Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I dont even read anything of this thread, i just point to my signature...

The only way I can see it working is if CCP added a new line of ships that are somewhere between a battleship and a dreadnaught/carrier. It'd have to have more beef and damage than a BS, but be too small to be considered a real capital. Also, it can only be built in POS.

However, if CCP were to add a new line of ships, I'd prefer attack-style battleships that can fit XL guns for pew-pewing bigger ships.

Allow them, but take away their concord protection, so everybody can agress/ attack without getting concorded.

Sound stupid ? Yes but i thought this was the idea behind this post.

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"Play with the big boys"? I prefer to distance myself from Spewing Cesspits of Conceited Egos.

I just wana keep to myself in a small pocket of space and left alone to my devices. With a full time job and depression I can only get around to Eve once a month or so. I keep the accounts active to train, but I can go 6-9 months before remembering to log in again. Eve drama doesnt appeal to me much. API keys keep me out of null, I might return to low in 2017. In the mean time. I'll wait and see how this game plays itself out for 2016, you guys have given me a pretty good idea of what to expect. Thank You.

Why play a multiplayer game at that point then?

Particularly one about kicking peoples sand castles over,
that happens to be saturated with predators,
and then aspire to become "big game",
while refusing the basic requirement for entry into a herd

I can empathise with your issues ,really I can (bar the api thing, I think you're really losing out because of that) but no one gets to be left alone to their own devices here, that's one of the definitive aspects of eve and has been from day one.

Or they can just be allowed in highsec, doesn't make sense that they aren't.

won't change much other than sieging poses would become viable in hs wich might be a bad thing i'm not sure

Using carriers in L4 would be terrible. After a certain point it is well known that most of the mission time is actually spent in a Warp tunnel.

If people want to run L4 in slowass trash then more power to to them. Warp speed rigged machariel will dunk it for isk/hour from here to eternity.

The others are valid though.

You ma'am have never played station games with a carrier

- You cannot "pounce" on anything in High-sec. Cynos do not work there. Your only recourse would be to have the dreds already docked in the station where the station games are happening... something which is anything but discrete.
This is why capitals are somewhat balanced with regards to low and null-sec station games. At least you can "surprise attack."

- Guardians and Basilisks don't have the massive repping rate of capitals (~300 to 500 raw HP/sec vs. 1000 to 1500 raw HP/sec) nor the massive wall of EHP of capitals (~60 to 80 thousand EHP vs 1.5 to 2.2 million EHP).
edit: Fun Fact... it takes about 25,000+ DPS to kill a 1.5 million EHP Carrier in 60 seconds.


Anyone who cares about balance and rewards vs risk. It should never be unreasonably hard to gank a loot pinata.

For reference; it currently requires about ~30 gank Talos or ~76 gank Catalysts to kill a Providence with HG-Slave Implants and 3x Reinforced Bulkheads in a 0.5 system. Much, much, MUCH less if a Freighter pilot fits Cargo Expanders.

In comparison; it would require ~35+ gank Talos or ~95+ gank Catalysts to kill an Archon fitted with 7 Cargo Expanders and no implants in a 0.5 system (which is, ironically, the same number of ganking ships required to kill a full-tank Bowhead too).
Now a fully tanked ~2 million EHP Archon would require ~150 gank Talos or ~380 gank Catalysts in a 0.5 system.

you may as well use a cloaky hauler and be practically 100% safe with a 13.431 m3 cargohold