Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What mechanic would be fun enough to make you not play with your friends?

They don't split up because if they did they would not be able to break hostile logistics.

Nothing wrong with blobs. I've had my most fun in fleets 100+. Some of us like those epic battles ya know, and enjoy prancing around decimating all that stands in the way.

Your issue seems to be with sov mechanics or asset attack/defense, not blobs.

Idea 1 : outside of pos fields and station grids, allow only one capital per grid, AND capitals can't target anything in the grid they are on. They need a sub cap target pointer on the other grid the target they are shooting at is.

Idea 2: all non DPS effect, including repping, suffer the same decremental effect than modules of the same type have when they are fitted to a ship. I.e. Having more than three logistics repping any one ship does not increase the rep effect.

Simple solution for all of EVE. Make everything have a stacking penalty. Similar to TP's, Damage mods, Station manufacture cost, ect. EVERYTHING.

Including damage? So we all have a civilian gun fit and lock up our gank boats and 'max out' the ability of the other fleet to damage them? Well thought out.

There is a reason why stacking penalties are for fitting of ships and not offensive actions.

Considerate of you to actually reply to this :) But no in reality, you couldn't quite do that with damage (server wise I think it would add another strain). If only though, it would limit capability of blobs

Even if the server processing was free and they did that, the blobs would just start having multiple target callers, hitting 5-10 ships at a time. This would mean blobs would just bring more logi to keep 5-10 ships alive at a time instead of the 3 or 4 they try to keep alive now, Blobs would get bigger, but more organized and split up.

If one can assume each side only has X amount of pilots they can bring to a battle area (which is questionable itself, but w/e) Then the only balanced way of forcing those blobs to split into manageable groups it to force them into a situation where they need to be deployed simultaneously to multiple objectives.

While this is a nice avenue of thought, the downside is that it is doable if you are one of the major blocs with 2000+ pilots to order around, not if you are a smaller entity with only 200. So really, it doesn't help the underlying issue of the major blocs holding power without contest.

You don't directly nerf the blob you strike at the need to have the blob in the first place.

I don't think there will be a 1 solution fix to n+1 warfare.

1. It's too easy to quickly travel to where the fight is, and quickly redeploy to another threat that might arise somewhere else. This is especially true since most blobfests happen under 10% tidi, which gives everyone else to respond 10x faster then what would normally be possible.

a. By making it take longer from point a to point b, it allows more room for the little guy to try to take a piece of sov. It also would make alliances think twice about deploying their full force on one side of the New Eden, because it could open up an attack on the other side.

b. This would probably help lowsec be more active as well since more people would be willing to commit ships in more dangerous areas with a lower threat to be hot dropped.

2. There are very limited sources of AOE in the game. Most other MMOs have several AOE capabilities for all their classes, and not just restricted to AOE directly next to them that damages friendlies next to them.

a. I do feel that smartbombs are in a pretty good place.

b. The only AOE that is actually projected, takes alot of skill to use. I mean, could you imagine Eve, if everyone had to pan their camera to look at the target they wanted to shoot? At least for this part I would like to see stealthbombers be able to lock their target, and have the bombs travel to the place where the target's trajectory would take them at the time of their launch with a variable time fuse between 5-15 seconds. If the target were to change it's trajectory, the bomb wouldn't know any better then to explode at the predetermined grid coordinate. This could either be introduced by changing the current bombs, or by adding guided bombs that bombers can choose from.

c. I think this would be a horrible idea to implement, but I will still throw this out there. AOE ammo for all weapons. The reason why I think this would be a terrible option would be the load on the server would be 200 times worse if there were two 200 man fleets facing each other, and they were both using fleets were using AOE weapons, and everyone was getting hit by them. And this type of ammo would also be stepping on the toes of the stealthbomber in it's current form.