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For now that "hyperspace" is just a buzzword. Without any idea of what is the purpose and capability of this new way of travelling, who and what is supposed to be able to use it and to what end, there's no telling what kind of mechanics should be involved, not to mention their implementation and possible abuses.

If you guys want to start thinking about that, start from the beginning: what kind of movement isn't covered by existing means, why that movement must happen in the game and what should be able to make it.

What bad stuff™ would happen if we let caps jump gates two at a time?

I mean I don't even know if it is mechanically possible but it might be a neat little carrot to taking gates more often.

Hum..

Freighters Frog Poison Pill
Duration: 24h
Bonuses:
Reduces fatigue by 90%
Penalties:
Reduces all damage by 100%
Reduces Max locked Targets by 100%

Do you see the problem here? Why do you need carriers and supers in the first place? Have you asked yourself why do you make this automatic assumption? The answer is because you need them, in case the defender brings remote repping capitals/supers. That is where the problem lies. i know this because a loooong time ago, seeing a carrier on the field, used to be considered as extremely rare.

For any ship smaller than a capital, the rock paper scissor principle works. As soon as capitals are on the field, the paper and the scissor turns into rocks or stones (supers).

There is no efficient way to counter supers with subcaps unless there is a 4 to 1 blob of them. The jumpfatique issue were just merely a symptom curing, not a cause curing.

There is a need for a battleship sized anti-capital bomber.

If you post this everywhere, so I will too.

In other areas of the game, high damage is balanced by a weak tank. Dreds self-tackle for 5 minutes at a time, and that's supposed to be the weakness. Supercarriers don't have that particular weakness. I think high cost and rarity was supposed to be a balance factor, but well-protected supercapital production has resulted in considerable proliferation. Doubling or tripling the required materials would help slow future production, but do nothing about today's numbers.

Some players have asked for anti-capital bombs or bombers for years, and nothing has happened. If this is really a problem that needs solving (I think capitals are supposed to fight other capitals, if you can't bring more, they won - sorry) it would be easier to just tweak the stats on capitals, nerfing some HP instead of adding a new single-purpose specialized ship or weapon to the game.

Edit:
I think that's much too strong of a bonus. Return from a deployment, don't even pause for drink and dinner, because you can turn right around and start another?

Wait what am I saying it's an awesome idea that will in no way be farmed like crazy by the Imperium and used to utterly dominate the map.

Go right ahead

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Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Other suggestions:

• Make the use of jump bridges have a flat 90% reduction in fatigue when used, regardless of ship type.
• Give black ops battleships a reduction to jump fatigue.
• Give other ways for players in deep nullsec to reach empire without having to blue everyone in between.
• More suggestions as I think of them....

NONONONONONONONONONO.
None of that please. Especially not reduction on jump bridges, or we're back to the same pre-phoebe cancer. You can already use indy to travel bridges at 90% reduction, so it's not even needed. If your butt explodes when you have to change to a non-combat ship, get a battle badger.
And **** black ops battleships. Yes I own one. **** it anyway.

I think you are comparing too many apples with cookies. I don't think it is correct to assume that a 100b ship should be able to be killed by a 300 mil ship. If it were 30, 3k dps, 150mil costing, paperthin battleships dressed up as anti capital bombers only, it would be just fine.

Neutralizers have a special place in EVE. You can tell that by the way how neutralizers are balanced in the specialized ships for it and how they are balanced themselves.

Besides, you are just talking about a single occurrence, as a titan should never be in a position that just 40 people can kill it. That would just mean that the Titan itself has been used dangerous wrong. Were was his support fleet? What is he doing outside a fleet? Why was he used outside a fleet? Isn't his role to support a fleet with his abilities and bonus (I am aware that the perception could be messed up a bit by team greyscale in relation with titan tracking). Its just a big fleet commandship with a jump portal and a 1 shotter.

You are exactly pointing out the problem again, the only current counter to a full supercapital fleet is a bigger supercapital fleet. There is no gypsy solution for it, no rock paper scissors. And that is the next obstacle for making the new sov work. The real cause of the original blue donut problem still exists, and as long as the losses get's replenished and the goo & rent keeps flowing, it just continue to exists, and preventing people from taking sov and have fun like 2007.

Besides, being able to kill a superfleet with a single supercarrier, just means that 1 supercarrier needs to be just as strong as the superscarriers in that superfleet, therefor you are just talking in circles.

This is incorrect. Subcaps can easily kill off all the drones of a supercarrier fleet with barely any effort at all. The problem you have is you are unable to kill them because of remote reps not the supercarriers themselves. Which are countered by neuts, which in turn is countered by cap chains. I say nerf remote repping, make it stack per ship that is RRIng you and supercaps have just lost their tanks vs subcaps and can easily die to them while still doing no damage as fighters and fighter bombers EHP are a joke.

Additionally this also buffs triage as if you only can have so many ships repping you, you will want the RR coming from ships that have a bonus to it.