Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So we all - I assume - know about the weird things surrounding your actual HP. As in, they don't really exist.

Currently, you go down into the next layer if you can't take any more damage - but!
If your ship is in low structure and you eject and then board it again without reparing it first, it will explode.

It actually happens because in Eve, it doesn't matter how much structure/armor/shields are left, but how much damage has accumulated, making for cool effects:

1) You fight a long time in your armorprophecy with a fleeted scout (+10% armorhitpoints), so once your scout dc's (I atleast got around 2-3 dc's an hour per toon), all your fleeted member's hp lose 10% max-armor, while the potential damage taken already might just make you jump down from 10% to 0. (edit: as hinted, the dc-part is my problem, but that way I notice when suddenly my scout goes o/ and my main still works)

2) You are flying a platerep-fit and due to OH or whatnot, your plate goes down, normally resulting in the loss of all remaining HP and dropping straight into armor.

3) The other way round, you are in 5% armor and you log in a toon to fleet you: you jump back up to 15% armor.


CCP demonstrated with the NOS effects that the game is capable of comparing percentages, why not for HP?



And why do I write this? Cause I saved my Orca and afterwards lost it cause I didn't read the small print in the ejection note (literally, I clicked this one 15000 times and nothing happened) notifying me that eventually this might have probably causing some trouble maybe. <.< Really, this is not a warning, this is an anecdote or info-handout at best. Clarification: ''Your ship has less than xy of xx (zzz) remaining. Ejecting now will cause the destruction of the ship upon the next boarding maneuver.'' That is a warning. ''Did you know that ships can die even though they aren't even on grid with anything else'' is not.

I know that I am basically only complaining because suddenly my Orca went boom. The placement of the warning message is kind of laughable though when you click that message 100times a week for quite some time, thought the bottom part was about abandonning ship and losing it, last read it over a year ago. The mechanic and infoplacement alone wouldn't have made me post and complain about it, without seeing what they were intended for to prevent.

The main issue I got is (the current 'record-damage' instead of 'record-what-it-shows-me')
- It is bad (subjective)
- It is unneccessary (no matter how you look at it)
To have things go up and down as environment changes.

The fleetboosterthingy: Flying fleeted (with your cloaky scout, as in normal wormhole roaming) adds +10% agility, +10% armor hp, +10% shield hp.
What I'm basically asking is that a ship will be recorded with it's relative hitpoints, and those translated into numbers. Instead of the other way round, away from the GUI, or un-intuitive. If they wanted it this way, they'd clearly designed the UI differently, like defaulted numbers.

Switching around a lot with PI toons, using containers you can't store ships without dragging them to CHA and back and forth. Same applies to most active tanked ships, that - when used regularily - are often left floating for a short time instead of dragging the container from the inside out to the CHA to store it immediately. It just happens a lot for convenience, and even only leaving an orca to roll a wormhole quickly while only having one on-grid (switching the covops and orca pilot) can make quite a clickparty.

Edit: New PI Hauler will solve first though, still had Itty Vs.