Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I say leave this feature to Add in Rubicon 1.2 IF still needed...

Allowing smartbombs to be overheated is a buff to lowsec smartbomb gatecamps, hulkageddon and pipebomb attacks.

I've never been the subject of a pipebomnb or hulkageddon attack, but I have seen a player rage-quit eve never to come back after getting smartbombed at a gate twice in one day.

Good. I'm sure he found a game that was more to his liking.

indeed you have .... i'm guessing you still have plans to change ecm further along the line?

these changes are fine and all perhaps even nicer with the idea of Heat warfare links at a later date ... but how about more ship balancing when are we going to see ...T2's and T'3 and pirates get balanced??

Interdiction Sphere Launcher 15% ROF overheat bonus is just plain stupid and useless. As it was already said, it will actually DECREASE your effectiveness as an interdictor.
And what about Warp Destruction Field Generator?
Both of them COULD use 15% overheat bonus to RANGE. It would make sense especially in the case of bubble generator - similar to how warp disruptor works.

Overheating HIC bubble/scripted point for range would be something very useful to have

For me, the scripted infinite point specifically (would make the T2 version much more valuable to train), but the bubble would be nice for 0.0'ers as well i guess.

If you get hit by more than 1 volley of smartbombs, you are not travelling the right way. If you can't tank 8 large smartbombs (2400 damage) your ship shouldn't be in lowsec. They can only hit you with a single volley of bombs (pretty much regardless of their cycle time) if you warp to 0 on a gate in lowsec. You rarely see more than 1 person smartbombing a gate.

You rarely see bombing in highsec, you would need at least 15-20 people to kill a ship over 25k ehp, and its not worth the isk lost on the battleships in highsec.

Of course hulkageddon is different, because people dont care, but that isn't every single day.

Pipebombs, of course, are a different story, since if you have many people bombing you will not be able to survive in anything with less than 30k ehp. Especially if you are caught in a drag bubble in null. That's why they work though, and overheating will essentially only improve this application and the ability to pop drones quickly in a fleet fight.

DRONE DAMAGE AMPS!!!

Drones are the only weapon system that cant be overheated.

Don't miss this opportunity to include them.

If they multiply the damage of drones remotely, it makes no sense that that remote mutiplier cant be overheated??!

Do it Fozzie! U da man!

So unless I did the math, wrong, max possible td strength goes to 91%

You can scram kite a laser battleship with that.

A blaster frigate that tries to orbit 500 will literally be out of range.

A tded maelstrom will have about twice the tracking of a sieged nag

Armor hardeners can already be heated