Player Features and Ideas Discussion

1. very simple, new right click option. Clear all locked targets. If I have 6 locked targets id like to be able to instantly clear all my locked targets and lock six new targets. Simple, doesn't effect balancing issues, easy. Please do this with your little things campaign.

2. Kamikaze. Note: this would only work for same size or ships that are smaller then the ones they are attacking. If your loosing a fight, say a HAC vs carrier or battleship vs dread, or carrier vs dreadnaught. Idea of execution, your losing, its just a matter of time, you start sinking into hull. Allow your ship to align and warp into same size or larger hull of attacking craft. Effect would be damage as a function of hull size or mass. Possibly a temporary disruption or targeting or engine systems.

What do you guys think

It does in homeworld. And yes, I know EVE =/= Homeworld

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1. I like the selective de-targeting. The inspiration for the unlock all comes from both failed FC attempts, not my own but those i have followed, and I live in the drone region. Salvaging is a way of life. I thought of way to utilize two noctis but unlocking all of the targets from one is required to make it work.

2. Id also like to see self destruct to splash damage. Larger the ship the larger the radius and the more damage dealt. Either would do. But with an effort to make eve seem just a little more real. Lets use the mass of the ship to deal one last effort of damage.

1) YES! Lovely idea. Surprised that this isn't a right-click option in your toolbar's Lock Target icon.

2) Maybe. I'd thought the same thing a few months back, but what popped into my head was that to do it "properly" would make it open to horrific but hilarious levels of abuse. What i mean is that if you take a battleship hull - lets use the classic 'phoon here, it has Structure hit points of 6211. Alone, unfitted.

Now, say that this was used to crash into something. What numbers will you use? If you take the base number, that's a fair old whack of damage all in one go. Which immediately makes it worth doing.

At this point you have to decide whether to take the full number of hitpoints, or make the EVE cluster calculate just how many hitpoints would be left by the time of impact. I've no idea how ably the servers could handle this, seeing as how there's quite a few variables present, but I feel that this would still be the fairest way of doing it, as i assume you do too.


Here's where things get fun, though. Let's argue that you've hull-tanked a Typhoon for this purpose alone. We'll assume that if you have shields/armour left, a kamikaze run would not work, and that you'd bounce off the other ship in the comical way they currently do. So a hulltanking Typhoon on a Kamikaze run....you can have something like 6 reinforced bulkheads, which give you 25% extra hull capacity. Lets knock two off, for purposes of semi-realistic damage levels. That gives us.. *opens calculator*..100% more hull, taking us to 12422 hp.

It seems like it'd be a ridonkulous amount of damage to recieve in one go, especially seeing as how this doesn't take into account all factors, such as other ship activity, reps, etc. I suppose this sort of thing would only really be a fair concept in the scheme of things if you were below 50% hull, but usually by then you're about a half-second away from popping anyways.

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Having rambled about this somewhat, and thinking longer, perhaps this could be a carrier-and-up thing? It'd certainly make big fleet battles more cinematic, and leave two intertwined wrecks behind and *knowing* what happened would be a cool thing indeed :)