Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Indeed, there is no ad hominem in anything I've said. Feel free to prove me wrong.

The fact remains that what you really want is Brain in a Box, not some silly and arbitrary pod-warp-off mechanic.

how about we require ALL ships to havea smaller ship to fly?

pod goes into shuttle, which goes into frigate/cruiser/BC, which goes into battleships, which go into dread/carriers, which go into titans.

that way as you die you can just keep popping out in a smaller ship.

I'm sure the russians would LOVE matroyshka-ships

Bad idea, on the grounds that this makes it basically impossible to ever kill pods in a situation that doesn't involve bubbles. If your losing pods to lag, that's unfortunate, but we shouldn't actively change game mechanics and style of play because of hardware "failures" that are more then likely on the player side. And if the issues aren't on your side, then they are probably on your ISPs side. And if they aren't on either your side or your ISPs side or any of the other potential sides that could cause latency issues and are in fact on CCPs side, then this calls for an upgrade to CCPs hardware and/or its optimization, not a mechanical change to the game.

If you want to live, you spam the wrp button. Not because of lag, but because by the time an indicator showed you you could warp, you recognised it, and responded to it by taking action, chances are you are already pointed. Spamming warp means as soon as you can warp, you do warp.
If you don't spam warp, then you obviously didn't want that pod anyway.

And no to the idea of warping a pod off automatically. There are several instances where you would not want to be warped off automatically. You might be in a combat site for example and not have anything in the pocket bookmarked. You warping out can cause that to disappear if nobody is in it, losing you any loot you could have had.
You might be in a fleet battle, and need to be able to see the grid to continue issuing commands until a secondary FC has taken over (or you might be the secondary FC and need to use voice only commands). You might want to get podded to hurry you back to a station. The list does go on, but I won't.

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Excellent responses! Thanks for the feedback.

I love this community.

Hahaha. No. Wapring takes time to click target destination etc. When I initiate warp and I don't know If a pod (or ship) is actually responding to command and I'm wasting time. Time I don't have. I almost died once in my legion form this. I left warp bubble badly damaged with an enemy fleet on my tail. My gang arrived and falcons jammed anyone who scrambled me. But I still could not warp coz there was some kind of after effect after I left bubble. So i stopped warp and initiated it once again (while they were still shooting). I survived with like 5% armour, but still I could have warped several seconds earlier if I know what my ship is actually doing...