Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CS have low dps? This is news to me. Especially since a Nighthawk can do 1k dps. Sleip can do 600-700 without much effort. Claymore sees 650-800 easily as well. Where are you getting low CS dps from?

As to the mining bit, it doesnt sound horrible, maybe instead of a faction spawn, you could get hauler spawns in these escalations?Im not overly experienced of the mining aspect of things.

Kinda apathetic about the mining idea... unless you are suggesting that certain null-sec ores become available in high-sec through these "escalations"... in which case I will not support it.


As for the Command ship idea... I support it... but for an entirely different reason.
Command Ships can already get really absurdly high damage when fit for damage. So no need to give them more damage dealing potential.

Instead... I suggest that Command ships use Bastion Mode to utilize their warfare links to their fullest potential!

Picture this;
- Command ships and T3Cs set up to give warfare links will still give them... but at a reduced percentage.
- In order to give full bonuses, CSs and T3Cs must fit and use a Bastion Module (which will only fit on the T3C when using the Warfare Processor sub system).
- The defensive bonuses and penalty that Marauders gain from the Bastion Module will apply to the Command ship.

(laughs maniacally and steels himself for the flames)

Maybe increase proportion of +5% and +10% ores in successive escalations?




That idea is awesome.

that idea is just nice!

I suggest that when you finish a "hide" belt you can get an escalation. If it's in HS, in the escalation belt you could find variant of the ore. No 0.0 ore but variant or bigger rocks.

I agree with you next proposition about the command ship :-)


My ideas was not so good but at least I have create the opportunity to think about a bastion module for command ships :-)

thanks for your feedback guys ;-)

Quite ironically, I'm not seeing any flames yet.

I want it as a seperate module because I intend to change the fitting cost so that it is VERY hard to do a 5/6 link t3 booster without going to faction co-processors but still possible with the exact right setup, say 25tf. rather than the 10 of a bastion module. Also this lets me pull some of the stuff that should be marauder specific in my mind off, like the 100% rep bonus, which I want to tone down to a 50% bonus, etc.

Firstly to the command ships: as I read the title I was at first like meh... But this started to sound quite reasonable.
Looking foreward to your thread James.

Secondly to the mining escalations: the PVE-escalations are bound to the person which shot the trigger, shall this apply also to those? Because then again is the question how much ore spawns there and for what period of time (PVE-escalations are just 24h accessible).

If we assume they get also a 24h lifetime I think for high sec there should be enough ore for 3-5 People to mine for like 3 hours (assumed max skills and max yield-fits) and a 33% chance of an initial hauler spawn, for the rest of the lifetime the site would have normal belt-spawns (with the normal chances of hauler and faction spawns).
Under the same assumptions low sec escalations could supply 5-7 prople for like 3 hours and have a 50% Chance.
And for null sec escalations I would consider 7-12 people and a 66% chance.

Assumed this is a implemented and known feature there would be the possibility in high sec to probe down such mining fleets and attempt a hijack of the site.
And in low an null sec those sites would give relative safety because first the hunter needs to combat probe for the ships...

Remove T3Cs from this picture and it may work.

Just playing around with some t2 fits, I was able to get around a 700DPS Omni tank with about 150k EHP on an Eos with a bastion module on it.
The ETF I was using was not able to get links working on it so that number is actually low from what the real numbers would be.