Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Can we get small doomsday device for black ops battleships? Or can we have resits and fuel consumption tweaked on them?

Some things I've already told about =3

- Dedicated Gas Harvesting Ship:

Another ORE vessel. Needs Mining Barge skill (or ORE Industrial). Has 5 turret slots (enough for the max 5 harvesters), or is able to fit gas harvesters in non-turret slots. ORE sized cargohold. Resiliance, size and drone bay similar to mining barges. It could have a T2 version made for low-null-WH, more resilient and perhaps with +2 to warp strengh (like the Skiff), which could need the Exhumers skill or a higher ORE Industrial skill. Bonus to harvesters yield, and perhaps to max speed (gas clouds tend to be far away from the warp point).

- Proximity Mines:

As it sounds. Could be deployed by Interdictors. Only usable in null/WH. Diverse damage types and sizes; have insta-damag like bombs. Need fuel for staying online.

- 'Drone Bay Filler':

Exchanges all Drone Bay volume for armor/structure hitpoints, literally filling it with armor plates.

- The reverse one: Drone Bay Extender

Exchanges some Armor HP for increased Drone Bay.

We definitely need something to counter those guys who enter your sov system and stays there cloacked the whole week preventing you to use it....

How about a Cloak jammer in the system????

First post all. Been waiting until I sort of know what's going on in New Eden. Not there yet, but can't wait forever to post, right?

Had a thought about ship customization and either a module that allows a customization using a current slot, or adding a customization slot to your ship, either through ship design or through a special event/random event/loyalty point purchase/rare random loot drop, etc...

A customization module could change the color of that particular ship, change an effect (different color exhaust, perhaps), or even add a decal from one of the NPC Corporations. (The Rodan Shipyards logo looks awesome...and I'd love to have one on any of my ships!)

If someone wanted to change the color of their ship (easy to say, but this might be an impossible change for the programmers), the module to change ship color of color design could open a color palette or open a preset selection of optional colors or designs (camouflage, anyone?) How about tiger stripes, zebra stripes, almost black so your ship blends with the dark background and almost becomes invisible to the naked eye?

Commonalities in ships is great and gives continuity in the racial ship design, but customization will not really affect combat so combat mechanics won’t need to be changed. The real challenge would be if the designers could come up with changes that wouldn’t require an undue amount of coding, and making the changes players like. The corporation decals might be the easiest to put in place, and would be another great LP and ISK sink

Personally, I would really love to see some kind of module that uses stront but is for subcapitals. Such module would be able to boost the defensive or offensive capabilities of a ship. I think it was already proposed but who knows ?

Cardano, I think the ability to do such thing would slightly overpower every ship. Drakes would keep their current extreme tanks while also being able to fit a scrambler without sacrificing any shields, domis would be able to fit an extra neut, abaddons would have an extra plate. Each rig also has penalties that don't actually affect the ship they're supposed to be fitted on in a bad way. I mean, reducing a drake's armor while giving it another mid slot for their shield tank ? Reducing a domi's speed while it's drones in a typical fit can already reach out to about 100 km ? Reducing an abaddon's shields while it will be ( if not failfit ) armor tanked ?

Mercantus, many have discussed the ability to change visuals of your ship, such as logos, colors, visible stuff etc
However, trying to load 100's of differently modified ships will cause extreme lag to the server and client, as it would now be required to send to each client the visual configuration of each ship. Also, ship colors give ships their identity and make the tech 2 and faction versions actually stand out. They also differentiate each faction's ships. Corporation logos on ships might be possible
tho.

Anyway,
I wonder if devs / GMs ever read these ideas ?

Have you ver heard of Strategic Cruisers? Son perhaps you should learn to fly existing ships with existing mods?

Drone Repair Field.

High Slot module that functions in a similar way to a smartbomb but instead of damage it repairs the armour of any friendly drones orbiting your ship.

Perhaps have the cap cost proportional to the number of drones you are reping at once.

(Apologies if something like this has been posted already.)

An idea taken from a suggestion in another thread regarding the removal of local.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1516183#post1516183

Name of module:
Communication Encryption Matrix

Type:
Active

Ship Specific:
Yes (new type of covert ops)

Description:
A module which allows the pilot to 'cloak' themselves from appearing in local.

Once activated, pilot disappears from local but is unable to activate any cloaking device. Once deactivated, cloaking device can be activated but pilot will reappear in local.

As stated, this module would be specific to a new breed of covert ops ships. Think of them as an additional Tier of ship to the various classes.

One of the things the game lacks is what I saw years ago when I was playing Descent Freespace and/or Homeworld Complex. Flaks. Since the game includes projectiles, it wouldn't be absurd to include flaks. You wouldn't approach to a shivan ship without fear when long range/short range flaks are locked on you.

Flak Cannon (Overall): A delayed projectile, like missiles, but won't follow. It is fired as-is, from point A to B, if you are not there, you won't get hit. Eve already has the mechanics for this (bombs). It's resolution determines how further AoE damage you get. It has very fast rate of fire and consumes your ammo like there is no tomorrow (overloading it makes sure this will happen) Playing more angular game will help you to survive.
All flaks have very long falloff and should have a short optimal. If enemy is burning towards you from 100km without changing it's direction or speed, they will have trouble. If they just choose to orbit you @ 10km and saying "haha this smartbomb dominix is going to die with this 40 frigates", and if there is a flak equipped, watch the show.

