Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was thinking about how cool it would be for a new cyno in EVE for one single purpose. A "Logistics Cynosural Field" only a jump freighter can use and it would be the only cyno that could be lit in .7 and under security. This would allow jump freighters to move by cynosural fields into to high sec but no other ships. Now with cool abilities there must be risk therefore some of the obvious risks are everyone knows a expensive freighter will be coming in by the name of cynosural field and the fact that only that class of ship can jump through. They would also know that nothing else would be able to use the same cyno (ie. other caps or a support fleet) to save them. Other risk but not limited to would be the cyno cannot be lit within so many meters of a station, gate, beacon, etc.. Which would force that freighter pilot to A) burn to station to get to safety assuming they wouldn't get ganked on the way. B) the cyno lit well outside of warp distance to station for it to warp to station. The scenario "B" would allow more than enough time for a interceptor to get there point the jump freighter and then get the additional fleet to kill/point the freighter. The issue with option "A" is that you can be permanently bumped away by other ships as you die slowly. So this isn't a overpowered device nor would it be without risk.

Ok so we can change to be just .5 security. I picked .7 because it was in the middle of .5 and 1.0. The ultimate purpose never changes regardless which high security system value you use.

I did state it could not be lit within so much distance i was personally thinking 50-75km. However suspect for the freighter seems overkill but cyno I can agree a cyno like that would most likely be fairly expensive due to what it does.

Currently in low and nullsec cyno is lit on station most times and they dock instantly. So I don't really see much issues there. If you're talking about time.

What about the pilots who are not complete idiots and dock instantly like any jump freighter pilot should be doing.

There is at 50-75km off the nearest safety (ie. a station, assuming the distance the cyno is lit is within warp range anywhere else would be higher risk because the pilot has to bounce off a celestial meaning that the pilot is in space longer therefore more risk) An interceptor to even a simple catalyse would easily tackle it and its obvious where you are since there's a warpable beacon that says here I am. It really is no different than a freighter jumping through a gate except its closer to safety (ie 15km give or take). Jump freighter and freighter have about the same align time they dock the same really the risk is the fact you gotta bounce off celestial or warp to station if you lit cyno in warp range. which is no real different than if you bounce a freighter off a celestial or warped it to station. and theres a chance you get tackled at your cyno. theres a chance you get tackled at the gate in a normal freighter. I'm sorry I fail to see the argument. The biggest risk is the entering system with a beacon saying im here in a 6.3 bill isk hull come kill me versus jumping in with a regular freighter and only the people on the gate sees you and go oh a 1.2 bill isk hull lets kill it. your earlier argument of time to assemble the gank squad is also irrelevant under the same context of your gank squad is not at/ready for the gate/cyno your not going to catch it. Yes there is tricks to help the freighter get to safety faster but same thing with regular freighters. When if comes down to it the only difference is more range to safety, isk at risk, and one of the two can jump.

Same thing for a non jump freighter off a gate. I still don't see anything that makes it "Less risk"

When you double-web a freighter into instawarp, there's virtually no risk involved as there isn't any time at all for the ship to be bumped. If you aren't aware of this you are also not qualified to determine what does and does not constitute "risk" in highsec.

You can get that once I get covert cynos working in high sec to.

PS: its never going to happen.

Or we could just not do it at all.