Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Perfectly reasonable, and not an obstacle to this working as intended.

The landing being sloppy makes perfect sense, and I could see it not being permitted on grid with other objects too.
(No emergency station landings, if people are in the landing system that want your kill mail, you picked the wrong system.)

It is a tactical obvious detail that it will be in bad shape, with less than 20% cap if any left at all, and unprepared for any fight.

Then it has to successfully limp home. At LEAST one warp to a POS or Outpost to be repaired, if not supported by remote repping players.

People abuse everything, that possible consideration will handicap every idea if it becomes grounds to limit things.

This idea is risk management, in that the Marauder is not eliminating risk, but creating a means to retreat.

YOU CAN STILL CATCH IT.

The ship can still explode, but once per day you need to know where to find it first.

You DO make good points, Danika Princip, but the current gameplay dynamic is creating a likely unintended result.

Power blocks are focusing defenses in such a way, that no ship cheap enough to be reasonably lost by the average player has any realistic chance of threatening them.

Expensive ships and fittings are too often demanded, prohibitively so in many cases, which creates a deterrent effect.

Ship cheap enough to risk losing? No chance.
Ship expensive enough to have a chance? Too valuable to risk, for many players.

Net result? Get a bigger blob, or GTFO.

Are all players so poor that this paints them out of PvP? Of course not. But enough are unwilling to gamble with the odds not in their favor.

This is the casino offering the Marauder club one free spin a day, to drum up business.

Jump range was pointed out to be same as a BLOPs, so it is the shortest in the game.
You will probably want JDC 4 or 5 to max this out, but even so it will be less than 8ly range.

If you insist on basing from a friendly station system, you cannot use your panic jump outside of that range. This can become a severe limit if your territory doesn't have nearby hostile neighbors.

This will increase hostile activities for TWO reasons:

One: Cheaper to use one ship multiple times, than continually replacing a cheap ship repeatedly. Unless you have a lot of play time, (a lot being context dependent I admit), you can't do much more than one good run a night.

Two: There is a player mindset, I can only guess how many players fit this, where they want a powerful ship that doesn't need to be replaced predictably.
Give them a ship, let them know it is only as good as the pilot, but once per day it can bail out of combat to a fallback system.

It is an incentive to take risks, not a cheap one, but the incentive that if they are skilled, and take the right precautions, they can PvP and probably avoid replacing their expensive ship too.

Marauders have problems that need to be addressed but this bubble and squeak approach doesn't do that. The expense, ludicrous sensor strength and daft bonuses make it virtually worthless for anything except timid hisec missions. Fix those items and suggestions like this one wouldn't surface.

Where is the tech 2 specialization, if all it does is the same thing a faction boat does?

I think you guys almost had it there.

How about: a high slot module that prohibits a cyno being activated on the same grid as the ship that is fielding it, at the same time as emitting a high powered ECM burst. It might also emit a warp disruption field that means people warping to that location experience some variance in where they land. Useable once per 5 minutes or thereabouts, and uses lots of cap.

Cynos could be created anywhere else in system. This module only fittable to marauders.

This prevents a hot-drop blob but does not prevent the cynoing-in of reinforcements. They will simply arrive 60 seconds later, giving the marauder time to somehow, maybe evade capture.

This give a lone marauder a disengagement option, and allows it to be used usefully in a roam. It also means that the presence of a marauder means that a fight can escalate over the course of a few minutes rather than being over immediately on lighting of a cyno.

Thoughts?