Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have a few suggestions and look to refine before i submit them formally.
Any critisizm is okay, as long as it's not directed at me. (Complain about the ideas)
First:
The drone launcher.
This is pretty straight forward, it launches drones 50 km out, one at a time
This takes a high power slot and has 5 sizes. While loaded, the drones in the gun cannot be used.
Heavy-
Launches heavy drones, takes 100 pg and 50 cpu.
Hold 2 drones, can be loaded from drone bay only, and must be heavy drones.
Drones can be launched at a target (precise)
Medium-
Precise
25 pg 25 cpu
Holds 3 medium drones.
Small
Precise
10 pg 25 cpu
Holds 5 light drones
Capital-
Not precise. Launches 50 km in the direction you face
10k pg 10 cpu
Each one fires 2 drones per second
these will drones will launch INSIDE POS forcefields, however launching them into a solid structutre, or force field will cause them to loose 1/2 their shields instantly.


Second is the REMS module or the resistance emmision system.
The rems module takes a high slot and a turret hardpoint.
It functions by sending charged particles from your shield or armor to your target, effectively increasing their resists, while decreasing yours.
The small med and large take 10%, 20%, and 40% resistances respectively. Eg: you lose 40% of your armor resistance (numerically) to give someone else 40%, which goes through no stacking penalty, but regular calculations are applied. Extra calculations are applied to these resists to balance them out. I have provided an equation and a graph below showing how this is applied. the specific equation is (for smaller to bigger ships):
R2m2 = R1m1
equation
m1 = sender's mass
m2 = reciever's mass
R1 = amount sent
R2 = effective amount of resistance (without other equations)
for bigger to smaller ships (or ships of equal size) R1 = R2 reguardless of mass.
There are no specific resistance boosts. the module takes from every group.

All thoughts are welcome!

Paging Officer Reeses!

OP got F&I in my GD!

I may wat to expand on this.
Say your logi has the following resists: 50/60/70/80
And you have these resists: 60/70/80/90
The logistics user uses a heavy REMS module.
Your logi now has the following resists: 10/20/30/40
So, how do we make this non OP?
First is that we put it through the following.
You have 70% therm resistance, with a potential 30%
We multiply them together to get 30% of 40%, which is about 12%.
This 12% gets added on to your 70%, making your resist now 82%
Doing the math you now have the following: 76/82/88/94

Lets take the following scenario: two logis apply this to eachother.
Each logi has these resists: 50/50/60/60
First the deduction is applied: 10/10/20/20 (40% a piece)
Then we calculate the add on, by doing the same thing as before.
The 10% resist has a 90% potential, multiply 90% by 40% and we get 36%
The 20% resist has a 80% potential, multiply 80% by 40% and we get 32%
We stack these and get the following for the logis: 46/46/52/52, which is substantially lower than what they had before.

As for the drone launcher, it is like a jump drive for drones, launches them immediately to their target, applying instant dps, which gives solo drone boats something useful to fit.

As with everyone, on both ideas, why?

Instant DPS from drones is the only thing you've posted so far as a reason, but even with a launcher the charges (in this case drones) still have flight time and then you need to be able to control those drones once they reach the target.

How much time is this going to save?

On the REMS, just why? The mechanics are there, but it seems unnecessary to me with the current explanation/

<---- It's acttually that way. C'mon. Don't be trollin'

Actually, a Drone Launcher configured for POS or POCO defence would not be a totally useless thing. Depending on how it worked.

the drone launcher is some nice out the box thinking, but drones are somewhat balanced by their ability (or lack of) to get around the field. this deharmonises that.

and the resist thing is most certainly overpowered, just for the example u propose, a logi ship sits safe at near 70km out from the fight and transfers T2 level resists to combat ships in the thick of it. a logi's reps alone are powerful support enough, they dnt need a way to boost ship resists ontop of base resists. mods and command boosts

before u say 'but it replaces a RR mod', the RR mod that is replaced only adds to that one logi's effectiveness. one of these mods will boost all logi and self reppers.

I had an idea for a module a while back like your resist transfer mod, but instead of resists it transferred signature radius.

The problem with transferring resists is that resists effect all ships equally. While that sounds good, its actually bad. Imagine 50 frigates around a titan all giving it resists. That titan wouldnt need to fit resist mods, he could go pure damage and tracking relying on the 50 frigates around him to provide him with resists.

With signature radius, ships are not all affected equally. A frigate taking away 1/10th of its sig radius from a target is going to do nothing for a titan and with the stacking penalty it would be completely ineffective.

TL;DR
you should transfer sig radius not resists.

I would appriciate a drone launcher, make it highslot and act like a bomb launcher, you can tos drones at 30 km in a straight line infront of you.
They cant start attacking until they reach their destination but triples their mwd speed to get there.

Same skill and fitting requirements (but active) as the drone range mod.

Only can "shoot" small/medium/large drones, no sentrys.

but the ability to shoot sentries is the OP thing about this idea that we love most