Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hunting anyone specific without watchlists or without locators is in practice impossible. It's not free intel, it's necessary intel.

In order to prevent Suddenly Supers Capitals with docking games, you need to have it where undocking super capitals can't lock anything for a period of time after undocking. Maybe even extend that to super capitals that log in that logged off while in space. Make it significant enough to balance out the ability to dock such a powerful ship. That and get rid of remote assist bonus on super carriers and give the Hel a fighter/bomber bonus already.

That said I still think mooring a super capital that stays in space to allow corporation and alliance members to use them as part of station defenses would add some interesting game play. Have upgrades on the station to allow more moored super capitals and the graphics addition so attackers can see what they are up against. Maybe the attackers can target the moored super capitals just like station services to disable it. Can't unmoore the super capital until it is fully repaired. Lots of interesting game play.

that's not exactly fun gameplay, is it?

I didn't realize there were any significant groups in game that didn't already know exactly where all enemy supers of interest are at any given point in time.

Not really seeing an issue with "too much free intel" in this case.

However, if you're worried about it, request the ability for your mooring structure to be able to mount a module that projects holograms of fake super caps on any empty spot on the mooring platform. Pilots with permission to moor at that structure could easily determine which slots are still free, but no one else could unless they perhaps did a lengthy scan with a ship scanner at relatively short range.

To be honest any capital ship, let alone any super cap, should be nigh impossible to hide from anyone wanting to track it's movements.

Is this where I am supposed to park my Rorqual, or warp my Exhumers to?

Very reasonable. Question is are we the only ones who reason this way? As others have pointed out, there is a whole lot of smoke and pictures, and nothing solid to comment on. Major shake up, no answers. I am not sure what is really expected out of us here. The whole thing is pretty frustrating.

You mean like a base locking time that is on the order of 20-30 seconds against a Battleship? I mean, right now with a POS supers can sit, fully functional, sitting just outside a POS shield and duck inside as soon as they get shot, as well as ducking out relatively easily, so it's not like this is much of a concern compared to the current system.



Read the first post. They're looking for feedback and ideas. Pretty clear cut there. This is a first pass to get general feedback and suggestions from the community.

it just make sense that huge ships like capitals would need huge structures to support them.

Look, the biggest problem with the mooring idea floated so far is operations in enemy territory, mainly involving Super Capital pilots. It simply doesn't make strategic, logistical or financial sense to deploy an XL structure in your neighbours back yard, even assuming there's a free planet to do so. So why not keep Large Towers in as the Medium sized structure which solves this problem? Or tell us what your plan for Supers is so Super Cap pilots at least have some context for these changes.

Yes secrecy is not relevent. Most everyone knows who has what basically where. Having a super at most is a suprise in the first engagement then all of new eden knows where it is and who. i think the major concerns for super carriers is the ability to safely log on and off. ofcourse there are some other safety concerns to ratters and mission runners who need a safe place to run to when local spikes or probes are seen.

Titans need the same log on and off security plus a safe area for bridging.

Miners need safe places for Rorquals to boost and compress along with a safe place to run to when local spikes. They are often in systems without stations.

From what I gather so far titans will have no safe place to bridge making titans risk vs reward far far less. Supers capitals could be pointed or probed easily detaching or warping. Remember finding a log off spot is easy to do and just wait for the log in. Plus hics warp much faster, just watch you detach and warp off and be to the place you warp to before you get there. Miners will have no reasonable place to use a rorqual or safe up in empty systems.

Docking rings and forcefields are a huge part of game play, removing them removes any balance smaller organizations have at leveling the playing field. We are not all in 10,000 man corps and sometimes the only available leveling mechanism is the choice not to fight.

Frigs for all until we nerf them to noob ships, then some will be upset the noob ships don't self destruct at log on.

I believe that there are many things wrong with supers but that mostly revolves around the production and trading aspects of them. This may fix the trading aspect some day, but nobody will want them by then anyway if logging on or un mooring equates to probable death of our 30-100bil isk boosters...