Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If I am not mistaken it was something CCP Fozzie was mentioning in one of the o7 shows but he didn't say that it will come, only that they are thinking about it.

I like all the input so far.

I believe for the deployed force fields, they should have all the rules of a Tower POS and all the restrictions of Interdiction bubbles. Not requiring fuel however having an anchor/online delay. Possibly making the size of them even smaller than earlier suggested.

As for the Battleship it should be limited to where it can be deployed, the cost for deployment should high to limit the number of uses in rapid succession and the module should act like the Bastion module with same ship restrictions. Or perhaps even the module itself is what takes damage, thus once the enemy has taken down your shield your module is destroyed, or other wise unusable.

Then with this idea maybe once the force field is erect, it does NOT break target locks and EWAR is still capable of penetrating the shield however the force field can absorb all incoming damage until destroyed.

The idea of having a forward facing ark shield is an interesting thought. Perhaps if this were the course taken, then the shield would allow friendly forces to fire through it and it would act as cover for friendly forces, yet useless if the enemy were to simply go around the ark.

How does this sound now?

Being able to safe up on grid just sounds like it's against the spirit of the game.

I don't see much in the way of legs of this idea, but if it were done it should have the following:
1 - ship bound high slot module
2 - places the ship in a form of triage
3 - burns stront
4 - the shields have the same resists as the ship and the strength a quarter of what a small POS can pump out.
5 - standard POS shield mechanics come into play
6 - the module burns out after x amount of time or when the shield is breached. Either way, it works once before it has to be repaired in station.
7 - cannot be activated withing X distance of an anchored structure or celestial - prevents 'bubbling' a gate, wormhole, undock, etc.

edit to add:
8 - only one can be fitted. it can only be fitted on BS class ships.
9 - when the module de-activates it implodes, taking out half the ships armor and hull.

From a game mechanic perspective, generally you wouldn't allow something mobile like a battleship to do something like this unless that was about ALL that ship could do. At that point, just make it an 'industrial' ship, akin to a mining barge (which is just a dedicated industrial for mining) that militaries build to do this function. The larger the ship class, the larger the field it can cast. You could even have a frigate sized one of these critters that could cover a small mining operation in an asteroid field that could suck up some damage but would take the first hit.

It really has two game effects:

Removes surprise so kills like those on small groups from gangs of covert ops ships should drop.

Makes for some tactical protection options of areas that currently don't exist as well as increases the sheer amount of shenanigans that can be and have to be taken into consideration before implementation. (A lot of these have already been pointed out but guarantee there's about double or triple that number out there to be tried.)

Fleet actions won't be impacted as much, it's just a minor barrier for an attacking fleet to overcome, no different than a POS.

My suggestion is that it be a dedicated ship that is DESTROYED when the shield is forced down (call it Thermal Overload, whatever) so it's not used lightly. Make it relatively expensive to build, some exotic materials, high priced blueprints, whatever. This baby should cost about as much as the best fully equipped ship in the size class currently does. Again, this will restrict it from being used for stupid crazy stuff. Long/Expensive training curve to use it.

As far as HiSec, LoSec and Null sec rules go, just make it an offensive action when its erected. Concord will deal with it in HiSec, and local Police could deal with it around stations and gates in LoSec. NullSec, all bets are off.

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