Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be interesting if the MMJD worked in the opposite fashion.
After the 12 second spool up, all ships within 100km are sucked within 5km of the MMJD.
This of course would make it more of a one shot pop item rather than a 2hr item.

Why not just make smaller versions of the MJD so ships other than battleships can use them? The MMJDU just seems to be a weird way to give an extra slot or smaller ships the ability to micro jump.

As for the scan inhibitor: Will it only hide ships or will it also hide something like bubbles? As someone else said, sounds like these will end up as thick in FW space as mobile depots are around Jita.

that woudl be incredbly overpowered. PVP woudl be only smartbombing battleships with those.

From the test server it looks like the MJDD only allows 1 person to use it at a time and has 20 sec activation delay after the last use.

If that's working as intended that removes most my gang based objections to the thing. Still don't much care for it from a 'good luck with your long point mate' perspective in smaller/solo engagements though.

Have to admit the Mobile Micro Jump structure i think is a bit stupid, 90% of battleships have MJD's fit as is so allowing sub-BS class ships and freighters use these makes catching anything when your in Low/Null/WH Space Next to impossible. think of finding a null mining fleet with an Orca in the belt, but as soon as they see you on d-scan they jump 100kms away and then align out and warp, its dream crushing! But on the flip side it has it uses (Aside from what i just mentioned).
2 stars

Now when it comes to the Scan Inhibitor OMG that looks awesome, hiding a small fleet in WH space of non cloakies or support ships sitting off-grid at a gatecamp or brawl seems Awesome, plus using them to conceal pipe-bombs or camps forces people to act a little smarter about what it is that they are doing as they travel. Once CCP gets on top of the fixes to local chat that were mentioned in a prior post i think that is when you will really start to see this device come into its own and become even more useful.
4 stars

Im pretty sure what would result would be a pod bouncing off the shields like a ping pong ball, but according to what ive read yes it does seem like pods can use them, could be an interesting tactic to get pods out when your bubbled, hope you get out before you get scrammed or exploded and then warp away to reship

good things for making in game actions and strategies more flex and more deadly :)

intereting and seem funny

A bit broken for me.

So i place this thing on gate, and i see someone is showing up 200k away , so i align my captor, use this and at full speed land 100k closer to the target?

For non BS ships there will be a way to "overcome" the gate camps - so no more "holding the ground".

Will a newly-dropped mobile scan inhibitor show up in the probe scanner as a new signature? And will you need core or combat probes to scan it down?

I'm thinking about the scenario of wormhole players who want to be 'sufficiently vigilant' and that will cost. Right now, d-scan, staying aligned, and watching for new signatures is the minimum; having a player or at least a multi-boxed character watching existing entrance(s) is recommended.

If I scan down my static, jump in, and drop an MSI, will anyone outside of d-scan range have a clue that I just arrived? Will they have to keep probes - perhaps even combat probes - out and scanning just to realize something's up?

My concern here is that this is too biased towards the aggressor, in the sense that defenders have to do lots of very boring things just to have a chance to escape, meanwhile the aggressors get to do lots of fun things and now have reduced risk since a defender has even less information about them.

I say this as someone who often plays both roles - if I only have fun as an aggressor, I'm going to burn out on everything else. It's OK if being the bad guy is the MOST fun, but earning my upkeep should still be fun as well.

It hides anything. Ships, bubbles, MMJDs, wrecks, and apparently even wormholes.


It won't show up in the on-board scanner list, but it will presumably show up if you do a pass with probes. Combat probes, that is. It can only be scanned down with combat probes, making it very hard to deal with for solo pilots and small gangs.




They can notice a new MSI on d-scan, but that's about it. They can have no intel with regards to what ship, or even how many ships, just entered system. Keep in mind the MSI does have an online time, so if they're diligent about spamming d-scan, they may spot you before the MSI goes online.



It's not too biased towards the aggressor; it's too biased towards anyone using an MSI. Completely depriving your opponent of any way to gather intel on you short of facechecking you, while retaining all your intel abilities intact, is an enormous advantage.