Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Discuss the idea of being able to shut off your warp drive mid-flight. While there's a lot of pros going for it, I'm having some trouble coming up with downsides.

EDIT: Arthur actually came up with a really damn good way to implement this without it being too game breaking:

And have a 40% chance that it will skew out of control and implode due to the stresses.

With warps I think the premise is that you create a tunnel of certain length when you start it - a tube with a definite end point. Least that's what makes sense to me. So you can't really shut it off midflight. I'm not sure how a warp interrupter works in that scenario, especially given inertial forces ( if someone can take us from FTL to a full stop within a few k then why aren't we a monomolecular metal and grease paste at the end of that?).

Bubbles can't pull you out of warp half way. They change the end of your warp by +/- 100kms or so. So that would explain why the warp disruptor bubbles don't wreck you, as you have already been slowing down for a while.

As Pie Napple said above an easily controllable cut-out for the warp drive would make safe spots to easy to make.

You could use the old cap dumping method, has much the same effect your looking for without needing to add anything to the game. Does have some disadvantages and a certain randomness I like especially if your in a hurry but I don't see that as a bad thing.

I got no problems with this. To counter others arguments...

1) If breaking out of warp mid flight breaks the ship, then why don't they explode from warp bubbles which do the same thing, only more violently. (realize that the whole mechanic is this discussion was only game theory anyway).

2) not being able to chase someone is irrelevant. Can't chase someone warping to a safe (unless you have all your gank recipients safes known). this is just common sense as far as gank avoidance. people being chased in familiar systems should have safes. else they just end up being another km statistic.

3) the argument about making safes easier is not really an issue. how hard is it to save location mid-warp.

I don't think this would really break any game mechanic, but am open to other's perspective on it.

Redundant post *sigh*

1) Don't care about if it "theoretically possible". Kind of a pointless discussion. This is not an "realism simulator". I don't care if CCP pulls theories out of their asses.

2 + 3) We need more fights in this game, not less. This would completely remove the need for safes. If you are being chased in a system where you have no bookmarks its trivial to get away. Just warp and ctrl + space.

Changes that will bring less fights: auto -1 from me.

While I get the idea of the proposal it reminds of one of the reasons why I didn't join EVE until 2006.

It was from Microsoft (the horror I know..) and was called 'Freelancer'.

It is also a scifi game with spaceships but more for solo play then mulitplay.

Anyhow in Freelancer your 'warp tunnel' could get interrupted by pirates mid-way and you would have to fight them of before you could re-enter your warp tunnel to your next gate or system.

As far as EVE goes, sometimes I would like to abort my warp when I am still on grid but by then it's too late.

But imagine you 'warp' through a star and hit the brakes - ouch...

So I rather say no.

What about an 'emergency' warp/stop feature which results in an immediate 60% hull damage. The residual warp field effects render warp drive and cloaking devices inoperative for 10-minutes following. In addition:

· If engaged at sub-light speeds, an instant warp to between 0.5 and 1.0 AU distance;
· If engaged at warp speed, an emergency stop between 0.25 and 0.5 AU distance;

So while you could dodge a gate camp or divert your course, it's only a temporary reprieve since it effectively strands you without a functioning warp drive or the ability to cloak for 10 minutes - during which time you can quite easily be probed down. This feature would also be limited to battlecruiser, battleship and capital classes.