Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think the fleet hanger should of been added to the blockade runners

my vote is to merge the 2 variants of transport ships together into one ship for the category.

but if i had to take a stab at this id say allow the ship to mjd instantly with 30 second cooldown at rank 5 take away it's rep bonus and give it a very large HP and fast align time base instead.

with role bonus of AOE/splash damage immunity.

remove the fleet hanger and in its place give the ship a starbase structure bay that can hold control towers and starbase modules with the right click option of deployment or just double its original cargo space and gut the bay all together.

Another candidate to update the Target Spectrum Breaker for fitting on something other than a Blops BS.

Hey an idea for transports having a 3 module system for them. 1 low, 1 mid, and a high slot to allow jump drives like black ops ships.
Since they will have a fleet hangers. It would be a cool feature.

From the "Blockade Runners" thread just spitballing some ideas:

In regard of the new covert ops mining ship I would suggest to add the ability of using a covert jump portal to the Deep Space Transport.

If a mining corp decides to mine in some 0.0 space, they can jump in several covert miners, but how do they get the stuff back out? A covert transport can only hold 13-14 m³, which is less than 3m worth of ore. With the deep space transport being able to use covert JP, those ppl had the option to either go fully cloaked and less cargo, or partially cloaked with more cargo.

I find this quite interesting on a DST

Give these ships a jump drive.

As usual the player base has no vision for these ships and has completely missed the boat on how excellent these changes are.

First, if the ONLY thing that changed on these ships was the increased cargo capacity, the update would be huge. Now industrialists have a ship with some 80K M3 capacity that they can fit inside a Rorqual or Orca or Carrier. The fleet hangar is a great idea as these ships should be fitted for tank and other attributes rather than for a standard cargo fit. Makes them much more interesting. Yes, they can't launch some POS modules. Looks like the cargo capacity has been changed so they can indeed launch a number of the smaller ones. However, we now have ships that can haul 80K M3 and don't cost 500 million or more. Huge win all by itself.

Now, as for the MMJD and combat statistics, all the moronic whining from the players seems to center on the fact that the ships are still quite killable with current tactics. So let me introduce a concept to the idiot players. If you want to run a blockade, get a blockade runner. These ships are not meant for long routes through low/null or gate camps. That's what BRs are for. They are meant for DEEP SPACE operations. Like deep blue space. So if you are out in null in your blue area and you need to transport some compressed ice from your ice mining system a couple of jumps over to your manufacturing outpost, you have a ship that can haul 80K and has enough defense to do it with a cloaky camper in system. Naturally if a horde of reds are in system you're going to wait until tomorrow. But you won't have to use a Miasmos that can be killed by a lone Purifier.

Silly ridiculous players, stop whining that this ship will not be able to slide through well-prepared gate camps without a hitch. The defense package on this ship (good tank stats, MMJD, Warp Stab) is designed to be a bit gimmicky and most of all interesting and unique, and to have the effect of helping the ship against some small threats and to help it against unexpected situations, such as when you're jumping in an area you thought was safe and a small roam comes through on its way to somewhere and did not expect to see you but has stumbled upon you. You now have some options.

The ship was not designed to be the be-all-end-all answer to eliminating the threat of gate camps. And you know what? If it was, the campers would incessantly whine about it.

I really just can't stand the Eve player base at this point.

Fozzie, these changes improve the ships 500% in a very interesting and out of the box sort of way. Great work.

So I took my Mastodon out once into 0.2. Got hit on the gate by 2 BS and 2 BC! I tanked with T2 Shield Hardeners and a T2 Medium Shield Booster I think it was (this was a few years ago now) and survived due to the Sentry Guns kicking some arse while I sourced fresh pants.

Moral of the story, these have BS+ tanks now and after Kronos even better to survive a few people gate camping, the MMJD should add some interesting twists adn with the extra hanger you can now have more tank but most will probably die in a ball of fire cos more m3 yo!

Post-Kronos hell I'll ride into Jita like Lady Godiva on the back of my Mastodon :)