Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I was arguing with the same people on the forums as usual about POS mechanics and they were attempting to excuse timers as being necessary because you can show up a crap load of supers and dreads and blap a POS quite quickly.

This led me to thinking about ways timers could be removed and this blapping could be prevented... and that led me to this idea - tell me what you think.

Basically POS and I-HUB HP is set up to deal with a force turning up and grinding it down to nothing. This is pretty standard stuff. However given the prevalence of dreads and supers in some alliances they can turn this task into a trivial few minutes.

My idea is pretty simple and its based on the mechanics that capacitor batteries use. Instead of energy being reflected and absorbed for use as capacitor energy, I propose a module that absorbs a % of damage energy from shields and uses that to repair the shields.

I'm not going to throw out any figures just the general concept.

Lets say CCP envisaged X amount of ships doing Y amount of damage to a POS or I-HUB, at that Y level the module absorbs 0% of the energy and all damage is applied to shields. At above Y damage, the module starts to absorb a % and repair the shields, when damage is at a very high level above Y you get to the stage where the energy being applied and the energy being absorbed by the module and used to repair the shields is 50/50 and the shields can't be taken down.

This is not really attempting to stop blobbing, you could still turn up with 2000 ships if you wanted. But you couldn't use all those ships to blap the POS in under 5 minutes, but you could use them to protect the force assigned to take down the POS.

What do you think?

I think his goal is to make the pain of structure bashing consistent.

No matter how many players & how much damage you are capable of delivering... there will be an optimal dps rate for taking down a POS.

For example,if this number was 100k dps, then you could bring 10 dreads or 100 battleships and take it down in 20 minutes. While you could also bring 500 BS or 100 dreads instead, it would still take 20 minutes to complete.

I don't know if I care for this change, but it is an interesting thought exercise to ponder how this might change the game.

No not literally. EvE is a global game. Recruit Aussies, NZ'r, Asians...

EvE is about choices that you make, if you choose to be regional alliance then you failed before you started. You have as much right to complain about stuff being blown up while your AFK working sleeping as I do if I was to complain after being killed AFK piloting while I'm working sleeping.

Given that some entities, thanks to CCP's persistent refusal to deal with power projection problem, have ability to reinforce multiple regions in day or two, this change could be beneficial.

+1

I thought people wanted to break up the blobs, not force them to get bigger.

Why should people be allowed to roll through and destroy everything an alliance owns in a single night, while the majority of the membership are asleep? Why should it be possible for someone like the CFC to conquer entire regions, plural, in a matter of hours?

Go put POS in high sec if you cant defend them in null. Why should you be exempt from the pvp can happen anywhere anytime rule?