EVE General Discussion

Greetings eve, this is my first post and I hope you take a liking to my idea.

Now before I posted this I did speak to ccp who told me this is the best way if liked by enough people, to bring back items no longer in game.


1.) Space mines aka Python mines, now for the players who played long enough to remember these little fun buggers know that they are legacy items and no longer used in game.

what if we bring them back into the fold many people who are in wh space and an null sec may find uses again from these items. how many times have you found yourself sitting watching a wh when it fires and the bugger sits there or just cloaks up and warps off.

but we all know that if a cloaked ship gets with in 2000m they will de cloak. now we all can just jet can trash wait for the cool down timer and then jet another one over and over and over and oh 2 hours is gone by and the cans with it to got to do it again.

now with the mines re implemented back into the fold worm hole defense. with all the changes happening to sov an wh being the fresh frontier defense is key to holding a home to where ever you all call home.

even a nice destroyer with a targeted mine grid laying pattern would be nice the ships are suppose to have AI no, but I digress.
my main point is lets bring back the mines to eve and step up the war and defense line again

I think applying damage to a ship without being logged in is totally balanced and beneficial to the game.

Mines create lag, they are a cheap non-sequential way of creating damage, it's just lame all over.

Maybe if a player drops mines and leaves the grid they vanish after 1 minute it could be fine, limited to 5 mines per ships deployed with a range of 5-10km blast, all 5 mines togethere do as much damage as 50% of a bomb to keep it balance and then... yeah no point.

Also sentries now act as the new mines, kinda. Good enough to get the job done.

What about giving interdictors the ability to drop short duration mines with their interdiction launchers?

Yah lets bring that back love to bang high sec with that jita will be even more fun imo

and again how are sentries like mines, even if you did non damage mines and did something like prox mines to know when a wh flashes or just items to nullify cloaking would be beneficial vs just sentry drones which continue to be nerfed

I like the idea of mines , but in totally different form.

1. They need to be only usable if player is online.
- if player logout , then mines disarm them self and start to decay ~ 15minutes and they implode without doing any damage.
2. Dedicated launcher for mine deployment
3. Triggered only by cruiser and bigger ships, damage scaled on ship signature , 100% damage to capital ships
4. Cannot be deployed close to gates ( less than 50km )

When they remove something from the game, it's usually for good reason. Do you even know why they were removed? If you do, make the case for why that reason isn't valid anymore.

That aside, the purpose of mines was never to allow you to carebear in peace in your wormhole with less effort.

You've never jumped into a system where there's a 'mining op' have you?

Hows 200 bubbles on a gate any less expensive? :P