarely be an issue for me.

No alt character here, although this is merely for the immersion [dust 514 character doesn't count as an alt].

I used to have a carrier and it was a mistake to skill for one [maybe if I see one without a pilot the skill will come in handy],
but the problem for me was that it was just so slow. Since then I have owned multiple tech 3's [although I have been ship spinning the last year really].

Oh and I am a solo player too [but an RPer who hates mission running etc] which makes hauling a carrier around a pain.

You act as if I am the only person it would benefit. I'm sure other capital pilots would use it here and there too. Of course, CCP cannot devote too many resources to a game improvement that few would use, but every now and then? Sure. The minority can't be the focus but to completely ignore them all the time, that's not good.

I am not without reason though, of course if coding in this change truly was difficult beyond what you'd assume as a laymen I can accept that. I honestly doubt know, but I doubt anyone else does besides a CCP dev.