Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The mobile improvised explosive device. Blows up when third party shoots at it.

You have too much time on your hands!





+1 though

Not sure if this has come up yet, there's some great ideas in here.

Anyone thought about a mobile Target Spectrum Breaker? You could launch it by a gate and it would jump through and activate on the other side for a while.

It would give gate camps something else to focus on and give others going through a camp a chance to run from them or form up and stare at each other for a few seconds before guns work. Campers could be given enough time to burn clear or head for another gate in the system / bounce back, etc.

Nothing wrecks camping like a bear so I think this unit should be called a Yogi.

I like the idea of a short lifespan decoy to probing. De-cloak to deploy it, it and after a pre-set time (5 seconds or something) it warps off mimicking the signature of the ship it was deployed from for a period of time. 2 new skills to determine the number of warps it can make and the duration. Baseline would be, hypothetically, 1 jump and 2 minutes. Each level, up to 5, adds 1 jump and 30 seconds to the decoys capabilities.
This is off the top of my head but it seems like it could expand gameplay in a small enough way to be interesting without completely screwing lots of people. (Like certain ****-assery missile changes being rammed through by a simple-minded authoritarian butt-pirate.)

Ideally, you're in a system getting chased around without a covert ops cloak and you're trying to break away but they're scanning you down and following you faster than you think you can get away. You drop your decoy and make for the gate, hoping that they either follow it and not you or spend too much time deciding and you manage to get away.
Thoughts?

(if the other post went through, my apologies, but every button on here goes straight to "webpage unavailable" tonight)

mobile anything related to industry. the depot is great... for pvp, and with the t3 refits in the patch it'll be great for wormhole users.

but at the moment it does precisely nothing for industrial players, despite every other sentence regarding these structures during the announcement video being "to help with industrial efforts".

a structure with either/or a research / manufacturing slot. or with the fix to t3 in-space refitting coming out, a modular structure where you can set it up next to a depot, and store the mods in the depot for it so you can choose between research, manufacturing, invention, refining, etc etc.

for pvp... a mini-shield projector that'll drop something similar to a pos shield, but like the cyno jammer it has a time limit and can't be scooped back up. no reinforcement timer on it, once the shield is gone, it's gone. would help with making small gangs more effective against blob-warfare, thus assisting in your push for guerrilla warfare. the idea being a blob simply wouldn't be able to fit half it's ships inside the bubble, while a small gang of 15-20 people in sub-caps could squeeze in.

A Smokescreen might be fun. On grid it would look like a cloud. Ships within the cloud would not be seen on dscan or see other ships on dscan. Ships within the cloud would experience a greatly decreased targeting/detection range with larger signature-size objects being easier to detect than smaller ones.. Ships/Objects which are not detected would not be shown on overview.

The cloud would be seen on dscan, the stuff within the cloud is what would be obscured. Think of it as the Nebula in "The Wrath of Khan" or a traditional smokescreen.

It seems that a lot of People view this as a Swiss army knife to fix problems, or perceived problems, with the game rather than an opportunity to create new conflict/content. I made it most of the way through the thread and these are all new except two are refinements on ideas already mentioned:


1. Mobile Capsular Prison: Used together with some mod that allows you the scoop or tractor a pod and trap the player until rescued or the Prison time to live runs out. Nullsec/WH only. Location of captured pilot is known to corp mates and he can join a fleet to provide a warp in, but cannot self destruct, or train. Forces players to fight over Key leaders and provides an extortion opportunity.

2. Mobile Fleet Infiltration Array: Allows the active operator/player to focus the module on a known fleet commander and insert the the structure's active cyno into the fleet even without being a member of that fleet. Victims still have to click on the wrong cyno to jump to it and die horribly. The structure shows as a cyno field in system and as its special cyno type on the star map.

3. Mobile Fleet Counterintelligence Array: Permits the active operator to focus the array on a pilot within the system or within a certain LY distance and see their fleet details. (Fleet name, Fleet Commander, and members, or perhaps just member count. Used in locating awoxers and spies by requiring the spy take a chance a getting caught in setting up the juiciest kills.

4. Mobile Long Range Sensor Array: Allows the operator to scan a system within a set AU distance and get real time information. Output could be a hybrid dscan/probe output that gives you a specific signal identification as well as the general location in the system.

5. Mobile Forward Reconnaissance/Recc Post: Owning player can use outpost to collect information on activity in a specific system (as in #4 above) with the additional ability to deploy and position probes for use immediately on entering into the system. Also, could enable spy probes that use the Twitch integration to place eyes on a gate. For balance, this array should probably require a Mobile Long Range Sensor array (#4 above) to be deployed and operated in person by an active pilot.

6. Mobile Telepresense Room: Let's me talk/interact with my agents without flying to their station. Specifically my locator agents.

7. Mobile Logistics Platform: Stealth unit that permits the completion of a courier contract into open space. The structure contains or is the delivery package. Once the contract is is complete, the platform does a one time warp off to a safe spot location known only to the owner/contractor via his journal and the logistics pilot gets paid. Structure is not scan-able, but can only be used to pick up/take.

A module that can hack offline tower so you can scoop them up.Would surely clear a lot of offline tower from null/low/WH space.

Sentry guns on sov gates and stations

Simple, empire and low sec have guns on their gates and stations, why cant sov holders have guns on their gatesand stations,
Obviously limit the number of guns on the gates/stations and no scrams Deathstar gates would be overpowered. would give more a a home ground advantage.

Let the station owner decide when they engage like poses do, if they're the same half if not more will never engage anyone because people are so bad at setting them up.

2nd a sov upgrade that allows for system wide de-cloaking, must be fired by a pos gunner and an ihub upgrade almost like cyno gen. Would stop cloaky campers from going afk and you run the risk of de-cloaking your own afk friends. The mechanic for this should already exist as there is an anti cloaking pulse smart bomb in the item database for concord ships.

3rd a hacker for offline structures like poses that either anchors them or simply turns them into your own corps, owner gets a notification and takes 24hrs to work or something like that.

You're joking right?