Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There's the potential for abuse... someone being able to fire off cynos while completely "off the radar" can potentially be a bit imbalanced, hence the restrictions. There should be some specialty ships with the ability, but I don't think simple T3s should be on that list personally, at least not without having, for example, a special subsystem giving that ability at the expense of something else.

Wow, you didn't bother thinking that through at all, did you?

The cloaked blob v. blob thing fails simply because you can't simply cloak every ship and form a blob. Only covops can target right when decloaking or even warp while cloaked. At best you may see more smaller skirmishes between covops equipped vessels, T3, etc. but certainly no massive cloaked blobs sitting around. Simply having a cloak equipped wouldn't remove you from local, only actually having the cloak active. This greatly restricts the threat from most ships. Only the specialized few would be able to attempt the hot drop. If you're alert and/or prepared, you can avoid it.

I'd thought of that... I think there should be that little blink where you appear personally. Give the aware a chance to recognize that something just may be amiss. The bots, let them dock and undock an hour later thinking it's all warm and fuzzy. Gives you plenty of time to set up bot-traps if you wish.

This idea is nearly perfect,

It accounts for cloaker omg spam abuse.
It accounts for allowing cloaker fleets to attack the bots
It allow for MORE smaller combat to happen
It probably will help cut some larger allaicnes down in control size as they'll need more folks to defend from raiders.
All covert ships are going to sell like hotcakes as a combat option.

Anything like that would need to preserve the sanctity of the cloak.

Same as in wormholes... you don't. You have to decide if the potential risk is worth it. Cloak your own ass up, get in range and observe a bit. You'd be surprised how well things can work when you think before leaping into the fray.

You may be aware but I think your idea is balanced and solves the AFK issue.

+1 from me bud.

Edit:
Well it will be changing, but in the mean time this will hopefully quell the whine.

So you decide if the potential risk is worth it by sitting there cloaked staring at the ship?? There is a difference between thinking and just sitting there waiting.

What should I be thinking about with no local to tell me if others in his same corp/alliance are there? He is on scan I am sitting in a ship I can fight him in. What is the thought process? Is it I have allot more time on my hands than he does so if he is bait i will wait around for someone else to take it. If he isn't he will eventually warp off and I will lose the pvp opportunty? Fill us in because I think you are the one who hasn't though this through at all.

Ok so your idea is to make it take much longer to find small scale pvp than it does already. This is the opposite of what eve needs.

"Same as in wormholes", were there is far less pvp per person than low or null sec. Remember the EQ statistics from all the other threads you were posting this idea in? Perhaps you could repost them here.

I know you and many like wormholes and the no local aspect. Why don't you all just stay in your wormhole and have your pvp that takes forever to find together.

Judging by the numbers of kills per capita and per system most pvpers don't think making null or low sec "same as in wormholses" is a good idea.

Not too proud to give myself a little bumpage.

Don't be ashamed of the bumpage we need to hammer out any more kinks if possible and once its all hammered out we present it to the CSM.

If you know any CSM members have one of them take a look at this idea before presentation.