Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Since I actually live in a system where station lockout has been a real threat, I think I am qualified to answer this question. YES.

Carry on.

I'm sorry you don't actually want to participate in FW occupancy warfare. There is a place for players like you - Egghelhende.

Look, as a 0.0 pilot, I have a real solution for what ills FW:

-Drop all pretense of this NPC crap that is going on now.

-Make taking systems in FW like taking systems in Sov space, only make it take less time to shoot the structures (think POCO hitpoints) and have reinforcement timers.

-Remove all the NPC garbage that is cluttering up FW and making it essentially a glorified mission grinding club. Simply reinforce the bunkers or whatever you call them, threaten the system, have a timer, the defenders come defend. Simple as.

-Make the only way to gain LP is by shooting other players in an opposing faction, make the LP gain worth about 10% of their ship, so that it makes no sense to grind you own alts.

-If you lose control of a system, you lose control of the stations, you're locked out, suck it up and move on, counter attack later.

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If you're sitting back right now thinking: "That's too harsh" or "Then I won't make much money" then maybe you're playing the wrong part of the game, and you should go do level 4 or 5 missions instead. You don't have a part of the game called "Factional Warfare" and then allow people who don't want to do warfare thrive in it, it doesn't make any sense.

I like the idea of dockblocking, but it raises one big issue: people can't access their stuff when sovereignty changes. If they store it in highsec, they have to worry about gate-camps trying to bring it back. I haven't tried making courier contracts for stuff in lowsec but I'd assume that doesn't usually go over very well.

I'm not sure what a good solution would be, but it would be something that gives people a way to keep their stuff accessible if they plan ahead properly and keep up to date on how things work, but it wouldn't be easy. There would need to be room to screw it up and lose stuff.

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Actually I do have one idea: instead of automatic dockblocking, players should be able to erect sentry guns that shoot at enemies near the station. You can definitely get IN, but you might not be able to get your ships OUT.

'Dock-blocking' is working well as intended.

for example for the last couple of weeks I've been blocked from docking in my home station of Fliet and can't get to a lot of my PVP ships.

This is good because it encourages and motivates me to actually fight for my system back so I can get access to my stuff again.
[Yes I'm aware I could drop militia and move out, but with so many ships it'd be more effort than actually just winning the system back IMHO]

I also like this mechanic because I was up in Ikoskio a day or two ago, had some fun solo pvp in my Fleet Stabber killing a couple of frigs and dessies in a 1v5 situation i managed to escape from in barely 10% armour. After the fight a bit more help came in for them and I was looking around for a good place to repair before round 2. As it happened the nearest repair in lowsec Gallente FW I could dock at would have been 4 or 5 jumps.

I was left a tough decision - to jump to Caldari highsec (1 jump) and repair there or run the gauntlet back to a friendly lowsec station.

choices like that are very good - I landed on the highsec gate at the same time as one of the enemy tackle frigates who jumped in anticipation of catching me so bounced to a neigbouring system before retrying a few minutes later when the highsec jump was clear.

To end the story, I went back for round two of 1v6 and died horribly.

Old non-docking blocking would have made it way too easy for me to get repairs - this system made getting repairs feel like a real achievement, and that should not be taken away.

Edit: also note that making it back out of this 'dangerous' area to dock to log out gave me the same interesting choice. Log in space and risk being probed or try to run the gauntlet. These choices are important for keeping the game interesting.

This idea does sound rather interesting indeed.

Yeah there are some really good ideas floating about, would be nice to get more feedback on these ideas. If they get enough feedback and attention I'm sure CCP will start to look into them.

I guess it would follow sort of in line with the live events for Incursions but on a more frequent basis. I'm not massively into the 'Roleplay' but I think it could be something CCP could get behind a bit more, really giving the players the sense that they are fighting for something much larger.

(Would be nice if the lines drawn would shift and such, Amarr decides to break out in war with Caldari or something hi-sec space shifts control etc not likely but meh would be cool)

C'mon seriously? That noob flying a mach has bigger issues to worry about than docking rights at this point in the game.

As a person who has lived in a system where lockout was real on 2 different occasions, I am still all for station dock blocking.

If dockblocking is going to remain a thing, extend it to every system in an enemy's space, not just the low-sec ones that are currently under an enemy's control.

It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that systems that should be exponentially more dangerous for a member of a militia to enter - i.e. their enemy's hi-sec systems - are actually less dangerous because they can just dock up in systems which are supposed to be extremely hostile to them when faced with NPC security or enemy militiamen. From what I can see it's just moved Caldari militia docking games from OMS to Villore and Dodixie, and I imagine it's moved Gallente militia docking games from Tama to Nourv and Jita.

Apparently according to my friend if you are in Gallente FW you can dock up at Jita 4-4, which in a way makes no sense, I maybe missing something out but I don't think you can do that, unless maybe if you can do that. You shoudln't be allowed to dock up in any station in caldari space for example.