Player Features and Ideas Discussion

All the mechanics to boost and help large power blocks on the game.

Hey everyone.
For now I just wanted to drop by and make sure you know that we're not ignoring this thread, I'm reading everything.

I'll be collecting together and answering/discussing some of the points raised soon. Part of the reason I posted this before Fanfest is so that we could take advantage of all the feedback possible, but that also means that we'll be a bit slower replying to threads for the next couple days. Rest assured that we'll make it up to you next week, and we're not forgetting about this thread.

if you are going to do this why not also have a new skill to reduce fuel consumption like advanced jump fuel conservation and have do like 5% per level so you don't hit the market hard because too much too quick will shock the market.

CCP WHY ARE YOU NERFING MY SUPER SAFE AND EASY AND CHEAP TELEPORTATION OMG GRR GOONZ

Seriously? This is a great change, and I wish they didn't reduce the volume of isotopes, either. Transportation of stuff is the biggest imbalance of risk/reward/price in Eve, almost solely attributable to the ridiculous prevalence of jump drive and jump bridge mechanics. I understand it can't be removed (yet, anyway) or some places would turn into wastelands, but really there should be more effort, risk, or money involved in transporting large amount of stuff than clicking a cyno button, then a jump button, for the price of a couple tens of millions of ISK.

All the "but my small alliance " talk is crock, too. Grow a real logistics wing. I own/fly a JF, and I have run a small corp/alliance. PLEASE NERF ME, CCP. For the good of the game.

Alternative Suggestion to adjusting the STAT's of everything.

What if, instead of Adjusting this, and that, to make it all work, why not just make a blue print for Jump Fuel.

This is going to be an Industrial Expansion after all.

If you put into play, a Jump Drive Fuel Block, much like Fuel Blocks for POS's

You can then tweak the amount of materials required to make each fuel block, as opposed to trying to change the stats on the ships each time you need to tweak something.

Heck, you could even go as far as to having Ship Type fuel in addition to Racial Type, and thus introduce some new element to the gameplay

For example

Sub Cap Jump Fuel (Each Racial Fuel Block tweaked for use in Black ops Ships)

Normal Cap Jump Fuel (Each racial Jump Fuel Block for Regular Capitals)

Industrial Cap Jump Fuel (For the likes of Jump Frieghters and Rorquals)

Super Cap Jump Fuel (Each Racial Jump Fuel Block)

This could then allow an interesting dynamic to form, could limit the use of your opponents fleets and what they field.

Additionally, it allows you to tweak the material requirements for each type of capital , without affecting all the others with one brush.

As an extra element, you could make cross racial fuel bpo's that allow you to use isotopes from another racial fuel type, to produce the same type of fuel block, but at much greater material cost.

Much like how Alchemy is for the Moon Goo

with that for an idea you could have it require something like moon goo or a certain gas for super/titan fuel.

Just to add an extra idea to the fray,

For things like the Super Fuel Blocks, the materials list, could require things only available in null sec,

Ie Morphite Additives

Make Morphite Relevant again

This is correct.

POS Fuel blocks make sense because the old way of fueling POS required you to balance several different types of materiel. Adding an intermediate step simplified matters. You can't simplify jump fuel any more than it is; it is only one item. Parting it out into 13 different parts adds nothing.

Perhaps it can work like this:

Jump Freighter/Rorqual: Industrial Fuel made of Racial Ice Products and underutilized common Gas products

Carrier/Dreadnaught/SuperCarrier: Tactical Fuel made of Racial Ice products and underutilized uncommon Gas Products

Titan/BlackOps: Strategic Fuel made of Racial Ice products, Underutilized uncommon Gas products, and underutilized PI products (Wishlist item: incorporate biomass into this type)

Industrial fuel is the most basic, and is used for both jumping and fueling rorqual Industrial core (one fuel bay, woot!)

Tactical Fuel is simple to make, but can only be used for Jump Drives.

Strategic Fuel can be used for both Jump Drives and Jump Bridging (One fuel bay woot!)

Modifications to material requirements for the fuel blocks can be made without affecting ship stats.

Seems odd that there's been mention of "Help encourage cost competitiveness for local resource gathering in nullsec."

CCP deliberately create bottlenecks on manufacturing and ice anyway by always missing one vital build resource (or ice) per region. To seriously manufacture in null, you need to come to highsec. And now this change will raise the cost and very little benefit.

It's meant to be a PvP game and if the cost of going to war increases (which this change will effect) wars will be smaller and less frequent.

I just don't really understand why this change is even needed...