Player Features and Ideas Discussion

One thing i will never be able to do is defeat a fleet. And they are everywhere, guarding the gates to null sec and everything. I think a way for us numerous solo pilots to solo the game is to make a tech III module or ship that can only be targeted by one ship.

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Ok, let's pretend for a minute that you are actually a poor misguided noob instead of a troll.

Situation A: I take two of these ships, they both lock each other then they go on a massive rampage wherever they want, completely invincible unless they are so bad as to be killed by the very few non targeted aoe weapons (or FoF missiles, but lolno).

Situation B: I take an active tank version of this ship, and dive into a cloud of 300 brave noobies in trash ships, killing them one by one and easily tanking the one person who has me locked in his pathetic frig.



But aside from those and all the other ways this could be abused, there's the simple fact that EVE IS NOT FAIR!
1v1 is OK. 1v2 is OK. 1v500 is OK

Soloing skill is knowing how to fly solo even against bad odds, what you can take, what you can't, and how to optimally engage/disengage. The actually shooting part is only a small bit.

EVE owes you nothing that allows you to only permit one person at a time to fight you as if it were some archaic dueling arena.

Solo is already a thing. No further changes are needed.

Situation A can be taken care of by only allowing one target lock for your ship. and all the other situations need formatted into a working aspect of the game like any other initial idea.

Might I suggest the game Nidhogg? Two people, even odds, personal skill, wits, and reaction time decide the winner.

You are obviously not actually looking to play an MMO, unless the massively multiplayer part means "I only want to interact with at most one person at a time" and nobody told me about the change.

P.S: Even with only one outbound target lock at a time, it only turns it into a situation where two ships can make each other invulnerable. Combine that with smartbombs and you can gatecamp a lowsec gate with smartbombs all day, remaining just outside of the minimum smartbombing restriction range.

If someone brings in their own smartbombing ship to try and kill you, all you have to do is move in a few hundred meters to be within the smartbomb restriction range for near total safety.


TLDR: No, bad, still bad, terrible bad idea. Go play some 1v1 game.

Soloing is not a new idea. Speaking of soloing now not just my one idea.

Even galactical tournaments are a good soloing idea. And like a ninja in a samurai army. A samurai he is not but an assassin he is.

MMO's are real world enviroments. Like the lone ranger. In which when he comes into a town where people he knows greets him, they don't go with him.

The Lone Ranger also never solo'ed. He always had at least Tonto with him.