Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm not aware if this particular thought/idea has been suggested already, but in the event that it hasn't here goes: I recently came back to EVE after being gone over a year, and one of the things I've found out about (which may or may not have already existed even back when I used to play before) are these Interdiction Nullification subsystems on the T3 ships that allow the ship to ignore warp bubbles. While considering that effect, it occurred to me that T3 ships essentially are now the only true "blockade runner" ships in the game, and that any trader or courier who wants to be able to make such supply runs has to train for and obtain a strategic cruiser to be able to enjoy that ability. What I then realized because of the existence of that effect, is that the T2 industrial "Blockade Runner" ships are almost useless by comparison.

So, what my idea is, in light of the current and upcoming changes being made to T1 industrials and such, wouldn't it be appropriate and sensible then for the Blockade Runner industrials (Prowler, etc) to also be updated and thus given an inbuilt non-targeted interdiction nullification effect as well, which would finally allow said Blockade Runner ships to actually run through blockades as per their namesake?

As a player who spends a fair amount of his time as a trader, buying and selling items and moving them from region to region, and who plans to train up to being able to use T2 haulers (particularly the Blockade Runners), I would very much like to see a change like this occur.

I love this idea. Te blockade runners should be nullified. I mean why not? It's part of their job. Also, to make the ship like a tengu or something, you would have to drop cargo expander modules and put in warp stabs, thus decreasing the amount they can carry.

So many cry baby PVPers saying they cant kill industrial ships and PVE toons. OMG go fight a ship with guns. If your goal is to disrupt supply lines with a gate camp, do you seriously think that a handful of blockrade runners are going to supply an alliance?

Cry me a river. It's a good idea cause it fits the purpose of the ship. From what I have been told, since I didnt play Eve at the time the ships came into existence. Bubbles didn't exist and thus the ships needed no reason to be nullified. The games changed, might as well update the ship.

If I was a smart merchant, I would find a way to steal **** off a tengu and integrate it into my ship.

Wait wait.... So you're saying that a cloaked ship, that can cruise thru warp bubbles, and can haul roughly the same loot as a Noctis once its warp stabbed, is OP?

Not only are there 4 ships that can already do this, how can you say that it's OP? It's a hauler? You expect a fleet of 90 of these bastards to run your well placed gate camp to supply their corp during a war? Na, I think your just sad that it wouldn't be an easy kill for you.

Capital Cargo Expander. Meta level 12. Tengu can haul as much as an Iteron V. Didn't you know?

I think you understand my point. If you don't then let me point it out. There is no way this idea is breaking anything. It fits the idea of the ship, its hardly OP cause its still a very limited cargo hold. I agree with the poster. This would be a good idea.

Oh BTW. You really want to blow up that cloaky hauler. Have a few of your friends sit on a gate with smart bombs. Problem solved. You don't even need a bubble for that crap.

So it's the cost of the ship that you dislike? Wouldn't it stand to reason that if the blockade runner was able to be nullified, its cost would go way up cause of the demand.... Just sayin.

Oh please. LOL your first line was about price.

I mean really? It's too easy to travel around in a null. That's what is bothering you? Its a handful of ships that can get around in null already and this isn't exactly a huge list of ships that would get added to it.

No one really moves stuff in a blockade runner anyway. JFers and carriers are far easier, and faster.

Sure I will agree it makes it easy but it's hardly a bad thing or even that big a deal. I would give the poster more likes if I could.

It's a good idea. You just don't like the idea that you can't easily kill the ship.

I like this idea. It would allow more small timers/neutrals to set a foot into null, do some trading on npc stations, deal with the logistics for some small (ninja) operations, PI etc. Of course the regulars gonna hate the fact of more neutrals around and missing out on easy kills.

Oh and yes I think its a great idea. Though really a IN viator, with warp stabs would never be able to hold 6-10k. more like 3-5k

Blockade runners are already damn good at breaking bubble camps if they pilot has half a brain and is semi-attentive.

So, no. This idea is terrible.

While I love my prowlers I don't think they should be nullifier capable, theres a certain satisfaction when you evade a camp with a blockade runner that would take away.

However I'm not so keen on seeing nullified T3s being nerfed.