Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd very much like to see the acceleration and deceleration increased a fair amount across the board even if to keep the warp times the same the warp speed is slightly reduced.
I say this because the feeling of lack of control as you are coming onto grid but still all locked up cause you are "in warp" is frustrating. I want to be able to react to the battlefield the second i can see the battlefield, even if that's a little late :). A little like the first of the new star-trek films (someone mind finding a link to that part) where they are following the fleet into combat, drop out into wrecks. I'm not saying lets do that, but i'd certainly like to move closer to the snappier drop out experienced when jumping.

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On Sisi, it took 28 minutes to move 16 jumps in an unplated Paladin.
Awesome use of one's time.

That is all.

Well, a powerful beast such as that should take time to move around.

i really like the warp speed changes and especially the boost to interceptor role it brings..but i have one concern:

with warp times being shorter by up to almost 20 seconds for ceptors and frigates - with the same amount of cap needed to make the warp its that much less time to regenerate your capacitor ! doesnt this make you much more vulnerable when you land on grid?

any chance to introduce a "cap regen during warp" stat and tune it to compensate for this?
might even be another stat to play with for ship balance..

First off let me say I started to play this game with the intention of beeing a battleship captain, flying the big ships that have the most combat power except for capitals. I dislike how much this class has been marginalised during the development of the game.

However, there is one thing I disliked even more. The fact that all ship classes were effectively travelling equally fast in warp due to the acceleration mechanics as they worked up to this day. This effective speed equivalation made it extremly difficult to force fights in PvP when one side decided to evade combat and run. The new changes that are coming will lead to more fights as interceptors and dictors will be able to catch those who are running away. More fights mean more fun in general. Even though some people will cry about beeing caught, it means more action and that is something I welcome.

Of course I also see that my favourite ship class, the battleships, are becoming even less used by fleet commanders if they become very slow compared to all other classes. This problem could be approached by reducing the spread in general warp speed across all classes again. But I think that would be to short-sighted. Afterall, you identified the problem of all ships basically travelling at equal speed just right. Reducing the speed-spread again would just bring back said problem more or less.

Therefore, the adjustment to make all classes viable again, has to happen on the meta-level. That means you dont try to fiddle with the speed-spreads anymore. Instead give fleet commanders and their pilots reasons to be willing to accept the slower speeds by benefitting in other areas. To make it simple: make battleships powerfull enough again to compensate their inagility, slownes and relative to that their high costs. Then fleet commanders will be willing to field them again.

Similarily, this buff might have to come for battlecruiser sized ships as well, depending on how much they will suffer.

In general, if I had the choice between these new warp speed changes without the adjustments on the meta level as described above (since I can see that this ballancing process would take quite some dev work and time), or no warp speed changes (or even reduced ones) at all, I would still preffer the fully changed speeds as they show up on the table on page 1 of this thread. For the simple reason that they will actually end or at least reduce the ongoing chicken-game in low-/null-sec and make interceptors and dictors able to do what they should be designed to do. Intercept fleets and force the enemy into fights. More action, more fun.

Of course the meta game in general will change now. Doctrines will be adjusted and untill the devs get to include these new warp speed spreads into reballanced ship-stats based on meta-adjustments (see above), we probably will see less larger ships for a while. But untill then the widened abilities of numerous other ship-classes will compensate for that.

Let the sandbox play it out!

i don't really understand what plus this rebalance will bring on eve universe: few happy ceptor pilots, yes, but that's where the happy part ends
allot of sad(angry) bc/bs/cap/freighter pilots; and for what? more time spent in warp?!!!

like td wasn't really bad about this, you "rebalance" it to make it worse?
are you guys really that far out of touch with the game that can't see this move is overall a bad one?

how about ppl that don't have a titan to brige them around??? half an hour to move a plated bs 15 jumps?
and then half an hour to move back? how is this helping eve, spending 1 hour of you time moving a short distance away and back?

really, you what to rebalance things like, in 2013? make small things faster, leave the big things like they are, or, if you really have to, give them 2-3" more;

eve is a game, ppl play games for fun; staring at a ship in warp it's far far from fun

Small ships warp faster, slow ships warp slower. Amayzing changes, thank you CCP.

Only themepark carebears cry about this, so it's one more indicative of a good change for the game.

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Moving around in anything bigger than a cruiser is not fun. I agree smaller ships should warp faster and bigger ships slower, but when the slow ships warp sooo slow that takes ages to move around then the game stops being fun to play.

There must be a way of allowing for ship sizes while keeping the warp times at a manageable level. Remember that as a player there is nothing to do while staring at the warp tunnel.

longer warps / no mwd trick?