Player Features and Ideas Discussion

And just to be clear on the cloud thing: It was never supposed to be precise and easy to use. It is very much meant to be a sloppy mess that misfires a lot of the time if you don't do it perfectly, potentially wasting lots of bombs if you throw a lot.

So if you chuck 5 bombs at one point, you can put a cloud on that point easily, and take the damage to 75% of theoretical max from a starting point of 40% or so. Ballpark numbers, damage depends on ship sig radius and whatever else.

If you try and make a gate untenable, you'll have to coordinate a huge fleet of bombers, nobody knowing exactly where the bombs are going to land, and you'll waste 100+ bombs, getting a half dozen or so large clouds up to 85-95% of possible maximum, and have large gaps between them. You'll also have to describe, in detail, a 3d space and where you want each person to shoot, on voice comms. (I doubt this is possible, but it WOULD be EVE players...)

It's not meant to be an end-all for fleet fights. It's also not meant to obsolete normal bombs. It's just meant to screw with people, and to force people to move, if they're tanked so hard they're just sitting still. Perhaps it should scale up over time, to the point where the cloud becomes a threat to capital ships as well, eventually?