Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Enthosis Link making it impossible to logi the ship seems counter productive, why remove the benefit for the attacker that bringing more ships gives? Chasing an interceptor around for 4 hours isn't as fun as blowing up a small fleet.

If the problem is server load and not about fun, making everyone quit the game sure will fix it.

Superb solution to some problem, I'm sure, but not the one discussed in this thread.

Feel free to take it to a thread it belongs to though.

Not before I fill your knowledge gaps.

First of all, no restart until cycle completes. After that, warmup cycle. Care to calculate the time it takes for them to go back to making entosis progress, or should help out as well?

If those systems are occupied (at least people living in the same constellation), 'x' amount of players are already there. Give them Kitsunes ffs, they aren't marauders.

How long this is going to last? Until your vulnerability window ends, until trollceptors get tired of you coming and breaking their lock every 5 minutes (effectively stopping any entosis progress) per ceptor, but normally it'll be over once you bring your own entosis and deal with that node. But even without that, as long as they cannot make entosis progress, you are immune.

And the biggest surprise of the whole scheme - if they come to gank you, TACKLE THEM and blow them with a battle badger. Them coming for you is exactly what you want. You don't need a rainbow fit for that Kitsune since you sit in the damn system and know what you're dealing with, and surely there's a refit available somewhere in the constellation (if not, drop the damn sov, you don't deserve to own a constellation you can't even refit in).

ECCM might pose a problem, but not a fatal one - 80 points is their best defense and you would usually mount 2x12 racial jammers, giving you 50% chance to jam a full mid rack of ECCM (-1 slot for mwd counted in) in 3 cycles. But in case they have a full rack (with mwd naturally) they have no means to tackle you, and if there's a specialized tackler, you run a better chance jamming and tackling him while you wait for that battle badger to drop by.

Turns out Orca Platypus thinks playing whackamole with ECM frigates is going to be fun.

As support ships, tossing them out as solo warriors against things like crusaders is only going to result in a lot of dead griffons.

People who complain about it all the time. It is not like there are not other ways available, but they are not as convenient. And convenience is all that matters these day. The limited mindset of people like you sickens me.
However, as said, in EVE, it's either the way of the least resistance (until its abuse forces the removal of it) or the extreme exhaustion of any mechanic (until it's nerfed so much that it's not viable anymore and nearly completely removed). This won't change even if Ceptors were removed from the equation. Next will be cruisers that blap ceptors and other tackle of the field and zoom around at 4k, uncatchable and unbeatable. What then? Gate camps? They just burn back to the gate and do it elsewhere.

Why are the only two options solo interceptors v. griffins and 2000 people in massive tidi?

So you have no idea of the downsides of slapping a 500mn mwd on a cruiser is then.

Just remember the point is to try and change a game mechanic, not to actually formulate tactics to counter their new threats.

The new mechanic is focused more toward small gang Sov warfare, where they prefer Sov combat based more upon the blob of Capitals and Supercapitals.

The new Sov favors those who actually occupy their systems and it allows these small groups to run circles around them. It appears they would rather try to force a game mechanic change than adapting the way they fight and live in their claimed systems.