EVE General Discussion

No doubt a megathron on a frigate roam would look much like a flagship to an outside observer :)

Pro-Tip: Leadership skills already exist. They make the ship of whatever pilot is in a leadership position provide certain bonuses to their fleet.

.... just like you're asking for.

True, but the bonuses aren;tspecific for each ship class. This effect you are talking about would still work for the squad and wing commanders. The flagship idea would be that EVER class ship would have a unigue bonus they would give to the whole fleet, but you can only have one ship as a flagship per fleet, and only the fleet command can be in the flagship. So you could have your command ships and T3s give thier bonus, and the squad and wing give theirs and then the fleet commander would have a flag ship that gives unigue bonuses only that ship class of ship give out. So it would make big battles more interesting. Now in big fights you could have a whole different fleet for Logi, with a flagship that gives a bonus for logi . And same with the combat ships, Ewar ships, and so on. Depending on the size of the fleet and how high the flagship skill is trained dictates on how much the ships bonus helps out the fleet. Also if the fleet commander is killed and drops fleet, someone can replace him, but I think there should be a timer for them to be able to make their ship the new flag ship.

Xavier Higdon,

I like that idea, something like whatever bonus the flagship gave to the fleet, if it's destroyed the fleet get's a negative effect now. I do think the negative effect should have a timer, just like being able to replace the flagship with a new flagship should have a timer. Maybe the timers be the same for both 1min to 5mins. So when someone can replace the old flagship with a new one it takes off the negative effect also.

This is more for every ship class would have a speical bonus, Like maybe Logis would give longer range, or give the fleet smaller sign rad, or something. AF could give better tracking and/or optimal range. It's alljust an idea to give EVE something new, and maybe change how engagment work slightly. All just an idea.

I don't care if the FC and the Fleet Command in the fleet are different, that doesn't matter.

A gate camp or small roam wouldn't need more then one fleet, maybe 2 if this happened. A big fleets would prob want a fleet now just for logi, one just for the combat, one for just the Ewar, one for just the bubbliers and tackle. As each ship class would have it's own bonus, you'd want the class that helped that type of ship out most for your flagship. The idea that the bonus strength depends on how many are in fleet would be key for things like this. And why I want it to be the number of people, not how many squads or wings the fleet has, because then people can just add a lot of squads and get more bonus, needs to be the number of people in the fleet and how high you have the flagship still up to.

I know logis have different fleets sometimes, but now you could have a fleet commander that also gives bonuses just for logi ships.

Command ships do what I'm saying, but this would be a ship that you don't add a command module, just being in that ship type and making it a flagship would give the fleet a bonus. And the bonus is unique to the ship class.

This is just an idea, something I think would be cool to have in EVE, and new. A lot of stuff would need to be worked out and looked at for it to happen, and I highly doubt CCP would even take the time to read this forum haha.

how about: no

What would you propose to do about off grid flagships?

I love this idea because it's already implemented.

CCP easy-button's this one.

Flagship? Round these parts we call that a primary.

Can anybody explain to me what the recent hard-on for flagships is about recently? Seriously, not one flagship idea has been any good..they all use existing mechanics or take roles from other ships already in game... but there seem to be more and more flagship threads each day. Did I miss something recently? I know that golden Hyperion in the Rubicon wallpaper sparked a lot of curiosity. I would really like to know.