Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Petrus and I got on SiSi last night and played with these new shitshow items. I wasn't terribly impressed with them, considering they're currently both warpable space junk.

Cyno'd ships cannot use the Mobile Jump Drive; I dunno if that was patched out at SiSi downtime or not, but Petrus was unable to use it with a cyno going. We did not have access to a Marauder to test if it would actually go anywhere under bastion.

The fact that dictor bubbles and anchorables could be placed inside the Scan Inhbitor isn't too hot, especially since it works as some fear; anything approximating a direct warp-to earns you a drag effect.

Over all, I'm not too impressed.

The Jump Drive deployable is a rather clunky 'escape mechanism' (that still left me enough time to burn away to 160km+, warp back to, and tackle Petrus' Tornado before he could alpha my Daredevil off the field or use this thing to escape) that seems more of a toy than a serious thing for most uses.

The Scan Inhibitor is paradigm shifting, and not in a good way. This thing is going to do nothing but promote even more blob warfare, and make already cautious or risk averse players even moreso. This particular flavor of one-way intel is, frankly, bullshit. The only way that these things could be remotely considered balanced is if the inhibitor effect was applied to any ships inside the AOE, rendering their d-scan useless, and preventing their ability to target when within the module's 'field,' just as when one is inside a POS forcefield.

I honestly have to question whether anyone at CCP thinks about these things at all before they send Fozzie out here with it. I suppose it's a bit too much to ask that Devs spend any time playing EVE Online under current metas before they decide to start pissing in the pool with these poorly instituted 'game changers.'

As an aside, CCP karkur and her people have continued knocking homeruns out of the park with small quality of life UI tweaks. I'm honestly more looking forward to these things hitting TQ than I am anything from the balance/shiny toys group.

50-150 million isk for an unrecoverable deployable that lasts 2 hours? Rofl...

You would engage a Drake solo with 1000 bad guys showing up in local?

I've engaged a Drake solo with 50 bad guys in local. I wouldn't think that's a reasonable thing to do with 5 of these DSIs on scan.

-Liang

Anything that makes the already laughably easy life of an NPCer easy is out of the gate a bad idea. They're hard enough to catch, if they want safety they go to high sec, if they want riches and danger, 0.0, but safe riches and danger is dumb, so the MSI is bad, because if you think cost will prohibit these from being used in broken ******** ways to make NPCing easy then I'd like to sell you a bridge.


MMJD is bad, the ships using it get something for nothing, they suffer no penalties and make no fitting concessions to gain the ability to MJD. Coupled with the fact that it instantly obsoletes the LMJD module because why ever bother fitting one if you can just drop this thing and get it done?


Scrap both mods, they're garbage.

Holy **** it's Grath and I'm agreeing with him.

It takes a truly horrific idea to bring together people this different against it.

So many delicious pirate tears in this thread.

EVE is supposed to be a harsh environment, why should it not be so for aggressors? They have had it far too easy for far too long.

These are excellent ideas that will add much needed balance to the game. We know you are angry because EVE got a little harder for you. Adapt or die.

Yes, because this will only make things harder for pirates. It has absolutely no effect on people trying to get decent WH PvP or trying to find actual fights in faction warfare.

And I am obviously a pirate.

Calm down it's just a troll.