Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have an idea for a Ship and mobile anchor able devices.

A command Battleship that is capable of erecting a POS like force field. It will protect all friendly ships within the shield until the shield is taken down. I figure a T2 Version of the Tier 3 Battleships. The force field will have moderate range of ~10km radius and will be directly projected as an external shield. Thus after taking down the shield you would then have to take out the Battleships shields, armor and hull. (Possibly requiring fuel to run the force field as well).

All rules for a POS shields will apply to the Battleships projected shields, however the Battleships projected shield will be far easier to remove. (If enemy ships are within the shield when erected they will not be cast out; however you will not be able to target within the shield but, giving the enemy a chance to bump your friendlies out)

Once a Battleship erects the force field it will be unable to move or warp. However the Battleship will be targetable as a POS is to remove the force field and as soon as the force field is down, the Battleship will able to be warp disrupted/scrammed.

As for the Mobile Anchor able structures, they will act like Warp interdiction bubbles. (Possibly requiring fuel). Small Med Large T1 and T2 versions. Range from ~3km to ~15km radius.

The concept of these force fields is someone could not only create a safe spot in space but create a portable SAFE location.
As for the Battleships it could allow a force that encounters a larger force to potentially sacrifice a Battleship for the rest of the fleet or give a force time to collect themselves and engage the enemy.

Would love some feed back not just "This is stupid" or This is Great" kind of answers.

Thanks and Fly Dangerously.

I tried to locate if someone else had already come up with this with no success. Thank you. If someone else has already proposed the idea then I feel this will be short lived.

Disallow jumping but warping is fine, put up interdiction bubble to stop them

Also what if when the force field was erected, all ships inside can still target and shoot other ships inside as well. Just prevent targeting from inside to outside and vise versus.

My original post was:
(If enemy ships are within the shield when erected they will not be cast out; however you will not be able to target within the shield but, giving the enemy a chance to bump your friendlies out)

However my new statement is, enemies inside CAN still attack. This is just an idea of course. I am not bias on whether you will be able to or not.

I do like disallowing the use of Jump drives however warping will be allowed, and to prevent warping out of the bubble interdiction bubbles will prevent that as they do on a normal POS.

Maybe allowing the use of Micro Jump Drives

I hope this clears the idea up.

Would be expensive Kill notice and how about making it inoperable withing a set distance to objects such as stations, star-gates and acceleration gates. Maybe ban use in high sec all together. Figure a ship of this type would run about the same as a Murader or Black Ops.

Sorry I have to say this but putting a restriction on something that hasn't even been considered to be released doesn't need to be released at all.

While I don't like this idea the notion of "nope if you didn't get it right in your op so stop trying" is contrary to the point of f&I

Now in cases where people stay having to put a bunch of ridiculous or arbitrary limitations on their idea then it's generally a sign it's just plane bad. But a common restriction found on many items already in game is not unreasonable.




Now back to the idea I could see this brewing abused to keep dreads from being able to shoot I would only need to taos the bubble long enough to cause lock to break then it had to waist another 20-130 second relocking and one it has I just put it up again.

And while making out so you can't jump off inside one would solve the issue of using it so save caps you now have a new issue of it being used to tap them

Might be interesting if the shield was not a full bubble but an arc that could be manoeuvred around. Also could be interesting if it didn't block movement through it, just dispersed weapon fire so it wouldn't be as abusable.

I'd definitely see it as a mode for the ship like the siege mode on dreadnoughts or bastion mode on marauders. That way the ship is locked in for a time and potentially cannot move or manoeuvre but can be manoeuvred around.

I like the arc idea, and the interdiction of weapon fire only. Sort of a "Protection from Normal Missiles" field.

While I don't like this idea the notion of "nope if you didn't get it right in your op so stop trying" is contrary to the point of f&I

Now in cases where people stay having to put a bunch of ridiculous or arbitrary limitations on their idea then it's generally a sign it's just plane bad. But a common restriction found on many items already in game is not unreasonable.




Now back to the idea I could see this brewing abused to keep dreads from being able to shoot I would only need to taos the bubble long enough to cause lock to break then it had to waist another 20-130 second relocking and one it has I just put it up again.

And while making out so you can't jump off inside one would solve the issue of using it so save caps you now have a new issue of it being used to tap them