Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How about a capacitor themed set of warfare links? Perhaps links to boost:

• Capacitor capacity
• Capacitor recharge rate
• Engineering module's cycle time (i.e. neuts/nos/transfer arrays/cap boosters etc.)

Or some offensive themed links (perhaps slightly more suited to the Gallente than their e-war links):

• Boosting gun sig res/explosion radius
• Boosting tracking/explosion velocity
• Optimal/Fall-off

let me get a post in curse you

See my suggestion to reduce the fitting requirements on Drone Control Units.

With the amount of carriers and motherships in the average nullsec fleet nowadays, I doubt It would make that much of a difference.

External Armor Plating.

External Series
Consumable module
Destroyed by events
Local Logisitcs

Provides much more additional armor by percents.
If armor dips below contributing top percent the module is then destroyed and is powergrid dependent.

External Shield Generators

Provides much more additional shielding by percents.
If shields drop below contributing top percents the module is then destroyed and is powergrid dependent

Exteneral Drone Bay.

External Series
Consumable Module
Self Destructive
Evolving Module
Pilot Activated
Semi-reactive

Provides ship with the nessecary bandwidth to control a flight of drones for its ship size.
Prestores the drones inside itself and thus used in its construction

Cannot be used on ships with drone bays, if it does have a drone bay then that one is disbaled and drone bay on the ships is reduced to 0m3.
Drones launched from external cannot be recovered via drone bay and have to be either abandoned or scooped up into cargo.

Module is ejected after drones are launched, It leave behind a drone control module which shorts out and unfits if it loses control of all of the drones for any reason.

Module will then have to be refitted in order to be used again.

Personally, I'd like to see a wider 'spread' of modules for the intermediate skill levels. As it stands, some skills have a 'training gap' in which the player is effectively training a useless level because there aren't any modules that require it.

I'd also really like a few modules to have mixed-slot variants -- for example, a Low Slot module that has a variant capable of fitting into a Mid-Slot. I've often run into a problem where I'll find a module that will let me power up a Low Slot, only to discover that I'd have to remove the Low Slot module to use it (which defeats the purpose of buying and fitting the new module in the first place).

I have two lowly ideas.

The first is to create a valued utility high slot item to compete with nuets which are IMHO over prevalent in the game. Many races, other then Minmatar , have empty utility slots due to tight fitting requirements as well. A heat sink module with very low fitting requirements that allows weapons to be overheated for longer would address both issues above.

Disposable shield and armour and cap rigs-
Circuit breakers- These would come in shield/armour/cap flavors. A shield circuit breaker, for example, would trip and be consumed when the ship's shields hit zero. A set amount of shields would then immediately be added to the ship. This would be measured in hit points and not a percentage. 500 for small. 1500 for medium. 5000 for large. Ect.

External Booster Rockets.

External Series
Navigation
High Slot
Self Destructive
Consumable Module

This is a powerful speed enhancing module that is ejected once its internal fuel is depleted, does not raise signature radius as significantly as a micro warp drive.

Once it ejects its uninstalls itself on the fitting thus destroying it entirely in the process. So a replacement module must be refitted in order to be used again.

CRAZzzY Ideas


Alright, these are the off the hook ideas...

i'm trying to draw ideas from general science fiction that breaks EVEs typical considerations.


My Little Pony Holo-Projector (Scriptable Bulletin Board)

Would allow you to project ponies into space.

Or realistically, allow you to project something into space. Would be a gimmick module. Make yourself into a Billboard for fun.

Would be great for PVP fights as the "Standard Bearer" charging forward... Think about it. You know it to be true.



Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.

Allows you to change Auroras voice. Yes, requires a power slot. :) Or really, a Rig Slot would be awesome. :)



High-Slot Cargo Expanders

Would take up a turret slot and add a "Caboose" to the ship for extra storage for that visual touch using turret slots.

Perhaps would allow you to make compartmentalized cargo holds - a la "Fuel Bay" / "Ore Bay" using scripts to subdivide a ships cargohold in some cases. "Smuggling Bay".





Commando Missile Attack Pods
Would launch from Torpedo Launchers. Instead of causing an explosion on arrival, they latch onto the ships hull and add penalties to the ships ability to perform certain actions.

When Dust supports boarding procedures - would allow DUST Players to create a mini-ship instance to compete on the ship. Scenario would probably be only 2 minutes long before the ship explodes anyways, so would be great for fast content!




Starship Lo-Jack

Could be installed on a ships riggings - would make the ship unpackagable and the rig indestructible without a password - or biometric of the original owner who installed it. Would require a passcode in order to board the ship. If the ship password was compromised would allow you to know where your ship is at all times if stolen (original owner only).

I know this would be popular with all the super cap pilots.

Would also create some LOL threads with "I locked myself out of my Lo-Jacked Titan!"




Back to normalcy...

New EWAR - Missile Guidance Disruptor

Would act like a Tracking Disruptor and disrupt a ships' missiles to either be slower or have worse explosion radius.



New Tracking Disruptor/Sensor Dampener Script - Longer Range

GIves Tracking Disruptors/Sensor Dampeners more range to tracking disrupt snipers at 150-200kms out. Currently the range is 60km+30Km falloff, and that's short of needed to effectively disrupt snipers.



New Frigate MWD

Gives 250% sig radius penalty instead of 500%. Refer to Test Server Assault Frigate discussions on the matter.


Alternate ECCM Backup Sensors

Allows you to add a 2nd sensor type to your ship. So you can add Gravimetric Sensors to a LADAR ship. Would add another way to approach ECCM so you aren't always vulnerable to racial ECCMs.


Auto-Targeting Scripts - Friendly

Allows you to automatically target friendlies in fleet that are on your watchlist (hence already receiving this data) to repair them.


Deployable Cyno Jammer

Deployable Cyno Jammer with limited range (100km?) that would force capitals to be hot dropped away from fights. Can be destroyed, requires anchoring time, etc, etc.


Dueling Links

Would require a slot - would allow pilots to activate aggression against each other without requiring can flipping. Would require mutual activation of the links. In Low/Null Security it might confer the ability to not be warped to by your fleet at a safespot. Scan probes would still work of course. Acts as a warp disruptor/scrambler for a midslot when mutually activated for 15 minutes.


Codebreaker - Ship Hack Script
Turns a codebreaker hacking module from a pure PVE asset into a PVP asset which allows you a chance of being able to turn off one of an enemy's modules at random (or from a list?). Mostly a nuisance attack, but would make things more challenging for an aggressor.

Jump Sledges

Seige Weapon
Capitol Ship
Multi-system capable
Targetless
AOE

This cannon fits on capitol ships only.
Works in seige mode only.
Can only shoot at contellation or smaller Stargates Regional sized stargates are not allowed (thus cannot shot from null to low or low to high or vice versa.)
Allows Dreadnaughts to AOE bombard though a star gate clearing it of any potential obstacles.
Shells launched though the gate detonate as soon as they're on the other side allowing to clear out any mines, bubbles and camping forces too close to the gate.
Weapon is racial.