Player Features and Ideas Discussion

as cool as all these things would be they're a very bad idea and if you put 30 seconds thought into it you'd realise why. ut you won't so i'll leave it to the people that follow to point out why although there isn't any real need to.

I can get behind the first one. Absolutely not to the other two.

Does nothing to prevent an indy pilot in warp to a gate in low/null mashing the button when a hostile gang jumps in system.

Does nothing to prevent the creation of deep safes.

Let me address each of these.

First, there are multiple ships that can warp while cloaked; many of which go much slower than the covert ops.

1. I do not know a single person other than yourself that would ever use a warp speed slower than it's max; in fact you are the only person I have ever heard complain about it being too fast. FYI, PC's use to have a turbo button on them, but nobody ever used it in the slower mode.

2. Warp Break. I actually can think of two situations where this COULD be useful.
a. If you warp to something and then realize there is a trap waiting at your destination.
b. If you warped to the wrong location by accident and you wish to change course.
c. If combat could happen while in warp, and you were under attack. (This was proposed previously)

3. Emergency Warp Initiator. There have been different incarnations of this suggested over the years.
a. A pre-established emergency button, with a set of instructions preset by the pilot to be performed. The ship would automatically perform them in sequence once activated.
b. Micro Jump Drive (actually in game) will warp your ship 100k in the direction you are pointed.

I wouldn't mind first one. In fact, I don't see this being abusable too much if this is to be added to basic options every ship has.

As to second one, you kind of can do that using cap dumping trick. Bonus points for actually being capable to avoid bubbles this way.


For practical purposes, logoffski works.

Lets skip the fact that the poor brutix had warp braked and all of its mass went to the front, this is an unneeded change. No more pipebombs or catching fleets when you can hit your saftey button. You also need something to lock on to initiate warp. Always has been and should always be.