Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You should be training your alt to fly a T3 rather than a Recon. It's lightyears better for not much more ISK/training time.

Love that CCP is giving these ships all this attention.

My one concern with having the bonus prevent scanning by NPC customs officers is that you've now removed any issues with transporting illegal goods through high-sec. Hold full of drugs? Throw it in a Blockade Runner and auto-pilot straight to Jita 4-4.

I'd rather see it be something like an increase in scan-time for NPCs or a high %-chance for them to not see anything illegal, possibly stacking with pirate implants, which would finally give that piece of their bonus suite a real intentional use. Make it so you can get to 100% with implants and something like 90% without them maybe?

Also, and this seems really counter-intuitive, but maybe have a long cycle-time module that lets you see through BR shielding? That way you can see through an Auto-Piloting BR but one being actively piloted will be off and gone before the cycle finishes. That way gankers have a tool to see "oh, just hauling tritanium, nothing to blap here" or "holy crap he has 50000 Exotic Dancers! Open fire!" which increases safety for Auto-Piloting BRs (at least one's who aren't hauling anything really valuable )

Also CCP is dumb calling it agility because there's no attribute in the game called agility and also saying "agility is going down" implies that it's, well, less agile when they really mean the inertia modifier is going down which increases agility.

Reducing inertia modifier has the effect of making the ship accelerate more quickly, align more quickly, etc.
So "reducing agility" and increasing mass cancel each other out.
Why CCP uses language like this which is completely counter to the actual meaning of the word is beyond me.

so.....circumventing blockaids by jumping very large quantities of goods to nullsec via jump freighter is ok. But getting bubble immunity on a much smaller sized 'blockaid runner' to actually go through the blockaids is too powerful?

I see what you did there.

But not really. Just rename them so that whole issue disappears and players that have issue with the name are happy ;)

Lol it's just principal of the matter.

Increasing mass and reducing the inertia modifier don't completely cancel out because they don't completely affect the same stats and not all changes are percentage changes. You could, for example, significantly lower the mass of all Battleships but increase their Inertial multiplier and Wormholes would love you. You would also make it much easier to turn in a Battleship but, assuming your acceleration and other stats remained the same on the stock ship then adding a MWD would result in a much more sluggish ship than previously because you've increased your mass by a much larger percentage of your base mass.

More information available here: http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Agility

I'm falling into the Goon conspiracy trap, agreeing that the unscannable cargo hold does not bode well for a future of players performing the capture & kill role for NPC customs. If the NPC customs can't scan the cargo and flag the ship as carrying contraband, how are the players supposed to enforce a blockade on drugs in hi sec? If I'm flying a cargo of drugs in what is essentially an un-catchable ship, am I really smuggling?

Also, why is the Minmatar BR gaining so much weight and becoming the slowest off the mark? Are you just deliberately trolling the population who focussed on training into the Prowler because it is the most agile? Did someone get confused and think the Viator was Minmatar?

As a prowler owner, I would be happy to forgo the extra cargo space for the sake of being lighter, faster and more agile (than any other BR). I'm not in the habit of hauling cruisers through low sec: the only ship I'd be hauling in a blockade runner would be a Kryos or Miasmos and they still won't fit.

Please make BRs cargo immune to customs scans for smuggling. Make smuggling an actual aspect of gameplay, with maybe skills for it or something if not an unscannable cargo bay.

I think boosters need reworked as a whole, but that is another thread.

I'm still convinced that they should get that **** off of the interceptors.

Take the time to look the whole frame.

Each ship should have its advantage over its other race counterpart even if this advantage is small.