Player Features and Ideas Discussion

TLDR: High power modules that pushes people back.

Details

Rationale
CCP wants players to deal with ganking, but tools are lacking. The best way to deal with large number of cheap ships is AOE attack but AOE attack in highsec leads inevitably to Concodoken, if not a ganking scout could simply walk into it intentionally.
Without AOE attacks, anti-ganking operation need to CC individual gankers but Catalysts have two mid spots that can fit cap boosters, ECCM or tracking computers. This means for anti ganking operation to succeed, it would take in average 1 anti-gank for every 2 gankers, and over 10 times the value of ganking fleet in isk.
Which is hardly balanced.

Details
Repulsor field generators apply 1 trillion kilojoules of Kenetic energy to all ships in range, forcing them away from the ship carrying it. This result in about 800m/s in a Catalyst or 100m/s in a Hyperion (Ha Ha ha). Repulsor field have no optimal, however a falloff depending on the size of the module: 20 km for heavy ones, 10 km for medium and 5km for small. Activation cost is 250 for small, 500 for mid, and 1000 for large. The cycle time is 30 seconds and only one repulsion generator of any kind can be active on a ship at any given time, just like ECM burst. Fitting cost identical to a cap booster and uses a high slot.
Effecting a ship with a repulsion field is not considered aggressive action, nor does repulsion field drop cloaks.

Expected Effects
- Ganking risk would be brought in line with other pvp activities, as a much smaller number of players and cheaper ships will be required to save a gank victim.
- It cannot be used to harass mission runners because it has negligible effects on battleships and a microwarpdrive nullifies it very effectively.
- It cannot be used to bump because on a providence it causes a speed of 33m/s and can only be activated once every 30 seconds.
- They are likely to make small ships slightly less effective against big ship fleets as successive use of the module can "kick" small ships out of a ball of big ships. However, frigates are nimble enough this shouldn't cause them much of a problem.

If you are a ganker, don't bother arguing that it's balanced. there is no risk. It's easy to spot an anti-gank fleet and calculate how many extra ship is needed. Ganking is less risky than running missions in highsec atm.

don't do much to freighters.
with 4 BS you get to change the freighter's velocity to 120 every 30 seconds.
If you had 4 BS, you can send them to bump 4 separate freighters. and none of them would warp.

on jita undock, you fire one of these off, you'd kick all the frigates and destroyer out, who will then warp out.
You will need an army of battleships to cause significant disruption, but even then not for long because you will end up kicking your own fleet away from undock. You see, repulsion don't have an optimal, only falloff. To move a freighter, eve for 10m/s you have to be next to it.

It's not so much about kicking ships around, as knocking them off of their alignment. That's all you need to do to stop them warping.

No they aren't, there are numerous ways to avoid/deter ganking...

How would this have helped your autopiloting shuttle?

You don't need to jam every catalyst to stop the gank from succeeding.

I've been in the Anti-Ganking channel. I've yet to find a larger group of self important, risk averse posers continuously patting themselves on the back over their own misperceptions about how great they are while constantly bleating that it is up to CCP to fix their problems, and mind you I've been in the CFC and currently live in renter space.

Also note all those empty freighter kills. How many of them were performed by MiniLuv, who has a mandate to destroy as much as possible in highsec? What may look to you like the evil gankers picking on poor defenseless haulers likely has a meaning behind it that you simply don't see. How many of those empty haulers were ganked simply because the gankers wanted to make an example of an autopiloting pilot, as seems to be something CODE. likes to do?

This can all be prevented.

Why don't you fly ships worth less than 5 mil? It's not like ganking catalysts are known for their impressive tanking abilities. Grow beyond your "bigger is better" mentality. As has been repeatedly posted, you don't have to stop every single ganker to stop the gank. Get some catalysts of your own, grab some friends, and alpha a few gankers off the field.

Bottom line: Your idea is bad, and is far, far more likely to get abused by the very people you want to target with it than it is to be used against them. There are far better methods of dealing with gankers than to equip them with more tools.

If you really want to know how to stop gankers, ask them. Most of them are more than happy to explain how they do what they do, and how to prevent it. I did, and since then I have yet to lose a PvE ship or hauler due to ganking.

Pure nonsense and you know it.
freighters have a grand total of modules and zero CPU.
It will die to 20 cats regardless how you fit it and how empty it is.

That's just what gankers do.
They want tears, not a good balanced game, but tears without effort.

Ganking, as it is, is a exploit that requires no skill, no forethought and no risks.

*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.

It appears this gentleman doesnt know very much about ganking, or flying freighters...



So use griffins and blackbirds...