Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would BOOST Fed Navy Damage. Since they are undisputed master of blasters and drones.

I would also BOOST Caldari Navy optimal range. Because the Caldari use Railguns, too.

Please to not fix what is not broken?

When have you last seen Blaster Boats used in Fleet Doctrines?

What do you care, you probably never see them in your space in Nullsec,

Oh wait you don't have any space anymore.

The fix is to give minmatar some navy missiles/rockets.
And then maybe give the Amarr (or at least khanid navy - yes, indeed, I want khanid navy rockets) some navy rockets.

I don't have an issue with two factions offering identical faction ammo, if they have a significant amount of ships that use such ammo.

The problem is that most races use at least two weapon systems:

Caldari- missiles/hybrids
Matari- Projectiles/ missiles

Amarr - Lasers/ .... uhh a little bit of missiles and a little bit of drones
Gallente - Hybrids/drones

Matari and Caldari can slap navy ammo into their weapon system on any ship for a 15% DPS boost
Amarr can do pretty much the same since the vast majority use lasers

Gallente... what is a drone boat to do? I guess its OK since T2 drones have no drawbacks unlike T2 ammo (which is why faction close range ammo is often preferred over T2 close range ammo) ... but they also don't have any major strength unlike T2 ammo.
Certainly not load faction drones that are 5 mill a piece.

- Also, somewhat related, an Amarr drawback - gankers will load just enough faction ammo to get them the kill, not even a full magazine for their guns... amarr don't have that option - on your destroyer, you must load 8 faction crystals.... cost nearly 4 mill (depending on the local market)
I suppose you could try finding heavily damaged crystals in contracts at cheap prices...

You have managed to completely miss the real, looming, far more important issue, which is by total coincidence a pet issue of mine:

Blood and Sansha crystals are inferior in all respects to Imperial Navy crystals. They have nothing going for them at all. Imperial Navy crystals you can grind up from LP in highsec; the inferior Blood and Sansha crystals you must grind up from LP in NPC nullsec.

Differentiating bonuses might be extra cap use bonues for Blood crystals and tracking bonuses for Sansha crystals.

Would be nice if Caldari ammo specialized in kinetic damage and Federation ammo specialized in thermal damage.

Yea... I've noticed that (though you ignore the drops, but I'm not sure how significant they are), what you do have are 2 types of pirate faction ammo, +10% and +20%, whereas empire ammo is simply +15%.

For crystals, we could do some interesting things: the +10% variety does not wear out, while the +20% does - perhaps then they would then not be offered for just LP and ISK, but would only come from drops, or perhaps using some tags. They wouldn't be consumables anymore, just like faction modules and guns aren't. Without a tag limit, or coming only from drops, the worry is that everyone would use them as the market floods (while normal infinite use t1 crystals are consumed to make T2 and faction crystals, or simply reprocessed). The +20%s would be offered in the stores. So people would still likely use navy of 2nd tier pirate ammo for more DPS rather than infinite use +10% crystals
Or maybe it would be better if these +10% crystal just lasted 3x as long as +15% navy crystals


For the other ammo, what if the +10% ammo had half the volume of the normal ammo?
You can now fire 2x as much before reloading, carry twice as much ammo in your cargo, etc.
Come in with 5,000 rounds of AM, leave with 10,000 rounds of +10% gurista AM (so the ammo is essentially half price too)