Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This game needs less interdiction nullification, not more.

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And if they hit a camp interdiction won't help unless they have 7 WCSs which can be shot off grid in the 10 seconds it takes to warp. It's way safer to lock down in a real fit than try that.
If there is no camp, but there is a bubble, they just MJD out.

It is also counter to: long points, brawl ships in bubbles, anything without a scram.

Especially if you warp to 100 and then MJD to directly ontop of the gate.

Well, if there's a bubble on the gate, that's not gonna help you cause you'll get dragged to it anyway.

And in-between the attempts to MJD out, one could get into Bastion and fight like a man.

This entire thread can be summed up as follows

CCP, I really like Marauders and would love to fly one, but I need you to make it (very) improbable that other people will be able to catch it and kill it because :reasons:.

The short answer is no.

The long answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

The reasons why have already been covered.

Or you can warp to your bookmark that's 100 km from the gate and MJD to the gate. Just don't make your bookmark in line with any celestrial.

The issue is closer to this: CCP, out of the 180 or so subcap, non-industry ships, there are 4 (5 if you include the Stratios) that can safely travel through null without an alt (aka pay to win) and do PvE on the other end. Please give us some more options, Marauders would be a great start.

I would like for people to use T1/T2 battleships and T2 battlecruisers to run null sites, but frankly, current mechanics simply make those bad choices. It's just too simple to get caught and killed, or alternately, you could say it's too simple to NEVER get caught and killed by simply flying a nullified/covops T3.

First, safe travel in a multiplayer game should not be a solo endeavor. It is always going to require a scout - whether that scout is a friend or an alt does not really matter. If you want the challenge of playing Eve on solo mode, then play it on solo mode with the tools available and quit bitching. If it was easy to fly solo, then there would be no glory in it. So seriously, just quit bitching.

Second, you really just are not trying hard enough. I have successfully explored and run complexes all over Delve and Fountain using Black Ops battleships and jumping to covert cynos. You just have to put in the effort and planning. That is part of what makes Eve fun.

Third, when I lived in Delve, there was a random neutral dude who had a Carrier and a scout. The scout would find complexes. Then switch ships. Then light a cyno (presumably a rookie ship suicide cyno, since we never caught him with his cyno up). Then bring in the Carrier, which contained all his complex-running ships, including a Paladin. The scout would get into the Paladin and run the site, while the Carrier cloaked up. For months, this dude was able to ninja complexes all over hostile space without getting caught. For all I know he is still doing it.

Fourth, the only thing preventing you from trying this out is your own unwillingness to risk ships. Nothing stops plenty of high sec explorers from finding wormholes with null sec connections, going into those WH's, finding complexes or juicy anomalies, then bringing in battleships to run the sites until someone chases them away. I've spent many hours hunting such folks, which provided great content for everyone.