Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Its a pro-sub cap PvP game.... somebody has to lose.

Can we have additional feature on all Hictors?

Super pointed target cannot light cyno

Are there EFT files out for these yet?

I nominate this for the least coherent analogy of the year.

Logging in on my wonderful landing-strip-head alt to say that HICs won't see much multi-role combat with the changes being made. I guess it's good that they'll get an additional deployment location -- on gates, to sit still, attempt to hold caps, and get blapped -- but it's still far too expensive and far too cumbersome compared to regular dictors to warrant regular use, nevermind use where they'd actually want to bring guns.

Separating cap combat and subcap combat for a moment, the additional DPS does not make hictors a good sell for subcap combat. I'd recommend the bubble affect inties, which will still MWD through it like empty space and only get caught by sebos and other ceptors. It'd give hictors the niche purpose of making inties behave like a few patches ago. At the hictor price point, with its bubble-up vulnerability plus combat timer and inability to jump, it still won't appear very prolifically. Just more prolifically than right now, which is to say rarely seen dangling under a carrier.

Firstly, Eve is an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online). Not a Single Player Online game...

Secondly, if you find yourself in a fair fight in Eve Online.... You've done it wrong.

You're not wrong but it's not the end of the world. Phobos has a utility niche and Amarr finally get a T2 DPS cruiser that isn't outshone by the Gallente alternative. Everyone wins?

I would be intersted in your list of changes that make solo pvp less viable. I'll bookend the request with changes that have come about in the past 3 years.

I think it's the people you meet, not the mechanics.

I'm interested in which changes you think have gone against solo pvp.

because the diemost is used so much more often than the zealot?

Hey everyone. I'm back from Vegas now and all caught up on the thread. Thanks for the feedback so far.

A number of the suggestions posted here (allowing hictors to prevent interceptors from warping, allowing focused points to stop all ships from jumping, allowing focused points to stop ships from docking) would unbalance the game too far towards inescapable camps. We have absolutely no intention of making any of those changes at this time.

I'm noticing a fair bit of consternation at the fact that the Devoter is getting a small dronebay but the Phobos is not. The optimal bonus on the Phobos has also been raising some eyebrows.
The key thing that these players are missing is the distinctive flavour we are working towards giving the entire Roden Shipyards line. The old design for Roden Shipyards was focused on a fairly watered down use of missiles and hybrids. This left them in an underwhelming place compared to the other two Gallente T2 corps.

In the new world order for Gallente T2 ships, each manufacturer has a clear set of strengths and a unifying theme:

Duvolle Labs ships are the perfect blasterboats, tending towards lots of damage bonuses (often both RoF and Damage on the same hull) and falloff bonuses. Duvolle ships tend to be among the faster Gallente T2 ships to help them get into range, and sport robust unbonused dronebays as a secondary weapon.

Creodron ships are specialized droneboats, as befits a line of vessels constructed by a company that makes most of its money from drones. These guys tend to have the most drone bandwidth, and the best drone bonuses.

Roden Shipyards ships can be used as effective blasterboats, but tend to lean towards railguns with big bonuses to hybrid optimal range and tracking. They are a bit slower than Duvolle ships, and have the weakest drone capability of all the Gallente ships, but they tend to have more low slots and more armor HP, as well as better sensors.

Then give them the fitting to actually fit a tank and rails!