Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well everyone said all the good ones already, so im gonna throw out the most outlandish ideas, who knows maybe you'll like one of em.

-electro magnetic pulse (EMP) diminishes cap in an AOE including the ship using the module. Maybe make them one time use or something.
-Modules that use nanite repair paste as fuel
-t2 nanite repair paste
-t3 frigates with 3 subsystems
-drone mines. Mines that fit in the drone bay and deploy like sentry drones and only work when you're on grid and have AOE (just spit balling here, some of these may be bad ideas)
-heat sink drones
-t2 shuttles that are immune to EW
-something that tricks customs scanners so that you can smuggle contraband as a profession, maybe like a minigame, just a thought. In fact make it so you can trick any scanner but there's skill involved, it would be an interesting response to suicide ganks happening out the wazoo lately.
-head lights... for those fits with empty highslots
-slot adapters... i dont know if i even like the idea but sometimes i've though "i would gladly give up 2 low slots for a mid slot on this ship"

A little outside the box, i know, but I'm trying to imagine eve 5-10 years down the road.

Wreck Hacker - module that allows you to change a wreck or cannister to blue. Or update actual hacker modules to do this.

Acid projectile - does damage over time.

Probe Scrambler - device that can be dropped into space at the gate of a plex and either make it impossible to scan down, or make it read as another type of site (IE, make a Serpentis Phi Outpost read as an unstable wormhole).

There have been many suggestions for an AAR (Ancillary Armor Repairer) or in functional terms, a short-term, high-hp armor repairer that is immune to capacitor warfare and/or is highly hardpoint-efficient.

I think that's a bit redundant. Armor repairers do fine. The only semi-new concept I could imagine would be a passive armor repair module or rig that might sacrifice cap recharge or movement velocity for a trickle-repair of sorts.

That would perhaps see more pve use than pvp, or maybe a solo pvp buffer tank would use it while behind enemy lines. But that is rather limited, and doesn't give the absurd ehp boost that an ASB does in a continued fight.


Here's what I suggest for armor tanks:

Large Ancillary Damage Control I

CPU: 46tf Powergrid: 200MW

Ammo: Cap booster 400, 800

Cycle time: varies with charge.

Reload time: 90s

Armor resists bonus: to be determined, but absurd.

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So how would this be used?

Well, unlike the ASB, this would scale well with fleets. It would multiply the effectiveness of logistics, but after the cycle, prove them far less effective than they would be with a normal, consistent tank.

It would also act very hardpoint-efficiently, giving even more damage mods to zealot fleets, for example. Do they need 4? yeah. I think they need 4.

What about drawbacks? Well, it needs some. maybe movement speed, or something besides going inactive after use. maybe the movement speed nerf is only during reload, to make it extra-deadly once your time is up? who knows.

There are multiple ways of balancing it, there's the notion of having different sized modules for each ship, but also the one module that scales with the ships. maybe the resists are static, but cycle time varies with each hull, saying "while this is active, frigates should stay alive for 45 seconds, cruisers for a minute, and battleships for two." or something to that effect.
or maybe the larger cap charges provide higher resists, and the cycle time is static. So you could run 2 cycles of 400 charges and get 50% resists for 2 minutes, or 1 cycle of 800s and get 65% resists for 1 minute, and so on. And after that, you are on your own for however long seems balanced. The idea is pretty much the same. "Make this ship survive for X amount of time then die unless I won."


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Then there's another section of modules:

remote armor/shield resistance modules.
function to multiply the effectiveness of repair-based logistics in fleet engagements.


It would only be effective after the first 2-3 logistics, and each fleet would almost never need more than 2-3, but it would definitely add variety to support compositions.
Unless it is flown with a buffer-tanked fleet, and there is only 1 logistic, and the ehp boost from the resists is greater than the repair only 1 rr logi could deliver in that amount of time, but that's very situational.

eve likes situational, though.

from the devblog from team superfriends, and here is the quote:

"Micro Jump Drive. The classic ‘blink’ ability, allowing ships to maneuver around the battlefield in a new way (with some hefty limitations of course) . We’ll try to get this out on a test server as soon as we can. It’s still some weeks away, but stay tuned."

something very similar methinks

Suggestion:
A new module for carriers / supercarriers / rorqals

Description:
Bubble shield (like the POS) module for carriers / rorqals

Mechanics:
Simple, when active it immobilizes the carrier, burns strontium while running, and provides 80% of the shields as a 10km bubble shield with exactly the same protective capabilities as a POS.

Interesting notes and questions:
1. Now your carrier can be used to make a safe spot and remain mostly functional. Great for small mining parties.
2. I suggest fighters should still be available as ultimately, no carrier would be any where near as strong as a real POS.
3. I suggest that when active, it will cause the ship to stay in-game even if the pilot logs, thereby being very useful to small mining parties or other roaming parties (think temp staging area).
4. Host ship should retain its ship maint bay functionality, again, acting like a little temporary POS.
5. I suggest a slow fuel burn rate, something like 4 to 8hrs on a full load. The idea is to encourage its use as a temporary mining camp or staging area. Also long cycle times, 5 mins or more would seem fitting.


Final thoughts:
1. Using this tactically may become an issue (warping in, turning it on to disperse bad guys by bubble bumping).
2. The ability of carriers or rorqals to move around thru gates out in 0.0 space would be helpful and encourage more use. (ship can fly out and 'setup' ahead of its mates)

I like this idea with that faction stuff

Booster Neural Interface - for increasing the effects/duration a booster has on someone.

While Im here the booster slots are currently 4:3:1 [taken from an earlier thread, one I
made on the subject], so maybe those slots could be balanced by adding more boosters
[so a hybrid user would find some use for the last slot for example].

In before other posts!

I want XL BS only SHIELD extenders :P. We fit Large extenders on cruisers and such. Something is out of place.

Also US, Caladri, want missile control module - similar to tracking enhancers, smth that can improve explosion velocity and missile precision.

HHM, how about LOCAL channel generator for NULL sec? In case you be so kind remove local, carebears can use smth to gather local intel, right?

Change ECM to one universal module that can be loaded with different scripts based on the target. for example, instead of having racial specific ecm modules, we use racial scripts instead that can be loaded into an ecm module and swapped out when needed. it saves on fitting.

No idea if this idea has surfaced, but given the sometimes overpowering nature of logi, especially in light of the new t1 logi frigs. If nothing else, I at least want to get the name out on the boards if it's even being considered.

Remote Nano-Disassembler- Projected anti armor rep. Though no more than 20% reduction in rep amount, with a likely value of 10-15. I see it being a continually activated module, likely with a high cap cost and a short cycle time. Mostly intended as an opener to bursting down a target. Obviously incapable of stacking with another one being used at the same time. If a percentage seems way out of line, then it could reduce repping by a set value instead. Which would then lend itself well to different ship class sizes of it.

Field Integration Disruptor- Same song, second verse. But for the shields.

As far as lore goes, the first is under the concept that if you can project nanites to repair another ship, then you can project them in order to attack beneficial repair nanites.

For the shield one, it would basically oscillate the field and impair it's ability to absorb energy boosts from either the ship itself or a shield transfer array.