Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Each ship gets a capacity to hold infantry. The capacity varies from ship type, role and race.
For example:
frigate - 5 men.
cruiser - 50 men.
bs - 500 men.

"Ammunition" can be bought as ship service in stations.

New drone and fighter types can carry a certain amount of own soldiers to an enemy ship.
They drop the infantry and return to carry more men until commanded to stop.
Like an inversed mining drone scheme.
If attacker is not careful and sends to many men, he has not enough soldiers left if he is attacked himself with infantry.

If enemy soldiers are present on a ship a fight starts to begin, soldiers are killed on both attackers and defenders side by time.
Chances are better for the side that fields more soldiers at the moment. If a lot of soldiers are dropped the ship can be overrun.

If no defenders are on a ship it is very vulnerable to infantry. Depending on ship size, role et cetera a certain threshold of attackers needs to be present to trigger a bomb. So even if no soldiers are left you cannot trigger a bomb by just sending one soldier.

If threshold is not met, the attackers will slowly die (slain by remaining crew).

If the bomb explodes all remaining attackers on the ship are killed.
Effects of the bomb can be chosen by attacker:
* Deployed in the engine room: Ship cannot warp or prop modules are disabled for a certain amount of time.
* Weapon array. Ship cannot fire (a certain amount of time)
* Command bridge. Ship is blind for some time. No HUD. No targets, no ship status. ^^
* Ship core. Ship gets some damage.

New modules to be better prepared:
* Crew quarters - Increased capacity for infantry.
* Automated defense systems - Overall better performance of defenders and/or increased threshold of attackers needed to trigger bomb.

New drone/fighter types:
* Boarding capsules (destroyed after first deploy)
* Boarding shuttle
* Boarding transporter (can transport more troops)

It is just an example. Capitals will have probably more, I just stopped at bs.

this is the problem with you ppl referring to BBs as BS' makes it so much harder to call you on your B.S.

Good god no.

How can your eware go through all those layers? XD

This crazy notion of troops that can board a ship comes up from time to time. It was a really bad idea the very first time it was mentioned, it is a really bad idea this time and it will be a really bad idea the next time it comes up.

I have no desire to play an idiotic mini game to try and defend myself against your "troops" while I am trying to defend myself from the direct ship to ship attack. And the thought that CCP may write the code to handle this for us is the stuff of nightmare, hell they cannot even get a simple new ship introduction (T3D's) and you want me to trust them with this? Words allowed on these forums cannot even begin to describe how bad that is.

In most fights a ship lasts mere seconds after being targeted. Boarding is too complicated and too slow compared to simply shooting ships to pieces.

This is also why boarding is rarely practical during a fight in the real world. It's more something done covertly or by pirates against non-combat ships.

Haha that is a point

Oh my god,m there are enemy troops in the ships.
And the capsuleer releases the acidic neurotoxin into the crew life support system. Crew are, after all, expendable. Much like ammunition.

I would like to point out that you could board ships and take over them in few notable Star Trek simulator games. You could do a lot by utilizing boarding parties, but what was different it was slower combat than in EVE.

So actually boarding parties would have to be designed In EVE when there is a lot of time to board and take over something. Like with structures.

I think it would have to be tied with EVE NOVA and would have to be only initialized from the EVE by putting up a match on Nova server. The outcome of a match would be only to capture structure. Something what is not for now in EVE, so actually some new stuff.