Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello everyone. As we mentioned a while back, I've been working on a set of low-slot modules that decrease the fuel requirements of jump drives.

The primary goal here is to provide an interesting set of choices to Jump Freighter and Rorqual pilots in how to fill up their low slots for any given activity.

These modules will require 1 PG and 0 CPU, there will be no limit in how many you can fit to one ship but they are stacking penalized with each other.

:Update: They can only be fit to Jump Freighters and Rorquals. :Update:

Like the Hyperspatial Accelerators, we are starting with three versions of this module. Also like the Accelerators the blueprints for these modules will be found exclusively in Besieged Ghost Sites in low security space.
The rarity will increase with the power between the three modules, and all of them will have a skill requirement of Jump Fuel Conservation 1. These modules all have a volume of 3500m3.

The fuel reduction per module is:
Limited Jump Drive Economizer - 4%
Experimental Jump Drive Economizer - 7%
Prototype Jump Drive Economizer - 10%

I'll let you guys know when these babies hit SISI for your testing pleasure.
Feel free to post your feedback in the thread below.
Thanks!

do they work on bridges

Very nice thing. I didn't know how much fuel really costs until I got my own Jump Drive ship.

The spread between versions: 4-7-10 seems very big. Will the price / skill requirement reflect that, or will it be "Get the 10% one or none".

Please make them capital sized modules.

Is there any thoughts about modules that would do this for BLOPS as well?

Why would they not? Blops have a jump drive. Or did you mean for bridging?

You're psychotic. jump range is already ridiculous. force projection is one of the many flaws that need to be corrected at the moment and the fuel increase doesn't actually do anything but nerf small organizations. It in no way affects whether or not a PL fishing fleet goes out...or whether or not supers are committed to a fight. It makes it more expensive...but with an actual blue donut in place and agreements not to attack eachtoher's sov or renter sov its kinda pointless.

Aside from B-R the entire war was a joke. A series of feints if you will. Any time someone committed serious resources they had massive counter and counter counter drops waiting. Aside from station camps...the reason that the B-R engagement went off is the same reason for Uemon and other battles like it...oh and similar to how tri lost two titans...it was all by mistake. No one imagined actually getting caught.

capitals don't need more range...if anything the entire new eden star cluster needs to be rescaled so that there is more distance between systems...more between constellations and a lot more between regions. We need more jump points but choke points need to be obvious in order to have fights.

Before cynos and bridges sub capitals HAD to use gates. Now gates are for peasants. Gates were natural chokes and made fights happen. Now? Pfft.

force projection needs a complete nerf...no wait not nerf. It needs to be rethought.

I have two large questions:

1. Does it affect bridging fuel requirements?

2. Do you intend on making these applicable to Blops as well?

Otherwise the modules look good.

I'm concerned about power projection, but I believe we'll see more for your ideas on that in other capital / sov re-balancing.

Ground floor.

Glad these are coming out, fuel prices are ridiculous in light of the fuel consumption changes. So much for "gradual changes".