Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This thread was inevitable. The rebalance of eve online is a comprehensive re-write from the ground up. We saw it initially as a change to some basic ships wherein it quickly progressed to things like FW, gun mining and exploration loot tables. In the years since the initiative was launched only very minor thought has been publicly expressed towards t3 concepts and to wormholes.

So let's blow this out of the water.

I had an idea at work about a fundamental change to wormhole loot. The premise is simple: T3 drones and drone modules. Sleepers are drones themselvea after all so it is thematically appropriate. How does it work? Sleeper loot can now alternatively be used to build T3 drones and modules instead of strat cruisers.

Why? Because drones are fairly valuable all over the game. Because strat cruisers don't need the kind of attention that drones do. Because wormholes desperately need a better reason for living there. So we Incentivise through new material that requires new skills and produces new products that like current drones are consumed in large numbers.

So in the interest of game balance let's first place in a limitation: no sleeper sentry. No tech 3 sentry of any kind.

So that leaves us with tech 3 light, medium and heavy drones. What do we make them do to be worth buying over tech 2? Well lets KISS and see them be slightly faster and have better damage application. By only a small percentage. No significant gains in dps or hp. The applied dps they get will make them a preferred choice in many scenarios over the tech 2 raw damage benefits. Expanding on this idea we could take tech 3 drone modules. Examples could include buffs to ecm drones and repper drones. The slightly more esoteric stuff for which no modules currently exist.

On yhe capital scale WH loot could also be used to manufacture t2 fighters and fighter bombers. With similar bonuses to the smaller drones they see an increase in speed and applied damage but otherwise no great buffs in any area.

So there is my idea in a nutshell; t3 drones and modules that are made from wh loot, that are not massively expensive or outright better but different than current drones and operate a bit more efficiently.

While I accept that certain builds will benefit more than most from such drones please be reminded that I did not include sentries or offer hp/dps buffs therefore making blowouts in power much more easily managed should a quick iteration patch be necessary

Ok now tear this idea apart.

addendum; one idea I didn't mention above would be how the loot should function. C1 & C2 wh would produce loot for t3 lights and limited materials for t3 mediums. C3 and C4 drop mostly medium parts with C5 and C6 dropping mostly heavy parts with limited fighter parts. This part of the idea is to increase desirability of low level wh as light drones are used in very high volumes and thus offer a quicker turn over for the wh diver.

My hope is to make day tripping a bit more interesting and viable.

They would be usable on all ships. T3 cruisers don't need any more gimmicks. I feel I need to add an addendum

I better start investing in Nanoribbons.. with all these new T3 ideas floating around..

so you want to take just combat/heavy drones, give them a tracking buff, and call them t3 drones?

no thanks.

Imo balance comes first, gimmicks later. They already introduced cloakable, insanely tanked reconbattlecruisers, shrank their sig and gave them the shortest train imaginable.

Unless that is fixed, rather like to see the game evolving on the meta0-5, T1/T2level cause yet alone the sp-loss clearly indicates that those ships aren't meant to be flown outside of ganks (Attacking 6 Battlecruisers in a 100mn tengu is still *I ganked a bunch of BCs/BSs*, or atleast that's what it feels like doing this in my experience)

They have never said anything about where they want the tank of the ships. The only clue they have given us is the diagram of progression where T3 are side by side to navy ships which are above T1 and slightly below T2.

CCP has not mentioned T3 in well over a year, if you can link otherwise do so.

I have removed a accidental double post.