Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Nope. You have to think about the meta. This would be abused. People would be intentionally booby-trapping ships in an effort to indirectly destroy others. People like Code would love this.

I came in wondering what a boobie trap would look like...I'm most disappointed...

Yep, been long enough that it shouldn't be closed for redundancy, but I'm not supporting this. Gankers actually do work hard, and do deserve the loot dropped by the unfortunate/unaware/intentionally bad. Its part of the game, an integral part, it gives the flavor of danger that is a hallmark of eve.

You want revenge on the gankers? It's really, really simple.

Fly smart and don't give them a target to gank.

That's more like it :) Makes more sense than the OP idea too

I want to be there when the first person to use this gets CONCORDed when they reship, and their trap hits somebody 8 jumps away comes to complain on the forums.

Interesting. My understanding of "Nerf" was taking an existing module or ship and reducing the stats so it isn't as strong as it was before. It sounds like the term is more generic and refers more to just about any game feature that is added or changed from what we are used to.

I'll keep that in mind as I come up with new ideas. It is not my intention to "nerf" or balance anything. I learned from previous mistakes a long time ago and this hasn't been an issue for me since.

Instead I figured this idea would make things more interesting and/or fun for everyone involved in the ganking process. Many years ago on another toon I was on the other side, doing the ganking; A feature like this would have made it more fun for me by increasing the risk factor ... YMMV



You have a point about ganking for profit. Ganking is kind of like exploration ... you don't know what you are going to find during any given play session. It's either profitable or not depending on the loot drops, effort, and skill at ganking. So with that:

How about instead of an AoE explosion, a hacking mini-game instead? It wouldn't destroy the game for gankers, but it would add a layer of complexity. And, it would only apply to ships who carry the module, and not every ship would be fitted with one. Hacking difficulty would be based on the size of the wreck. The smaller the wreck, the easier the hack. If hacking fails, the wreck blows up without harming anyone. And no, I'm not suggesting a relic or data analyzer would be needed to hack the wrecks, but why not?



HAHAHA! Yeah, that would be funny. Yup, AoE could be really fun or really terrible depending on what your perspective is and what the local security level is. Gankers would find it funny or terrible: Funny for the LOLs of creating all kinds of chaos on the gates and terrible for destroying their profits. Ganked would find it funny or terrible too, depending on reactions from CONCORD, gankers, collateral damage, etc.

That might be what he's trying for, but what he's actually proposing would allow anyone with half a brain to wreak havoc on crowded gates. He's looking to implement empire smartbombing w/ out concord consequences.

I would think you would be all for this one.

3 thumbs up - let the canage begin!

By boobies trap you mean my screen get's covered in boobies after I do a gank and it trap me by looking at it while someone POD me?

Yes, that's correct. Your keyboard is jammed and you aren't able to hot key anyhow while your entire screen is covered by boobies.

I think it's fair.