Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I can only hope these other viable concepts they had are in fact more viable than what they've proposed thus far. :\

One of the more interesting proposals iv seen was a pretty big resistance to overheating, not immunity so as to leave you the ability to effectively whelp yourself.

I like the idea that the hull would have an incentive to explore the more advanced aspects of flying and beating you up for overreaching

they should unsticky this thread as both ideas were thrown in the can and they have gone back to theory crafting... dont expect an update for a while.

I always enjoy it when someone effectively says "put your money where your mouth is", and the other person responds with "not a problem".

Checking in awaiting CCP's newest update. Eager to see their new ideas :)

Interesting changes and quite complicated to figure out what each ship will be like once they come in.

Personally I fly a Kronos with remote rep Navy Domi on an alt. - average mission I warp in get aggro on Kronos, then warp in Domi set to assist with drones and RR if needed (this almost never needed) My Kronos is fitted with tractors while Domi salvages.

I dont really like the idea of jumping all over the place in 100km bursts...the MJD is not really useful in 90% of missions and im not sure what use this would have in pvp either....perhaps this module needs the jump distance to be adjustable, but it would be awkward and why not just give the ship a simply velocity boost....seems like CCP are trying to force this absurd module on people.

The Bastion module (and pending hull transformations) sounds good to me as long as the marauders keep a decent web and rep bonus outside of the module being active. The ewar resistance will help with a few of the level 4 missions where ewar can completely overwhelm one ship. I have also seen a lot of people saying they dont use a web....this is one of the most helpful things on a maurader, it lets you kill anything bigger than a frigate with long range weapons no matter how close while letting your light drones kill everything frigate sized (this also makes the 50m3 drone bay very workable)

One thing I can see happening is newer players getting overwhelmed in a mission, going into bastion mode and being stuck in place and loosing their ship. If mauraders could even RR each other this would be much better for helping new players (i think i read this suggestion somewhere)

another option would be to make them only a percentage immune to ewar or if each marauder is immune to its own races ewar (so it can mission effectively in the correct space) or perhaps a choice of scripts, which once loaded into the bastion module which makes you immune to only one/two type(s) of ewar for 60 seconds while the module runs. this way RR can be allowed (if only a %age of normal effectiveness) and the opposing fleet would need to dynamically change ewar types - this could make for some interesting pvp and still allow pve immunity.

At current the ship feels rushed with the price tag, insurance and remote rep situation making it largely useless for pvp and incursions.

However you look at it, it needs work (as you can tell from the number of posts)

200M from me aswell though id ask you maby announce the times and do a twitch cast of it

Haven't done any casting, but I'll look into it. Regardless, I'll try to remember to create an in-game chat channel to post the videos to at the very least.

Since 60% is 7.2 ships, I will change it so that it needs to be completed with at least eight of the twelve ships.

Realistically the only variable worth considering is what is a reasonable completion time (which is highly subjective). Skill level and fitting is completely irrelevant as people using other types of vessels will bling out their ships as well and could be of any skill level.

Edit: I see terms have been agreed on. Just keep in mind however you determine reasonable completion time the ships contributing to those numbers need to generally follow the same guidelines, otherwise the test is highly weighted in favor of those other ships.

There is no way to quantify this factor, but keep in mind that a T1 BS has a much lower likelihood of being suicide ganked as well. It's simply not as attractive a target, and not as likely to be blinged out.