Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Don't know if something like this was already suggested, but...

What about: spy module?

We can deploy near a gate or any point of interest and while it wont give us image (hummm) it would allow you to use your on board scanner.

No need to be logging my alt to get intel...

List of Currently Proposed Ideas:

User Content Creation Ideas:
--- System Beacons (deployable-system wide warpable beacons, aka distress calls)
--- Deadspace pocket creators.
--- Mobile Acceleration Gates.
--- Decoy Ships. (Need some limits to prevent overuse & spamming)
--- Signature Decoys (for false scan reports)
--- Decoy Wormhole (doesn't go anywhere)
--- Capture the Flag Device
--- Space Lane Lap Counter (for racing ships).

Interesting Features:
--- System-wide (or grid wide) create-a-WH-effect
--- Player-Created Incursion Device (System wide damage penalties, resist penalties, bounty penalties, etc)
--- System-wide or grid-wide anti- off grid booster module
--- Decoy Cyno (Fake cyno to scare people away as they think you're about to hotdrop them).
--- Decoy Asteroid Belt

Gate Camper Wet Dreams:
--- AOE Decloakers (be it within x km's, on grid, or for the entire system).
--- Group cloak structure.
--- Group obfuscation from dscan.
--- Covert Cyno Inhibitor.
--- AOE Webbers.
--- AOE anti-nullification bubble
--- Warp Interceptor Device (catches ships midwarp rather than at destination)
--- Sonar device to show you the location of cloaked ships.
--- (Lowsec) Warp deviators (ship randomly lands within 15 km's of warp destination)
--- Gate Re-router
--- Repulser or Attractor Module (pulls player ships from / to this device).
--- Travel Inhibitor (Prevents people from jumping/cynoing into/out of system).
--- Mobile Trap (Traps all players within x km's into a sphere of death.. no one can leave until the trap is destroyed).
--- Device that allows gate jumps despite weapon timers.
--- Device that disables navigation commands (Keep at range, orbit, approach)
--- Cyno Desyncronizer (Ships that jump to a cyno under the desyncronizer effect randomly spawn elsewhere on grid, or in system)
--- Autopilot deviator (chance based: Directs ships on autopilot to this location)
--- Cloaking Delayer -- increase the recloak delay of ships nearby

Travel Features
--- Create your own Stargates
--- WH generator (usually limited as k-space to k-space)
--- Stargate disablers
--- WH stabilizers (the better ideas slowly regen mass and extend lifetime, the pisspoor ideas allow 200 BS in at once).
--- WH Collapser
--- WH Re-router (allows you to route a WH to somewhere else)
--- Jump Portal and/or Jump Bridge structures
--- Jump Portal & Jump Bridge inhibitors
--- Cyno Generators
--- Public Cyno Generators
--- Warp Tunnel Generators (to warp faster between two points).
--- Device that allows Supers into WH's (better if it is a 1-way trip).
--- Destructable Gates
--- Auto-Transporter (To move goods from point a to b for you?)
--- Mobility Enhancer (Allows ships on grid to be faster and more agile).
--- Warp Agility Enhancer (Allows ships on grid to accelerate into warp faster).
--- teleport Bomb/vortex/device (Teleports pilots to a random place in system, random system, specific system, specific place, etc)


Carebear Features:
--- Auto-mining structures (Gas, Ice, Ore).
--- Auto-hualing structures.
--- Deployable Auto-repair service
--- Deployable Mission Agents
--- Deployable Shield (like POS Force Field)
--- Deployable anti-bomb device
--- Deployable Logistics Platform (including energy xfer)
--- Ammo Dispensor
--- Sun Harvesters
--- Moon Mining Array
--- NPC Bait/Tuant Module
--- Moon Scanner
--- System Scanner (Either Sigs, Combat Ships, Cloaked Ships)
--- Jet Can Auto-tractoring device
--- Take-me-Home device (Teleports you & your ship to your home station)
--- Collect-the-drones Device (Collects drones on field that are disconnected from a ship).
--- Make-me-safe deployable (Makes your ship / site unscannable and/or unprobe-able)
--- Sig Radius Suppressor (Makes everythings sig radius smaller == harder to scan, less damage, etc).
--- Device to increase Bounties, LP payouts, etc.
--- Deployable NEX Store
--- Space Elevators (to bypass POCOs)
--- Emergency Warp deployable (warps your ship in a random direction up to 1000 km's)
--- Pirate Beacon (Attracts NPCs to beacon)
--- Truesec altering device (to lower the truesec of a system and make it better for PvE)
--- Decoy wreck: Salvaging it makes you a suspect.

