Player Features and Ideas Discussion

That's fair, I guess the stock terminology "Role Bonus" implies an advantage. (Which it typically does)

So basically, this will discourage the use of capitals for structure warfare. This continues to give weight and reason for them to be used as serious fleet support ships in the future meta.

sounds like thats their own problem.

Maybe instead of "T1 Entosis link " and "T2 Entosis link " you should call them "Small Entosis link" and "Large Entosis link".
Given the range, power and energy use, that would better fit what you are doing.

Can we make dedicated fuel for this module.
I know - strontium is there , but the need of making different fuel and shipping it is also something you need to take into consideration.

Strontium is already used in carrier triage , dread siege, towers so every one have stacked it everywhere.

My suggestion add BPO for this fuel that will combine :
- PI 1 materials
- Moon Gases / some R8 materials?
- Strontium

It can be heavy as stront , but adding additional level of logistics can be very interesting.

For example.
2 Forces fight over the system.

Both are running low on strontium.

Side A, needs to go 10j to get supply from the station.
Local's just go to first tower in the system and pull some strontium out.

If we have dedicated fuel then both sides needs to transport it from some distant locations - so gate camps will be also important.


What about stalemate? So 2 links activated at the same time , 1 offensive ( Loki) 1 defensive ( archon).

So, whats your question?

I see where you're coming from, but I think the end result would just be stockpiling this "Element X Fuel" everywhere too, as a defensive measure.

I think the point of the Strontium is to make it harder for an attacker who can't actually dislodge the defender to keep pressing their attack. The idea being that if the attacker can't force a win the defender deserves the successful defense. A sort of "ties go to the defender" setup.

This was actually answered in the previous thread. Yes, but if you lose lock your cycle keeps going with all associated penalties for no capture progress (and a MJD breaks all of your current target locks when it successfully goes off)

iirc it doesnt break locks unless you are out of lock range, it doesnt break locks that are being used on you either.

I'm not sure I understand the entire capture timer thing.
Lets say I fly up to a structure, activate my E-link. It cycles once, then starts its second cycle. 1.5 minutes into that second cycle a SB shows up and makes me go boom.
There is now 1.5 minutes on the capture timer? What happens to that timer if nothing is done by anyone for the next week? Does that 1.5 minutes persist until someone uses another E-link? Does it decay back toward zero, or what?
I assume if the enemy now uses a E-link on the structure, it will drive the timer down?
Can everyone see how much time is on the capture timer? Anything special needed to see the timer?

So, the more I look at these changes the more I think that part of the intent is that you not be really able to successfully capture against a large force while they're still on grid, at least not easily. As Fozzie has stated, the side that captures should be the side that holds the grid. So from the sound of things that's what you're going to have to do to progress the capture timer.

This should have a rather interesting effect on the 30-40 minute timers/sites where the defenders and attackers both have ample time to shift forces around and reinforce over the course of a single fight, let alone the larger contest for the various nodes.