- Flaks also have explosion velocity like missiles, but much faster.
- Explosion radius is lower than missiles.
- Travel velocity is faster than missiles, but lower than projectile ammo (visible while travelling), so the closer you are to the flak owner, the harder to escape by manuavering.
- Flaks' damage is joke when only one equipped. It should get exponentially more dangerous when you equip more and more (like when 8 frigate is much dangerous against a battleship than only one, the reverse role). So, each flak cannon you equip increases flak damage and explosion radius something like 1.75x, changes with meta of item.
- Flaks can be equipped with all types of damage. EMP/Therm/Kin/Exp.
- Tech II flak cannons can be equipped with webber ammo, when explodes in area, slows the targets for very short amount of time. (Since it is launched very rapidly, it can apply this one after another)
- Because of their fast rate, they should consume a lot of powergrid.
- Since it is only fire&forget gun, it should consume little cpu.
- Reloading ammo bay of an empty flak gun should take long time (20-30 secs).
- Its ammo bay should be big.

--High Slot--
40mm flak cannon (can be fit on destroyers)
80mm flak cannon (can be fit on cruisers)
Dual 80mm flak cannon (battlecruiser)
Quad 80mm flak cannon (battleship)
Octuple 80mm capital flak cannon (capital ships)

For working modern physics, I highly suggest checking the flak frigate, flak destroyer, cruiser with flak cannons, battlecruiser/battleships with rapid sweeper systems(flaks) and finally mothership (capital ship) with rapid sweeper system in latest homeworld 2 complex mod.
Here is a link to very short youtube video where a battlecruiser is battling against corvettes (a carrier vs fighters/frigates equavalent for eve): Flak fight

I raped a lot of BS while roaming with tons of frigs. There is something missing in the game. A fearsome feeling. A feeling that reminds me the danger of approaching to bigger hulls. Drones shouldn't be the only answer. A "battleship" should have much more gun slots. More generalized, the bigger the ship, the more it can(should) equip. Not only 400 resolution guns, also smaller gun slots. "Fear from the big fish" concept shouldn't be destroyed while keeping "protect the small guy so they can enjoy". There must be tools for those who are using big hulls against massive surround situations. I don't say everyone in a bs hull should kill everything smaller, but not being able to touch frigates with a ship geared for "battle" makes me wonder...

Back to the concept, flaks might make this game a little bit more challenging when considering battles like tons of small ships to larger types of ships. It is one more way (or tool) to defend what seems "undefendable".

Extra External missile packs and bombs -- fits pattern of consumable modules and is well founded in RL examples.

Primarily Intended to boost to boost initial PVP alpha strikes (alpha being a little vague when talking about am potential succession of new targets) -- all such modules lack in flight reload capability and to some degree should affect ship agility, inertia and possibly top speed...until fully expended (module destroyed). It is possible that partial expenditure of more outsized ordinance might give an incremental improvement in handling prior to total expenditure. It is also possible that some penalty may still incur if the pilot opts to retain destroyed modules for salvage of pricey parts rather than ejecting destroyed module into space to be lost during combat.

I suggest smaller rocket packs (say 1-2 salvos of 4 rockets) have negligible effect even on frigates. Wheres larger rocket packs (up to 32 rockets fired in groups of 4 or 8) or pairs of missiles/torpedoes or bombs normally too large for that ship class may have severe effects depending on how outsized the payload.

I suggest limiting the number external missile/bomb modules to 1 if any of the ordinance is very outsized (1x1 cruise/bomb, 1x2 torpedoes, or small 2x2 pack of heavy missiles on frigate). But potentially even a rookie ship should be able to carry at least one of any type sub-capital missile/bomb though cruise missiles and bombs might make it handle like a mining barge and cut speeds to half or even 1/3.

If the external ordinance is limited to merely slightly outsized (8x4 light assault pack or 1x2 heavy assault missiles on frigate or 2x2 torpedo pack on destroyer) then 2 modules --- except ship merely one size too low might mount 4 external modules (destroyer might mount 4 - 2x2 heavy missile packs).

Capital missiles could well be available starting on cruisers as very outsized with moderate effects on ship handling. BC should see capital missiles as merely slight outsized and able to mount two modules of the 1x2 pair fired variety. And BS would be able to mount 4 of the 1x2 or even 2x2 modules at upper tiers with relatively slight handling penalties.

All such modules probably use the internal slot for fire control and other support structures and are represented by such modules. Externally I suggest visual representation by bands of duct tape wrapped aroudn ship. LOL - joking but I know its a matter that some people get wrapped around -- gathering ship intelligence via visual appearance and without use of sensors.

Finally although fire control is most obvious wired through high slots, its quite possible that external missile packs might work in the same mid-slots that support EW by using one use internal tracking computers dedicated to that missile/bomb launcher pack or in high slots not normally usable by launchers. Module cost is probably one of the variables that determines the feasibility of such ideas.