Player Features and Ideas Discussion

THis is bug, read earlier posts.
There will be no 30% reduction in materials , but 30% reduction in time.

I hope it will never come to this that eve will be only caps ... and im saying this while having 4 capital pilots.

Other idea.
Remove jump drives from all capital ships except Jump Freighters.

Add 4th Rig slot to them, called drive management.
All installed modules are permanent .
Yes you can repackage those, but make this "rig" 150k m3 big , it will be using normal minerals.
This way repackaging will be not an option.
You have ability to install there :
- jump drive ( T1 / T2)
- jump drive gate optimization ( T1 / T2)
- reactive armour , ancillary shield capacitors ( T1 / T2) ( can be fitted only on stations)

What are the differences?

1. Jump drive
- it will allow ship to jump between systems.
- for carriers it will reduce ship maintenance bay by 50%, reduce shield / armor / hull to 30% of current levels , it will force using triage module to maximize reps at increased cycle time
- for dread it will force using siege modules at increased cycle time
- T2 version should be more expensive , and it will only have 10% increased jump range

2 . jump drive gate optimization
- ship cannot jump, well almost, it is jumping between gates at very reduced fuel usage.
- it have no drawbacks on defense , ships operate at current levels.

3. reactive armour , ancillary shield capacitors
- ship cannot jump any where , they are tied to a system
- carriers/dreads gain immense ehp boost while in siege/triage
- siege provides extreme tracking speed
- triage modules doubles or triples capacitor amount or repair amount
- titans , can mount jump portal generator or something like old AOE , but limited to 100 km in diameter.
- mother ships mini version of this weapon that will do 1/3 of damage
- etc

Summarizing, all capitals using jump drive will be mobile, but at expense of defensive capabilities.
Jump drive gate optimization will make capitals almost like now, but it forces them to travel by gates.
Last defensive upgrade , ties them to the system , but gives them immense EHP boost, firepower or options.

Capitals that we tie to system give this location immense defensive boost , and supers will make all blobs hard time .

The only thing that worries me , is how to prohibit this kind of capitals in the WH space , as there they will be just better way for farming sleepers.

naaa Corp headquarters and birth station. Those re the ones LOGICAL targets.

No one proposed a limit. Propose only an incentive to be different. There is no freacking reason to not be in a power block (if your target is really living in 0.0). If you just want good fights it is and it will continue to be better to live in an NPC region and "raid" the fat empires.

The same thing already exist on the alliance manteinance fees, limits to excessive proliferations that coalitions just avoid. At the end that statement of yours make no sense, because you are just trying another way to push limits on a social paradigma of imperialism. Get a grip... just because You do not like an idea doe snot make it wrong, if you gonna assault it at least use arguments that does not refute your own thread.

Also you can dream as much as you want, but the truth is that eve was far more intense and interesting when there were 6-8 smaller power blocks. The smaller the number of actors, the less complex the scene can be. That is basics of politics theory. No amount of illusion will change that. If everyone in the game is in the same group then zero wars can happen. If absolutely every players was on its own , that would be the maximum possible conflict level ( in an unbearable level, true). Unfortunately, you can change everything else in universe and 2 will still be at the same distance of 1.. and still incredbly close to stagnation.

That is not my opinion, is sociologic and politics theory. There are hundreds of examples in history (the clearest one being the cold war).

No amount of changes anywhere will change the humans nature.. and you guys gonna achieve absolutely NOTHING. If your changes were implemented BEFORE this status that we live now was achieved, then they could have delayed it a lot. But now that we are here, no amount of speed bumps will matter, because the problem is not the reduction of the granularity of possibilities, since it is already at the near bottom of the pool. The problem is how you make things go into the opposite direction...

Without any incentive to people to split, absolutely NOTHING will happen on the short and medium term, and when the long term arrives then will be too late and eve will have lost already too many peopel double bored with a 0.0 with no geopolitical possibilities and where traveling is a pain in the ass at the same time.

Really good one.
but i don't see CCP to implement that, as this will need to force them to be a bit creative that usually.

If it took, say, five minutes to spool up your jump drive when you activate it, before you could jump, imagine the impact on the game as is.

Supercapital fights are still as possible as they are now, but if those reinforcement fleets are several mids away...your looking at much extra time before capital reinforcements can arrive (five minutes spool-up per mid). Enough so, that most combatants might actually start preferring to send subcaps in instead. Most players prefer subcap blobs to super blobs, at least with those you have a chance of a meaningful fight, usually without so much tidi.

...and capitals can still get involved in a brawl, but reinforcements may arrive late in the battle.

It would be easy for CCP to give jump freighters a bonus to spool-up time so that they are not as impacted as combat capital ships in this regard. This is a power projection nerf to combat capital ships, not to logistics.

Make no mistake, you will still have supercap blobs to fight, but no longer will they be traversing most of eve within minutes. Now, having intel on enemy supercap fleet movement is actually meaningful.

Whiteboarding (power projection):

- Get rid of Cyno mechanics...instead let Capitals jump to any ship that has a cyno module fitted and active. No beacon created, and the ship does not get locked into a death sentence. ** Alternatively, give capitals only the option of jumping to the zenith or nadir of a star within the target system and get rid of cynos completely. Much fun and bloodshed will ensue. This would also directly impact the "JF problem" **

- Severely curtail jump range, and increase fuel for both jump and bridge operations. Maybe add mass restrictions to a bridge like we have with wormholes - of course I haven't used a Titan bridge since 2008, so maybe it's like this now. We would need a new UI to accurately gauge this information regardless.

- Get rid of the smuggler gates. Null regions need more choke points, not less. This would make bridging more important.

- POS bridges I think are fine as is...a 'defender' should have some advantages. This includes using inter region bridges after the removal of the smuggler gates (if in range obviously). POS fights at bridge stations become way more important than currently since Everyone just uses a Titan now in operations. (As a recap, above, severely limit range of a Titan bridge, but leave alone deployed pairings of bridges).

- Hacking can disable bridges, affect sov bonus ratings, and provide some sort of system intel not available through the API or ingame map.

/random ideas most likely not worth salt.

I also like this idea.

Make cynos not better then stargates, if cyno technology is so good, why do we use stargates?

we don't if given the option. doesn't mesh with lore and makes for other problems.

I look forward to 450 mill carriers.

Isn't the idea here to have more fights? A 450 carrier still needs fit, rigs and fighters. It's still a billion or more to launch. Most people will lose them left right and center. If Capital is the name of the game in Null sec, why is more fights bad?

U skeerd I break your blue donut?

Have no fear, see see pee pertekt you.

Bump to the top of CCP list.