Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What if:

Jump drives were not included with the ship, but a separate "module" you can fit to ships with a jump drive slot (or covert jump drive) with a few different variants.

Normal Jump drive - Same distance and cap use as the ones we already have.

Faction Normal Jump Drive - Same distance as regular, 25% less fuel, 25% less fuel

Long range Jump drive - Twice the range of current Jump Drives but the experimental technology causes the ships sensors to need recalibration upon landing. This would take around 1 minute and passive scan resolution penalty of -50%. Maybe even a reduction in hull or armor hp to fit.

Faction Long range Jump drive - Same as Long range Jump Drive, but 25% less fuel, and 20% less calibration time compared to normal long range jump drive.

Special ops Jump Drive - 30% jump range compared to current jump drive. 50% less Capacitor use for jump. 50% bonus to scan res.

Faction special ops (expensive) - 35% jump range of current. 60% less Capacitor use. 60% bonus to scan res.

And for lols

'Yolo' special edition Jump drive - Same distance as regular drives, can select ANY cyno within jump range, and jump to it.

Balancing obviously hasn't been thoroughly thought out, so that's up for discussion.

You do realize that as it stands now, different ships have different jump ranges, so there is no such thing as a "regular" jump drive when it comes to range and fuel consumption? You need to be clear on what "regular" jump range actually is in your proposal.

-1 jump drives are already very powerful. We dont need better versions for any cap ships.

Black ops are a different story though.

as long we don't touch the jump range, we don't have to mention it...
but there should be more penalties...

I like the direction of this idea a lot.

However, I would be in favor of a slightly more drastic change:

Two "basic" variants of Jump Drives.

Capital Jump Drive I
Requires JDC I
Same as current Dreadnaught jump drive.

Covert Jump Drive I
Requires JDC IV
Ridiculously high fitting requirements, with a role bonus on Black Ops to allow the use.

Then Tech II and Faction variants from there. I think, in theory, having variations in range could be implemented without breaking the game entirely, but that would require CCP to look at force projection as an overall mechanic, which I think needs to be done.

This change would probably a nightmare for Dotlan and other services which currently provide jump planning though.

You are right, but from now on, you cannot fly a ship with a Jump Drive without having JDC skilled.

JDC 4 for T1 Jump Drive with ... 90 % jump range
JDC 5 for T2 Jump Drive with 100 % jump range
JDC 5 + Jump Fuel Conservation 5 for Faction Moduls... 100 % jump range with 20 % less capacitor use

and maybe a Meta 1 modul, Concord LPs, JDC 4 - 100 % range, but 75 % scan res, 50 % speed

Yep, all that t2 salvage

Oh wait its real cheap right now

Hilarious loss mails?

Yeah quite funny, a Group of sins show, smartbomb themselves to death, and are gone in a matter of moments like nothing happened due to the lack of resists?

I'd pay to see that.