Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello,

Add feature to map that shows "War target activity" in similar fashion to "fleet members in space" or "pilots docked and active".
Mockup picture: http://i.imgur.com/yG1n5ti.png

I am suggesting that war target activity should be visible on map. I think this would provide new hunting opportunities, now that the old "watchlist and locate" is gone. This would favor fewer wardecs, since more targets would only cause clutter. On flipside, defenders could see the aggressors on map and dodge their fleets/scouts.

Here I presume the map already has some sort of delay in reporting things suchs as npc kills, jumps and activity. You would still have to fly scout ahead to check the system.

Maybe this could be tied to the new structures so you'd need like "Observatory array" to view targets in one area (constellation/region/LY range).

maybe once they bring in the observation arrays but this is far more powerful than watchlist and locate

The watch list was removed because null bears were winning about their super cap toons hs war gameplay was a casualty caught in the cross fire similar to when blops was hit when fatigue was added

Yeah it is actually way too good to be honest with you,
all targets simultaniously all of the time is a bit much.

I do very much like the concept broadly . Would be very very hard to balance though.

Hello,

Thanks for all the feedback so far.

I agree it could be hard to balance. Main points would be the delay, limited range and being a structure that could be destroyed. One additional thought I had is that, coupled with war dec mechanics, it would make declaring wars useful in other areas of space instead of just hisec.

Being able to see all Wartarget activity would be far to over powered, the concept is really neat. But Even at 10 minute intervals the heat map generated would be still over powered.


If it was Structured based, maybe even a citadel modal that is limited in range would be neat. Maybe even have it so that the Citadel or Observatory regardless could only locate a certain amount of Corporations per would probably be a good idea to,


Like you have Observatory set up, you could have a drag and drop menu, where you add the corp's you want to actively look for, with in a set distance. Have multiple Tiered Observatories that give either Locates more Corps/Alices at a shorter range, or less corps and a longer range.


You could be a right ****, and make it so that only one observatory may be set in one system at a time too. THAT would be interesting.

it should be destructible at all times then and require fuel of course.

Quit standing on your head.... your words are coming out upside down. What you and I really mean......


-1 because it should also give you the ship they are in (hover feature)
-1 because it should list their implants (hover feature)

(I don't want to travel 4 jumps for a blank clone in an ibis)

Perhaps they war targets could be graded and colored for more interest: (isk amount is sum of ship + modules + implants)
Blue - less than 50 mil
Green - 50 to 100 mil
Yellow - 100 to 500 mil
Orange - 500 mil to 1 bil
Red - more than 1 bil
Red Flashing - more than 1 bil in a freighter
Orange Flashing - undocked pilot worth more than his kill rights

just what we need more mandatory alts...

I nominate Lugh for 2016 "Sourpuss of the Year"



voting will commence in early 2017.