Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I prefer to fly frigates over anything else and would like to see T3 versions and have them do something unique for combat.

EW Drone Boats:
1. Big bonues for EW drones.
2. Instead of drone bays, have drone slips on the hull so the drones could be seen as if they were turrets. Limit number of drones per ship rather than limited by drone hold size.
3. Ability to launch drones as if they were equiped with a microjump drive when they disengage from ship.

Jump Drive Boats:
1. Built in very short range jump drive (based on au).
or
2. Ability to use microjump drives or a built in one.

Tug Boats:
1. Ability to lock another ship with a tractor beam like mechanism and pull them. Even if limited to friendly ships, could lead to some interesting tactics (negating webs, helping align, boosting speed). Effect based on target mass.
2. Uses fuel to do so (amount based on target mass).

Networked Boats: Ability to form an offensive/defensive net with other networked boats that must lock each other (using one of available locks ship/pilot can make).
1. Bonus to defense/offense to networked boats based on types of boats in network.
a. Amarr - armor hit point or turret damage/tracking bonus
b. Caldari - shield resistance or missile bonus
c. Gallente - armor resistance or drone bonus
d. Minmatar - mass reduction/signature or turret range/signature radius bonus
or
2. Hedgehog
a. Large bonuses to FoF and defender missles.
b. Penalize ships that are not in their fleet and within their interferance area (a bubble that increases with more networked ships). Agility, damage, resistance, sensor, speed, or etc penalty based on ships deploying the web.
c. When bubbled, can't move and gain defense bonuses.

Also no

MJD on Frigs = Bad
Jump drive frigs = Worse
More T3's before we balance existing ships = Cancerous

You already have T1 frigs, AS, EAF, Interceptors, venture, navy and pirate, Covops and Bombers totaling 63 Ships you could fly Why do you need 4 more?


What will a T3F do that you cannot all ready do in one of the other frig class ships?

ha ha h ha ha nice thread good ideas too bad will not happen or rather too good

Just from a feeling:

T3s are put into the slightly beefier category. So T3 Destroyers to small ships, and T3 cruisers have stronger similarities with combat battlecruisers than with regular cruisers. (See slots, tank, mobility besides chassis optimization)

So with small/medium ships served, future will most likely bring rebalances or revamps for those, and eventually T3 large ships that from a feeling will be about as practical in everyday business as a Nestor (iE potentially very and generally not).

If there is one thing lacking though, it's T3 modules comparing to T2 as ships do, that can be built entirely off hybrid components and minerals with some RAM.

I think we will be able to identify spies, enemy fleet scouts, etc, based on whether the fly an antiquated hull or not.

Let me just quote a myself with a copy/paste from the thread "Pirate faction T3 cruisers.."

Frigates with jump drives... Bad troll attempt I must say.

Closed.