Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Anyone who uses Micro Jump Drives (MJDs) to travel around in gated complexes will no doubt be aware of the fact that acceleration gates are rarely 100km away from the warp-in spot.

Problem

It can be difficult for those with poor spatial orientation skills to MJD to a spot approximately 100km from the next gate and then MJD into the activation bubble. This leads to people who would otherwise want to use the MJD having to use a MWD instead, which comes with capacitor problems.


Proposed Solution

• A script for MJDs which turns the module into a targeted module.
• When scripted, the MJD can only be used on unlocked acceleration gates.
• The scripted MJD accesses the navigational data from the acceleration gates and jumps to the target coordinates.
• The increased jump range has negative side affects:

1. The scripted mode has an activation range limit. (50 km?)
2. Increased activation energy cost (3x) (2358 GJ)
3. Increased spool up time (3x) (34.2 seconds at level 1, 27 seconds at level 5)
4. Increased re-activation delay (~3x) (10 minutes)

Drawbacks

1. People will complete missions/sites faster, leading to more ISK per hour
2. This removes the advantage that people who were good at MJD navigation had over people who were less good at it
3. Contributes to the general 'dumbing down' of eve.

Solutions to Drawbacks

1. The increased delays in spool up and re-activation will make sure that this is not true (for sites with more than 1 gate)
2. Increased delays when using the new script will mean that pilots who make skilful use of 'manual mode' will still be able to move through sites faster than those using 'automatic mode'.
3. Actually this provides another option, and providing more options can hardly be considered a 'dumbing down' of anything.

If your initial response is "No because care-bears", then please try to hold that in and think of something else lol

So, if I understand you right...The problem here is that there are tradeoffs when fitting your ships, and that there are multiple possible modules which each do something you like?

Make your mind more geometry friendly. This method is proven to prevent Alzheimer's and Space AIDS.

MJD For Dummies

If anything I would like to see about half of the warp disrupting rats out there have their disruptors replaced with scrams. At the moment a MJD battleship is basically invincible in PVE and I feel that should change.

I just want a range scriptable T2 variant, capable of 50km (short script), 100km (unscripted), and 150km (long script, more cap use, possibly longer cooldown penalty).

That way, you won't over or undershoot by more than 25 km

That is all a script does.

Which makes me think that scripts were added when CCP decided they wanted that toggle option, but couldn't figure out how to code the toggle any other way.

MJDs are featured prominently on the new Marauders, so this applies to PvP as well.

Hey, still prone to neuts. But yeah, some scrams (not all of them) and more points would be nice (I'm mostly PvE player)

Thats no bug, the "sphere" for the gate is just really big.
Two ships approaching a gate from different sides will both reach a point where it says 0 meters, and their two ships will be pretty far apart.