Player Features and Ideas Discussion

While I love the Immunity to Bubbles, lets face it moving aroound 0.0 with impunity is while desirable it is maybe at present slightly Over Powerful. I am suggesting keeping one of the Inties Bubble immune, but slow it down in warp speed, and making one not Bubble immune but faster through warp, probably at present warp speed, having both as present mak

They only fly around with impunity because of the nullsec fascination with only fitting long points on everything and generally equipping their own interceptors with extreme paper tank shitfits.

So what you suggest is fitting an interceptor in a way so it can withstand the dps of several other ceptors, go faster than those ceptors, and then pick out one of the hostile ceptors to scram while the others will happily speed along?

Yeah, i think that's totally the solution and counter to interceptors, and one actually has to wonder why noone has it figured out yet!



Basically, Ceptor-mobilty is incredible high. To catch one he actually has to f up. They're so fast aligning you're hardly getting a lock on them before they warp off.
They they warp at a speed where nothing can keep up with them, except for other ceptors. And maybe rigged dictors.
Then they cannot get bubbled.
And then, even if they feel like not warping off, they can still crash a gate. As i said, their aligning is so good they go up to ~4km/s before you can apply a scram if you sit right on them, which will be enough to carry them into jumprange.


I'm by all means not saying that they're op. It's just that it's usually wasted energy to start a pursuit.

I, for one, like the proposed change.
Bubble immunity on the one line,
long points and high warp-speed on the other line.

Yea! Screw those Interceptors that are working like they should!

I feel your pain my poor downtrodden friend, don't worry the mean Interceptor can't hurt you here. This is a safe place.

I suggest that you create your own thread about the ships that beat you up, then other people who have been abused will come in and agree with you and make you feel better. Also, never change your fit. Always whine that the other ship is OP, has no counter, is too easy, etc... This kind of dumbassery is highly loved by the internet.

Have a nice day

If you promise to not tell anyone, I would tell him to just launch a counter ceptor gang to kill the others, but I know effort and stuff..

I'm suggesting you stop being ******* terrible and catch and kill inties like everyone does who doesn't live in nullsec and never caught them in bubbles in the first place.

+1 This. Well Said Sir.

To argue against the point about moving around null with impunity, how do you feel about jump drives on that subject? Even less "punity," but higher costs.

Do you feel there should be a way to pull jumping ships out of... uh, jump?

A travel fit interceptor (shield buffer, 2s align) can get around 9k ehp to even it's lowest resist damage type. Up to 11k if you're exceptionally paranoid about smartbombs (you shouldn't be). Then it's warp speed will allow it to skate past most pipebombers due to server issues. So in a hypothetical where an interceptor was warping through a gate with six 8hi pipebombs humping it, half would miss and the other half wouldn't do enough damage to pop it. Since most pipebombs only run 7 bombs at most, a travel fit interceptor could tank 5 full blasts. Then, in this situation, since no one wants to admit they didn't hit it because they were watching pornography, it gives the impression that six battleships weren't enough to kill an interceptor. This is all assuming all pipebombs are using the same damage type and that damage type just happens to be that interceptor's weakest. If our hypothetical gang of pipebombers were using mixed damage, then the amount of pulses necessary to take out an interceptor only increases.

All to say, no, he wasn't too far off the mark.

I'm not trying to argue this is overpowered, but the vast majority of the perception of imbalance surrounding interceptors have more to do with server issues and game functionality than their actual stats or capabilities. Not to mention people being little girls about not being able to effortlessly murder anything that pops up on their overview.