Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We'd need to think of a better name for it, but for now, call it "Cyno Poisoner." Write some technobabble about it causing metamorphic fluctuations in the quantum foam or something, but the gist is that when you use it on a cynosural field, it "poisons" it, causing ships that try to jump through the cynosural field to suffer one or more of the following effects (you might be able to have different modules or scripts that cause it to do different combinations of these things).

• Take damage.
• Lose some of their capacitor.
• Have a significant delay time before they actually arrive.
• Arrive spread out from the field.
• Temporarily suffer debuffs similar to the effect of e-war - jammed, target speed or distance reduced, signature radius increased, tracking penalty, etc.
• Temporarily suffer debuffs similar to being in an anomalous wormhole.

Posted this about two days ago -

Module Repairer:

• Repairs broken and damage modules.
• Can lead to the creation of "Overload" gangs
• Uses a high slot
• Act as a modular replacement for Nanite Paste (while still having nanite paste for people who would prefer it)
• Can only be used remotely

Additionally we could see the implementation of two modules, one that takes the mid slot, another that takes the low slot. They could either act as coolants for low / medium slots or for all slots in general. For example - Consider how a computers cooling system cools down modules. This would essentially sacrifice tank or damage for the ability to overload modules longer before burning them out.

If this is already here, i apologize. CBA to read 75 pages.

For this particular idea the key phrase is "point defense", allowing for a full set of new modules, similar to rigs but with passive operation.

This also allows for the re-purposing and possible usefulness of defender missiles.

Some examples of this module would be;

Point Defense Battery: Array of small caliber autocannons arranged around the ship's hull and loaded with explosive munitions. Guns are fully automated and engage both missile and drone targets when they enter the kill-zone, approximately 2500m from the ship.

Damage per gun would be enough to single volley any standard missiles, about 70-80HP, and have a rate of fire around .5 to .75 seconds. The main balancing component is, as with any guns engaging small and fast targets, effectiveness is only about 10% per battery. Allowing the thinning but not removal of incoming missile fire and the ability to harass drones.

The defender missile variant would have considerably higher engagement range, but slightly slower rate of fire. Again damage would reflect similar values to the guns. Unable to target drones.

For fairness and to have something able to disrupt turret fire but not modify the turret stats, an ECM point defense system that "disrupts" the targeting of a hostile ships main guns introducing a 10% chance to miss on gun turrets, not affecting missile fire.

Batteries would require their own slots on ships with minimal fitting/onlining requirements.

Slot distribution on ship classes would be as follows;

Frigate hulls: 1 slot
Destroyer hulls: 2 slots
Cruiser hulls: 2 slots
Battle Cruiser hulls: 3 slots
Battleship hulls: 3 slots

In capital warfare these can be applied as AA guns with their own class, similar to dedicated AA batteries which use standings information to pick targets. These guns would only target fighters/fighterbombers allowing for considerably better defense from Carrier groups.

Capital slot layouts;

Dreadnaught: 1 XL battery, 2 standard
Carrier: 2 XL batteries, 3 standard
SuperCarrier: 3 XL batteries, 4 standard
Titans: 2 XL batteries, 4 Standard

Note carriers having superior layouts as they have no main weapons other than their drones.

Naturally these numbers/ideas are purely theoretical at this point and need quite alot of refinement and brainstorming, a job for a proffessional dev team no doubt.

Regards,

Sword

How about...

Ancilliary armor repper - similar to ancilliary shield booster ALSO in the MID slot!

Titan star-ports: Allowing a titan pilot to do more than spend the rest of his days stranded in a big target.

What it could look like

http://www.markkingsnorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/drydock1.jpg

Destroying the starport could destroy the titan or heavily damage it.

has an undocking timer.(eg it takes 1-5 mins to undock or dock titan.)




next one, I have no idea HOW this has never been mentioned!

Black-ops specific module: EMP(Not ECM burst )

Deactivates ALL ship modules(and maybe targeting system, if not, than timer until modules can reactivate eg 5seconds) in a 10km-15km radius including your own and friendly.

-fries half your cap

-10minute cooldown

-chance it doesnt work

(EMP graphics much like the scene in Matrix Revolution)


Im sorry but when i think blackops an EMP is linked to it.

Exactly!

I propose 3 webifiers which have an effect based on the square root of a ships sig radius and the cube root of their mass. One designed for frigates (10km range, 1MW powergrid), one for cruisers (15km range, 15MW powergrid), and one for battleships (20km range, 225MW powergrid). This way, a frigate can still web a battleship but only with about 28% slowing, and it costs 15MW for the webber. Also, this will allow larger ships to web other larger ships at longer ranges instead of having to get close, but if they want their webs to be effective against little ships, they need to fit a small webber and get close. A tech 2 cruiser webber used on a frigate would only have about 32% slowing.

I think webs would still be pretty popular in PVP even if this were implemented. If you want to know my calculations/how I got these figures, send me an EVE-mail or something.

I think instead they should just allow a person to anchor their capital ship so that it can't be bumped. Just park it in a POS or something. They should have locks too, to keep people from trying to fly it while you're away.

I think all capital ships should persist after their pilot logs off. This would make parking them properly an important task, and might encourage more careful use of these vehicles.

ancillary remote repper/shield transporters
ancillary armor repairers.

How about a armor module to counter the ASB. A low slot module that when activated grants a 75% resist on all damage types and runs on cap boosters. Call it a Ancillary Armor Hardener, or something.

yk

Crazy Idea,

Specialized Tech 3 low slot Module which requires specialization 5. Allows for fitting of T2 ammo in T1 based weapons systems.

Idea, "Torpedo ballistic Specialization Module" which allows T2 Torps to be fitted in officer launchers.

Outcome, Better loot drops from player kills who are EFT warriors :), More things to be made from sleeper loot. A nice expensive module to eat up Isk in the game.

Also after doing some hard thinking. There needs to be a low slot and/or a mid slot item that reduces ship sig radius.

As of now there are target painters to increase radius of a ship but nothing to counter this.
As important as sig is in the game it makes no sense to me why the only way you can lower your sig is by getting a Halo set or by running an evasive maneuvering gang link.