Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm here to propose that the MJD module that is currently exclusive to battleships be allowed for both medium and small; before one cries "no!" I wish them to be nerf'd, but not in the way you might expect. I wish the MJD as it is currently to remain, but small variations have a smaller Jump distance, such that medium may only jump 50km or 66km and that small may only jump 25km or 33km.

The thought is to half the predecessor or at least third, so that it can still be used in it's intended roles, given the base speeds of these ships I personally lobby for 25km small and 50km medium. I realize this can very much distort any chance of giving the module itself script ranges, and perhaps that can very much be possible still, but leave the max range for smaller modules to be lesser than it's large counterpart.

I'm hoping for variation in combat in the way of "speed" and control, I have no doubt this will affect different ships for good and bad, but in terms of rock-paper scissors I'm hoping that the creativity of combat pilots will find counters and counters of counters as they always have.

PS: I would probably make the spool up times for the lower sizes less and less, between medium and small.

I had thought about this a lot and I agree with the 50km and 25km, with fast spool up times. I had also come up with a model that based capacitor cost on ship mass, with a higher base modifier on the smaller ones. It feels the same to your capacitor on any size ship if you match it with the correct size MJD, but if you use an under-sized MJD with low PG cost and fast spool-up, then it costs significantly more capacitor. That's the cost of using that high mobility on a big ship.

Battlecruiser gangs would absolutely love those 50km jump range for roaming pounce gangs.

I agree, I would love to see Medium MJDs. Maybe small as well

I'm all for them to have cap requirements and a spool up timer to match, given the skill book, I would not leave the frigate base at something like a second, because we do need to find a balance between overlapping the MWD and the AB, a spot in between. Blinking every second might seem a bit much, but perhaps 2 or 3. But this is all speculation, I'm happy to see support for such a thing and hope ccp would be far more keen on what times it should be had.


edit: Also while I would love alternative mechanics for the MJD itself to alternate range and form, I wish merely at this current time to make alternative size variants for other ships besides the battleship, CCP works in baby steps remember, so one thing at a time. Also do like and support. I'd hate to see battleships have all the fun.

It seems to me that you are missing important difference, spool-up = you click the module, it will zip you away after it spools up, then it goes on cooldown. You can't start spooling it up again before the cooldown runs out (3 minutes for Large one afaik).

Some of the assault frigs designed for close range brawls could have bonus for MJD cooldown, that would be nice. Kiters could still outplay the pilot, if he went perpendicular to their vector. (which reminds me where did that idea of tactical overlay displaying vectors go?)

I think only scrams should shut them off, but I also think that they should have a spool up time no shorter than 2 or 3 seconds. You must understand that not only do these tacklers need to spend a mid slot and some powergrid on a secondary prop module, not to mention their own points, they also must turn off that prop module while spooling up the MJD. They must wait for their cycle to end and then start the MJD, which then needs to spool up for a moment before they jump. It would have to be used very carefully, and in many situations would not really pay off. I have a hunch many tacklers (especially Crusaders) will not be fitting a MJD.

Soft bump in hopes of more support.*