Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So, CCP was smart enough to think ahead and put a reinforcement mode on towers so that you dont wake up to all your stuff being gone, but really, howmuch better is it that someone can just ninja in and kill all your cyno jam ability then you wake up and wow, you now have the pleasure of watching all your stuff get destroyed because their much more massive cap fleet has assumed the position of pitcher while you are now receiver and everything just gets downhill from there in. Sov-requiring items should have, at least, a limited reinforced ability.


This way, battleship fleets come in, they reinforce stuff, but people can actually make use of and control the pos modules that are presently just for decoration when fleets of caps are what they are up against.

With the amount of capitals and capital pilots now in game, something bigger and more epic-er needs to be added that gives big ol blobs of caps a serious fight and denies battleship gangs with childlike laughter and tittering.

Edit: Inappropriate wording changed, CCP Phantom

There are limits to how many things need reinforcement timers. Cynojammers are a tactical module, taking down one is a tactical move, and should remain one. Everything important already has a reinforcement timer.

So, no.

Oh look, the blob word. I give up, sir, you win.

No, seriously, why should a tactical module need a reinforcement timer? If the guys in the system are non-********, they'll keep the jammer up despite attacks. If not, welp, sucks to be them, they'd get raped anyways, caps or no caps, because they've lost control of the system.

Uh. Half-day reinforcement? So any attackers that want to use capitals in a cynojammed system needs to have a proper presence in two timezones?

Listen. Defenders have the possibility of having tons of carriers and logis in the system, at least if it's a system that's been hit before. Even supercarriers. If it's a one-off, then POSes, ihubs etc have a reinforcement timer which takes care of this. If it's a proper war and you still lost some structures, well, you just ****** up at least twice in a row, and you should do a better job next time/system.

If they're all asleep, they'll just set the timers to their timezone, and rep it in their timezone. Maybe not the first time, but if they know their attackers are, say, russians, and their main timezone is EU or US, welp, they can reinforce their POSes or other structures, but they can't finish the job.

I'm not "hating on it", I'm just pointing out that it's not necessary. We have more than enough timers already in this game, and everything important (POCOs, POS, IHUB, TCU, station) has timers to deal with surprise attacks, and the defender can, after the first attack, stuff his system with carriers, supercarriers and normal logis to keep the cynojammer repped while the rest of the defence fleet pounds on the attacking subcap fleet. We honestly don't need a timer on the cynojammer as well.

Off topic posts removed. Please stay on topic and polite, thank you.

Instead of giving the jammer itself reinforcement mode, have the Ihub and whatever maintain their strategic bonuses while in reinforcement mode. That way you still cripple everything else in the system and encourage defenders to actually defend their (stuffing), as this would give the defenders a window to actually defend instead of allowing attackers to sucker punch defenders.

This would also encourage attackers to actually lay siege to a system instead of the 'quickies' that are oh so common nowadays.

Before someone shoots down the Ihub still giving bonuses while in reinforce, remember that a POS will still allow people to access the various hangers, even though stuff like guns won't function. Allowing only strategic enhancements to continue functioning will also go for that end, and encourage people to not use tornados for everything.