Player Features and Ideas Discussion

At least in terms of Gate Camp use of Skynet, you could solve it by just preventing warping off grid. If carriers could still offer assist but it was on grid only then the carrier has to be at risk unless the fight in on the POS anyways.

I understand that reclaiming fighters is quite a bit more expensive than drone left behind when you make a quick exit. So if warp was replaced some something of an emergency recall (I.e. they warp to carrier and dock immediately) then it might still work. That would prevent other from getting screwed by removal of the fighters warp.

I don't get the point.

I can't talk for my alliance.
I don't know who or what are this Xdeath.

So, if you are trying to be sarcastic, sorry, but don't have worked.

And maybe, just maybe your, commentary are off topic, and in this case i think the better is stay silent.

So the new seeker NPCs can follow you in warp but your fighters cant follow players? nope

I understand the thought process but let them follow in warp!

assigning while on grid will fix the safe carrier issue!

keep fighter warping with the carrier, remove following a target in warp.

fighters are expensive and it would be nice not to lose an entire flight from an FC warping a fleet off the field prematurely.


that said, you NEED to do something to make carriers and dreads an attractive training goal again. right now there is very little reason to train for or fly one except as a personal suitcase.

hey ccp heres a good idea "drone modules"......... wondering why ishtars and skynetting is so over powered now? solution nerf the modules and create a smaller medium class of sentries for ishtars... skynet isnt a tactic ive ever used, but out right banning it, is a bit harsh

but it is kind of funny

even though i only did solo/small scale pvp in eve so far and hence my view on the topic might be a bit limited but from my experience rebalancing some drone mechanics would be a healthy change for the game.

fighter assist:
as it works now its a mechanic which almost doesnt scale with piloting skill at all, you can easily get a thanatos to the point where ur fighters move faster then 5k ms while having more then 3k dps in total and unless your ship/fleet is able to tank the dps you will have to retreat, its pretty much a hard counter to every kiting approach, capital sized drones shouldnt be able to deal so easy with frigates/destroyers/cruisers.
on top of that fighter assist also scales way to good with having links/snakes, everyone who encountered linked and snaked interceptors or garmurs will know what i mean, very hard to kill on their own but with 1k+ dps assisted absolutely terrifying.

fighter following in warp:
you have to re enter or leave the system to get rid of the fighters and to continue playing, its doesnt secure a kill its simply annoying, maybe reduce it to the point where fighters can warp back to a carrier but not follow other targets in warp?

removing drone assist entirely:
this would certainly lead to a situation where large/med scale players would be forced to develop more decent piloting skills with drone interaction and situational awareness in order to work efficiently as a fleet.
the worst thing about drone assist from my perspective is something else though, any form of camp with a sensor boosted ship which has drones asigned to it is way more efficient then it should be.

maybe you could consider something else about drone assist as well:
if you assist your drones to a ship, the drones have their normal lock time + your ships lock time on a target.

Fighter assist is an important mechanic to carriers/supers. Removing that will make them unused by a large number of people that currently do. Just make it so people cant hug a POS and assign them.
Please stop removing good features and just fix the cheesy aspects instead.

omfg is rise even serious "it can be frustrating to have your fighters warp off grid"
Yeah, that's why we have the option to turn this **** off.
Come on, man. If you're going to be making balance changes to the game, you should at least understand the ******* mechanics that you're working on.

I can't speak for the drone assist thing. However, I do can provide an idea for the whole "warp or not warp" thing.

In fact I think it is a very simple solution: just add a checkbox on the "Drone Options" menu which forces your fighter(bomber)s to warp or not to warp after their targets. Something like:

[Checkbox] Fighters pursue targets into warp

Hope this helps.

If you MUST, fine. Take away assist. But don't take away their warp drive...