Player Features and Ideas Discussion

After chewing on this over the last day I have come to slightly agree with those who are concerned with harassing gangs roaming about in Inties and Bombers with an Entosis modules just to grief (sorry, ibis invasions are too easy to pop to be taken seriously). Hulls capable of cloaking, hulls capable of bypassing gates easily, and interdiction nullification should not have it.

So, simply, the Entosis module should be restricted to Battlecruiser Hulls and only Battlecruiser class hulls.

Yeah, um... no.

Every hull should have it. Looks like patrolling your space and dealing with trolls is going to become part of the new "So you want Sov, eh?" paradigm.

With a 5 min and a 2 min cycle that doesn't start to do anything until the end of the first cycle, I doubt you have trouble dealing with people looking to pick a fight by using the module.

I like that thought :-)

I am inclined to agree that it sounds like baloney.

This is the discussion of a feature, not a rant, and a proposal regarding a forthcoming mechanic.

I like this idea as well. Simply because you are not going to have someone cloaking up when someone enters the system.

I still think people who use the module need to be more intentional in it's use to make it more challenging for an interceptor gang armed with entosis modules in addition to their regular weaponry to undo weeks worth of work on an IHUB in 10 minutes - not so much to capture sov or to disrupt the competition, but to greif. I doubt the response time for a small alliance would be adequate for that. Unless you also add in the law of diminishing returns: the more applications of an entosis module to a structure still decreases the capture time, but degree of increase diminishes with each subsequent application.

In which case unrestricted hulls would be fine in my mind if the module locks you into place akin to a cyno and, while more ships applying the entosis module will speed up the process, the effectiveness diminishes.

I said something like this on that thread that will never end, but battle-cruisers should be entry level hull for it and then supers and higher use T2. This will prevent grieving to a degree and expand the battle space. Battle-cruisers because they are the first ships that appear to have any form of command and control(hell the T2 variant are called command ships) with booster and etc.

Instead of panicking and doing some kneejerk reaction change

wait and see if people find enough counters with what he have.

I'd much rather see it disable prop mods on any ship that has an active cycle. For both aggressor and defender.

I have no issue with anklebiting at sov holders. Harassing renters was once my favorite pastime. But taking a bite as big as an Entosis module can allow you to do should come at the cost of vulnerability. If you're going to bite the ankle, you should be in a position to get kicked.

This would have the major benefit of incentivizing escort fleets more than is presently proposed. The current proposal incentivizes scattering about and just being a headache, rather than actually fighting over anything.

I would like to point out that removing the ability to activate prop mods would functionally have an effect close to this. You know, seeing as battleships are hurt the least by lack of prop mod.