Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I did have a look in the thread for something like this but I gave up after 20 pages and only as I was writing this did I see the post from Elisiist Aldent which was slightly like what I'm about to suggest.

Envisage a module that can be only be deployed within 50km of a jump gate in either low or null sec and, after activation, generates a field with a radius from the centre of the jump gate and has one of the following abilities (selected by the pilot when deploying) and these apply when the vessel enters the effect radius (regardless of whether it is cloaked/just jumped in):

1. the field causes any vessel within a 500/750/1000km radius of the gate to have no list of pilots and to act as though in delayed mode.
2. the field causes any vessel within a 2000km radius of the jump gate to not have any Local chat window functionality for a period of two and a half minutes.

Local would function normally for anyone out of the radius of the module and people entering/leaving would appear/disappear as they currently do.

The first effect would be useful for people just on or off grid who are laying in wait in a cloaked ship whilst the second effect could be very useful for hiding a fleet either in warp to the gate (who'll be landing in a minute or two) or hiding just off-grid but aligned and ready to warp.

Due to the nature of the module it would affect all vessels within any field radius and d-scan would only show results outside of the effect radius. e.g. Any objects within radius do not appear on d-scan results, but outside of this they would appear as normal.

Notes:

The module would have the following properties:

• Be single use only with a fixed life of 2 hours
• Small enough (~50m3) for any a ship of frigate size or larger to carry and deploy
• Deployment/anchoring time of 60 seconds
• Only one module could be deployed within gate range at one time
• Reinforcement timer of 30 or 45 minutes once shield reaches 25%
• HP: 250,000 Shield, 100,000 Armour and 40,000 Structure with 50/50/50/50 resists

HP statistics are just an idea, I've used a multiplier of 2.5 as the basis for these but of course they may be too much or too little.

Cynosural Disruption Unit: Viewable on overview, Area of effect in AUs, any ship jumping to or from an area in its effective area is displaced from landing spot by greater distance than 5km (maybe up to 50 or 100km radius, possibly more?) Anchor time: 1hr usable only in owned systems with cynosural jamming upgrade. Intended effect: discourage direct hotdrop capital use in certain area of system.

Can we have mines back? :D

Please, please, please do this. This would make my logistics chain *so* much more efficient. My miners can just compress right in the belt, the hauler picks up. The Compression Unit could have the same penalties/attack profile as the MTU to preserve the risk profile, and it wouldn't compete with POS compression as the Mobile Compression Unit would be only for a given pilot, not for a whole corp.

With the Mobile Depot and Mobile Compression Unit, I can run small mining ops anywhere in Eve space and not have to mess around with POS nonsense. (PVP pilots also get a brand-new way to grief miners. Win win!)

Edit: alternatively, add Compression to Exhumers so you can compress ore right in the bay (mini Rorqual!). That would give, e.g., the Mackinaw a large advantage over the Retriever that it now lacks. I guess it would gimp the Rorq, but honestly, the Rorq is already gimped to the point of near-uselessness.

I don't think that's true. If you're in a big mining op with Orcas and Hulks, you've already got a logi chain back to your POS where you're doing all your stuff anyway. On-the-spot compression isn't that big a deal because you're not holding onto the ore for long nor moving it very far in any case. But it is a very big deal indeed for solo or small-gang miners, and it would go a long way to fixing the horrible high/low ore imbalance right now. (Ark is barely better than straight veld right now. Why is that? Because nullsec miners are desperately trying to wring every bit of trit out of their high-ends. Give them a lower-cost way of moving compressed low-ends to null, and the prices of high-ends will go back up.)

The problem isn't that miners are mining too much low-end more; the problem is that hisec miners aren't mining *enough* low-end more (or at least not at a price nullsec finds reasonable). Hence the over-mining of high-ends in nullsec.

A Mobile Compression Unit would go a long way towards making it attractive for hisec miners to go after Veld and Scord, which is what the Eve supply chain desperately needs right now. The POS compression array and POS anchoring changes were welcome, but the MCU would address the problem right at the root.

EDIT: Also, the Mobile Depot was a bigger hit to POS usage than the compression array, and the game survived that change just fine. POS's are on the chopping block anyway (and good riddance), so I'm not too worried about how the mobile modules affect them. My hope is that at some point the mobile structures will replace POS's entirely (in fact, that seems to be CCP's ultimate goal).

What about a mobile web unit. Anything within, say, 5km of it gets webbed.

- affects all ships, so you could potentially snag yourself or your allies if deployed improperly
- small radius so as to not be too overpowered
- interesting tactical choices in 1v1 and small gang, less useful individually for large fleets but potentially still useful.
- make it relatively low HP, so it really could only momentarily slow down an enemy, but could give you a crucial buffer distance.
- could be balanced by making it fairly large, so you couldn't drop too many of them, or playing with the activation time after dropping.

Mobile neutralizer. Drain capacitor for a small amount but stackable? High cycle times? Larger size is larger radius not bigger drain? Friend or foe if you in radius you get drained?

Mobile webbing bubbles aka AOE stasis webifiers.

Ancorable buffs (like links) affect everyone on grid.

Ancorable mobile guns.

Ancorable "mini markets"

I would like an Ancorable 'local scrambler' that hides local (like in wormholes)

fleet wide Mobile depo.

Mobile salvage unit, great tag team w/ mobile tractor unit.

Mobile logi unit, reps you, less effective then a dedicated logi pilot. Low hp.

Warp Interdiction Mobile Depots - The WIMD would effectively replace the Heavy Interdictor so that its hull could be put to better use somewhere else maybe a Stealth Bomber Cruiser class.

The WIMD would come in three flavors small, medium and large. The depot would be able to be deployed for 7 hours at a time before off lining for an hour and then after 24 hours the depot would disintegrate. While operational the WIMD would need to have Interdiction Sphere Charges placed in its cargo hold in order to continue to operate. If the charges allowed to run out then the depot would offline for ten minutes before being able to be activated again. Each size of depot would have a certain number of emitters that could be turned on or off. Each emitter that is active takes one Interdiction Sphere Charge.


Small - one charge 30 minutes of interdiction
cargo hold can hold 10 charges
Two emitters: direction - Dorsal, Ventral, Port or Starboard
Bubble Distance - 20km, cannot be placed within 20km of a gate or within 100 km from a station.

Medium - one charge 20 minutes of interdiction
cargo hold can hold 8 charges
Two emitters - direction Dorsal, Ventral, Port or Starboard
Bubble Distance - 35km, cannot be placed within 20km of a gate or within150 km from a station.

Large - one charge 15 minutes of interdiction
cargo hold can hold 8 charges
Four emitters - direction Dorsal, Ventral, Port and Starboard
Bubble Distance - 20km, cannot be placed within 30 km of a gate or within 200km from a station.

80 pages is CCP even reading this anymore?

I also didnt read much of the previous 79 so likely duplicated.

1. Mobile SBU killer. If deployed on an SBU, it will slowly destroy it. Purpose is to combat afk sov holding and force owners to actively maintain their systems. Also nobody likes shooting these things. Be nice to place one of these and even if it takes a week, secretly kills an SBU in an unused system.

Mobile cloak inhibitor. Oh, yes I went there. Small radius, short life, takes 60 seconds to deploy and expensive, but it will decloak anyone in its very limited range.