Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Honestly, I have no idea how CCP will try to pull Rorquals into the belts. Now, when one can bypass cynojammers with dreads and motherships, that Rorqual would be doomed if noticed by any semi-competent PVPer. Best practice would be something like this:
- find a system where Rorqual sits usually;
- sneak and logoff your capitals there;
- on the other day, get a tackle on Rorqual;
- login and kill.
And drone bonuses will not help with that.
Seriously, I think nerfing cynojammers is a huge mistake, considering capital proliferation.

more and more i find that if a post contains the word "sandbox" and does not have a ccp tag it nearly exclusively contains incredibly bad ideas about gameplay justified solely through a handwave at the word sandbox

it's remarkable, really

I agree. Let's get rid of cyno jammers altogether. That way supers can be killed in the cradle. It will limit proliferation and provide defensive explosions. (Pro Hint: cyno jammers are one of the causes of super capital proliferation)

Cool, so we agree. Let's throw away those comfy womfy security blankets and get down to business.

kneecap force projection
kneecap SOV structure hitpoints
kneecap cyno jammers
kneecap passive isk

It's all on the napkin. I'm not sure if you guys don't know or don't believe.

A Rapier or Huginn with a faction web and a bit of practice makes it a lot easier.

Of course, you needed to be in the same Corp when you start out in HiSec.
Once you were in Null, anyone could web them once the Freighter got a bit of speed going during align.

While I am sincerely hoping you are wrong (no offense to your space tribe, you did what you had to do to protect yourselves), I'm suspecting you're right. We probably won't see much change in the "heartland" areas of the major coalitions until the sov system becomes less "grind off billions of EHP, wait seven days, grind off more billions of EHP, rinse repeat.

I'm cautiously hopeful that we'll see some movement in the far outlying areas where renters live if their lords and masters decide it's too much damned trouble to recover a system for a paltry billion or three ISK a month. But maybe I'm dreaming. We'll see I suppose.

I know, and if the freighter pilot has nomads, your rapier can have them off the line almost from the moment they become targetable. That still doesn't make escorting a freighter interesting to me. Keywords in italics. Being able to do it faster simply makes it less of a chore, not more enjoyable. You're still shovelling the snow - all that's changed is how much snow there is.

But again, that's my opinion. As I said before, other people may find it enjoyable as a group activity, in the same way that people find mining with a bunch of drunk bros to be a good time. It's not the activity in and of itself that is enjoyable, it's the people that make it enjoyable. Personally, I like mining, if I'm with the right group. We tell jokes, swap stories, discuss world events, swap bad fukung links, etc. That doesn't make mining not suck. It just makes you not notice the suck because you're engaged with other people.

So I'd like to bring up a slightly different point -- something that, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't been mentioned before: missing lowsec gate connections. This primarily concerns combat capitals; those limited to five lightyears' range.

The goal of the long distance travel changes is to make taking gates be, in general, faster than jumping for capital ships. However, this is predicated on the availability of corridors for capital ships to travel in the first place. While most of lowsec is reasonably interconnected, there exist three exceptions to this rule.

Namely, sections of lowsec in southern Aridia/Khanid, Tash-Murkon, and Derelik are completely isolated from the rest of lowsec and REQUIRE at least one jump to traverse. The inaccessibility of these regions via lowsec-gate-only corridor range from relatively easy to overcome (Aridia's inaccessibility is the fault of a single highsec island system, Sazilid) to punishing (all traffic to lowsec Tash-Murkon must jump in and out a single system, Mai.)

These regions represent a very important strategic staging location for assaulting the regions of Delve, Querious, and Providence with the capital ships needed to wage modern warfare. I'm not trying to suggest that ALL systems in lowsec be interconnected with each other, but having large pockets of strategically crucial lowsec be inaccessible outside of jumping does not feel right to me.

With this in mind, my question becomes does CCP consider large sections of inaccessible lowsec an issue? If so, I'd be happy to suggest some fixes to the problem.

Speaking as a rorqual pilot (with 11 hulk miners, 1 of which can give max rorq boosts, but 2 have cap industrial ships 5);

I think the change you should make depends on where you, CCP, really want the rorqual to be, in the longer run.
Is it your intent to have them in the belt, or boosting from inside of a pos?

If the rorqual is going to be boosting from a pos, the drone bonus is pointless. You could take away most of the bandwidth and drone bay away even if you wanted to.

However, if you actually want to incentivize having the rorqual in the belt, if you want rorqual owners to be able to make use of the compression on site, while giving boosts, and to be more vulnerable than 'afk 23/7' in the pos, the drone bonus (among some other necessary changes) is essential for giving the rorqual the ability to provide defensive support for mining ships, as well as to have some form of punch to fight back against small roaming gangs/solo pvpers.

To that end, considering that I am greatly hopeful that you plan to make the rorqual actually worth using in the belts (because currently, it is not by a long shot, the long industrial cycle time being the biggest complication, but uselessness of capital tractor beams when working with a large group of miners is also up there), and so:

I hope that you will leave the drone bonus on the rorqual, even if it means keeping it at 5ly.

You understand we still have more then a year of planed changes to null right how about you wait till you see what they are going to do before you go on a rant next time