Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You realize NPC statiosn are mostly popualted by the less powerful group , exact;y the ones ccp want to HELP?

If you fear having soem smaller groups livign in NPC statiosn not far from you.. YOU DO NOT DESERVE YOUR SPACE

My suggestion is a bit different.
Station guns will be shooting to each dictor bubble if the dictor leaves the grid.

This is very important change.
Because :
You can use this kind hobojumping to bubble enemy on your own station undock.
This will be not preventing enemy fleet from undocking, but leaving the station grid.
As there is no station guns in SOV space.

So you just need enough dictors to undock one every couple seconds or whatever the shortest locking time is on a Tornado :)

I think dock/redock cycle is like 5 seconds, so you might only need 2 or 3.

You should not change anything which is not broken. The real question is, why should the
capital fleet enjoy the safety from station?

Maybe not in Pheobe but later on the interdictor could get a CPU bonus for cloaking devices but no covert?

My other idea was maybe still allow the station camping but add a new t2 destroyer ship using the unused algos etc and allow them to use a new module to generate a null field of sorts around them lets say 12km diameter bubble that allows it and close by ships to warp away inside of interdiction bubble but with a longer warp wind up time if that makes sense. In terms the "nullifier" would allow a larger group to break away faster but would possibly be destroyed while generating bubble for its fleet if there are pilots camping the bubble. risk equals tactical reward sorta.

Or we could could make the bubbles if they are x-km from npc station or gate that they pop in a shorter amount of time and even quarter the time if the dictor pilot docks.

So when can we expect a serious rebalance of afk-cloak camping with dual cyno fitted ships?

Compared to hobo jamming, afk cloaking is much much more imbalanced. In hobo jamming you can mess up and not redock in time - you can actually be targeted if you mess up. Whereas afk-cloaking with dual cyno's leaves you completely impervious to all attack, yet can achieve the exact same level of disruption of a system, without even showing your ship.

Back in the day I abused this as a small group to kill a 1000 man alliance with 20 people, I took part in taking an entire region with this as 30 people. But it is just too powerful a strategy which has no tactical counters.

Hhahahahahahahha, get maaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. We should totally cloaky camp your space some more.

meh afk camping / hobo jamming etcetera. i care not for these things. they all prevent fun fights so yahh kill hobo jamming fair enough. i look forward trapping pastas in our space each time you **** up a drop (which seems to be more and more often whilst we're doing our current disruption techniques re:hobojamming).

i will say this though, you guys drop blops and bombers damn well. Sooo many alts all using wheniaminspace's mantis without renaming them. the simple fact you're camping our space all day every day means deep down u really love us! <3

we're doing our best currently calling out your hotdrops it seems, least thats what i notice when im on. whether that makes you mad or not i dunno. but id hope it helps you feel the love as much as you help us feel the love too!

im sure you'll push the envelope in terms of rapid hotdrop killmails from something like 30sec's to 1minute when u burn out the bubble/ mjd 100km off the undock and then drop, to what you were used to before we came along. With no action for hour after hour (whilst ur enjoying FW in low), and an afk cloaker in every one of our systems, then suddenly blops out the station and 5secs later, jump to afk camper that has uncloaked and scrammed a target, kill it in less than 30secs, mjd, cloak up, and blops jump out to the station undock.

whether thats fair or not (CCP, you guys and many others believe its 100% legit fair and fun for all game play currently) we'll still look to have fun fights with you, hobo jamming or not.

This is how much we love renters.