Player Features and Ideas Discussion

hey guys, I'm back with another idea to be shot down with one word replies. Anyone ever play homeworld? there was a type of ship that could use a special ability that would create an invulnerability field around it for a few seconds. They were largely useless unless you were really good at micromanaging, But i think there might be room in the universe of eve for players that like to play support roles.

This would be a new type of ship that could fit a module that would practically negate all incoming effects for a few seconds, then has a large cooldown. Everything from laser sights to remote repairs to titan doomsdays. Anything outside the field can't effect anything inside, however ships inside the field can still shoot eachother. Ships inside the field can still shoot out. The module would be similar to a command burst module, except it depends on the life of the ship generating it. That is, the duration of the field would be cut short by killing the generating ship. It would also have a massive drain on capacitor, and has no effect on citadels.

'Massive drain on capacitor' would make no difference as you'd either load up on cap boosters and/or cap transfer logi.

The only invulnerability field should be from tethering at citadels.

Pulse activated Nexus Invulnerability Core.

Already exists and would be overpowered on any other vessel for many reasons.

Why do you hate snipers?

Eve doesn't really support this kind of twitch reaction gameplay. For example the one and done Capital module that gives you impenetrable hull resists last 19 seconds. That's Eve's definition of twitch gameplay. Even something that lasts 10 seconds in an AOE would be incredibly abusable, since in a 100 man fight a fleet can remove about one ship every 10 or so seconds. As fleets get bigger the number of ships you can remove just gets larger per button press, and the time spent protected in aggregate relative to the cooldown gets longer and longer.

That's without even getting into how expensive something like this would be on the servers. It's not just an AOE invuln like the PANIC module, you're saying it has to calculate whether or not someone is inside one of these every time someone shoots. Can you say 'server migraine'?

Also those shield Cruisers in Homeworld were incredibly OP. It wasn't *that* hard to pack your ships behind their shields or keep the shields running for a good chunk of the fight. It's not like your ships had to rely on them either, your ships punched just about as hard without those shield cruisers as the other race's did, they just didn't get this amazingly OP tactical ship to mess around with.

That's pretty tenuous. Who says we can't have a module based on a fast reaction? And who says it's 10 seconds? I was thing perhaps 3, 5 at most.


I might have to concede there. However we do have command bursts and warp bubbles and pos shields and tethers. So hmmmmm




Well, that's not too relevant