Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I couldn't agree more, but this is the EVE forums, with more trolls than a Tolkien novel.

TBH fixing tracking will probably fix sentries, too.

There's still the drone assist mechanic e. g. for large swarms of warriors II.

Heh

My dream changes:

- All eWar revised to use a base number (sensor strength, rename to electronics something) as a target, ie. same as current ECM functionality. Upon succeeding the effects are applied as normal.
- ECCM changed to reducing twiddle time as well as doubling sensor strength towards that adversary for one cycle after having been successfully jammed (ie. a definitive end to perma jamming).
- FW Implants keep their sensor strength boost (albeit a little lower than now) and will thus be the alpha/omega of eWar defense.
- All eWar revised according to the highly successful ECM revamp so that mods themselves are weak'ish while racial hulls sport a massive bonus to their use.
- TD's renamed to Targeting Disruption and allowed to affect missile explosion radius/speed dependent on script used (ie. not range, because that's silly .. how do you drain a missiles fuel from afar?)

And the bit relevant to topic at hand:
- Drones to use cap for weapons/propulsion thus making them neuting/void targets. Madly high recharge but low reservoirs (to avoid the obvious NOS exploit), enough to stop them for just 2-3 volleys worth if/when cap is alpha'ed
- Drone flights are to be considered a ship borne weapon system (even when user might not want them to be), meaning that a flight of drones are treated as a single unit and susceptible to eWar on an equal footing with the drone carrier (ie. use the mothers stat).
It is quite frankly insane that drone ships are effectively able to outsource their primary weapons with close to zero downsides in case of being eWar'ed. They keep the ability to scoop/launch to foil eWar like they do damage.
- New skill (or attached to existing) that sets a limit to how many flight any one person can control, suggestion would be to use the skill Combat Drones (rank 2) and allow one or two flights per skill level.
NB: Might also tie the limit to hull sizes so that a frig can handle just one outsourced flight and a BS can handle 5-10.

Can't say i'm against the change but I agree: the real problem are assist mechanics, or rather the inconsistency to the other weapon systems. The real solution would be to either disable the assistance command altogether or implement it for all weapons across the board.
As the latter would benefit multiboxers too much for my taste AND would make fleet combat even more boring, I am in favor of the former, i.e. get rid of the assist command.

The only correct plural form for bonus, that doesn't make you look like an uncivilized barbarian, is boni.

We are obviously aware of the conversation around drone assist and this change doesn't really aim to have a massive effect on sentry-doctrines as a whole. Drone assist is a much larger issue and we aren't looking to make any changes to it for 1.1. We would love to do work on drones overall, but for now I can't make any promises about when that will happen or how it will look.

You both need to raise this every day, forever.

The Dominix change seems pretty sensible to me, and they're still going to be nasty, just not quite so. (Remember how in the T1 BS changes thread people said that no-one would ever fly a Dominix over a Geddon?)



The Dominix is fatter, has more EHP and has room for bigger guns/large reps. Gives it staying power.

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Bounties from the forum? YES PLEASE! :D

I love how her name is apparently allowed in the game (so far, at least), but not on the forums.

This is disappointing. Time to up my media library so i can watch movies while my sentry boat shoots what the FC points at for the next year.