Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I tried to get the discussion going as well, but not many opinions yet.

As for your ideas,

A ride along type of idea has always resulted with Dev reply of "bad things happen in Database if you try that". I don't think that has changed.

As for module, what would stop players from using that mod to just get massive tank bonus to save their ass when they are in trouble?

Your proposal is incredibly more complicated than what most people want.

We want a ship with extremely limited offensive capabilities, but insane tank. Passing a capsule around like a hot potato is just a side trip that really doesn't do what we want. The FC still needs to be in command of his own ship.

Headshotting an FC is a major problem in large fights. Either a ship with nearly no offensive capabilities but massive tank, or module that prevents the user from activating cynos or offensive modules in return for massive defensive bonuses is the general idea.

Of the two, the ship would be easier to implement, less gameplay issues with activating the module in unintended situation.

Just a massive brick, with triple+ defensive bonuses to push the EHP up to a level where it cant easily be headshot in a large fleet fight. And a role bonus that disallows Cyno's, and the use of Ewar.

And how much is enough EHP?

I remember alphafleets one or two shotting carriers back in the day, and that's just with battleships. Bring in high angle guns, or some of the new doomsdays, and your EHP wall is going to have to rival a titan if you want guaranteed survival.

And then you wind up getting to much hp so fcs are invincible in smaller fights. Even without that problem I'm sure we would find unintended uses for a ship with that much ehp

Don't carriers have a temp invulnerability field (i mean a real one). Why not down size that, but at the same time reduces max locked targets to 0 as well as switches off cynos...

Or you could command your fleet in a covert ops boat so you don't have to worry so much getting shot but giving important commands to your buddies.

So here's my refined idea. Give players the ability to broadcast their telemetry to another player. This could be mediated by a module, or maybe just a general player option. This would allow one player to enable another see their overview info. The client would render the shared data picture in-a-picture style or in a modal way. The receiving player would see the other players in-space view, but would have his own camera to manipulate and the overview will be displayed according to the receiving players preferences. The broadcaster and the receiver can end at any time.

A happy side effect could be that this would give Eve cinematographers new tools to work with by adding a new way to capture live footage and by providing a backbone for a telemetry recording and replay feature.

Honestly I think if you consider the unintended consequences the could result from creating a supertank for this role it doesn't seem all that complicated at all.

Your other point can be address by counting the receiver as *present* in broadcasters location for giving fleet orders. The receiver's camera orientation could count as the receivers 'heading'.

I think the idea of keeping FC a little bit safer is a good idea but how its implemented needs to be considered as we definitely don't want any bull sh*t unbalanced mechanics that get abused. FC should not be immune to the fight. I also like the idea that if were going to have on grid links in Command Ship, they should in fact be command ships. So lets build off that platform to start.

Using Command Destroyers and Battlecruisers I think is a perfect place to start. They can be modded to keep up with ships a class lower and higher then themselves.

Give them a high spot module that prevents them from warping, makes them unlockable and increases their speed. Give it a 10 second activation with a reactivation timer. And of course, cant use any offensive modules like weapons/ewar but can use drones.

Idea behind this is it cant be useful as a 'personal transport ship'. And it should not be invulnerable. It should be vulnerable when it needs to move around from grid to grid, system to system and if it has to jump from one spot to another on grid, there should be a vulnerability that could be exploited if the enemy is ready for it. It should then also be subject to area of effect stuff like bombs and ECM bursts.

Adding extra EHP I think is broken. Lets not go there...

Please do this. I will not buy up every eos in jita the second word of it leaks, honest. Nothing could possibly go wrong with an 800+ DPS ship that can't be locked.