Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I tried to edit a post of mine to include this but i don't know if it took or not so here it is again.

I think you should make T3 Hybrid Turrets, you could make these skills available for all turrets but I think this idea has a lot of merit.

When I was in th US Marines I was a helicopter mechanic. the ordinance lay of our AH-1W Super Cobra had a rotating ammo load out between tracers, depleted uranium, standard armor peircing rounds and incindeary rounds.

I think what you should do is make a magazine fed T3 turret that has the following advantages and dis advanteds by means of skills.

First, make a speed reload skills for T1 & T2 Turrets, say -10% reload time per level.

Then do this:

T3 Turret Skill (pick a name you like, it's all the same to me)
- +5% magazine capacity per level
- +2% of all t2 stats in the appropriate direction (so if PG was goin down, it goes another 2% from the total of a maxed t2 gun)
- No magazine reloading time, swaps just like crystals.
*prereqs: advanced weapons upgrades 5, max weapon specialization skills (IE small blaster spec 5 is the prereq for t3 blasters), all turret support skills to 4


Magazine Configuration:
- allows one additional kind of ammo to be loaded into the same magazine per level

Magazine Reloading
- -5% reloading time per level when reloading magazines in space

Magazine Regimes
- allows one user defined preset loading/reloading pattern to be created per level ( patterns can only be made in station or POS's )


What this does is allow the Gallente pilot to mix ammo types to effect the therm/kin balance at its optimal level, as well as alternate between cap intensive and cap reduced ammos to enhance staying power in battle, as well as alter range to deal with close range kiters like drams. it also allows you to mix between faction, standard and t2 ammo. To keep the void ammo outta rails, and spike outta blasters simply make blaster maags and railgun mags.

I think these new guns in addition to the rail buff would greatly even the odds for the Gallente.

Took you some time to make this post :)
Great ideas, however think they should spend some time and look into all the ships and weapens, its not just the ships you mentioned there its wrong with :)

well caldari usually use shields so they have all those pretty low slots for speed mods... though the ships could use some tweeking to make them slightly faster...

They did say that in the Winter Update that they'd be not only looking at the Hybrid weapons but also a lot of the ships. They'll be remodeling some aka the Raven and redesigning a fair amount more I'd assume.

I've been thinking about some things with regards to plates; it seems rather craptacular that plates nerf speed. This results in all buffer setups - from you garden variety nanoed hurricane to interceptors - all being shield buffer fit. This also affects the fact that plates hit your speed (that plated mega setup is pretty slow, isn't it) for any configuration that gallente ships would use. In short I simply don't like the way it works. I think that instead of adding mass, they should penalize some other characteristic, such as agility or some other characteristic. This would allow more "fair" fittings, if you're like me and think shield tanked hyperions are something of an abomination forced on the playerbase by indifferent game design.

Current "boost" sux .

Yea, the fitting requirements will help, but I also would like to see some ammo revision.
I really liked the idea of having 80% thermal / 20% kinetic and the other way around ammunition. Also some other bonuses like additional tracking speed per ammo could lead to an interesting change.

Hello Pattern,

I see you've finally come round to similar views to myself the on the tracking front

On the DPS side, I still like the idea of a beefed up 'overload' bonus for a distinct feel - it also allows for larger % boosts as it ultimately isn't sustainable.

Otherwise more good stuff for the ongoing discussion.

Gabriel

Amazing stuff, CCP should take note.

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