Player Features and Ideas Discussion

New carrier mechanic is awesome, but have it downsides in places like lowsec.
Old players use this space to abuse newbies , but getting around carrier gatecamps to newbie players is almost impossible.

My suggestion is very simple fix for this, without affecting most of the real fighter usage in lowsec - can we get lowsec gate guns auto aggressing any fighter in range?

This simple fix will remove the possibility of carrier gate camps in lowsec.

After the action.
That leaves all newbies to deal with the carrier first.
Change will simply block people from keeping fighters on the lowsec gates waiting for something to jump in.

This kind of gatecamp is acceptable in nullsec, but lowsec need some ease with this.

Ok lets introduce bubbles to lowsec then.

Why do we have gate guns, no bubbles and other stuff in lowsec if not for offering some protection to new players.

So let gate/ station guns shoot all fighters - to preserve unique gameplay across the game.

You should consider making such statements when you first replied, it would have eliminated the mis-understanding.

I like the concept of this idea, but I am not sure it can be made to work without interfering with legitimate uses of the fighters in the area around the gates. I am thinking about a battle the low sec corp my son is in had the other night. It started outside the range of the gate guns and then moved into range as the fleet they were attacking tried to make it to the gate. With your idea in place what would have happened to the fighters from the carriers on both sides of that fight?

And remove every carrier PVP from low sec gates that does not involve new players in the process? If a new player sees many things on his overview/brackets on the gate he just jumped in, they will die to it if they do not use their brain. By your logic, insta locking Hictors from which you cannot escape with warp core stabs and which kill you just as efficiently as carriers with a lot less money involved should be removed as well.

Why should new players in that area of space even be a determining factor in what is possible and what not? New players here, new players there, it's a thought-terminating argument that has been overused and misused for all sorts of things.

Make network sensor arrays as beacons like cynos so warpable, that'll show'em

If this is the NSA thing. I'm currently leaning toward a max range that the super locking works. Making the NSA range the same distance as a hic focused point seems like a great idea to me.

So what you are saying here is that the winner of a legitimate carrier fight within range of the gate guns could actually be decided by the AI controlling the gate guns, and this is a good thing?

A far better idea is to simply get rid of the gate guns and be done with it.