Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You just are not wishing hard enough.

Perhaps supers will be able to dock when we get destructible stations. That way when you go away from the game for a month, you can lose absolutely EVERYTHING!

OP, your idea is bad because Eve is not real, it is a game. When I leave the game for a few hours or days, I should not have to worry that much about my stuff.

to bring the pos module back into play i would make the simple change that you can't log off in a super you must first park it up in said pos or you can simply leave your holding toon perma logged sitting inside the pos shields

i would also give all player built stations a station upgrade to add up to 4 docking gantry's each allowing 2 supers to dock so a total of 8 supers could dock at a station at any 1 time the supers wouldn't disappear from space but you would see them docked at the gantry

flying up to a station and seeing all the titans docked at it. My god that would be an awesome sight to behold. Love that idea. Especially once stations are destructible. :D

+15 for the idea, +2 for the tears. No exaggerations here.

The easy way to ease players into the new system would be to keep supers invisible until they log in for the first time after the change.

I'd like to see people be able to exit their supercapital ship. One change to make that possible would be to allow supers to be owned by a corporation, and for the ship to always be locked except to those who have authorized access, with corp directors who have the role able to force-eject a ppilot from a corp-owned super.

I think all capital ships should be locked when ejected in space, and should require a successful hacking attempt for an unauthorized pilot to board them.

Only ships with no pilot in them, of course. But yes, hack the world!! I can't wait for CCP to do a pirate phase in which, over several years, every other expansion focuses on adding more mechanics for theft, hacking, scamming, pirating, ransoming, station-killing, killing players who are in stations or ships, and other excellent things!

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I propose all supercapitals make a warp beacon wherever they are in space, at all times.



But more supportive of our super pilots, I'd like to see larger towers have longer reinforce timers. I think this should also go along with an increase in fuel costs. Large towers shouldn't be the norm, they should be what you use to have a high level of security. I'd like to see their fuel costs multiplied several times over but also give them a long reinforce timer (like over a week) and their guns should be capable of blapping any subcapital when focusing fire through player control of the starbase turrets. They should also have a tremendous fuel bay with attachable modules for additional fuel storage and automatic loading, allowing them to go without re-fueling for months at a time. And their bubble should be bigger. It should have room for a bunch of supers.

Small towers should be the meat of maintaining sovereignty and performing basic POS functions. They should be cheap and efficient, and have a greater HP and defenses than their share of the cost of maintaining them. And all of them should be capable of holding several months' supply of fuel. The logistics of re-fueling lots of POSes is a nightmare. You might say that big alliances need to make sacrifices for holding sovereignty. I agree--but howabout instead of slowly killing their POS fuelers, they instead put a lot of money in the POS where it can be stolen through blowing up the tower and looting, getting a spy in the owning corp, or hacking it with some mechanic added in a later expansion?

This change would just make more centralization and give power to big alliances, as long as lowsec has no bubbles you just need a personal pos in system where nobody can bump you out and you can still leave them there 100% safely.

This solves nothing any the only thing could result from this is more power to the null blocs and everyone else has to leave supers in lowsec or have them get rapecaged and killed.

What if you were able to tag your own Emergency log off safes as a supercap pilot?

Set a bookmark in the POS, tag it as a log off safe. When the game detects that you've disconnected without logging off safely the supercap will automatically warp to that safe instead of doing the "Warp 1 AU in a random direction and wait for timers to expire" thing ships currently do.

+1 for a "Super Capital Log-Off Timer". Keeps you in space just like the existing PVE and PVP log-off timers with the vital difference that it does not run down while you are in a super capital ship.

While I don't have supers, this does not sound unreasonable. An alliance that can afford a super should be able to afford a place to park it.

The reason this proposal is so shortsighted:

1.) Supers are NOT Corp / Alliance assets. Pragmatically, whomever is piloting the super is the owner of the super, no matter what effort went into obtaining it. Everything in a POS is a corp asset, as the items within are ALWAYS accessible by various members of a corp. Your proposal would force individuals whom own a super to suddenly share an extremely large-value asset with their corp members. Forcing players to give their high-value personal assets to a corp will cause a LOT of problems!

2.) The only means to "secure" these vessels would then involve creating 1-man corps (or corps with only a few select trusted members). This would have major gameplay "fun" issues centering dealing with POS fueling, corp management, and other wonky and/or tedious tasks.

3.) This would have a very brutal impact on "smaller" alliances/coalitions in Nullsec. When you cannot despawn a super, then you cannot store it in nullsec unless you can confidently defend it. For example, if my corp ever obtained a titan, we could NEVER keep it in nullsec (where we live). This is because any larger group could bubble wrap and RF our POS, trapping the super for the entire RF cycle. Even if we managed to summon a 100 pilot fleet, it would be easily crushed by most large alliances out there. As such, we'd have to keep the supers in lowsec, which is often far from our base of operations. This poses additional constraints and difficulties.

4.) Why? Why make owning a supercarrier or titan more difficult? Supers are GREAT at destroying structures and capital ships. They usually suck at killing subcaps, and are vulnerable to a subcap fleet. The biggest advantage supers provide involves removing enemy capitals from the field and rapidly grinding structures. This makes them very important to the Sov game, but if we instead revamp the Sov system away from the insane clockwork structure shoot, a corp that can wield 5000 supers isn't that much better than a corp that can't wield 1. I don't see the need for this ****-all-super-pilots change, as it doesn't actually fix ANYTHING that is broken in this game.