Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Gona cut right to it..

The What

• You blow up a gate, it shuts down and goes inactive, when this happens it enters re-enforced and you can no longer attack it but the gate is no longer usable by anyone other than concord, when a gate goes down concord dispatch a fleet from the closest hub/capital to the downed gate, the fleet should take about 30 minutes per jump, the further from the capital the downed gate the longer the trip would take and the longer the gate remains offline to capsulears.

Once the repair fleet arrives on grid with the gate it begins to repair it, concord ships remain on grid with the gate to attack anyone who tries to be aggressive toward the concord logi, borrowing the mechancis from the new mining fleets player logi pilots would be allowed to lock the gate and rep it, at which point concord would also protect them if they get attacked, this repair process once started should take at least an hour.

Once the gate is back online, concord would remain on grid on both sides of the gate for 1 more hour to ensure that the gate was not immediately taken back down.

The Why

• PVP - Corps or alliances could take out strategic gates to change the flow of traffic through a region, or to lock an area or pocket down, this could be done to prevent people from escaping, either locals or hostiles or to lock locals into their home systems and prevent them from getting out to help their allies. the options are endless..
• PVE - If your working on anomalies doing your missions and you want peace and quiet to do it without pesky fleets coming through to interrupt you then you could form a fleet take out your own gate or gates and then spend the next few hours in peace taking care of rat cleaning.
• Industry - You happen to find out a single corp is crashing the market on trit and its all happening from a single system, you form a fleet and lock them inside their system along with a cloaky fleet of hostiles, this prevents them from mining and prevents them leaving the system to find some where else to mine, their locked in and the market takes a breath.

The How

• Doom!.
Taking down a gate should not be something a fleet of destroyers could not do, it needs to require at least 1 titan and a number of doomsday strikes. - by making the Doomsday the only weapon with sufficient power to down a gate it makes it something that will not be common , but still something than can be applied tactically when and where needed.

Considering that CFC and NCPL, to name only the biggest 2 groups, have high double digit dozens of titans, your "will not be common" falls apart upon most superficial scrutiny.

Not gonna happen.

How about I don't think players should be able to decide whether or not you can travel through a system, only what happens along the way. The possibilities for exploitation are huge. It does make jump bridges and cynosure more important but takes a significant amount of power away from anybody operating in null that is t part of a huge alliance.

You wouldn't get my vote for CSM with suggestions like this.

... says the guy who came up with an idea that allows players to effectively SHUT DOWN entire sections of the map more or less indefinitely**.


** Here is some "napkin math"; "shutting down" a stargate 26 jumps away from a DED office would mean that it will be inactive for 13 hours (see: (26 jumps x 30 minutes) / 60 minutes in an hour ).



Also...

- there is zero incentive for a local null-sec entity to keep a stargate leading into their territory online.
--------- Note: if you think "tedium" will stop people from doing this, please see what wormhole residents do to "close up" their systems. It borders on insanity.

- Malcanis' Law applies here. This will be to the overwhelmingly advantage of larger, richer corporations and alliances... less so for smaller, poorer entities and solo people.

No kidding. Stop thinking we would need a reason to blow up gates.

*edit: don't forget there are pipes in null. systems with one entrance and one exit for many systems in a row. blow them up in a staggered fashin and you may not block the hole but you can halt progression for roaming. I don't want to stop roams, they kill stupid people and can provide fun for both sides.

We will literally blow up all seven entry gates into Delve and rat/mine/whatever in complete safety.

That's bad.

Its been thought of and may be implemented. I expect wars will make that all the more entertaining.

One way into delve sounds very defendable. No way into delve without a cyno sounds even better.