Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well this thread gave me an IDEA.
What about a module fitted to freighters that would DESTROY all cargo in the event of inevitable destruction of ship? Like an "autodestructive cargobay". Would need to be activated manually, effect would be immediate and icon for this module would take form of a red button.
Would give additional 10% more cargospace (reduction from 20%).
Would reduce Hull points by 10%.

More I think about it, it becomes even more funny.

More cargospace if for more stuf that would be destroyed. Do you think that gankers would still gank those, I think that CODE would, and that would be so fun to watch.

In the spirit of EVE, assuring that destruction of vessel can be inevitable, but at least you would deny all loot. Player choices matter.

Perhaps CODE might (although if this was the norm probably not for long as ganking freighters with no drops gets expensive quick), but what about all the other gankers who are after the loot? Why would you want to remove one of the main motivations for players to attack other players in the game?

Piracy is suppose to be a profession in this game. I fail to see how removing loot drops is going to bring content to the game or make it better in any way.

Player choices matter. If you choose to undock in something, you are taking the risk that someone is going to try and take your stuff so you better make provisions to defend yourself. No, CCP is not going to give you a way to deny the victor the spoils of a PvP engagement just to satisfy your childish desire for spite. If you lose your stuff to a pirate, man up and give them the 'gf' they deserve for beating you.

If you want to make ganker's lives "miserable" why don't you just do one of the many things you can do to keep your freighter safe? Then you can thumb your nose at the gankers and get to keep your stuff.

Asking the game to just be made more aggravating for subset players for no reason that you have provided doesn't seem like something CCP is going to implement.

People's stuff is suppose to be at risk to, and be taken by, the other players. Yes, that even includes the freighter pilots that you falsely assert "can't defend themselves as ships". Actually, especially those fat loot pinatas called freighters whose primary design purpose is to put them at risk of attack so hauling is actually a profession rather than just something you click 'autopilot' to do.

plot twist: module fitted makes you suspect

Edit: creates an aoe explosion, you lose security status everytime you use it, cannot be fitted to blockade runners :)

still a stupid module anyway

It would remove one of the primary motivations for players to attack one another in the sandbox. At the very least it would have to come with a massive hit to cargo capacity to balance this (unlike the bonus the OP proposed) to make it a purely military baiting strategy, rather than just a salve to sooth the bruised ego of haulers who have just lost a PvP engagement.

I remind you that pirates are suppose to exist and ability to take each other's stuff is at the very core of the design of this full-time PvP sandbox.

You can already troll gankers now. If you want more tools I think there is also room for some module that screws with cargo scanners or the like to mess with pirates. But if you want to just deprive the victor of his prize out of some sense of spite, that is terrible game play that just removes the motivation to pirate. Both the victim and the victor are left unsatisfied which is not something a game feature CCP is going to willingly add to the game.



Of course most would. I always try offer up a gf when I miss a gank.

Lol, there is no "raging" here. I am just pointing out to the OP why there is exactly zero chance of this being implemented. CCP loves the conflict that piracy brings to the game - they built Eve after all. They aren't going to patch it out so a bunch of pouting sore losers can feel slightly better about their in-game failures.

Eve has precious few conflict drivers as it is. Expect more ways to take other players stuff, not less, as we go forward.

Ha ha ha, deprive the ganker of the easy loot you mean. With no hesitation so much players would make this choice.

I realize you are probably just trolling for attention but giving you the benefit of the doubt, they just removed the ability to one-shot wrecks, what makes you think they want to put a module back in that would basically negate that change?

With the exception of CODE and a few other small groups I don't know many gankers that are not ganking for the isk, so stop spouting that BS about only doing it for destruction.

Sure, you can have a module that would instantly be fit to every single freighter in eve.

But it reduces you to 1 structure HP, and removes all your resistances. That should balance it nicely.

yes! we can call it a Plunder Beacon