Player Features and Ideas Discussion

some one being good at something is not a reason for you to change game mechanics

people are going to just say it's an intended game mechanic.

That would be a very powerful tool to annoy highsec residents in general. Miners, mission runners and all sorts of others could be harassed or ransomed by someone following them around and not letting them complete their objectives. It might actually even partially resurrect the late ninja salvaging profession. In other words, it will not happen.

Bumpers are at the exact same risk as anyone else in the game. If you want them exploded, just explode them.

That said, you will get your escape device in the winter. These new T2 destroyers will be able to MJD your bumped freighter to safety with just a single click of a button. You will no longer to be able to (falsely) claim that there is nothing you can do and hopefully these weekly threads on how to "fix" bumping will dry up.

So web give suspect? I'm fine with it, as long as it's all the ewar doing so. Because i want to point everything everywhere.

(That was sarcasm, for people not recognizing it.)




They'll keep on whining, because new destro will be too long to train, too hard to use, AOE being too large thus taking the bumper with them, or something. Also, bumper will most likely be replaced with MJDing destro since that will throw the freigter 80km past the gate (right next to the prepositioned Taloses), in a crappy alignment which will require to turn all the way to warp somewhere.

I would be shocked if they don't. I can see no other reason CCP is adding such a ship to the game other than to rescue bumped freighters.

But we will see in time. Maybe some more details will emerge in Vegas.

"Just one more nerf and it will be balanced."

Just invite your webbing alt to a duel using the freighter pilot and stop being a whining moron. That's what everyone else does.

Oh, and btw. use a cruor, takes almost no time to train and has dank web range.

I think you're being too sensitive again. I think the content generation gains from making webs suspect only would be massive. Don't see 'anti freighter ganking' and walk away. Take a step back and look at ALL the things this would do.

Honestly if I'm obelisk bowling with a mach - what's going to be able to web me for more than a few seconds before it becomes space dust? Just set a nado alt a 80km off the gate and wonk that too. If it's a larger webbing ship, something with some moxy that can hold a mach down, then you have content.

If you have the presence of mind to look beyond just freighter / mach webbing - OMG. The uses for this new feature are so vast I'm a bit dizzy. I think it would be a great trade to allow a few frieghters to get away via this to get the vast amount of content options it would open up. The idea removes a red card and replaces it with a yellow card.... and you're calling it a nerf? That's just crazy math your doing.

If anything I would accuse the OP of being a Baltec1 alt (I'd say once a year he's actually as clever as his pubbies think he is).

This idea is content genious and may be the kind of thing HS needs to get headed back in the right direction.

Probably to be replaced by the cries from the gankers about how unfair it is. Personally I can't wait to see what happens.

If we take for granted that bumping the T2 dessie will not interfere with it's ability to use the MJD, and we take for granted that they will be able to jump a freighter with them this would take us into a new territory. MJD with max spool up reductions based on skills and this will increasing the difficulty of ganking someone by a significant amount.
And given a fleet comprised of a pair of T2 dessies trying to MJD the same freighter and you just might reach that elusive 100% safety from ganking. One thing is for sure this one is going to be fun to watch as it unfolds.

Why the hell would you want to do that? It's far more effective to web your freighter than to web the bumper.