Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Step 1: Wardec the holding corp
Step 2: Purchase and fit a pulse Oracle
Step 3: Hit F1
Step 4: Go AFK

Problem: Do you like docking games? Carriers and dreds can play them on an epic scale using capital mods (5000 hp every 5 seconds per capital remote repair unit... carriers can fit 5 of them).

Solution: Ban capital mods from being used in high-sec.

Problem: Carriers and dreds start using large reppers instead.

Solution: Suspect timer for capitals remote repairing!

Problem: They have a million EHP buffer and several thousand HP local tank to outlast aggro timers.

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Problem: Corp wardecs another corp with a POS. POS is hit and reinforced by hostile battleships/battlecruisers.

Solution: Defender corp mounts a defense when the POS comes out of reinforced. Hires mercs and allies.

Problem: Defender corp and friends are greeted by 7+ carriers in a Pantheon setup... which can remote repair about 20k+ damage per second... transfer 10k+ units of energy per second... and deal about 800+ damage per second per carrier.

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Problem: Carriers can cyno back and forth between trade hubs, moving goods back and forth faster than any "normal" trader or hauler can.

Solution: Get a Jump Freighter!

Problem: Carriers cost about 1/6 that of a Jump Freighter and have father jump range.

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Problem: One lone carrier is doing missions, providing warfare boosts, or assisting in mining operations.

Solution: Wardec him/her!!

Problem: The carrier pilot is in an NPC corp.

Solution: Suicide gank him/her!

Problem: Million EHP brick tank (it would take a minimum of 90+ Tech 2-fitted gank Talos to take one out in 1.0 security space... which would cost a minimum of about 9.9+ billion ISK)

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Do you now see how bad this idea is?

Waiiiiiiit a second.

People other than myself fill their POS' stront tank in highsec? I thought I was the only one.

no, there should be no carriers and dreadnoughts in high sec

I'm totally new at this game, but the first thing I thought was "Carrier in hisec? That would be unkillable!" with the drop corp thing if/when someone decides to wardec.

I think it would be nice to have them, but I think hisec would need some serious redesign, OR say CCP needs to have NPC incursions that are capable or damaging trade hubs and needs players to jump in Carriers or risk for example having Jita go offline and no one can dock for days. Or weeks. Heck, make it months.

I can see some issues with dreads/carriers in hisec. The suggestion about a hacking mechanic for offline posses I saw somewhere before and if done right could be interesting.

I do still think that jump freighters should be able to jump in to hisec, even if it is only allowed in .5 systems.

Silly. They have to hit F2 to activate siege first.... the nerve of some of these guys... :P

a simpler solution, allow battleships to carry and use siege modules, problem solved...

I like that idea, as long as Battleship siege module is going to be a much toned down compared to Dread siege module (you don't want a small gang reinforcing your POS in 5 minutes and people would stop using Dreads if you could get comparable DPS on hull that is 10-15 times cheaper), meaning:

-100% bonus to damage (125% for T2 siege module)
-still requiring Tactical Weapon Reconfiguration skill, but consuming much less Strontium
-5 or 10 minutes duration during which ship is unable to move, dock or jump, but still able to get assistance, able to use ECM, and won't get any bonuses to self-repair
-no penalties for scan resolution and maximum number of locked targets while in siege
-using between 1000 and 2000 PG, so you will have to cripple your tank if you want to put siege on your BS

+1