Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Limiting mass and targeting cyno's (which honestly are just a communications ping more than anything else) isn't the answer. Too many work arounds and way too many problems with numbers and balancing. Keep Cyno mechanics the way they are, what really needs to change is how ships interact with the titan bridge itself.

Let me preface this with some experience I've had. I've heard titan bridging being compared to airborne drops (paratroopers) in the real world, but to take advantage of that extra mobility the paratrooper sacrifices a lot. Namely limited ammo, lack of body armor (or they have to put it on after the jump; trust me, its bad news to jump with body armor), and very limited supplies. The mobility makes them powerful but they have severe limits.

With that out of the way I propose that in order for ships to bridge off of a titan and giving them that mobility advantage they need to have an inherent ability to interface with the Titan bridge, or equip a mod that gives them that ability. Basically the system is very simple.

-Jump Harmonics 1: You can interface and use a Titan Bridge. Only specialized ships have this naturally. and any ship that has jump harmonics 2; everything else must use a harmonics mod.

-Jump Harmonics 2: You can interface with and use Black Ops Bridging. Only Covops, Bombers, Recons and Black Ops have this.

Harmonics Mod: Works like a cloak or a Warp Core Stab that gives penalties to the Scan Res and other systems in order for the ship to use the Titan Bridge. Would take a lot to equip so you would have to build a ship around the mod and wouldn't be nearly as combat effective as a ship that isn't fit for bridging. T2 module would have lesser penalties.

This would require a new skill, something like Jump Bridge Data Interfacing and would be low requirements with low training time.

I'm sure that there are massive holes that I'm missing, troll away.

Midna

None of these mass limits and things will really help the people who are crying, they are generally 5 guys crying about getting dropped by 10 guys. At upper levels re numbers it is irrelevant as a) large groups tend to have intel and know exactly what is going to drop on them and b) have the firepower to blap the cyno before everything is through. Similarly in 0.0 there are even more risks involved with bridging, like bridging your fleet directly into a bomb run. The numbers being dropped is not a problem the vast majority of the time, it is more the ease with which it is done and the range it offers (as greater bridge range = more area to need eyes on).

I personally hate jump bridges, jump drives et all, but crying about titan bridge power projection while ignoring caps in general is dumb.

Yeah because bs really need nerfed/t3s need buffed more.

I didn't even think about that. Good catch.

The more i read SmilingVagrant. The more i think everybody should just read AND understand what he's saying.
Titan bridges aren't the problem here. I also agree with the poster who said this topic smells like butthurt person who got hotdropped. Wahhhhh i got hotdropped nerf titanbridges and cyno's. Harden up or go back to hello kitty.

Misha.

No thanks titan bridges are fine.

This would result in tears, bring it on.

Didn't you know that 'risk' and 'titan' were never supposed to be in the same sentence?! Go to your room and never come back out!

As for #2: Jump a whole 250 man fleet to protect the titan, with a few Augorors to help cap up the Titan so It can jump everyone back as soon as your 250 man fleet takes care of the ten man roaming gang.

It took me all of thirty seconds to think up something that could counter the stupid ideas that this NON PROBLEM is trying to solve.

I don't think they should be removed, but I think the range should be reduced, there should be a mass limit, etc. Space is currently too small imo. To compensate, titans will need to be made more useful elsewhere.