Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We experimented with this when the change happened. We lost isk.

You know nothing about ganking, hence your comment about swapping out ammo on a cat. Not only would you lose isk randomly ganking blockade runners but you would also have to grind up your sec status after a few ganks so we have a large downtime. The entire enterprise is a waste of time and isk. I also doubt you even fly a blockade runner, you simply see this as a negative impact to a group of players you do not like and thus, you want to support it no matter if it is a bad game design.

Before these changes it was hard and rare to get a blockade runner with juicy cargo, now it is all but impossible. This is wrong and bad gameplay. We should at least have some chance if the blockade runners pilot is flying badly.

This is exactly why sig-radius is more relevant than align time. Since you're going to spend most of your time cloaked how quickly you can be locked is a bigger deal than align time and even a few fractions of a second may push you over a break point and mean the difference between you getting tackled and blown up vs getting away clean.

A few K more EHP would be in line with Amarr tactics, and make it the highsec hauler of choice, without unbalancing any actual hauling stats.

Hey Fozzie what about the PG, the Crane and the Prowler can't fit a 10 experimental Mwd + Cov ops+Cov cyno without offlining them can't we have 10 more Pg for the crane and 5 for the Prowler to avoid this gymnastic each time we want to use them ?

Well your quite the guy ,so another personnal attack when no more arguments .Maybe i wasn't clear enought thats why your confused i didn't mean swapping ammo on the cats ,but speaking in a more general ways about those nasty Emp and Explosive Hole in both shield and armor on 3/4 BR making them even more fragile to a Inty or anything roaming around a gate where a BR pilot could mess up is cloack+mwd trick or simply being decloacked, in other security status than H-S .My bad should have been more clear .Is it crystal now ?
And please avoid us ,the goon are victim of discrimation !!!
On your final comments seriously ,you are a grown up ....Before these changes BR was catched on a daily basis and it s was hard and rare to catch a juicy one because pilots aren't stupid and not many of them will carry several billions ...Now it ll be the same thing as before .This is good gameplay, that is promoting risk Vs rewards and active piloting over lazyness .Nothing is more easy to catch than an autopilot transport ship

Good point, thank you.


Fozzie, I saw the revisions to the Prowler and they look good, thank you! With that speed an overheated MWD may get you back to the gate if the situation calls for it, and the agility and mass are now pretty much where they need to be. Only thing I ask is for is a third high slot instead of the third low. ^^

Any chance of a small boost to the Prorator? Maybe move a high or mid to low to make it the king of fitting flexibility?

Well objectively speaking you still have a higher chance of being ganked autopiloting an empty BR than you do manually (and correctly) flying one that's carrying billions of ISK worth of cargo, even if it so happens that people can scan your cargo and know for sure that there's nothing inside for the former.

So I don't see what the problem is. Blockade runners should not have scan immunity.

It's something we're going to investigate, but not for the Kronos release.

And get suicide ganked. No BR pilot worth their salt is going to autopilot through pipes to Jita.

As for risk vs reward that's for the game design team to look at , think about, and test at this point.

The contraband system, when implemented as a suspect flag after customs detect contraband, will add meaningful gameplay. In the same way that pirates rejoiced when stealing from jet cans flagged them as legal targets, so too pirates will rejoice when running through hi sec with contraband flags them as legal targets, rather than costing them their cargo, ISK and standings :)