Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A ship designed to attach to inject commandos into enemy ships to kill them from the inside and take it over.
Would make for good team work as you can help shoot off parasitic ships. Also could be another statistical value of a ship: crewstrength. The more crew the longer the takeover time or the lesser the chance of actually succeeding in the takeover.

(Game mechanically you fly to an enemy ship, attach yourself, wait some time until the enemy clone dies, you take over his ship and lose the parasite)

Encouraging teamplay could also be done by shiptypes that couple eacth other into 1 with 1 dude acting as pilot and secondary gunner, the other guy as primary gunner, or shiptypes that are also parasitic but attach themselves to a friendly ship to give or receive bonuses.

Decoy signatures:
Cant believe this is not already in this game: Modules or some kind of item that makes you appear as something else on the overview/scanners. Deployables/Holograms that create signatures of POS/ships to bait enemies.

Explain how you're going to get your commandos through my shields, armour and hull, given that they can tank literally everything else.

Then explain how I can ACTIVELY prevent them from taking my ship.

Then explain how this is an any way good for the game.

Then explain why forum searching is a difficult concept for you to grasp.

So should I, I type that one out way too often

So you want armour tanking to be effectively useless then? We'd just spam hundreds of these things in big fights you know.

How would you get through armour that can withstand doomsday hits?

Filling my ship with dustbunnies or whatever is not an active defence. Every ship loss has a reason, and something you could have ACTIVELY done to prevent it. Getting boarded and relying on something else entirely is not an active defence. I should not have to rely on troops to protect my ship.

Your game improvements aren't. Have you ever actually PVPed?

NOS/Neuts don't destroy your ship, and steps can be taken to stop them.

Explain why completely unworkable ideas that have been discussed to death need anything other than shooting down.

Never be put off proposing old ideas if you believe you have enough of a new spin on it, its just that there really wasn't anything new in your suggestions that hasn't already been done to death this time.

Yeh, you are right. I did not flesh it out enough. Any other ideas to make combat a bit more diverse?
I guess putting a lot of mirrors on a shipt to reflect amarr lasers back at the shooter has been suggested already aswell :DDD

I have never been comfortable with the idea of "taking over" a target ship and praying that the Random Number Generator sides with you (which can be gotten around by spamming the mechanic UNTIL it works)... or worse, FPS players who don't have anything at stake are randomly drafted to help you defend your multi-billion ISK ship.

In either case... there is still nothing you can directly do to stack the odds in your favor. At least with a bad fit and/or bad maneuver you can make a mental note of it and fit/fly differently next time.

Plus...

- boarding mechanics would only be used in niche circumstances... most probably in a way that would make people scream "they are greifing me!!!"

- it isn't a "fun" mechanic. Even a "one-sided" war decs in high-sec can be "fun" if you use the appropriate tactic with the appropriate mentality (see: spam lots of cheap Ewar Frigates at your enemies).

- most ships would not be worthwhile enough to "board." And those that would be are huge (or hugely expensive) ships whose only strength is to outlast the opposition until friendly support arrive or they kill everything. This mechanic basically takes away that ability to "outlast" any hostiles.
ex. Marauders, Carriers, Dreds, etc.

So... a mechanic that allows this single ship to steal an actively piloted titan? lel. Good luck with that.

This sounds like a wannabe Ewar thing.

Everything fits a smartbomb.