Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Thanks Fozzie, lowsec DD is much appreciated. This is probably more directed at Titan rebalancing, but can we get the SMA of a titan increased?

Secondly, can DD's be overhauled where they are scriptable? Like the HIC bubble? Basically make the focussed DD only be able to shoot at caps as they do now.

Unscripted DD acts like 50% dmg AOE with diminishing returns. Where the further away from the titan you are the less dmg you take.

I.e. Within 10km you take 100% of the adjusted AOE wave, 10-50km you take a reduced amount , out to 100km etc etc?

Edit: saw this was already suggested, before reading.

Apparently 'Yes - sometimes".

It seems to be pretty bugged atm. Sometimes you can jump and your DD timer gets reset, sometimes your Agro Timer sticks on One Minute, You cant jump and everything works as it should.

You have to kill the DD target. If you don't kill the DD target your aggression timer sticks. If it dies, your aggression goes away and you can jump through the gate.


EDIT: a word

Then use a proper HIC and not this piece of garbage. Not to mention: Use proper tactics. If your frigate roam encounters a super capital fleet out of the blue, they should not have any means to stop them (except for bumping). They should then shadow them and call in proper ships to deal with them. That's the point of a frigate and that's how they are supposed to interrupt and intercept capital movement.
Moreover, use scouts around the area so that you do not encounter a capital fleet out of the blue, and instead know where they are if there is any, and bring proper ships from the start.

Hello!

Once again we look for new or better roles for a titan. Since CCP has made some cool changes. It's time we push for HIC size titain. Thats right with cool scripts of which it can play out during combat.

Scripts ?

Fleet Bones Killer (Enemy stop getting fleet bones if in side the bubble)
Web Disruption
Warp Disruption
Ship Anchor (Can't lock unless inside it's bubble)


ideas are endless...

As a low-sec PvP dweller/capital pilot, I have got nothing against DD's now they are not the "Push Button. Nuke ALL THE THINGS. (Its the only way to be sure)." that they used to be.

However, just want to re-emphasise the point that has already been made. HICs and only semi useful in low and DICs are pretty useless for their primary function. I have a HIC in the hanger fitted for infa-point for low-sec supers/stabbed-to-the-nines smart-bombing BS. However they are not easy to catch. In the days of DnD more supers escaped than we caught simply because a HIC has to land, lock, point rather than in null where it is land and BUBBLE!

We don't want bubbles in low-sec, but if we're using our capitals and risk a super or 12 turning up, we need a way of tying them down. At the minute it is too easy for a super to escape in low-sec.

FB suggested high native warpcore strength which might work. Another might be to have a super-only type bubble for low-sec. One that only effects super-capitals? I am not a coder so no idea if that is easy or "pos revamp" type difficult. Third option would be infina-points for dictors. A dictor only high-slot module? Or how about a charge for the dictor bubble launcher that requires a lock and disables the warp/jump drive of the target for 2 minutes?

So many solutions to the main problem here - low-sec needs a better way to capture supers than an infina-point fit HIC.

First you make the usage of solo capitals seems less riskier due to jump drive nerfs and less chance (less than 99% as is now) of ahotdrop. THen you bring that and basically defines that NO !! YOU SHALL NOT UNDOCK in a SOLO carrier (or 2-3 for the matter) in low sec.

GReat work.. (sorry beign sarcastic). You are makign low sec even more adverse to smaller groups.

Just to be clear: I believe in allowing DD and giving heavy interdictors a secondary role / reason to have in lowsec.

I personally do not like this change. Mostly because the balance between capitals and titans is already so imbalanced. Supers are already so hard to tackle in lowsec as it is that this change basically will lead to less interesting and less balanced capfights between lowsec entities.

So either don't do this. Or make it so supers can be tackled by something other than only 4 types of ships that can't be repped.


Basically Lowsec has had a interesting capital balance that was different from null. This would remove some of the uniqueness without adding anything positive for the denizens of lowsec.

Offensive AOE actions are likely to give Crimewatch conniptions, which from memory is one of the reasons AoE DDDs were barred from lowsec in the first place.