Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Making cruiser easier to deal with by larger ship is as easy as reducing the speed creep. Then, magically, all weapon start having less issue tracking them and start applying more DPS.

Idea #1: Mines
Why not have minefields? Basically a stationary bomb that is triggered by anything that comes within 5 km of it, including other bombs, so that you can't have like 50 on an undock or something. Several consecutive mine activations by an MWDing cruiser should be enough to kill it. A non-MWDing cruiser should be dispatched by like 10 of them. A non MWDing battleship should be able to tank them pretty easily. An ABing Frigate should be able to fly around them virtually unharmed

There could be different sizes of mines designed for different kinds of ships.

They could cost a reasonable amount of isk, like 200k, so that spamming them isn't completely negligible, but that there can actually be substantial mine fields.

They should disappear within 6 hours.

They should only be deployable by a certain kind of cruiser as well as all battleships. They should take 1 minute to anchor. The same cruiser should be able to minesweep while only taking minimal damage.

There could be covert minefields that only uncloak when something is within 7500m. These would do less damage.

Idea #2: Nanite Clouds
Basically work the same way as those clouds of gas that slightly damage you in missions. Basically a special kind of cruiser and all battleships can fit a module that releases "volatile nanite swarms" that feed off of any ships in the cloud and get stronger the more damage they do.

Damage should not exceed like 300 dps, and getting the cloud to grow enough to be that powerful should be hard.

Should look like a sinister white or grey fog, that can start to fill up entire battlefields. Should be a way to force people out of small, kitey stuff and into heavier, BS sized ships that can tank the nanites as they become more volatile.

Should be able to do any of the four damage types.

Should be destroyable with smartbombs.

This is getting pretty out there, but there could be ships that specialize in deploying the clouds or even moving them around. They could move about as fast as fighter bombers, and could be a good counter to drone doctrines.

Idea #3: Black Holes
This ones a little crazy.

Titans can use a weapon that over the course of 1 minute creates a small black hole on the grid that damages ships the closer they get to it.

It doesn't "suck" anything into it, just does exponentially more damage the closer you get. If you bump into it, you are instantly killed, but even if you are within 5km of it, you're sustaining ~800dps.

If you're 10km 400dps. 20km 200dps. 40km 100dps. Should stop altogether at 50km, where you take 50dps.

It should be omni damage. Should be visually appealing, similar to a wh.

Basically a way for Titans to make a grid completely uninhabitable. No restrictions on how many of these can be on grid, but they can't be within 40km of a structure (i.e. no rapecaging a POS with black holes, even though that would be awesome, and no instant 350dps as soon as you jump through a gate). They should be able to serve as the ultimate smartbombing proteus trap; a way for a titan to blockage a system.

Should disappear after 1hr, should cost ~500mil to use, should have HP and should evaporate if it's shot at enough.


So yeah those are my AoE ideas.