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The only "must have" from PERP is the option to automatically rejoin a fleet after you disconnect.

Internal corporate markets would be worth a look, but it could destroy the overall economy.

Yes...thank you.

Problem with Empire in the last discussion was the GCC from the resulting explosion. It would have to be carefully addressed or create no GCC at all as it would create some havoc.

An example:
Goonswarm wardecs test.
Test BS at Jita undock.
Goonswarm shoots Test BS.
Test BS explode.
People explode.
Tears flood the forums.
No Sec Status or Standing loss.
repeat


I'm all in for destroying Highsec once and for all, but hell it has to be a challenge.
From another point of view, we could shoot Test ...

Why ship death AoE won't work:

My crew gets a bunch of ships and shoots them all down to 5% hull. We park them all on the jita undock, get aggression on one, and pop it. The resulting chain reaction deals enough damage to the freighters undocking that they are destroyed. Congratulations, you just enabled smartbombing inside the docking radius. What's more, it's not Concord enforceable.

If they ever do introduce it, though, neutral suicide bombers are going to be a lot of fun in highsec wars.

Specifics on AOE explosions is a tricky question... though it'd make 0.0 tactics more interesting, it would require a good deal of care to avoid all kinds of problems in hisec. Of course, if you're already willing to sacrifice however many ships it winds up taking to actually pop things from proximity damage alone, you can probably already manage to kill them anyways.

As for 'static noise'... that's a fairly clumsy mechanic, but is similar to a somewhat more elegant idea from the Commonly Proposed Ideas list; namely, making the process of locking slow proportional to the number of active locks on a target. That would make fleet combats more dynamic, since you can't just run a 60+ man fleet with everyone targeting the same guy... and would encourage more use of 'utility ships', since having people running around targeting your allies would interfere with enemy targeting to some degree.

Yes, that's a mechanic that'd take a bit of tinkering to work out satisfactorily... you don't want it to simply be a question of 'everyone target the friendly logistics ships so no one can shoot them', and you'd want some way of countering it... maybe sensor boosters and ECCM can help cut through the static, and target painters can make it far easier for other ships to target the painted ship, in addition to increasing damage on hits; those are ideas that are already discussed in the relevant thread, and deserve further consideration in any implementation of this idea.

How about stations having some sort of anti-AoE equipment to protect its guests from non targeted weapons, so that a ship that explodes near a station does 0 damage to nearby ships.

What the hell does aggression mechanics have to do with GCCs?
And saying that "in high sec, ships don't explode because CONCORD says so" is, ahem, dumb. (Or any other entity for that matter)

I would like to see a mechanic that affects the whole "Primary = Boom" tactic that is applied in fleets. A lock-stacking penalty may be an appropriate way to do this. It would make tactics more intricate and role-specific ships more useful. I could see a larger diversity in fleets except the standard blobs.

However, there are still questions regarding chain logistics for example and the effect a friendly lock would have on enemy ships locking time. CCP would have to carefully consider the abuse factor of this mechanic should it be implemented.

With regard to AoE explosions, this would be grossly tipped against close range ships and especially so for blaster-boats that need to sit on top of a target to deal optimum damage.

I created a new thread specifically for the AoE damage subject since this thread was for 3 ideas and I didn't want to focus on one in specific.