Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think I like this new module.

+1

Key phrase being "see how they went".
We can see that they've been mildly effective in increasing the popularity of battleships, and they're especially nice when paired with marauders.
As soon as you start giving this ability to other ships (we were really worried about this with the mobileMJD but you nerfed it to the point of this not being a problem) you diminish one of the few advantages that battleships had which made them more attractive and viable for PVP. This is a class of ship which for all intents and purposes is completely abysmal in mobility and had almost no ability to fight discriminately.


Then maybe you should look at properly rebalancing the mobility attributes of these ships. For one you also increased the signature radius of ABCs to make them more vulnerable to bombs, something which wasn't really necessary because they were quite vulnerable to begin with. Giving these ships MJDs does little to alleviate the bomb threat, but it gives them far too much mobility to be balanced.

ABCs don't have issues with picking fights and being able to disengage at will. CBCs have a much more difficult time of this but I still don't believe an MJD is the answer. You're trying to do open heart surgery with a pickaxe while the scalpel is sitting right next to you..


What are you talking about? No they aren't. Even at MJDO 5 the window to activate this module is extremely small - more than likely what would happen is that if anyone tried to MJD they'd activate it too late (one second is not enough time for a reaction especially when coupled with the fact that your server runs in one second ticks), guaranteeing that they'll die to bombs because of the increased signature radius.

In other words, trying to MJD away from bombs is as dumb as trying to MWD away from them.


We understand that, but we feel that this skews the balance far, far too heavily in favor of "we were severely outmatched but it didn't matter since we can always disengage with minimal losses."

Fleet of X people with MMJD BC's jumps over, and realizes its a gate camp. Their FC screams "Everyone run MMJD!" and they do exactly that.

Now you have a chance to pick several targets, and scram them so they can't jump. :) Also, the rest of your fleet can tactically warp (dictors) to other gates and put up bubbles as the timer cooldown for those MMJD is 3 minutes. You can set up a trap basically. Don't you think?
Also, all these people spooling up the MJD can't deactivate it (as far as I know), and those caught are most likely to be destroyed. Not to mention that fitting MMJD takes up one valuable mid slot.

So what is the problem? Adapt or die.

Having the MMJD work exactly the same as the LMJD is a little boring and doesn't help most BCs in any PVP situation other than escape. My suggestion (I'm going to say it again) is to make the jump range around 60km, the spool up around 10sec, and the cool down 2 mins. That's about ~30% off each stat, this should make it competitive for PVP, PVE, and escape tactics.

Could be nice... but it looks like you've forgotten about implications.

Btw, we already have mobile MJD for all ship, why do we need a module that'll only help people avoiding being tackled ?

scouts don't have MJD's :) and that is the point :)

I dont understand. The interceptor jumps into the gatecamp, and his fleet mjds in the previous system in a panic?

I and a few others who Liked my post on Page 1 are still curious if you intend to allow "all" Command Ships to fit this MJD. And by "all" we mean the Industrial Command Ship -- Orca.

I believe you have been looking for ways to encourage players to put the Orca on-grid. Having this available as an escape tool may be a step in that direction.

This. Stacking penalties on remote repairs please.

This is bad and you should feel bad about it.