Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd go for an unfocused jump idea,

Any ship than can jump to a cyno should be able to jump to anywhere within jump range (random of course). It could be interesting gtfo tool for capital pilots :)

Capital Ships have ALWAYS needed another character to light a cyno for them. This is hardly something new.



Lol... this would result in capitals in highsec... But if you eliminated that possibility, I'd be alright with capitals using gates.



It should not be random... If (and this is a big IF) we had jump to system's without use of cyno's, it should always jump to a very specific location in system (say at the sun), which is very susceptible to having someone like me bubble it for ***** and gigglees. Furthermore, upon jumping in, there should be some global visual that a capital just jumped into system at that location, so anyone in system knows if they warp to that designated zone they'll find a capital. Finally, such a jump should use more capacitor than usual, leaving them completely drained of cap upon jump in.



At the end of the day, we don't need more teleportation in this game. We need to REDUCE it, having people fly through space rather than instantly skip entire regions.

Go Read this article on the issues with teleportation.

Penalty to capacitor seems logical, sort of feeding more power to your navigation
Penalty to fuel cost dont seems logical, its the same distance you jump and thats what you use fuel for.

Another point is that this thread asked for a ship to get a new ability (jumping w/o cyno).
This can be a new ship, a ship that currently cant jump at all, or a ship that can atm jump to a cyno.
Most negative feedback seems to be based around ships that can already jump to cyno. What arguments are there against a non combat ship jumping to a system without cyno (to sun or other place, maybe even make a becon where it lands)

Fill a rorqual with clones, jump it with a cyno chain (of your many pilots you have access to many alts). No need to suicide-podding or anything.
As you can see, this way of travel is ALOT easier the larger mass of players and better logistics you have in place.
However i cant find any number for how many clones you can have there, will see if my alt can jump in one when i get home to get a number (not sure he can fit the clone vat bay tho)

Avoiding gates is already possible with jump drives.
For you to be at a safespot would assume you can either land in a totaly random place in system (making a new safepoint when landing). This can be adressed by making a becon where you land so its no longer a safespot, or making you lant @sun or something like this.

IF its available for BO, and you land in a safespot with no indication your there other than showing up in local, it would be sweet for them :P

Ok, only the actual ship jumping avoid gates (cyno pilot can be in same system for years and still be effective)



Cyno is also something you have to light in the system BEFORE jumping to it, so atleast 2 accounts are needed



Either they get nerfed, or this have to be implemented in a way that dont make them to good (like BO still need cyno to jump/bride)

If something like this were to ever be considered, it would have to not be random. Where ever you pop in at should be as potentially dangerous as a gate, which means having it be potentially camped.

I like the idea of Empire beacons just because it seems like something the empires would have. You should not need a cyno ship to use a jump drive, but that does not mean that the public beacons would be safe. In fact, given the higher sticker price of the ships using the drives, they might be more camped than the Stargates.