Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I want crew mods that effect the efficiency of the operation of the ship. Without a crew a ship will operate at decreased efficiency. Adding crew will improve efficiency as the quality of the crew improves. I view the mods as coming in different flavors: officer, science, military, industrial. I would have the crew mods created by PI -- essentially the PI "grow" colonists who become available for use as crew. I would also have the crew require maintenance -- payment of isk over time which increases as the crew improves in quality.

Heres an idea on the tractor beam idea, Instead of a beam use something along the lines of a magnetic grappling hook like something similar to what the Rievers use on 'Firefly". You could also go as far developing a neut/nos/ or some sort of pulse to fry the electronics on board of grappled ship. Make it so that it can only be fitted to say Battlecruiser sized ships and above and that it can only be used against ships the next size down of grapple ship with a percentage chance of features working on victim ship depending on size of the poor ship. Would be a used on say Tier 1 BC's or a new class developed for the system.

Spent a bit of time reading the thread to make sure that I wasn't repeating someone's idea......This isn't exactly new but rather unifying all the hacking ideas here.....

IRL there is a program called 'Suter'. It involves hacking a nations air defence network to either prevent detection, preform target deception, or to shut down the network entirely.

For EVE this would be applied as a hack either against stations, ships, or probes. Ideally the user would have a module or family of modules [perhaps a subsystem for use on the strat cruisers] that would hack the system in question that would allow the user to insert their own data into the system.

I think the idea of active decoys that are tailored to a specific ship type is good. And I would like to add a T2 variant that provide for more realistic control/actions. This could be tied into bandwidth. It would also come with their own skill set.

Level 1 would be limited to a random result [either telling the opposition that you're elsewhere or exactly where you are]. At higher levels you'd be able to control multiple decoys and be able to alter their signatures to preform various actions.

Faction Battle cruisers would be awesome


salvage drones small medium and large

retriever drones/ drones that act like tractor beams and bring the loot/wreck to you

i think everyone would like o see some more destroyer love. Destroyer = Anti frig, add a tier 2 destroyer maybe with slavage/ hacking bonuses


swap a slot, module that goes in a mid slot and gives you a low slot and other combinations, have it so only one or two can be fitted on a ship

T3 weapons guns and launchers.

One module of each size and type, small, medium, large, extra large.

Hybrid, Energy, Projectile, Launchers.

Module would have fitting requirements between the T2 long range and short range module. So for example would take less than Taychon II but more than Mega Pulse II to fit, cpu, and powergrid, wise.

These modules would have scripts that are loaded to give them similar range and damage profiles of either the long range or short range guns, these scripts can only be changed when you have a certain level of cap, lets say 95%. But take no cap to change. With normal ammo and activation they would do 5-10 % less than the best T2 module, but when overloaded they would do 10%-20% more damage and with good skill could maintain an overloaded state for 2-3 times as long as most modules now.

The cap requirement makes it hard to change your fighting in the middle of a fight but lets you have the flexibility on the fly before a fight. To change the script you would also have to change T2 ammo if that was loaded. or just any ammo to make it simpler. T3 weapons could use T1,T2, or T3 ammo

So you would have one module, That can be used in either short or long range, changed out while on a roam, with bonuses for overheating but not as good as T2 in most cases. Especially when you consider most people fit ships around the guns to support those guns with the right modules and how you fit a sniper vs brawler vs kiter tend to be different it shouldn't be so versatile to be over powering.

T3 ammo

I think ammo for each racial variant that could only be used in T3 guns and has similar damage and range modifiers as the T2 varieties but has opposite damage type profiles.

For instance crystals that do ex and kinetic making the energy weapon more of a disintegration ray instead of a laser,

Strange hybrid rounds doing EX and EM. Rounds that explode on impact with high release of EM radiation

Projectile rounds that are really disposable laser rounds. When struck by the firing mechanism, a one shot laser fires out of the projectile weapon. Doing mostly EM and some thermal damage.

(While your at it get rid of the EM and Thermal damage from current Winmatar guns... was that whole race the early experiment in T3? Biased, loyal Amarr servant here.)

And I have no clue what to give Launchers for T3 ammo since they can all ready pick damage types. Maybe a series of missiles with combination warheads, half damage of one type and half damage of another.


New Missile defense module.

Just make it chance based out to a certain range. High slot. And limit how many missiles it can engage in a certain period of time. But it should be something you activate and forget. But uses cap.

You could call it a point defense system. You could even have ammo for it and racial variants. Have it use ammo or chance to damage crystal, every time it is able to engage a missile. If its targeting is overloaded then it doesn't waste ammo. High ammo capacity. Specialized ammo. It either hits and does full damage like a smart bomb or it misses completely.

Could have Size variations. Larger ones have better range and ability to engage more missiles at once.

Could make a second destroyer hull that gets bonuses to this module like you see suggested all the time.

If your really good it will only engage missiles of people not in fleet with you. If your are totally ******* amazing it will engage missiles based on some kind of standings. Possibly controlled by script only in the T2 version

Haven't read through the thread completely. If I am imitating anyone else's idea consider it the highest form of flattery.

Module Or Mod

I would be willing to give up a slot on my ships for a Module that would keep refreshing my Directional Scanner or if it could make it read in real time, so I don't have to keep clicking, while watching for Scanner Probes or Ships trying to find me.

T3 Ammo:

Long Range: Range 80% of T2 LR; Alpha dropped by 50% with a damage over time effect due to cascading explosions, DOT effect based on round type and applied in 10% increments. This will play havoc with logistics as they will have to spend time repping a ship that is not being fired upon.

Short Range: Range 120% of SR; DPS dropped by 50%, and 2 second Residual effect of racial EWAR, stacking penalties applied. Hybrid: Sensor Dampening; Lasers: Tracking Distrupt; Projectile: Signature Increase; Missiles: Chance for target lock break (race of ship depending on damage type: EM Amarr, Kinetic Caldari, Thermal Gallente, Explosive Minmatar)

A one shot bomb that can be sent through a stargate that disrupts/ destroys gatecampers.

This may requrie a second ship on the target side of the stargate to nominate a target, which they can't do whilst cloaked.

Neut shield.

Treat the energy neutralizered like damage, introducing a module to reduce that damage. The amount reduced is up to balancing concerns.

ex -
Emergency Drain Limiter
Reduces neutralizer effects by 20/21/22/23/24/25% by meta
Mid-slot

Why so high? Being "neut-proof" would take up most of the slots commonly used for passive tanking.