Anti-Carebear Features:
--- Anomaly & Signature Suppressor (stops them from spawn and/or despawns sites)
--- Disable or Delay Concord Structure
--- POCO / PI Syphon
--- Reaction POS Syhpons
--- Mobile destroy-all-wrecks grid cleaner (aka Mega Maid)
--- System-wide Syphon NPC bounties from ratters.
--- Deployable Hacker (To access secured containers)
--- POS Siphon that steals Fuel &/or Stront
--- PI Bombardment Module (to destroy PI infrastructure)
--- Planet destroying Deathstars
--- Device that inhibits Concord response (be it extra time to Concord free zones)
--- Deployable Tax Collector (Taxes system activities for you to collect).

Assault Features (Note: Mass spamming offensive modules needs to be considered)
--- Mines
--- Boobie trapped cans (open them and boom)
--- Time Bombs
--- Bump Bombs (after a time, these detonate and bump ships away).
--- Smart bombs (proximity activated)
--- Firewall --- A whole wall of auto-smartbombing deployables.
--- Weapons (Sentry Guns, Missile Launchers, Bomb Launchers, Drone Launchers, Death Rays, i.e. things to blap an opponent be it at a station, gate, base, wherever).
--- EWAR batteries (webbers, ECM, ECM Bursters, Neuts)
--- Drone Assist Units (cause your 5 drones aren't enough)
--- Drone Bandwidth Jammers
--- Auto-RF POS seige device
--- Planet Bombarders
--- Anti-Cynojammer (allows you to cyno into a cynojammed position).
--- Warfare Link Jammer (makes warfare links ineffective)
--- Device that disabled the "assist drones" feature
--- POS Weapon Hacker (to take control of an enemy POS's guns &/or EWAR batteries)

don't know if thread appropriate

Trus Security system modifier : sov 5 only anchor able, very big fee (like a few B/month)
- 0.25 to system true sec
+20% npc damage and HP

How about a gate jump logger, keeps track of players that have activated a nearby gate and dumps it into a log that can be accessed by interacting with it in space, or after it expires, it sends the log file to the owner via an eve-mail.

Graviton Detector Units

A Proximity Detector has already been proposed but here's my more specific idea for one:

This unit would detects changes in gravitational fields within a certain sphere of space. Changes in gravitational field can be visualized via a graph (gravitational field vs time). Graph can be accessed from anywhere in space. Could be deployed near stargates when roaming to detect possible fleets in pursuit. Could be deployed near POS to detect ships dropping siphons or the siphons themselves. Possibilities are numerous.

I recommend having different sized units that self destruct (or run out of fuel) after a certain amount of time. The shortest lived ones could detect much smaller things or perhaps have larger spheres of detection. Longer lived ones would be unable to detect small objects. Therefore, you can't deploy a Graviton detector that lasts a week near your POS and expect to detect any new siphons, but... you may be able to detect a spike from the actual ship landing to deploy (if the ship is large enough and/or within the sphere of detection). These could come in a cloaked variety to place all over systems in order to detect the presence of cloaked individuals near particular celestials.

star gate jammer/booster: alters the mass per jump, delay between jumps, and fuel consumed, for the targeted star gate. Allows smallholders to restrict incoming traffic, allows militias to boost throughput of important gates (e.g.: Jita-Perimeter) or restrict throughput of competitor gates (e.g.: Amarr/Ashab), allows invaders to open gates wide or defenders to shut gates down.

Requires rework of stargates to introduce mass & frequency limits, fuel consumption. Ideally requires star gates to be destructible & constructible by capsuleer forces.

edit: I should read the summary in post #644 before adding my new, unique idea to the list ;)

you already do. It's called SC titan drop of 9 guardians with dps and support on 10 man cruiser gangs.

Death To Local- So I see some other people suggesting it, but I'll go and detail my vision of how it could be implemented.

I spent a large part of my early eve experience in w-space and I still hate local. I understand now its uses and such in life in 0.0 so here is how I think we could try stick a dagger in local.


Mobile Squawk Jammer;

~50m3,
~2 minute anchor time
When deployed the module wont list on dscan, but will show up to scan probes.

This grid is removed from local's list of members and population count; ie this grid now functions like a grid in a w-space system with respect to local.


Consequences; For an instigator, you could create the illusion of having left via an exit gate by warping to a deployed module. Any defender who is rigorous enough to simply deploy scan probes would see through this illusion quickly.

For instigators you could also use this + covert cyno -> fun. And I'm sure that is just the start of the fun and content you could create.

Conflict generator which carries on the theme of Empire vs Capsuleers:

Security Nullifier - Module which slowly reduces the security status of a system. One type per pirate faction, laying it down will increase your standing with said faction. Will periodically spawn concord or empire to destroy it, from factions like the Spacelanes protector something or other in Caldari space. Destroying the Nullifier will grant you standing with Concord and the empire whose region you are in based on how long its been there.

This will mean that traders will have to pay security on their trade lanes and mission runners will have to gather to fight off pirates. Meanwhile, pirates will have a way to influence high security space.

The one thing that annoys me the most is the lack of public lab slots (i.e. - BPC). A mobile lab would be nice.