Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I can understand your feelings but the only insta warp is a pod or shuttle or a BM right in front of the station, and most of those BM are only 150-200 KM, if you really want to catch someone who isn't in a pod or shuttle let them hit a gate and have the disruptors ready on the other side.

Much of EvE's PvP is non-consensual. People usually don't engage unless they believe they are going to win. As such, we get warp disruption mechanics that allow you to prevent an enemy from getting away.

Why do you feel like the system is out of whack right now?
Use a point or scram to prevent them from leaving, which is balanced against warp cor stabs.
Use a bubble to prevent them from leaving, which is an extremely powerful tool.

The only ship in the game that instawarps is a pod. Every other ship takes time to align and reach warp speed. There are techniques to game our "warp mechanics" to get into warp safely (Undock bookmarks, cloak-mwd trick) or faster (web-to-warp, mwd/AB pulse), but these aren't exactly instawarp away.

Are you upset that someone can "prepare" to warp away by aligning out before you land on grid?

Its no where near FTL, in FTL you need about 30-200?? seconds if you even have a driver, there is no need to warp out? well pretty damn simple dont put your driver in the cockpit just pull him in the guns or something. Or lighting out fires.

Its the fact that your engines charges so damn quickly to warp out, and takes so little resources, warping out is the best defense in the game, it should be taken care of like the best defense in the game, not like if its just walking a feet ahead.
Imagine being able to tank more simply by using your warp drive engine to cap with you instead of charging all the resources you could save. basically meaning you try to stay on grid and win instead of being a kiter ready to leave.

While fighting you can insta warp. Thats the problem, you should not taking warp out has much granted has it is



Yes something like FTL, where you warp somewhere, after landing you start charging it again. You can make it charge faster but there should be a disadvantage to that.

Why do we want to make travelling around a system more annoying?

My idea is that you could set your self on charging, then when you set it off there is a cycle to turn it back on, warp time of your ship that is, once its on, you can insta warp out.

Warping is the idea of curving space infront of your ship, that means once you curve that space you warp off, not once your ship faces that direction in theory speed does not matter to start a warp, only little speed would get you somewhere

That means once you click that warp out button space is being bent at the size of your ship. While you are charging the warp drive is preparing to bend that space. Taking some resources of some sort.

And no its not FTL, i am not asking for fires in your ship, or a crew to take care of tho it would be interesting, i am just asking for this mechanic. Warping space around a system is not an easy thing.

Now you want also a reason why we need this. we dont, look at cod does the game need bullet drop + bullet delay ? no, but in allot of cases it would be interesting, and would make for better gameplay.
This would mean fights will happen more often, basically forcing people to fight, instead of telling them you can warp off when ever you fell like it. The longer you are vulnerable for the more fights will tend to happen, eve is a game the requires time for things to happen, that's why you need to bait with heavy buffer ships, not frigates.

Now again i dont want this in eve i asked you would you like it, what do you think of it, if not, why do you think its bad.
Truly eve is amazing has it is, and its unchangeable in allot of ways like i was saying.



Its not, just charge your drive quicker.
I though of it during these 60 seconds i wrote to that other guy, and i think you should be able to charge your thing quicker, basically you just need to put your modules to sleep or something and drain your cap a bit. Making you a nice target for lets say around 60-120 seconds? who knows... turning them back on only works when you are on grid. And have enough cap.

On the other hand you have ceptors who should almost be made instant. Thats why they exist right? And any frigates should have no problem rewarping, tho like i said it just leaves you an option, if you want to fight then you set your self powerful but you cant warp, if you are ready to warp out just set your self ready to warp out. But vulnerable to being killed by a single equal ship to yours. altho not totally dead...... its an extra choice id say.

Again i am losing my self in allot of ideas, don't take notes, tell me what you think and why it would be annoying instead?

I don't really understand your wall of text, but if you are simply saying warping should have a spool time then yes, it would make sense but in reality it would just drive even more people into hi sec because of "the fear".

the difference here is this affects highsec to, people will get into wars and not be able to warp out somewhere because of time to warp out while fighting effectively, they can set them selves ready all the time, but it leaves them with less dps, less tank and so on.

Now for people fearing lowsec then sure, people in lowsec and null accept dying thats why its there, dont tell me people in low are carebears and will leave has soon has something changes, if so, YA, more exploration money for me.

So you're saying that someone who bothered to go through the time to prepare to leave, sacrificed damage/mining time in order to stay at a distance, and was paying enough attention to see you coming shouldnt be able to warp off?

Also, your analogy falls extremely flat, in FTL you always enter an engagement as soon as you land. A similar mechanic in Eve would be when you drop out of warp you have to wait 30 seconds for your warp drive to spool up, but after that 30 seconds is over, you could instantly warp anywhere regardless of alignment or speed . . . id be all for that mechanic . . .

Lastly, this isnt FTL, we dont have damageable subsystems or boarding parties. When we do, we can discuss some of the mechanics youre talking about

Undock, warp to anom.

Oh, it's taken. Now, I just have to TURN ALL OF MY HARDENERS OFF AND SIT IN THIS SANCTUM FOR TWO MINUTES before I can warp out.

Warp to gate. Oh, drag bubble. Now I am automatically dead, since I have to turn off all of my hardeners and wait a minute or two while all these guys are shooting me instead of just warping away.

Undock, warp to gate, OH NO I forgot my ammo/items/whatever. Now I have to wait here, in my iteron, getting shot by battleship gate rats for a couple of minutes while I wait to be able to warp back to get my stuff.


Annoying enough yet?

transilation: I want to kill more people.