Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Intro:
Firstly I would hate to see all ships become replicas in terms of their capabilities , God forbid how boring Eve would be, its important to keep the racial differences and FFS stop comparing the Brutis to the Hurricane , every race has there own Rock Stars !

I am double Amarr and I love the look of the ships but I don’t fly them at all because I don’t like their capabilities , so I trained Minmatar and Gallente cause of their niches that appeals to me. I think the same should be said for Gallente pilots ...fly the role of the race, if you don’t like it train for something else.

Gallentes role or niche is short range fights (between 0and 10 km) and then the drones. When you are caught in that 10 km range against a blaster boat the chance of getting away or winning the fight should be 20% or less. The 0-10 km is the Gallente Blaster zone. I do believe the damage done by blasters should be significantly more to solidify the Gallente Blaster Zone.
The second very obvious issue is how to get your enemy in that zone of 0-10 km. In high sec or gate camping this wouldn’t be that much of a big deal. So in a way Gallente blaster boats already rule High sec and gate camps ! But with conventional null sec fleets and tactics it causes a problem for the Gallente blaster boats.

I love that Eve video “Real something ” where the Gallente fleet gets melted into scrap metal by a Amarr fleet and then a Gallente frig pilot breakes away and fly directly towards the Amarr fleet enabeling the gallente fleet to warp in at 0 and burn the Amarr alive ! That’s what appeals to me ...now whether that is practically possible in 50% of the scenarios , I honestly don’t know. But I think as far as Blaster boats go we need to look more at tactics to get into that Zone than to try and replicate other races roles. I do believe that Gallente is in a disadvantage here when it comes to null sec warfare. (at the same token it should be very difficult for them to be able to get in that zone to balance things out overall).

THE IDEA in its infant stage - A specialized drone that a ship can warp to at any range.

CCP why not create a drone that you as a blaster boat can warp to ? You release the drone and send it to the enemy ...once in range you warp to the drone and fleet can warp to you. Of course the drone stats need to be balanced out to make the task of the drone to reach its destination hard and relatively easy for enemy ships to shoot it down.

The bigger the gallente fleet the more drones to shoot down by the enemy.....think this might be an option to enable blaster boats to get into blaster zone whether you are a fleet or solo pilot ...and its in line with Gallente drone culture.

A specialized drone that a ship can warp to at any range. I can already see fifty drones from a fifty man fleet swarming towards a fleet at medium speed and the anxiety to try and kill them ....before they reach their target.

I mean smack a beacon light on each drone so that they become highly visible in space within a 50 km range , so you don’t have to look at your overview to try and figure out where they are ...just target them in space.Just make the drone fast enough that it would be 50% chance of getting through to the enemy lines.

This would eliminate so many problems with blaster boats and increase the probability more to get reds in optimal range without having to compromise other ship stats or change too much base ship attributes , I think it’s worth consideration ...

The whole idea of this is to address the "getting into the 10 km optimal range "without screwing with uniqueness of races...I don’t see any other way tbh.

I need light bulb’s..Not face palms!

In most missions the deadspace complexes have natural anomalies that prevent you from warping within the pocket to another part of the pocket.

And as for PvP, it would be a bit useless to be honest since pretty much all gang/solo PvPers use warp scramblers. And it also defeats strategy. If your entire fleet warps in to a location and they find that they are not in range and are being blasted 120km away then it is their fault entirely for not scanning/recon the area first.

Also you have laser boats with adaptable crystal ranges so that you aren't suffering the range problem.

tl;dr; Post is bad and you should feel bad.

Jiska ty for clearing that up ...the above two retards obviously don’t understand that this is a section for new ideas .
With the buff of the hybrid canon for this winter expansion a lot of Gallente pilots fancy there boats faster ,more agile and with more range almost on par with Minmatar, to enable them to get in optimal range with blaster boats especially in 0.0.

Im saying don’t change the racial differences of ships. Instead make use of a new warp drone that you launch and send to target. Once that drone is in optimal range to the target you warp to the drone regardless of distance between you and your warp drone. It could be 20 km.

