Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello everyone.
In our upcoming Oceanus release we are planning to make a change to the rules surrounding the way Cynos and Starbases interact. These new rules will help mitigate the issues surrounding jumping capitals sometimes colliding with ships inside a starbase forcefield.

:This plan has been adjusted after further discussion and feedback:

Currently you can light cynosural beacons as long as you are outside the forcefield, and those Cyno beacons will appear directly beside your ship. After this change, if you activate a Cynosural Field Generator module within 25km of a starbase forcefield the actual Cynosural Field beacon will appear 25km away from the forcefield instead of beside your ship. If for any reason a cyno is active within 25km of a forcefield (if the cyno was lit before the password was entered for instance) then any ships jumping to that cyno will appear within 5km of a point that is a minimum of 25km from the forcefield (instead of appearing around the cyno).

At the same time we will also be increasing the minimum distance that Jump Bridges and Cyno Generator Arrays may be anchored from the forcefield to 25km. The maximum distance away from the control tower that any structure can be anchored will be increased to 55km/60km/65km for small/medium/large starbases respectively. Any existing Jump Bridge and Cyno Generator Array structures will be automatically pushed away from their starbase's forcefield until they are 25km away.

This change does increase the risk involved in cynoing to starbases in some situations, but in our opinion this added risk is both acceptable and desirable.

interesting...

A solid fix to the exploit, and generally messier for all involved! Love it. :D

My Titan pilot is very happy now. Thank you, Fozzie.

A step in the right direction.

Have you considered the impact of this on dreads/supers dropping on fleets bashing towers? This would mean that if they hug the shield they'll mitigate a lot of the DPS as they're at a much longer range, 20-30km and that's if you can get a cyno right on the edge of the limit. There'll be no more warping in at 0 top of them then lighting the cyno.

Also no more jumping dreads in to shoot a large tower and being even remotely within CR gun range, particularly for Moroses. Can still jump to a perch and warp down, but it definitely adds hassle.

That's way less of an issue, you've got time to warp down from a ping, but doing that in a hot drop could easily allow them to escape, as well as them being out of immediate range of ghost riders if you try and drop at the shield edge.

What will be with the people who already lost titan due to "POS bump" ?
as usual nope?

I'm curious if this is actually a good idea. The giant cyno exclusion zone has a lot of seriously strange effects, like a titan bumped out of a pos being absolutely boned because it can't cyno in help.

Have you considered allowing any cyno to be lit within that zone, but you still land outside it (a mechanic you clearly already have since you implemented it as a fallback) and what's the downside of just doing that instead of this exclusion zone?

edit: basically I'm wondering if there's additional intended effects I'm not seeing, it's hard to tell what was intended and what was not with this change (besides ending pos bowling).