Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Catching up on videos, and ran into the part where something needs to be done about Headshooting the FC.

Why not add bonus Resistance per player under the commanding Officers.

Squad Commander gets 1% to Shield, Armor and Hull per player under him (Must be ON GRID with commander)
Wing Commander gets 1% to Shield, Armor and Hull per player under him (Squad Commander plust those under him ON GRID)
Fleet Commander gets.... you get the idea

The larger the fleet, the greater the need to keep your FC alive, the greater his resistance. As the battle wears on most fleets on the loosing end flee anyways and IF the FC happens to be caught he can be dealt with as a normal ship rather than this INSANE tank 'special' ship

Implementation seems easy enough but i'm no programmer, hence why its an Idea.

*Edit: Commanders cannot be moved around when in combat, so that the "primary" isn't moved to tank better.
*Edit2: Logistic Ships can't be in command positions
*Edit3: Cloacked ships will NOT provide a resistance bonus to their commander.

*Edit4: Implementation - there are 3 way i see this can be implemented. ( if you think of more feel free to post )
--- 1) As minimum resistance - Suppose commanders EM resistance is 0%, Explosive is 50%, With 25 players under him, his resistance would now be 25% EM, 50% Explosive.
--- 2) Additional resistance - Suppose commanders EM resistance is 0%, Explosive is 50%, With 25 players under him, his resistance would now be 25% EM, 75% Explosive.
--- 3) Diminishing return Resistance - Suppose there are 25 players under the commander, that would yield him a 25% bonus resistance which is calculated as if a module of equal value were being used ( Math needed here so i won't even try ).

Just add a gang link that shuffles the names of everyone in fleet and on-grid. No more headshotting FCs unless you can spot them by their behaviour.

I think this whole idea is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Besides some ones FC getting head-shot is one of the ways new FCs are born

and to an extent, i agree. But i do think that what i stated above is a better idea than the "tank" ship.

You're right your idea is so much better. The FC who has to deal with less incoming damage has the better tank

It's called a backup FC.

Organizing a fleet with command totally dependent on a single individual with no redundancy is setting yourself up for failure.

Why not booster AND empty alts? And calling fleet mates to bring alts as scouts, squad boosters and logi already happens. A gang of 20 will have half that in neutral support in the form of alts (more if its hi-sec). If i also get more resists just for having extra bodies on the field, why not?

And in hi-sec during a war dec i can put as many fleet members as i like on grid. You cant shoot the ones that aren't in a wardec against you.

100 shuttles = 100% resists right? Great.

Nah you've just misread

Edit- i think you just misunderstand how much alts are used and how many people have them. A corp i used to be part of had roughly 30 pretty active members and we all had alts. When it came to bashing a **** star we would have our fleet bolstered upto 100 by empty alts just sitting infront of the tower to do nothing but absorb damage and ecm.

Your proposing that we can use a similar tactic, but to make one guy literally invincible and other leaders take half damage, and so on. Yes we would use this in small gang fights so we could have one guy in a gank vindi that cannot be hurt until our empty alts are taken care of first. Sounds like marvellous fun.

But i could still do it in low sec, null or wh and force enemy gangs to cycle through fodder whilst the fleet leadership use glass cannons that suddenly aren't so fragile.

So you want a mechanic that automatically provides a very large advantage to those with the money to pay for it?