Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've been toying with a similar idea for some time now but always wanted to see the anti-cloaking field come from a ship rather than a deployable object. Maybe something like a pos mod that does the same thing would be cool but i'd like to pitch a different idea for the anti cloaky issue that comes up so often.

Presenting the Cov-ops Battlecruiser.

These ships offer a new form of combat as well as a way to sniff out those pesky cloakers. they would have 2 major functions.

The 1st being a cloak disruptor that sends out a sonar like wave in a 100km radius that could either disrupt a cloak all together or just offer a ping with general direction as to a where a cloaked ship may be. (I'd prefer something that does not turn off a cloak unless it was setup where only being hit by this at a short range would kill the cloak, like 5km. Anything over 5km would just get the directional ping.) The biggest limitation would be that this can’t just be spammed on a gate much like the way smart bombs currently are limited. Cloaked ships should still have a change to jump systems and cloak up but being in a system with a cov-ops bc adds the risk that they could be caught.

The 2nd function of the cov-ops battlecruiser would be an area effect cloaking field. the cov-ops bc would be able to turn on a cloaking field that is able to cloak a group that is within the field. Let’s say the field would be a 5km radius around the cov-ops bc. The drawback to this would be that no ship is able to move or have any mods on otherwise it will disrupt the cloaking field. So if you have one guy turn on his damage control to get ready for a fight he would bring down the cloak prematurely and possibly screwing up an ambush. Anything that passes through the fields radius while it is in effect would also disrupt the cloaking field bringing it down.

The cov-ops battlecruiser is not able to warp while cloaked and like a black ops battleship does not use a covert ops cloak but can also fit a covert cyno like every other cov-ops ship. These would also not be used for high dps and might favor smaller guns to be effective against tackle and smaller ships.

Think of the new forms of guerrilla warfare and gameplay that could open up with the introduction of the cov-ops battlecruiser, and rather than a deployable object that does little to add content and would have many issues on where they are able to be placed. I believe there should be some option out there to track cloaking ships but a passive object doing the job for you doesn’t seem right. Risk that bc to ping those bombers on grid and send some frigs to try an decloak them.

keep it to deployables m8.

also im getting tired reading all the crybabies wanting anti-cloaking deployables... f**kin grow a pair, jeez!

• "Komodo" Deployable Proximity Mine - ejected from the ship and fast deployment timer 2s using a High Slot Launcher... 4 variations that emits kin/therm/emp/exp (or even better a combination of different damage exp+emp) damage once a ship is in close proximity ~5k.

• Mobile Cryo Cemetery Center :) yeah that is right
Collects all the lost souls you find or gather from the battlefield - can be open by all, but only the owner can take/remove corpses. Can be anchored only around moons (same as POSs).

Like I said, needs fuel, so it can't run constantly. It would have to be continually refueled. It shouldn't have so many HP that it can't be taken out by a small gang of ships, but enough that those LR Nados that currently warp in on almost every cyno and insta-snipe them wouldn't be able to just warp in, pop it, then warp out seconds later. So, they would be clearable, but not clearable while a fleet is sitting on it. They would have to be flimsy enough that they wouldn't always be sitting around, so whether it was tied to a specific fleet (would make more sense) or across the alliance (could get messy, but I could see the benefits) doesn't really seem a big deal to me. I don't see it as enhancing power projection since there are piles of alliance cyno alts all over the game right now, with stockpiles of cynos, noobs ships, and LO accomplishing the same task. Since that isn't being policed as account sharing, I would assume CCP accepts the need for such a setup, so they should, in theory, be okay with an in-game-within-mechanics-solution to replace that.

Mobile Drone Command Center:

-Contains 5 Scout Drones, assigns them to owner.
-Cannot be deployed within 250km of each other.
-If pilot leaves control area, drones return to deployable and are inactive until pilot is back on grid.
-Either 1 time use with timer, or easily hacked, stolen, etc.

T2 variant can have T2 drones.

1, Mobile Industrial Module
A small manufacturing module with 2 arrays that allow player to manufacture all T1 items up to frigate.

I don't see any needs for a mobile lab variant, since most of the PE/ME lines are empty in high-sec poses or null-sec stations.


2, Mobile Refine Module
Before that please fix all the broken refine rate: the current 35%-70% maximum ore refine rate for pos is totally useless and plainly stupid. When people maintain a pos and paying fuel for it, they deserve to get at least 85% of the income.

Then we can have private refine module with a 80% maximum refine rate.


3, Mobile Ship Maintenance Array
Stores one cruiser class or several frigate class ships. Good for solo pvpers to find their new home without constrained by stations


4, Mining rig
Many people mentioned the auto miner, but it will change too many aspects of the game. Maybe we should replace all the equipment drop from NPC by something else before move on.

However, I totally agree with the idea that the current version of mining is not supposed to be in this game. Some people believe that making PVE boring will bring effective punishment to PVP loses, but in reality it just encourages people to write better bots.

Anyway "Effort consuming" does not equal to "Boring", or just tell me that developing EVE is boring or effort free :)

all i need is a cloaking struckture

super asteroids (in probe-able dead space sites in low /null/wormspace only) + mining outpost that attaches to the super asteroid

this puppy needs to be deployed by freighter, rorqual or jf. it attaches it self to a super asteroid and slowly mines it over a 30 day period.

it can be reused again but requires a rorqual, freighter or jf to scoop it

it also requires pos fuel cubes to run

it should be destroyable but has a reinforce timer to allow the owner defend it.

if attacked only the player that owns it gets the notification mail and not the corp

What if they are cheap and come with pretty good ehps?

In response to the vast number of "Anti-Cloak" suggestions, I offer up this:

• Mobile Telepresence Relay - Deployable in system. Creates cloaked chat relay to in space ship and target system's "local" (for user they have a chat window "local (System Name)", for people in system the toon shows up in chat). Has range of two systems. Self destructs if toon leaves range or leaves space (logs off, docks). Can not be scanned down, does not show up on D-Scan.