Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Given that we have these new expanded grids, a wide range of ships at our disposal, and the ability to cover light years of distance in a matter of seconds, it seems strange to me that we don't have manual control of our warp drives. From being able to punch in a set of coordinates within range and go right to that spot to the ability to execute an emergency drop out of warp, the ship controls are severely lacking in these areas.

Here's what I propose:

1) Add the ability to execute an emergency drop out of warp. Penalize it to keep the mechanic from being too game breaking - ex. 1/3 to 1/2 cap consumption to stop, 15 second delay after warp exit to input another warp command, etc.

2) Add the ability to make manual coordinate inputs to the warp drive. As this would be a manual warp solution instead of utilizing one of the known destinations, the ship's nav computer would require some extra time to process and calculate this input, like 15-30 seconds. I would envision a 50% increased capacitor cost to go into warp in order to account for last second variations on the warp exit point in order for the ship to land on grid safely

3) Maximum solar system size could be limited due to dangerous gas clouds that exist beyond the edge of the solar system, and our ships are not rated to take that kind of damage for long. Let's face it, if players are given the ability to create their own warps you'll have bug out points saved at ranges that would require 20-30 max cap warps just to reach so the gas clouds would be of the variety that could drop a Titan in two or 3 hits.

like landing on an enemy fleet with out even needing damn on grid probing

On one hand, as previously mentioned, you could have the ablity to drop right on top of someone from warp. On the other hand it would make creating an out of line safe spot 1 step quicker because you could drop out of warp where you would create the first bookmark. But how would this affect your warp if there was a drag bubble on grid of your original warp location?

Completely agree. Being able to drop out of warp in mid warp and cloak up would make it even easier to avoid combat. It's already ludicrously easy.

You know, when you make a stealth, "Grrr, bumping" thread, you're not supposed to just come out and say that it was a, "grrr, bumping" thread.

I do think that with the expanded grids can come expanded gameplay. If the worry is deep space safes then simply suggest something specifically to find deep space safes like bringing back the old deep space probes in some capacity. Seeing players do something like that and restrict it was the wrong move in the first place. Players creating gameplay should never be discouraged. They should however balance it if it becomes unbalanced thus my idea for deep space probes to find these deep space safes. Now if the issue is warp time we could perhaps answer that with soem of the new structures being proposed like acceleration gates which could affect warp speed of ships going through it and present the only way to warp to these deep space safes.

Perhaps there could be a secondary warp speed for when ships leave a stars heliosphere reducing the time ships can be safe in warp, something that might even accure fatigue to prevent it's over use.

Long story short expanded grids should allow for expanded gameplay. +1

You can drop bookmarks in mid-warp, so dropping out of warp to make a bookmark would be 1 step slower, not faster.

This is exactly why I don't support this. It undermines one of the major benefits of using smaller ship classes. They can chase you, and even arrive at your destination before you do. With this change, you simply hit the warp break and are instantly safe. Hell NO!!! If you couldn't be asked to pick a safe destination to begin with, then you should get caught. This feature essentially eliminates the cat'n'mouse aspect of hunting targets.

We could also make warp calculations manual in so called manual override mode, so you can solve for x to warp out when scrammed, also geometrically quantify the difficulty of the solution per warp scramble strength. And no wolfram alpha cheating!
If you can hack your ships warp computer to drop out of warp, good for you, additional gameplay, bring a modified Hacking module to work in warp.
Also if you provide wrong solution/lose the minigame, your ship explodes and pods you - this makes for a fun roulette when faced with multiple solutions at higher geometric quantifiers and prevents you from being a potential warp in.

You mean like, make drag bubbles useless?