Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Remote Sensor Manipulation module - medium slot - boosts or damps sensors of remote ship based on loaded script (same as already available for the respective modules). Affected by ship bonuses of celestes, lachesis, and arazu.

Is there a reason you left out skills? The game could always use more skills (speaking as one of the over 100m sp crew).

CCP has tried to nerf ecm twice already and at the same time you rebuffed ecm boats to compensate. I do not think you can succeed at nerfing it, and logis do need to fear and compensate for ewar anyway, whether ecm or damps. Simultaneously the game could always use new skills. Presently there are skills to increase lock range and lock speed, tracking range and tracking speed, but there are not skills to reduce signature or increase sensor strength.

I propose that you consider introducing sensor integrity skills (e.g. ladar sensor integrity, etc.) and a skill for a very slight decrease in signature radius. The sensor integrity skills do not have to be very much percentage. Just so long as they provide some slight relief against getting jammed it would help even the playing field v other ewar and ewar boats.

As long as the sig skill does not wipe out the increase that will come from improved painting boat percentage it would be a good addition to the game.

As for the eccm skills they would help 1. reduce the rage against and op'd ness of ecm, and 2. increase the relative utility in fitting an eccm module. This indirect nerf to ecm boats is probaly the best way to address that ongoing problem.

Simultaneously, please consider altering the eccm modules themselves. Possibly make them a combo of a small whole number bonus and a percentage bonus on top. This might make these modules worth fitting on BCs and below.

Has anyone mentioned ECCM rigs yet? We should have skills which increase the effectiveness of ECCM and ECM modules. I mention ECM modules, because the only skill I can recall affecting them are ones which reduce cap use, and increase optimum range. Rigs and low slot modules increase ECM strength but I can't recall any skills which do. To be honest, I think we should combine PECCM with ECM all into one RECM (Remote ECM, for standardized naming conventions) module with scripts. The scripts will be: type PECCM or type ECM, where type could be multi or grav/ladar/radar/etc. (forgot the last one). The scripts affect the stats of the module. The ship bonuses for falcon, rook, BB, scorp, etc. apply to this module. Same idea for combining RSB with RSD (previous thread) using scripts and ship bonuses applying to this new module. There could be capital versions for use on a new ewar captial. New skills for that one too.

Cloak Disruption Field

Upon firing, offlines and disables all cloaking within 250km of the host ship for X minutes, cannot refire for Y minutes, like a mini-Doomsday. High Slot module, only fits to a specialized Battleship.

There's nothing in EVE to counter cloaks except gatecamps with a million drones circling the area. I really am tired of being camped by 1 imbecile in a bomber alongside 10 other miners with no way to fight back.

One more:
o Drone Transfer Rig - Allows you to move a drone from your cargohold or a container into your drone bay.

Then make it a D-Scan disguise at least...

Tons of Ibises on your D-Scan - until you enter the grid and realize they're actually titans! :-D
Just kidding. But what about a thing that lets you in fact conceal your true nature on D-Scan?
Maybe just something that only gives "Cruiser" instead of "Deimos".
Baiting could be easier as well as hiding and also concealing the exact composition of one's fleet.

Here is an idea ... I know that gankers will hate even the idea of it ... but let's make the play-field a little more levelled.

In real life if I was delivering a cargo and I would expect that I could be attacked I would make along the cargo a little "present" for a ganker. This "present" would look like some standard container, but if the ganker picks it up and puts it in his cargo then it explodes. Or if he opens it for looting. Damage here should be like smart-bomb or bomb for bomb launcher. And of course here also apply the downside of a bomb if using it in higsec and so on .

I would love to have some guerrilla creativity tactics here and not just plain old frontal attack or gate camping. So in the end there would be always a question on your mind: "do I feel lucky today"

Cloak bubble, only deployable by a dedicated ship, just like the interdictors.
This would be a super powerfull module so the downside sould be severe. Read: high risk of using it.

In order to keep de bubble up all modules must be deactivated and there is a reactivation delay of 60 seconds when cloaky bubble drops, for the entire fleet. This puts the fleet in great danger when they uncloak or get decloaked. Only (battle?)cruiser size ships are allowed in the cloak bubble.

As this generates alot of weird signatures maybe these things should be probable with a new special, but slow, probe type. Aiming for about 10 minutes max?

Bait modules



deployable device , similar to a cyno or a bubble generator but generating the signature of a ship (per ship type)
requires a launcher like a smartbomb or probe launcher , requires a dedicated ship specific for deployment

limited duration like max 15 min present but imitating the real thing perfectly so scanning wil give bogus info

this would make gankers life a bit more interresting ... is that ship REALLY there or not

Resist Debuff and EA Ships

I was wondering how to make an electronic attack ship a better addition then what it is today, and it came to me that maybe a role supported module might do the trick.

Much like stealth bomber, interdictor, and hictor have unique role modules,
what if you made an EA ship-only equippable mod that debuffs resists.

They'll be heavy stack penalties to it, so that say 3 + debuffs barely add to the existing effect. You can only have one slot of these debuff machines on a single EA frigate.
If the targeted resist goes below 0% then it actually becomes a weakness since its a negative.

Also, instead of making a bunch of different modules that target differing points like armor explosive or shield em, it would be just one module utilizing script technology. The single damage type debuffs would be the most potent of course. You can also use a multi-point script and employ something like a 'counter eamn or invul field' where the damage type increase is distributed evenly across the board in a lesser degree than the former single type debuffs.

I would also like to see a strength governer for this new module that ties in with the electronic attack ship skill directly. This would be the ships 'Role bonus'. For every skill level in ea ship piloting, a percentage increase is applied to the strength of the module. So, for a level 5 ea frig pilot, the role bonus would equate to a top out of 50% for a single damage type debuff, same as hardner, and 20% for multi-type script. You could have tech II debuff machine that pushes 55 and 25% respectively.

Thats basically the idea behind it. More utility to beef up the EA Frigates out there. As for the name of the debuff machine module I really dont know. I just wanted to pass the idea out. I dont know if its been considered before on these forums but I hope its not too overpowered as to disrupt the fragile balance in eve, maybe just spice things up.