Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You are joking right?

Three suggestions that immediately come to mind:

• Disable scan disruption unit use inside deadspace. Being forced to warp at zero into deadspace without any way of knowing what you're warping into is stupid, stupid, stupid.
• Make scan disruption units beacons on the overview similar to cynos. Complete disruption of any not-on-grid intel gathering is an immensely powerful tool (especially when paired with well-placed bubbles - as the disruption unit is now the only warpable thing on the grid, you know exactly that anything warping to the unit (even at range) will get caught in a bubble and quite likely decloaked if your inties are good). They need some sort of noticable disadvantage - an immediate "here's someone trying to hide something" marker on the overview is a good start.
• Alternately, prevent anyone in the area of effect of a scan disruption unit from using DScan themselves and commanding their probes (warping to previously-scanned results is fine, obviously).

Also, the Micro Jump Unit seems like a hardly-thought-out gimmick that serves no real purpose except "ooh shiny". Incidentally, they're also a perfect 100% guaranteed way of escaping a noscram inty if you have them down before getting jumped - pre-aligned MJU use means even if the inty pilot also activates the unit on the same tick, they'd still lose lock and you could simply warp out during that second. I'm not sure if that's really something that improves the game in any way.

EDIT:

That is a use that I hadn't even thought of yet, but that seems quite game-changing in many ways. I'm assuming there was at some point a reason for the mobility restrictions placed on hictors and cloakies - have these reasons changed? If yes, how?

If you could just make wormholes immune to most changes in Eve, that would greeeeeeeeeeeeat.

And now add the smatbombing battleships in low sec you can no long see, that doesnt even need MJD anymore to get away. I have a really hard time seeing how these are gonna improve the game more than they damage it:-s

is there a reason for adding this free-extra-slot-mjd gimmick for all ships before you try introducing smaller versions of the already existing mjd?

why exactly have you gone from "only usable on battleships, requires a midslot and a lot of fitting" to the opera winfrey style of "you get an mjd, and you get an mjd, mjds for everyone in the audience"

just seems like adding content for the sake of content without any real thought behind it

Can CONCORD see me do illegal things near this MSU? Also, CONCORD scrams you right? So you couldn't micro jump away?

Balance issues aside, its great that CCP is adding new mechanics to the game with these mobile structures. A think a lot of the hate in this thread is not necessary aimed at the mechanics themselves but at potential exploitation. The other mobile structures are seeing a fair amount of use and haven't totally broken the game yet, so I hope that trend will continue with these.

Hopefully CCP will err on the side caution and release them in a more underpowered state, then buff them later if they are unusable.

The Scan Inhib does not prevent anything from showing up on overviews or the discovery scanner. So beacons such as cynos will still appear.

Thanks for the feedback so far everyone. We'll be discussing everything brought up in this thread with the team tomorrow.

It's 7 here so I'm off to get some dinner, have a good night.

Can MMJDs work while in a bubble?

yes