Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The word you are looking for is "Pro-scripted", not "Prescripted".
It's spelled "Balancing".
And you were thinking of "Affect" not "Effect".
The single flaw is this, you want new toys because YOU want new toys. The reality of it is this, CCP only just turned a page in their book and began a new chapter in the story of EvE online. CCP's great apology for WiS was Tier3 BC's, and while new ships are always cool and neat and most certainly tactics will evolve around them, those ships marred their apologies. They came out as a distraction from what was broken, like when your dog died as a kid and Mom and Dad got you a kitten or whatever, they are great, and we love them, but they aren't the same are they? What we need now is for CCP to begin in earnest, the repair of the game. SOV mechanics need to be drastically overhauled to spark war again, balance needs to be brought to the CSM for accurate representation of the player base, many ships already in game are in desperate need of rebalancing.

Those are only three of many issues plaguing EvE online, and to add insult injury, players aren't concerned with making a good game great again!. People like you walk in on Mommy and Daddy fighting about whats wrong with the house and say... "I want a new toy!" Or, the best one I've heard so far, "I want my missile names back!" Let CCP fix whats broken, balance whats falling, and work out whats wrong before we all start pestering for new toys.

And I'm not against new stuff, just the opposite, I love new things and embrace the scary change they bring. A T3 hunter seeker destroyer specifically made to find SB's, HELL YEAH! Or maybe Tech 3 frigs? That would be legit. But both ideas require alot of in depth mechanics analysis to ensure these things aren't overpowered. When I say the Tier3 BC's are "simple", I don't mean that they are "easy" to fly. I mean they were implemented with relatively small effort. From alliances in 0.0 to corps in WH's to single dudes in HighSec, EVERYONE is still figuring out ways to use this new toy.

Let's let the current issues get resolved, let's play with our new toy right now, and let's let Mommy and Daddy fix the house so we don't have to go live with uncle Star Wars, or god forbid... Crazy aunt WoW!

So wait... You endorse what I have to say, and agree with it, then turn around and say "MOAR TOYS!"?

I'm confused, do you or don't you agree with me? Please elaborate how you can agree with my post then ask for more toys. I think obvious troll is obvious in this case. That or your head is so far up your @$$ that you fail to see the complete death of logic in your statement.

Obvious Troll = Obvious. ^^^

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Screw it, y'all are idiots.

How would you change or improve upon the design I proposed?

I have been. Most of the feedback has attempted to be constructive, and more than anything pointed out that I made the mistake of forgetting people being unable to read my mind.
(They prompted me to better explain my idea here)

Basic summary of feedback so far in thread. (With how I responded)

Feedback points made:

* Why do new ships happen, (an automated canned post possibly, I still tried to respond)
* Won't it need to online it's modules after changing? (Nope- already covered in original post)
* Why would someone choose this over a BS? (List of reasons offered)
* Wouldn't smaller launchers be fun too? (Not destroyer sized either, reference Assault Launchers for cruisers, I pointed out anything below cruise was usable, but had limits of siege mode if CPU / grid too high in normal)
* Caps and Supercaps need love too! (I agreed)
* Suggestion regarding physical size of launchers, and the defense being un destroyer-ish (concept missunderstood, the launchers are cargo-packaged effectively and so is the CPU and Powergrid. I explained in the form of an italicized log entry by the engineering team to be more entertaining. Basically, anything stuck in stand-by mode is repackaged until siege mode unpacks them)
* Noone should make anything new until EVE problems are fixed. (problems described not necessarily considered important to everyone, but clearly to the poster they were)

A rather clever comparison was made to a siege tank in a blizz game, which when considered, makes for a fair analogy.

I considered the cruiser class on this, but with recent battlecruiser additions that felt like it was done already.
I looked at frigates too, but we already have T2 frigs mounting torpedo launchers, and cloaking too! They seemed well represented already.

Hey Nova, even I think his sub idea was toast. (May it rest in peace)

This one actually sounds fun, although I suspect it will be really vulnerable during it's transition phase.

(If I understand the idea, the shields won't be online until it finishes entering siege, and will lose it the moment it triggers leaving siege. That's one heck of a vulnerable period where the right ship with a smart bomb can casually cruise up, and pop it like a soap bubble)

Will it be fun? Yes.

I think fun SHOULD be high risk. This definitely will be that, I think, on both counts.

I am getting visions of destroyer roams becoming more popular.

(Heck, who doesn't like thrasher fun already?)

I still think this one is a perfect mining buddy. Park it in your orca next to your hulk...

Well I am just going to say one thing real quick

Fundamentally the ship is flawed as it becomes immobile for such minimal gains.

In one minute a tier 1 destroyer can destroy this ship if even the shields where online.

It wont fare much better from heavier ships that can oumph out more. Which is why I suggested another attempt at the same idea.

As for what I would suggest would actually incur using a ship I already designed for this role similarly.
Its called a pod ship it drops off external modules. While any ship could fit these 'pods' this classes of ships are known for carrying heavier than normal modules. As long as the ship is there locking targets the ejected pods will fire upon it. Pods can be destroyed, destorying the host ship only stops the pods form selecting newer targets. The pods will eventually run out of ammo or batteries before self popping.

Problem with pod ships and any external modules is that once the module is online its ejected out of the fitted and has to dock up to refit another, this can get expensive but its great for brining in additoinal fire power in a short amount of time.

Unscheduled Offworld Activation. Incoming Wormhole.

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I just bumped your thread