Player Features and Ideas Discussion

...What? How are hardwirings not major boosts, and how is an hour too short to be used?

You're joking.

Implants are MASSIVE boosts that scale with cost.

People don't use them because of that cost in fleet fits. Fleet fits are cheap for line ships by design in most cases so your corp/alliance can afford to replace a fuckton of them. No sense putting 800m worth of implants in a ship worth 200m.

You wanna see people use implants, start looking at smaller gang entities, solo hunters, and people that aren't normally in engagements where ships get alpha'd off the field before they can do much about it.

Boosters are cool, but I guess they could look at the drawback system. I think the randomness of the drawbacks and that whole system is what keeps people from using boosters as much as they could be. The way they work now, you take the booster and if it work out you undock, if it doesn't you fly something where the penalty doesn't matter.

I think people might use boosters more if they worked on a different system of drawbacks, like addiction or something. In stead of randomly being **** at repping or whatever, what if we took the drawbacks away from the boosters and had them work on an addiction/tolerance system in stead?

So you get the bonus from the booster, but using it starts a second "tolerance" timer as well as the boost. This timer is fairly long (week or so base value) and using more of the same booster during that timer resets its duration and adds a stack to it. For each stack of *booster type* tolerance the effects of the booster are lowered 2%.

In addition, using the same booster during that tolerance timer has a proc chance to cause addiction, and addiciton has the same timer, but in stead of resetting the timer when it stacks, it extends it. So, getting MORE addicted when you're already addicted makes the addiction both more severe and additively longer. Addiction adds a 2% penalty to whatever stat the booster does if you're not currently under the effects per stack but is ineffective if you're actually under its effects (so if you have an addiction penalty that makes you suffer -4% cap capacity when you're not on the flood, but you take flood, you still have your normal base cap plus the bonus from the flood)

The end effect being that if you only use that mindflood occasionally, its fully effective and you're not getting addicted. If you use that mindflood habitually it becomes less and less effective until you're only getting 2% of the effect, and you have an increasing risk to become addicted to it with greater severity. If you go on an all out mindflood bender then go broke, you chould find yourself selling ships for low grade flood just to keep the shakes off, and getting almost no bonus from it, which may simply prolong your addiction. The only way to truly get clean with a 100% success rate is cold turkey. If your tracking is in the toilet because you've decided to make yourself a junkie, maybe you suffer the consequences and end up mining or ratting for a week or two while you get clean.

The basic idea here being that you normalize the effects of all grades of boosters, right, but lower grades (being of lesser quality) have a longer "tolerance time" and increased "addiction chance" while the highest grade boosters have a much shorter tolerance value and an almost negligable chance of addiction. Tolerance, like the effect of the booster, is a physical symptom, you can get around it by swapping clones. Addiction is however a mental symptom, and will follow you even through death.

Skills would give you base reduction to tolerance timers and addiction chance. Fully skilled and using the top tier boosters you could be pretty much immune to addiction and have that tolerance down to like a day or two. Maybe it was worth it to wreck your health though, if you used those performance enhancing drugs to save your fortizar or whatever.

This would make boosters attractive for "emergency use" and thus more likely to be carried in cargo, as nobody wants to pre-emptively take boosters before a roam as that could be a waste of a tolerance timer, but having some in your ship for when a fight looks like you need a "performance enhancer" to pop just before you engage would make more sense. If you're really hardcore, maybe you decide its worth it to tow that line and make those boosters a regular part of your game. Maybe you create a culture of dependancy in which you get your entire corp addicted to boosters "required" for your fleet comp.

With a system like this in place you could theoretically increase the duration of boosters maybe.

Yeah, it really sounds like you feel like others don't value their pods as much as you would like, but that doesn't make it an accurate assessment of the relative penalties of dying.

Also 12 hours boosters is a terrible idea since it would effectively end a play session if you get a bad roll.