Player Features and Ideas Discussion

you wona dup ceptors and dictor via covops? No no ......

I have - it's not hard or something - i just don't think permaclicking of one button is a good game mechanic, especially to attract to game one-month-old new players who have just joined wardecced highsec corp.


Also, you can never be sure if that combat probes are directed against you and nobody else in highsec (since highsec is overcrowded by lots of neutral players from different corps who can be wardecced too) and you'll have to warp out anyway if you see them on d-scan. You can say that you can use short-range d-scan to see only close probes but the problem is that experienced scanner will scan you down so fast you'll probably wouldn't even saw his probes near you before he would be already warping on you in cloaky ship (especially after latest scan interface improvements).
So, any troll can just fly through popular highsec systems and drop his probes to make every player from every wardecced corp dock I don't think it's a good gameplay.

You can say - don't do business in crowded systems but it doesn't work either since a) it's a big problem to find such system, especially with resources you need, b) locator agents mean "they'll find you anyway"

Introduce a special Cyno Concord Tax as ISK Sink let say 1 million ISK for every System you had to travel through. (Shortest Way)

It has. Troll can't be seen in your local as red if he is not realy red
This way is simple - you see red in local, you warp out. You don't have to guess are they looking for you or somebody else and at last warp out anyway because of your expensive RNI - red in local means 100% danger , probes in highsec full of players - maybe danger, maybe troll, maybe somebody just accidentally pressed probe launcher.
Cooperation is good but forcing to cooperate is not really what EVE needs, IMO, since some players like playing EVE solo or semisolo and it's ok.

Covert cynos in hisec would be broken because no amount of caution can protect you from them.

It is naive to think it would lead to more cooperation rather than more NPC-corp squatting.

Cool idea, but wouldn't it make highsec space feel more cramped all of a sudden?

It sounds to me, like you are implying that travel is the most significant obstacle being faced by those interested in space combat.

Since Covert Cynos would make travel easier, for a specifically limited group of ships, I am not seeing your conclusion being reached under conditions outside of a war dec.
And under a war dec, in my opinion it is only a half truth.

From my view, no front line ship is capable of using these covert cynos, only what I would describe as "their overpriced and tactically diminished cousins".

I am not seeing the impact which you suggest, making travel insignificant.

The only variety of ships able to use this, in my opinion are also the least useful to transport goods and fight with.
(In their respective categories)

Add to this, they are cost prohibitive to use in a fight outside of a war dec.
In the case of a war dec, I believe they are a last resort when compared with more competent ships, which also tend to be far less expensive.

These ships seem to me, to be something of a novelty in high sec far too often. I don't see them as being fit for normal use, which this might change in some limited examples.

Good point.

Yes I do realise that, but they are big enough and slow enough, that was my main concern.

You are expecting gankers to suddenly switch over to using expensive ships with comparatively limited combat ability?

Simply because they might be able to use a covert cyno, which requires a local ship allied to them present in order to use.

I feel you are either stretching a point, or missing one. The idea someone will issue a war dec just so they can use overpriced hardware to gank miners, I find beyond reasonable expectations.