Player Features and Ideas Discussion

New ewar.
Cause a weapon system on the targeted ship to misfire.


When used, these systems cause a weapon of the targeted ship to essentially miss a volley with one or more weapon systems, depending on number RBDs used.
Targeted ship would essentially still have to wait for the weapon to cycle, but would cost no ammo, cap, or crystal charge usage for the weapon/s that were disrupted.

So, targeted ship would not fire a shot from a weapon or multiple weapons, depending on number of disruptions.
However, this eWar module would have a longer cycle time than all weapons systems, so it could never permanently lock out all weapons. Also, the faster your weapons fire, the more applied damage you can have between cycles of RBDs effecting you.

This would become the Minmatar's primary ewar.

TPs would become a universal ewar, like webs, scrams, and warp disruptors.

TPs when compared to other racial wears is a bit lacking, but in giving Minmatar a more competitive form of racial ewar, now TPs can be unlocked to allow multiple ships of all types, sizes, and races to potentially receive a TP range and/or effectiveness bonus, much like webs...

Minmatar's current ewar ships (vigil as an example) would have their bonuses moved to this new module, unless the effected ship is best served with the existing TP bonus.


this would also have the added benefit of trolling PPL who stack weapon systems (everyone) causing them to potentially not know they missed a cycle on a weapon...

When effected, the weapon would cycle blue instead of green.


Edit..... Cycle time of module is based off cycles of sub cap weapons and is not balanced around bomb launcher and other similar modules.. Those types of modules would be immune and considered dumb Fire weapons.
IE, it only effects lasers, missiles, hybrids, and projectiles of sub cap ships.... Possibly smart bombs as well(probably not).

Yes. I'm sure CCP is just thrilled at the idea of discouraging players from using a feature that was implemented to reduce server load.

It wouldn't discourage stacking, it would encourage attentiveness to identifiers on your weapon cycles.
You'd notice some of your turrets blue if some were green, IE unstacked, but if they're stacked, the full stack would cycle blue, and someone who isn't attentive, may not notice some of their turrets didn't fire.

It's encouraging attention to detail.

Im a missile boater myself... At least now we'd be able to get rid of fof and have something that affects everyone...

Issue: All current E-war either hits and applies through the full length of the cycle, or misses and doesn't apply at all.
Comments:
1: This is part of why people keep saying this idea is a total no go.
2: This is an extremely powerful effect, and if all of the fit mods hit most of the time, you can shut down almost any subcap with 3-4 frigates. This also encourages more drones online, unless you can jam out drones like this.


Issue 2: as mentioned above, webs and point/scram are both considered secondary racial E-war, and primary pirate E-war.

Comments:
1: they are the most used E-war systems, but they are racially flavored.
2: Why add anything but tackle to the theoretical category?

Issue 3: Your mechanic is biased against ships with fewer than 8 turret/launchers.

Comments:
1: It just is, and would push everyone to fly with the maximum guns possible, or complete the transition to drones online.
2: It is also much much more powerful as a mitigation method comparatively, as I'm assuming it either always hits, or has a much higher chance than ECM

Uhh.

So...

Are you assuming that not one single person in the entire game would ever consider staggering the activation of these modules to permanently screw with thier target's weapons?

And do you not know that the entire point of grouped weapons is that all your weapons count as one weapon? You can't turn off one module in a stack without breaking the stack entirely, so your proposal would involve the complete removal of weapon grouping...