Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Scout probe I
Probe extends the ship's directional scanner range. Can jump through stargates, jump gates, jump drive wormholes, and natural wormholes, and can jump back through for retrieval. Transmits scan results to a separate section on the directional scanner when the ship's directional scanner is activated. Has the same timer as other probes. Equips to Core and combat probe launchers. Same volume as a core probe.

tl:dr

my .02:

Stasis Webifier Script: Essentially a script for the HIC warp distrupter that turns it into a giant webification bubble.

Far too many mods have negative effects on shields, including some of the new announced with inferno. Like the Cap boost for shield recharge and now the CPU boost for shield recharge. All this does is force more and more people to use armor tanking ships for pvp.
Why not start making mods which boost a stat at a cost of armor repair rate or armor resistance?
Like jack some energy from the nano boots to increase your power gird? Or mod that takes hull/armor hp for cpu or power? Replace those bulkheads with cables.

This is a pretty far reaching idea that I think could change the way battles in nullsec are waged, but hopefully in a positive way.

The module in itself is simple; a shield bubble module that you fit to carriers. However in contrast to for example POS shield bubbles, these bubbles won't keep enemies out, they are only there to provide an incoming fire barrier between ships on the inside and ships on the outside.

The idea is that each carrier can provide a small safe haven for a couple of friendly ships that can snipe other ships at range. All incoming damage will be taken by the bubble, but outgoing damage will go though. The downside is that enemy close range ships can get inside the bubble and destroy everything from within.

Having the battlefield dotted with bubbles of safe havens here and there I think could make the battles much more tactical and also gives a wider variety of sub capital ships a purpose to be there. Positioning on the battlefield would be much more important.

MOBILE CYNO JAMMER: Would really like to see a cyno jammer fittable to ships, but that would have a really bad negative effect like your ship showing up on overview and not being able to warp...

Just IMAGINE THE surprise system in the hands a compitent fleet, either on the defense or offense of a system, or even in an Awox situation lol just seems like it would be epic.

Cloaking Field Generator: have recommedned it MANY MANY TIMES, a anchorable bubble that cloaks all ships within the bubble, but no shooting inside of it, in addition jus tlike normal cloaks anyone comes within the bubble after the bubble is onlined and the bubble offlines...

Interdictor Style Cloaking Bubbles, fitabble to dictors perhaps but the ability to launch a bubble and cloak a fleet, same premise as above if u break the bubble the entire fleet is exposed, no shooting from inside the bubble etc....

I LIKEY as it hics aren't used enough on small roams, would give them a nice usage beyond just bringing sabres on roams.

it will be nice to have subsysteme module that we could load on T1, T2 ships.

How many time i sware to unable fit missile launcher on my favorit ship : Talos.

Or, if this could occure unbalanced , implant much more T3 ship with differents design.

Instead of making tracking disruptors affect missiles, how about editing the use/effects of the defender missiles? Generally, missile users already have lower dps than gun boats, why are you countering them now with both defender missiles (which are dumb as they are now) AND tracking disruptors?

Resistance boosting field.

Capital ship module, can be fitted to carriers and mother ships, slows down users ship and prevents warp while active.

Boosts the resistance of all non-capital ships in an Area-of-effect surrounding the user.
Effect is applied to ALL non-capital ships within the field, this includes friend, foe and neutral non-capital ships.
Effect contains strong stacking penalties or doesn't stack at all with additional resistance field boosters.


Desired Effect:

- Puts carriers on the front line alongside the non-capital ships.

- Makes non-capital ships more resilient against capital ships.

- Creates areas of effect similar to Warp disruption bubbles.

- Entices enemy forces to move in closer to even the playing field or deploy their own resistance boosting field for longer range engagements.

I would strongly favor reworking the invention system to allow a far wider range of alterations than just T1->T2, to the point where you could, say, have a cap power relay with shield HP penalty instead of boost, or a module with same attributes as T1 but substantially reduced fitting costs. Of course, "choose-your-own-penalties" would require MAJOR balancing, but it would make invention a lot closer to what I, and probably quite a few others, hoped it would be when we got into it.

For added fun, restrict module usage to the inventor unless a substantial fee is paid to Concord for something or other, probably monthly.

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More on topic?
- Give passive targeters a script that drops them down to one max target (Maybe 2 for T2), but entirely suppresses lock alert rather than just one cycle.
- Look at meta/T2 ECCM, and other modules where T2 is in no way, including price, superior to meta 4.
- (+edit) Smarter smartbombs; the only 'smart' thing about them is that they don't hit your own ship. Again, this is something you might want to script, as there are people who use them for attacking illegal targets.