Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Before I introduce this suggestion(idea) and several that I post following this; understand that they are being spoken from a soldier's(pilot) point of view; not in RL, but experience in Factional Warfare as this character. Also, suggestions are coming from that view of Factional Warfare as a soldier in the Gallente Militia whom of, is at War with the Caldarian State and has allied soldiers of the Minmatar Republic.

From my current knowledge whether or not, of war; at the end of a day that a soldier(person) has, they have done their duty(work) and in the future, be rewarded for doing that(food, shelter, periods of recreation, or money). Whether that soldier(person) is a combatant at the front or a noncombatant back at the base is irrelevant and whether or not that soldier(person) experiences action.

Where is that; in this aspect of Eve Online?

My suggestion to answer this question is as follows; which also is based on the class of ship(Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battle Cruiser, and Battleship) in the game, For every period* of time that a pilot is out in space**, whether or not traveling to a Bunker(complex) or working a mission, or within a Bunker(complex); they receive between 12,500 to 25,000 LPs per hour of that period(See below).

Battleship: 125,000-250,000(five hours)
Battle Cruiser: 100,000-200,000(four hours)
Cruiser: 75,000-125,000(three hours)
Destroyer: 50,000-100,000(two hours)
Frigate: 12,500-25,000(an hour)

As you can see, Loyalty Points do vary because it now requires the use of Ranks; which is already in the current game mechanics of Factional Warfare.

*This period of time would commence upon entering the combat zone or undocking from a station within the combat zone. Re-docking and leaving the combat zone would reset this "Combat Zone Timer" unless you heading into the Caldarian State(enemy territory) on a mission. Completion of at least one Bunker(complex) would guarantee the minimal LPs on top of what would be received from that Bunker(complex) based on tier level.

**The "Combat Zone Timer" would pause upon a cloak being activated just as it does with current mechanics.

In summary, this suggestion is based on getting those in Factional Warfare out of the stations and into the environment(PvE) and possibly seeing action(PvP). I say this justly because you may be a PvE player;but, you are still that second "P" in PvP.

Just a litle bit broken, yes.



It also highly discourages running covert cyno ninjya gangs in fw. Here's how:

Say I join up fw.
I do a quick poll of recon/bomber capable pilots and go "Hey I fly blops, lets run a ninjya op tonight?"
Several say aww hell yeah.
And as we all run cloaks at various times in the evening...we reset our timers.

We all undocked, just like you wanted us to. I am even in a nice juicy several hundred mil isk BS, if killed some peeps are getting a nice isk efficiency fix. None of us get lp for this as we are resetting all the time. Nice you have counter to afk clloaky to limit farming (I do see why you have it). Sadly however your control kills the desire to run covert cyno ninjya ops.

When the control kills off an entire aspect of eve warfare...its not a very good control.

Step 1: Set up a POS in enemy territory (the POS can even belong to a corp that is "neutral" to FW)

Step 2: Bring in a battleship gang and park it in the POS. Or... if this doesn't work inside the shields... set the POS up as a "Deathstar" and park the gang right right outside the shields.

Step 3: Go afk for the rest of the day.



As for unprobable setups... technically it isn't possible anymore... but there are some "unprobable setups" that require specialty implants to probe down properly. And not many people are going to drop a bil or so just to chase down some random frigate going 5000+ m/sec


Speaking of which... you can do some pretty cool stuff with a "full burn" interceptor going at 5400 m/sec (6500 m/sec with Low-grade Snake implants and Quafe Zero)... or a dual-ECCM Atron with a 10MN AB (3200 m/sec with a sig of 35 and sensor strength of 43.8!! Weeeee!!).

Pretty sure you can make a tengu unprobeable. In fact, I think BL's "slippery pete" tengus are this way.

Edit: Checked out the slippery pete tengu online and ran it through EvE HQ. Doesn't come up unprobeable anymore (EvE HQ update I presume, I remember that it did before) but it only takes 3 Conjunctive Gravimetric ECCM Scanning Array I's to get the ship to "hard to probe" levels, that is less then 1.2.

It won't be hard to find knowing that the ship will eventually have to dock up. Think Blockade Tactics...