Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We can use a lot more of them.

I kinda like this idea , implanting a system wide effect like wormhole effects for 1 day or 2

Takes 2 hours to anchor( can be killed while anchoring ) and once its anchored it cant be destroyed but it will die after some time

Maybe add some extreem effects like droping shield resistance for all ships to 0% , while multiplying arrmor resist to all ships by 1.5 and vice versa

sure it will hurt both sides but then they have to adapt and use a different doctrine

You'd have to consider this , what prevents the pilot who implented the effect from using an alt to fail the hack to ensure locking the effect up

As stated its a brain storming session not a full concept so there would be a lot of things such as what you've mentioned to be considered before anything could be given serious consideration but it is something we can run with.

I suspect a better title would have been Asymmetric warfare.

The idea of what you're asking for is a good one, but the principle fails in eve because of the reasons Baltec gave.

What makes it work in the real world is the larger powers are unwilling/not allowed to combat it effectively. No such restriction exists in EVE.

If you can find a way to limit the ability of larger blocs to effectively deploy it, I applaud you - but I can't think of one.

I wonder if it would be fun to offline some of an alliance's jump bridges without them noticing right away..

The idea is that those who go around using it on every target they can drop it on will eventually be the targets that many others will want to destroy the most.. if it was abused the abusers would make a lot of enemies and would then be the ones the majority would want to hit.

If nothing else it could mean mutual destruction which honestly I don't think is necessarily a bad thing in many cases and the truth is that many of the major blocs could care less about the little guys simply because there's nothing they can do to them at the moment other than steal a few resources from their towers and other minor things. Not to even mention that many who would likely target the larger guys will not own territory for them to attack. Most smaller groups that do own territory rent it so the point is null. The only ones large groups would use it on is other large groups in attempts to take sov and even then those their attacking could do the same in kind if pushed into it. think of it as a nuclear arms race where if any one side over used it they would assure their own demise as much as their enemies.

The stuff that's supposed to be for small groups to harass big guys with aka targetable structure services, siphon units etc hurt the larger entities by making them laugh too hard at best... There needs to be a way for a small group to sow terror in the minds of the larger entities and make them think oh s#$% that wasn't expected or what we needed to happen right about now.

Think the kinds of stuff terrorist do in rl and apply it to eve.... we should have strategic class tools to balance super cap fleets to sow terror in the hearts of our enemies and those we want to enact revenge upon.

How about some kind of chemical/biological,nanobot attack that cripples a station for a period of time denying access to it or even damaging certain assets like bpo me/te or destroying the quality of R64 moons with some kind of environmental attack or disabling/disrupting a jump bridge network for a period of time with some kind of gravity well that causes those using to be spewed out in random systems across a given area or even an attack on a star that makes a system extremely toxic to those attempting to use it for a period of time kinda like the negitive effects incursions have but player orcastrated such as a super nova event that the residents can stop in time if they act fast enough but if they fail will have to suffer from for say a week or so ...something along those lines should be possible and even plausible since i remember reading a while back how EVE's engine can be used to do stuff like that but that you hadn't really thought of any good things to use it for.... I'm sure there's plenty of other terror type things people could come up with that would cripple the null bears in some fashion and would be useful to small groups trying to create a beach head in null sec and having the capacity to pull off such attacks would give them a bargaining position as well kinda like north korea vs the usa by using nukes to prevent an invasion. Sure they could crush them if they wanted to but at what cost? That's the mentality i'm talking about here.

it could be balanced by making it expensive and have it scale say a disabled jump net work around 5 bill, a station attack 10-20 bill and a system wide attack 35-40 bill or have it correlate with the costs of supers at say half their general price. You could even make it difficult to pull off but extremely effective at making null groups go oh sheet is not good day today if carried out successfully just think of all the knives in the back the null bears will use on each other by employing low level corps to do their under handed business because they fear someone doing it to them first...... could be lots o fun think of the meta muhahhahhahahahahaaaa some of us just want to watch them burn is all and we should have the tools to make it happen with out bringing 2000 of our friends in on it and enacting 18hr tidi bashes. CCP is always talking about how a few individuals having an impact on the community at large and I can think of no better way to make it happen.

If you give us the tools we will set the universe on fire......

5 guys capable of "sowing terror" to a group of 5000, wonderful, so those big guys have 1000 of those same groups able to "sow terror", congratulations, you just ****** every little guy out of null AND low, by both nerfing them AND massively buffing the N+1 issue.

There is no way to restrict or make this fair, hell, as much as we want it to, there is no way to make N+1 anything BUT the easiest and BEST way to win fights, the only thing we CAN do is make it harder to move that N+1 to who you want to kill, attempting to create regional warfare rather than galactic.