Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Have you ever been stucked hours inside a station being camped?
With proper intel, there is no need to see what's outside station. If you have bad intel, maybe you get stucked.

Have you ever felt to undock and use invuln. grace to see yourself what's outside?
A window would definitely kill the thrill.

I like multiple exit points, though. Why not a queue per exit? Jita 4-4 could even be quiet! :-)

All very valid points there and I do see where you are coming from. The window was merely another suggestion to take out the "Camera" point but I didn't say it needed to show the undocking ports . With a window if you were camped then at least you could gaze at the stars, curse them and scream "WHY! WHY WHY!" while falling to your knees fist pumping the air above your head.

On a serious note though I like the queue idea, I know hull bumping doesn't damage a ship but getting a hybrid Mastorca just looks silly and breaks my immersion so this would be a nice addition to my original idea.

What you are suggesting is a load balancing exit

I'd like instead to have e.g. 4 exit doors (exit gates?) and to choose which I want to exit from.

For example: station camped, you and your friends form up to exit from a specific exit, which may lead you so some advantages knowing the station type, shape and orientation (e.g. outside pos? sun? system gate?).

More: maybe your enemies can't outnumber you to all exits, leaving you a secondary exit... If you also usually live in certain stations you have your insta warp bookmarks ready to save you. Or you can use them to insta warp and warp back at your optimal to start kill.

I think there are hundered of possibilities and tactics we could benefit.


Edit: I saw around here another post talking about bookmarks to be shown in tactical... Merging it to this... I'm starting to figure also a BM grid outside the station, ready to serve you depending on station exit.

I would like to add: due to the current nature of the stations (1 entry, 1 exit) we usually see stations as little boxes for our business.

They could paint it pinky, we would'nt even notice.

Only using cynos forces you to pay attention to station shape, to avoid entering cap to get bounced off at light speed far away.
With multiple exits instead, maybe you can enjoy station details much much more.

Really? Please tell me how this idea\suggestion nerfed Blockade Runners?

Hi Nikk, from Post #1 I did add this orginally:



I hope that this clears it up. I also use insta-undocks and wouldn't want to affect these hence why I added this into my OP.

I really don't understand that.

Case #1: If he has an insta-undock bookmark and has no route plotted into his Autopilot then the "Docking System" would route his undock through the default AKA current undocking bay doors and out exactly as it is now.

Case #2: If he DID have a route plotted into his Autopilot then the "Docking System" would route his undock to a point that was obstruction free i.e. wouldn't require the ship to turn 180 degrees and attempt to enter warp before bouncing of the station.

If he means that in Case #2 that his insta-undock's would be obsolete then that is true, however, that being said I would add that perhaps incorporating the option to undock via the default docking port could be added or do not set a waypoint until you have undocked and insta-jumped away from the station. The latter of these being my least liked idea but it's an option.

I hope that expands further as to how to address insta-undocks.

EDIT: Also Blockade Runners e.g. Prowlers, Viators etc are damn fast at aligning even when expanded.

I dont know about different points; its fine with me either way; HOWEVER< they need to fix the undock timer BACK To the way it was, where you can activate ONLY an MWD or AB, can be bumped if you do, and still keep the invulnerability during the timer.

If you are interested in this, PLEASE click on my name and find the thread about this and sign & like it. I tried pasting link here but CCP is so stupid that they block putting urls here but have a button at the top to add a link. I bet they put it there for "how do you keep an idiot busy........have him try to add a url to his post"

Actually, with different points, it would cause instawarp bookmarks to be useless, causing freighters to stay docked constantly.

Only problem there is when you can't redock

+1 You could have an extension of the current station model, a transport tube with a number of exits in different directions. That way ships will undock in different directions but if someone wanted to camp the station they could sit in the middle of all the exits which will be within warp disruptor range.