Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Really agree with this, having ammo in nullsec LP stores that is shitter than the stuff you can bring in from empire doesn't really make sense.

A good idea make having different types of ammo a strategic decision +1 devs should see this

I'd have to agree with what the OP is saying with respects to the notion that multiple variants of the same module/charge type differing only in name and place of procurement is a little awkward. Balance in terms of practical stats among individual variants, not just among different mods/charges, are definitely odd in some places and could use a looking into.

I am rather interested in the idea of adding some variety in their stats; variety without really altering their overall performance. For instance, changing somewhat the range penalty or activation cost penalty in some of the rarer faction frequency crystals could be interesting. Example, IN Multi and Blood Multi maintains their current stats and balance, Blood of course doing less damage, but changing Blood Multi to have a slightly smaller range penalty, use a little less cap, or maybe even slightly smaller volatility damage to make it last a little longer. Altering the damage type ratios without altering the overall raw damage amount could also be, as has been suggested, entertaining.

Edit; forgot to +1 for support. I really like this idea quite a bit, now that I think of it.

I would personally say get rid of the duplicate ammos
So only federation and linked pirates do hybrids, only Caldari and linked do missiles
This way you dont have the database copies and make the LP more unique.

NO.
Caldari an Gallante are the only navies that use Hybrids. Above that there are Guristas and Shadow, pirate ammos, and then theres Dread Gurista, and Guardian hybrid ammo. Each pair makes up a "rarity tier" Faction navy being msot common, then the pirate, then the rare pirate. I feel that on each tier, they should have differening capabilities, and then perhaps as the tiers rize, those trends could be followed.

My suggestion for hybrids would be make 1 with a different damage layout (high kin at close range, higher therm at long) so that way a blaster boat could conceivably do therm damage at range (gives the player a little more control over damage type on the ammo that so far gives literally no control on damage type.

Missiles currently are the realm of Caldari and gruista... and I don't really feel that they really need differences between the ammos, although if they added missiles to the republic fleet, and maybe angels, or mercs, or for a rare, drop from EOM ships.
1 faction CN, could be the hardest hitting, give RF an application bonus? Who knows.

Amarr is the only navy to use lasers, but theres 2 pirate ammos. They could do another, 1 follows regular damage layout (therm>em) the other could do the opposite (em>therm)

Matar, and angels are the only ones again who use projectiles... dunno.

Removed some off topic posts.

BPC are good idea.
Will it reduce isk price - i don't think so.

I like the idea of hauling bunch of BPC instead of ammo, produce some T1 locally, and then transform it to faction versions.

Ty.
More support

Well how ammunition will interact with different ship/fits it is very easy to check.
I don't want higsec ammo to be obsolete , but pirate faction one to be different , and have narrow, but very useful application.

I would love to see faction ammo different for more than just the straight 25% increase in damage on most types.
For hybrids.
Caldari could have a 2% increase in range for -1% tracking, reverse that for gallante, and then serpentis ammo could have a bit more damage for slightly less tracking (after all, with those webs, who needs it?) while guristas get some extra something.
The issue is, this becomes another feature to have to balance everything else with and especially it gets into XL ammo.