Now there are many ways to skin this cat !

1. The drone needs to be static before you can lock it(so once it reached its target its static).
2. You need to lock onto your drone before you can warp to it.
3. It will take 15 sec to lock onto a warp drone once its static (other ships ).
4. With Gallente Blaster boats you receive an additional bonus that enables you to lock onto the drone in 5 seconds.

• This will enable Gallente pilots to have an opportunity to get into their optimal range using a warp drone ...how appropriate don’t you think ?

I too fly Gallente ...and I love “Gallente SUBmarines” they are heavy,slow and brutal in nature ..if you cross there path at close range your done.

Now lets get that range !

I can't even begin to imagine the many levels of how the idea is wrong... OK, I will try:

First, sending a single drone to scout ahead would be wasted. You see such an achor drone approaching? Blast it. So, people would resort to drone blobs, which may be countered with smartbombs or such.

Next, imagine such a thing would be successful. That means, sniping tactics become worthless and every fight devolves into "furballing".

So.... no.

Watch this video and you will fully get what I am proposing ....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxSyv4LC1c&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPF614A7A6461E61E1

Now remember if you launch the drone you’re the only one that can warp to the drone ...once you warped to 0 (point of the drone) the fleet can warp to you .

This will make you instant primarily for the enemy fleet :
So you need a damn good tank to stay alive for the rest of the fleet to warp to you ...

The long range enemy fleet now suddenly need to ensure they have short range blaster boats in there fleets to counter attack enemy incoming blaster boats as a result of warp drones.....can you see those green light bulbs of the Megathron online again ....? Two roles with one blast thanks to the warp drone he he he...

It becomes complicated whether every warp drone engagement will work or not ...and that my fellow pod pilots is just the way we like to play Eve ...complicated!

Whilst I like the idea of Gallente fleets warping to 0 like on the trailer, as mentioned, one problem is being out of range yet within minimum warp range. Whilst for your idea you can reduce the minimum warp range, I don't like the idea of it being a purely drone thing. Now, if there was a method to reduce the minimum warp distance for warping to non-drones, I would fully support a drone variation on the idea.

How about:
- A new module that gives a reduction to minimum warp range. If your ship depends on getting in close and you want to reduce/remove the margin between max weapon range and min warp range, you have to give up some other fitting to do so.
- A new module that when activated allows your ship to warp to a target you have locked. Such a module would have a significant (but not overly long) cycle time, and would automatically warp you to 0 at the end of the cycle. This module would only be mountable on specific types of ship - this would either be a new class, or possibly an addition to a current scanning class.

With the above in place, a new type of drone that acts as a warpto beacon, but doesn't reduce the minimum warp distance itself would fit in nicely I think.

this is already in game and each race has its own versions

the gallente warp drone is called the taranis i think? but requires a freind to pilot it but ill get back to you on that

As reasons not to change anything go, you have to admit that "because we'd have to adapt to a change!" is a pretty lame argument.

So, this drone in his suggestion takes up 125MBit of bandwidth. That's a full heavy squadron worth of drones being lost as an insurance policy to possibly turn the tables on a range ambush (or just plain old bad luck). I say possibly as a drone that big could easily be shot out of the sky before it gets to do anything anyway. Do you also complain that ECCM should be removed from the game because all it does is counter players who brought ECM to the field?

As already stated, I personally don't think that a warpto drone should affect minimum warp distance (you should be able to fit modules for that) or enable you to warp in circumstances where you wouldn't otherwise be able to. That you would have to adapt to any change is an idiotic argument though, which would only lead to a stagnating game that remains broken.

Then it would be useless, it is rare for ships not to be scrambled during PvP and wasting your entire drone bay (which only a dominix or something could actually have to support this drone). It would 100 times more reliable just to send in a covops frigate to scout the area while cloaked, get close to the enemy and make them warp to you.

And stop making up **** about me against ECCM idiot