Ships & Modules

The only difference that came with tech III ships was that their subsystems were fitted modularly and had several bonuses and characteristics (cloak, ewar, dps....what's new). While I think it's great that these ships can assume the roles of a bunch of different tech II ships, this isn't what I expect from a higher "tech level" of ships. Tech III ships shouldn't just be modular to fit and customize with bonuses, they should PERFORM modularly in combat.

What do i mean? I mean tech level III ships should no longer have the super simple shields/armor/hull EHP characteristic that tech I and II ships have. T3 EHP should be modular.

Now you really don't know what I mean? I mean if you want to take down a tech III ship the way you take down tech I and II ships (by locking them and just shooting them) you're going to be dealing with Shields/Armor that have 95% resistances across the board. However, if you target their subsystems, you're dealing with 50%-60% resistances and the chance to incapacitate different ship functionalities. Of course its harder to hit a ship subsystem than it is to hit the whole hull of the ship since you're dealing with a fraction of its signature radius.

So then all tech III ships are going to just speed tank? Well they certainly could, but there are lots of innovative ways a tech III ship could tank itself and its subsystems

1) hull reppers / nanite repair paste to repair or un-incapacitate subsystems
2) bulkheads to add a layer of hitpoints to subsystems and prevent their critical functions from being incapacitated
3) scuttle/eject specific subsystems from the hull to accomplish one of two things
i)gain a significant reduction in heat (from overloading)/mass/inertia
ii) use the abandoned subsystem as a distraction from your agressors such that they are temporarily fooled into thinking the abandoned subsystem is you.

A tech III ship will retain the ability to move ( 10 m/s) and warp relativistically (up to 0.1 AU/s , speed of light is just too slow) with either NO subsystems left at all, or without the engineering or propulsion subsystems.


This is what I would expect to see from a higher tech level ship that can truly be called strategic.

at least that's my 2 aurum

tl;dr.

T3s are awesome, nobody touches my T3s.

Propulsion - Shoot the engines
Offensive - Shoot the guns
Defensive - Shoot the shield projector/armour resistance modifier
Electronic - Shoot the outer sensors
Engineering - Shoot the reactor's venting system

Problem solved.
There's a reason real life vehicles have areas of weakness, and this can reflect into EVE.

First off, this should be in the ideas forum.

But even if it were it would almost certainly be ignored, because it would require a large change to game mechanics for a very small gain. As someone else has pointed out, your plan opens up can of worms in terms of what happens in certain scenarios and the idea, for now at least, is just too complicated.

-Ed

Just out of curiosity, do you have down's syndrome?

Why would higher tech level ships be more vulnerable than tech I and II ships?

You don't think tech I & II ships have engines, or sensors, or weapons, etc...

How come you'd be able to do damage to specific ship capabilities on Tech III ships but not I and II?

Doesn't make sense to me.

I'd rather see the ability to overheat subsystems for higher bonuses granted by that subsystem.

I think the sheer amount of manhours needed to make this work would prevent this idea from getting further than the drawing board. It's a neat idea, but it would require a hefty chunk of coding to implement just to influence 4 ships directly, and also how every single other ship interacts with them.

Personally I would rather they spent their time doing tweaks to existing issues and making the game/UI prettier/easier to use, rather than starting off a whole new set of balance problem by redesigning T3 from scratch.