Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok I'm expecting alot of hate for this suggestion but here goes!

Personally I'd propose making a change so that only freighters and some industrial ships have Jump Drives.

WHY?

How many times do you set up a camp or or go on a roam and engage a target only for a cyno to go up and you or your gang get jumped on by superior numbers or forces?

There was a time when no ships had jump drives and fights were fun you could still get jumped but at least that was due to poor scouting or lack of good intel for the surrounding systems, now its almost impossible to engage a target without the chance of a cyno lighting and superior numbers engaging you and this is almost impossible to counter as they could be coming from any of 50 systems potentially.

This in my opinion is the major reason that numbers of players in eve have dropped as well as making people hide every time someone enters a system this is then compounded still further in 0.0 where super size alliances are the only ones capable of fielding fleets of carriers, super carriers, dreads and if required titans.

Having the chance of seeing an enemy cap fleet coming because it has to through a gate gives you a chance of moving out of the way or countering without worrying about numbers suddenly exploding to unbeatable levels with a smaller group this is not to say you won't get caught but more that you have more of a chance of getting a fight that you are willing to take without having to be concerned about 50 ships suddenly appearing that you can't see coming to your 10 v 10 engagement or even your 10 ships vs 20 enemy ships that your willing to take on.

As for Black Ops ships make them able to warp cloaked and more like a heavy bomber boost the scan resolution and targeting range per level as well as tracking and range of weapons say 5% per level of black ops ships.

Not supported because you got hotdropped

Why?
When you study the history of EvE the major problems that CCP is still trying to sort out with nul sec started with the introduction of jump drives. In many ways the OP is a logical way to deal with the issues surrounding the use of jump drives and it deserves to be discussed as a solution or as a part of a solution to the jump drive related problems that still plague nul.

Personally I do not care one way or the other. I play EvE because I like it and I will continue to adapt to the changes in the game as I have in the past but there is some merrit to the OP suggestion.

Now, if you were really inclined to nerf cynos, I'd do it by giving ships that go through it a 30 second jump time. So cyno lights, you have 30 seconds to kill the opposing tacklers and jump away, or alternatively 30 seconds to light your own cyno and spark a capital fight if you happen to have some on bat phone.

because jump drives are one of the only real way small groups can be effective in nullsec against larger groups

i am against removal of jump drives even though the OP has a valid point that in most cases a cyno would go up and reinforcements arrive. It should be possible but it can be frustrating yes.

i am not active playing ATM but when i did it was like this and an honest fight was hard to find, this doesn't mean that we should remove cyno`s but i am interested in ideas to make more fun fights possible

like once in the last month. Maybe couple months.

Yeah because the hotdrops raised because of the jump fatigue. Sounds strange to you ? To me too.

Just because you wanna fight with your 20 buddys against 1 ship and you got hotdropped, there is no reason to change the whole game. Just flee if you see the cyno or take the fight. But don´t take the fight and cry here later how bad this is.

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Well before jump fatigue. I got hot dropped in a *single* solo vexor, by a huge fleet of Ishtars. It was hilarious.

I think it should be the other way around, jump freighter make space logistics too easy and risk free, jumping station to station with values is pretty ******, back in the day you would be escorted or scouted.

And being hot dropped by an blob is part of the game, stopping them form doing hotdropping is boring, but discouraging them form hot dropping an single player is better.

But you could always not fly something worth hotdropping.