Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This implies that ganking is a problem, rather than a feature of the game.

I love the idea of introducing more real physics.

1. Ramming ought to do damage both to the ramming and the rammed ship, first to shields, then to armor and finally to hull.

2. The damage should be proportional to the square of the relative velocity at impact, capped at the smaller remaining hp total of the two ships. MWD kamikaze!

3. Damage that penetrates hull should have a chance to disable/destroy modules (nerfing loot; AURA: "Microwarpdrive damaged. Microwarpdrive failing.") and may prevent ejection before a hull is destroyed (AURA: "Emergency ejection is offline."). It kills crew members (if any) as outlined below (AURA: "Hull breach on deck three. Casualties reported.").

4. Add a crew cost and morale system. Capsuleers who casually dispose of their own crews by ramming must pay significantly more to staff their ships and undock...maybe not much in null, but more in low and the most in highsec. The act of ramming causes the capsuleer to take a standings hit with whatever corp owned the station where the ship first undocked. These penalties are reduced for the capsuleer who makes a killing blow by ramming. The penalties increase rapidly for a capsuleer who rams more than once per month. Any hull damage taken by a ramming ship is assumed to have killed a proportional part of the crew and therefore increases repair costs, with the increase ascribed to recruitment and training of new crew members. Nonpayment of the additional crew costs is noted in any contracting of the ship and is assumed by the purchaser. A ship can be sold on the market with unpaid crew costs, which reduce selling price.

5. IF CCP ever brings our crews to life with a system like that described above, it should apply to all cap pilots of crewed ships. Standings increases also reduce recruitment/training costs with the same corp/faction, so capsuleers' reputations can make crew eager to sign on. A bad rep might make it nearly impossible, or just very expensive, to crew a new ship in certain stations.

The issue at hand is, a player can repeatedly interfere with another player's activities, or even assist in a suicide gank, but Concord will do nothing to stop it. I understand why CCP allows bumping, but it's odd that it has no legal consequences in-game.

However, the issue you have to deal with is finding a way to determine who is bumping who. If that issue was settled, then I would suggest applying a suspect flag to repeat bumpers, not Concording - in the same way that stealing loot is a suspect offense. This would at least allow a bumping victim to call in backup.

So tired of seeing this thread.

Yes, logically you are acting as a "warp disruptor" and thus should recieve some sort of flag. The problem is it cannot be enacted within the game without causing lots of other unintended consequences.

CCP needs to add "web warping" as a tutorial, seriously.

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