Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's in the title

Make warp core stabs an active module so if you get capped out they're useless.

Could also make them expensive cap wise by making the module cost a % of the amount of cap required to warp. Meaning they scale with ship size.

For warp core stab users. This would mean that you would only feel the negative effects of WCS's while they're active. As in - when you need them.


Fairly simple idea.

Feedback please.

Don't you like the idea of being able to disable WCS's?

The penalty to WCS's is the lack of targeting range...thus balanced. They use a Low slot which is also balanced as damage mods etc go in here.

Why is this needed? What "issue" does this aim to solve?

-1 from me I'm afraid, just not needed.

You can offline them if you like. You can online them again later, although that's going to cost a bit of cap.

The whole point of warp stabs is to trade fitting and sensor resources for points in warp strength. You don't need to target stuff when you warp, so it would be pointless to have the drawback if it only reduced your targeting capabilities when you needed to warp.

If it's such a big problem, and offlining the stabs isn't an adequate solution for you, then just bring along a depot and fit stabs when you need to warp, then refit to something else when you don't.

You really have a lot of options already.

Even if you can neut someone dry before they went to warp, the WCS would still remain effective until they complete their cycle and most ships would be long gone by then.

You haven't stated whether it should have a fast cycle time with minimal cap usage or long cycle time with large cap usage. Which is pretty relevant to the idea.

The cap issues created would particularly hurt new pilots with poor cap skills, when in travel fit mode.

Then you haven't even addressed the issue of AFK/Autopilot people.

I'm not offering any opinions on this. Just that the OP needs to consider all scenarios and issues, not post a half baked idea which doesn't even state the particular issue he is trying to address.

this idea is terrible and just an excuse to try and get pvp ships fitted with stabs again which was terrible in the first place they reason they are how they are is so pvp ships laugh at the idea of having them fitted if they're going out to a fight if you made them need cap all you'd do is if it was looking like you were going to lose you'd turn it on hit warp and then it dosen't matter if you don't make it to where you were going to warp to as it'd just drop you in a safe spot so you could wait for you cap to regen reload your guns and rep any damage

-infinity for this idea

The idea is that if you didn't have the capacitor available you wouldn't be able to turn it on.

If anything, WCS should keep their targeting (aka combat) penalties and gain a reduction to the cap needed to initiate warp, and a buff to warp speed.

They are warp stabilizers. They improve warp, not degrade it.

Iterating on the idea
wcs still gives penalty for equipping but no core stability until activatsd and then say usage us 10% of total cap pool. The idea as op suggested was to make wcs situational and not provide the get out jail free card it does now. Under current fw situations any quad wcs fit frigate would cap itself out and be unabke to warp in 2 cycles. A fair penalty for the possibility of escape under all normal circumstances if you ask me.

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