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I think that the gap you speak of makes sense for EVE combat. It is 3-dimensional and filled with open, empty space. If shots coming at you are going to be blocked, you can't really expect your friend next to you to be carrying the shield. It makes a lot more sense for the blocking ship to be blocking damage from itself.

But prevention of the attack can be done against anyone shooting-regardless of who they're shooting at-with electronic warfare.

You already have a good deal of these options with respect to skill trees and modules that exist.

Leadership skills & their associated modules increase resists and the like *IF* you choose to use them that way.

The only low-end limit I might see would be allowing a specifically designed destroyer model to use them - the old "small gang command ship" suggestion.

As such, your module recommendation would be in addition to what these command modules and skill trees do - which is a very big boost in a direction that can turn major fleet fights into mini-POS bashes with the composite.

I don't know... It just seems to have the potential to be way overpowered or lessening the value of things already existing.

Thank you for your support.

My only worry with a Tech 3 destroyer is that would make already diluted cruisers entirely useless (T3 is about versatility at an efficiency level between Tech 2 and Tech 1). Destroyers today are characterized by a frigate tank with roughly double a frigate's punch. I can see making an Aegis Destroyer another tech 2 hull, but I'd prefer a brand new tech 1 destroyer with a role bonus.

Okay. But a logistic ship can have the same effect by having reps on something before the attack begins. If the effect these new ships have, were to be effective without targeting your allies (eg. over the anti-weapons' range, 50k or something), then there were would be a big enough difference in my opinion. How then would the ships mod decide who to protect and who not to? Only those in fleet? By standing? By corp or alliance?

I do see another problem though. A fleet of these ships could be used to make a fleet completely invincible to any fleet smaller than it.

There is a partial solution to that of course. It would be good to see the ships mod shooting projectiles out of space without collaboration ie, they randomly choose a projectile to shoot at. This would mean that the more ships you had that did this, the more likely they were to be shooting the same projectiles (ie negating some of their effect).

Which would mean the more of these dessies you had in a fleet the more likely they would be to end up shooting the same targets and wasting their effect. It would also mean the bigger the enemy fleet (ie, the more projectiles coming) the less likely statistically they would be to shoot at the same projectiles as each other. It might actually scale quite nicely. It would give small fleets more effect against big ones and big ones less effect against small ones... and so on and so forth. That is only a small fix to the problem though. I still think they would be difficult to balance in numbers.

There are a lot of concepts to be ironed out. I'm not giving my support to this thread quite yet. But neither am I dismissing it.

Having more complexity for fleet fights is certainly one of the aims of this idea.

[quote=Ayla Hanaya]
Position and Effectiveness
First, the limitations of positional requirements: distance to line of fire, and perhaps distance to protected target are factors in the effectiveness of the modules. The closer the Aegis destroyer is to the line of fire between attacker and protected target, the more time the module has to intercept incoming fire, hence the more effectively it places the countermeasure.

The notion of reaction time also generates the second factor for effectiveness. The closer the Aegis destroyer is to the midpoint of the line between attacker and protected target, the more effective the countermeasure is. Being too close to the attacker reduces reaction time, being too close to the protected target reduces the space in which protective measures may be deployed. The ideal position for an Aegis destroyer, then, is midway between attacker and protected target, directly on, or very near the line of fire.

Naturally, skills at using the modules, and the effectiveness of the modules themselves would also be a factor. Beyond that, the effectiveness should also be proportional to the size of the weapons system, in the same way that weapons system size affects ability to hit targets today. Incoming fire from a frigate would be nearly impossible to intercept, whereas incoming fire from a battleship is much easier to mitigate.