Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So, as it says, DCU already consumes literally no capacitor, serves as extra button presses whenever you enter a system, just make it passive.

Or, barring ability to do that, implement what every 3rd party fitting tool already has (tabbing out to mess with other tools on the fly is a pain in the ass when im tryign to put something together for somebody ingame), allow us to activate/deactivate modules while in the fitting screen so we can see what are resists are, and reps/sec are.

that second one is the real important one, because when im sitting in jita tryign to throw a last-minute fit together for some lowsec pvp, i HATE HATE HATE having to undock/dock all thetime to see what my resists/EHP are because of all the active modules (DCU, any repper, ALL shield tank mods worth fitting). just seems unneccessary to not be able to see your ships actual stats unless your undocked, and again, docking/undocking just to swap aroudn pieces of a fit becaus eyou have no idea what the stats are unless undocked is SILLY.

apologies, for spelling errors, will fix it later after my allergy medicine kicks in (fuggin summer), just wanted tog et this down before i forgot i wanted to type it.

damage control is already OP as it is.


edit: maybe not overpowered, but is one of the strongest modules in the game. adding something like this to make it even more mindless accomplishes nothing except making people lazier.

Don't put words in my mouth.

Actually, it'd be nice when jumping into ridiculous TiDi as it is such a key module to not be sitting wondering if it is 'on' or not.

Very alt, such afk, wow, much subtle.

Ignoring the character name the idea is sound however. This is a widely used and distributed module. Making it passive would remove the need for the server to keep checking and processing activation requests.

Not really, as someone who deals with neuts on a fairly constant basis, I can tell you just from my own personal experience that no matter how many neuts you have the ship's own passive capacitor regeneration can sustain a DCU cycle(which is quite long) with a single tick of regeneration.
This basically means all you have to do it press it really fast. (Such StarCraft)

I didn't say afk playing is "bad", stop putting words in my mouth. Maybe "encouraging" is the wrong word to use, but changing the DCU to being passive takes away a choice from players: Relatively safe active piloting or taking a bigger risk and using the auto-pilot. (A DCU in many cases will deter solo gankers from killing your ship under gate guns)

I'll say it then. If you afk pilot in high sec in a ship that people might think is gank worthy or carrying cargo that might be considered gank worthy because you think it is safe you are bad and deserve to lose your ship, not have an extra layer of defense to protect you lazy self.

It's a sad day when I am more harsh than a GSF member lol.

Even then, keeping a DCU shut off is extremely difficult. No amount of bravado can cover up the fact all you need is a single server tick and quick enough finger on the button to simply turn it back on.

Really this is a module that suffers from being caught in a weird limbo between passive and active. It's clearly meant to be a passive module, but for what ever reason it's an active module that behaves very atypically.

Honestly, it should become a full on active module with higher capacitor usage and better bonuses, or full on passive. The current system is gimmickie and doesn't interact well with energy neutralizers.

I can agree. Upon retrospect for larger ships like BS's getting capped out has a very slim chance of knocking out your DCU. Cycle times are too long for heavy neuts. It seems like a good time to re-evaluate the balance of DCU's.

Maybe a reactivation delay and a modest increase in cap cost? That's not too unreasonable.