Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's so that all the ideas are in one place so they can be more easily ignored.

You already can't have a both a trial account and a paying account logged at the same time. Nor can you have two trial accounts logged in at the same time. And have not been able to since at least when I started in late 2008.

And having alts is not required, it is extremely helpful. There's really no way to overstate the massive advantage that being in two places at the same time gives. And nothing CCP can do short of banning players from having two accounts open at the same time can make it any less of a massive advantage.

But in lieu of having an alt, friends work.


And I am curious to find out why you think that being able to permarun scrams are OP? Are you complaining about their use on frigates? Cruisers? BS's?

In order to prevent people from permarunning a disruptor are we massively increasing the cap requirements, then adding a scaling penalty to larger ships so it requires massively more cap the larger the ship gets? Should cruisers and BS's run out of cap when just using a scram? Are we forbidding peope from fitting cap batteries or cap injectors on their ships now to prevent them from keeping an influx of cap coming in?

Asymmetrical combat has always been an important part of the EVE balance. Small ships are fast, nimble, and able to hold down a larger target if the other ship has no countermeasures to deal with tiny ships.

Changing the game so that you can only run a disruptor for a very short amount of time would result in massive nerfs for solo players, as well as all weapon system that require capacitor, and all ships that use active tanking in PvP. Just wondering why you think this is necessary and why being able to get away from any solo attacker in short order would have a good effect on the game.

I think this is about the time where someone should link this: Show us on the ship doll where the bad Rifter touched you.

Most of Eve combat revolves around keeping someone from being able to run away, get rid of that ability and you get rid of most PVP.

If you can run a mod for 10 minutes on a frig, you can run it forever with any slight increase in cap regen.

And remember, someone caught ALWAYS has away out. If you are caught and have no chance of escape, eject. Or self destruct.

The only person allowing you to be held down for 10+ minutes is yourself.

P.S: When I lived in WH space, it was not uncommon for someone roaming in k-space to catch a target and then pin him down for 10+ minutes with an interceptor while we assembled a flee and burned to him. If the target is so bad they can't kill a ceptor, and has no friends willing to come save him, I see no reason why he should escape just because it takes us a while to get there.

How does making it impossible for a frigate to point and hold something make the game more interesting?

Many many eve stories and fights have started with someone tackling something and then people on both sides piling in.

I once helped killed a pair of supercarriers because someone tackled a cruiser while in an interceptor, then an Abaddon came in to help the cruiser, then a few Ishtars came in to help the interceptor kill the Abaddon, then a carrier came to save the Abbadon, then in came a group of Talosi to kill the carrier, so they warped in more several carriers, so we brought in more Ishtars, and they warped a pair of supercarriers.

Then their allies were called, and our allies were called, but ours showed up first, so both of the supers self destructed to prevent BL from getting on the KM.

And you know how it all started?

A frig tackled a cruiser, and wouldn't let it go.

trolling to the extreme I see.... did you even read the comment you quoted. --it says.. specialization is fine.

You would seem to think that only a very few ships should be able to keep a scram running and they would have to sacrifice all or most of their other capabilities to do so.

If it's fast enough to not die or heavily armed enough, or heavy enough defenses, or packs enough ewar not to die while tackling, that's sufficient specialization to be a tackler.

Ever tackle a target in say... a Crucifier? It's a t1 ewar frigate. It's also a phenomenal tackler against a ship that uses guns as the main weapon system since it can TD a gunship to the point where it won't hit for ****.

Or a harpy, that MASB scourge of frigates, which can tackle a target then trolltank long enough for allies to show up. It's an AF, and an excellent tackler.

Same with everything from the humble Atron up to a Lv V Interceptor Stilleto.

This is not a game where everything has to be pidgeonholed into very specific roles. While most ships have bonuses that suggest general fitting, the flexibility of fitting and action has lead to things like AC vexors/Mallers, triple rep Mymidons, Armor Jaguars, and many other fittings that are not purely conventional.

The requirements for a tackling frigate are as follows

1: Ability to fit a disruptor.
2: Not dying.

That's it.

A race of fatigue and taking gates to get on a killmail.

I think it's an excellent idea. Don't worry about all the idiots that cry and whine about every proposal people come up with; they are stuck in their old ways and have no sense of adventure.

I just can't fathom why you think the cloak/MWD 'trick' is the cause of your woes. In your Tornado death scenario it had nothing to do with whether the Ishtar could catch and point you or not. That takes some skill and/or luck (or UK ping). But once pointed your long range, terrible tracking ship SHOULD lose a fight against a short range dps setup unless that pilot derps. Pure and simple.