Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So this is an idea some corp mates and I came up with and I thought it was worth putting on the board, scripts for Micro Jump Drives.

If you haven't used Micro Jump Drives (MJD) here's a brief run down for ya.

• They can only be fit to battleships.
• Once activated they begin a cycle (length of which is variable based on skill) that will move you 100km in the direction you're facing. The move occurs once the cycle is complete.
• After the jump is complete there is a 3 minute cool down before you can jump again.

So that's how they currently work, now this is can be fun just jumping around battleships or when getting in range with rats. However when you're dealing with pvp this much less effective, because as soon as people see you activate the MJD they know you're going to be moving 100km. So what we're suggesting adding scripts that vary the distance you can jump with a MJD.

Here are some ideas we came up with:

• A script that decrease the jump range and cool down time (50km jump and 1.5 minute cool down for example)
• A script that increase the jump range and the cool down time (150km and 4 minute cool down for example)

What are peoples' thoughts on this?

This seems to make perfect sense, actually.

I like it.

I think the range scripts would end up being more useful than the spool up and cool-down scripts. I think both of the range scripts should come with a penalty though, just a different penalty for each.

• 50km Microjump but with 50% LONGER ACTIVATION time
• 150km Microjump but with 50% LONGER COOLDOWN time

The longer activation for the short jump would help balance out the very strong range control given by shorter jumps. The longer cooldown for long jumps would do the same, but by allowing unscripted 100km MJD fit snipers to still outrun you.

As far as lore, you could say the recalibrating the MJD for a shorter jump takes more time to do the spool-up calculations. Longer micro-jumps overheat the drive and require a longer cool down.

• 50km Microjump but with 50% LONGER ACTIVATION time
• 150km Microjump but with 50% LONGER COOLDOWN time
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you are jumping 1/2 as far, it requires 1/2 the power which means 1/2 the time needed to spool up? why would you give it 50% activation time?

i love the idea of tuning your mjd per scenario. +1

it should be this way:
50km-means you need 1/2 the spool up time.
150km means 1.5 the spool time.

one might even go so far as to add reactivation time penalties as such:
50km- normal recycle time
150km- double timer (6 minutes)

we could change to having 4 scripts. 2 for range or 2 for speed

50km
150km

the 2 range scenarios i proposed and then these:
1/2 jump timer with double cool down
or double jump timer with 1/2 cool down.

if yer escaping from pvp, you can hit the 1/2 jump timer and bug out. let it cool down at the next pos or station.
if yer in 10/10 and using them with sniping drones or cruise missiles, you dont need to be so hasty, one could hit jump and itll take 24 seconds or so, but you can reuse it quicker if needed.

add an Overheat Function that makes it a 1 LY jump drive that can lock onto a cyno, automatically burns out the module and has a 40% chance of destroying the module after jump. Maybe?

How about an Overheat Function that increases the warp core strength to -2?

I've already proposed scripted MJDs, although as a T2 variant of the module.

Much like T2 ammo can modify the effective range of the guns (long range guns act more like short range guns with, -75% range, but +25% tracking, short range guns act more like long range guns with +50% range and -25% tracking through scorch/barrage/etc)

50km script: -25% cap use

150km script: +50% cap use

I suppose a cycle time reduction could be interesting, but I'm not sure the code exists for scripts/charges to modify cycle times, we have no other example of this, but i suppose it could be a good idea.