Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Oversimplification to the point of being intellectually dishonest.

There's many, many reasons why battleships are currently not in favor.

this is what it looks like from the end of the person getting dropped... this is not how setting up a drop works

Poitot, save us.


Do you not realize this would actually break the game? This idea comes up every so often. It would become a game of who can cyno in first and use the anti-cyno ray before the other guy. I.E. wait till I get my caps/blops on you, then prevent you from lighting, removing entirely the threat of a counter-drop. It may not seem like they did it well, but the Cyno Inhibitor deployable is actually well designed because of the delay in anchoring - if there was no delay, one could drop the house on you, immediately anchor it, and you could never, ever counter drop my fleet.

I listed several counters to cynos a few posts back. I feel as if you actually played the game from the cyno-er and not the cyno-ee point of view, you would quite quickly realize they are not an I-win button, and that they are quite frankly the only thing that prevents the total stagnation of content due to how oppressively reliable local is.

And don't tell me about that amazing planning and preparations of a drop operation. Regular situation looks like this%
- Home local - 100
- Carebear spot gang of 1-3 ships
- Carebear fit a cyno
- 1 minute of gathering on a titan 5-10 ships + carrier scooping its fighters in sanctum
- point, cyno up, enjoy

So you want all in EVE fly in nano-gangs? or what?

i always like to see people with 12% dangerous factor on kb teaching me how to play eve. but ok, let's say i don't know how to use kbs and now under your strict guidance i finally learned how to use it. now tell me please how it will increase the number of people in eve and pilots in space?

Absolutely not, but for many reasons, if you are going to hunt in deep sov where people have drops ready to go for home defense, as well as other non-jumpy defenders, nano gangs give you the best chance of making it out alive as well as finding things before they can get safe. Different tools, different fleets, for different types of space.

When blopsing sov, same deal applies; light stuff that is hard to catch but can catch other stuff easily . Stratios and bombers do the job just fine, and are harder to catch than big slow blops BS.

Get rid of local in null, introduce delayed local to lowsec, and give black ops battleships a covops cloak. Reduce their build cost by 50% to offset the increased risk they face by having to traverse gates. From there you could go a few routes. Buff their stats greatly, give them the 'cannot receive remote assistance' attribute, and focus them around active tanks to keep them from scaling out of control for fleets. Alternatively, keep their stats low and give the nestor a covops cloak and let the cloaky fleet become a thing. Buff capital warp speed to 1.8 au/sec and shave 10-15% off their align times. That's how you do it.

It's still boring two-click-teleportation. Now you've just added a mandatory step of wait and don't do anything fun.

Brain Fart Idea: Give people a way to configure two aspects of the jump: the precision (like what happens with wormholes), and the speed (instant, or with some magic interplanetary traveltime) and scale Fatigue accordingly.