Player Features and Ideas Discussion

so, what your trying to do is encourage people to just throw as many ships as possible intot he fight in hopes of possibly surrounding the opponent so they cannot use their tanks? so basically we shuld just remove logistics from the game along with this, because that would make logistics become useless.

also, this idea is terrible, not only ebcause only about half the ships in the game can even USE shields,

but because "directed" anything is a ******** mechanic, all it would do is make the "orbit" cammand a suicidal action, and all pvp will become balsters on approach shooting eahcother in the front shield that is OMG "INVULNERABLE"

in cinclusion, terrible idea, and i didnt even haev to get into how they woudl ahev to COMPLETELY dismantle the eve combat/control engine to reimplement some sort of wasd movement (which the server at 1 ticks CANNOT HANDLE much less the lag it would also cause) JUST so you can enter every battle "invulnerable"

please, think REALLY ahrd about practical implications of your proposals before posting them, thx.

Imagine a module you could fit on your ship that gives a near 100% protection in one direction of the ship. I'm thinking some sort of module that you load with a script to have it directed either:
* front
* rear
* left
* right
* up
* down

So depending on which script you load your ship will have near invulnerability to damage from that direction.

I think this could provide some quite interesting fights, especially between larger ships, where they can establish perimeters in certain directions which would require some smart FCing to circumvent.
* Fights would become more tactical if a feature like this was added, with positioning of ones fleet much more important than today. Fast maneuverable ships will also be more important in large ship fights as the large ships can't turn around to face threats like that.
* Traps can be set where the enemy fleet is attacked from two directions preventing them to shield themselves from both.
* Fights won't just deteriorate into 100 ships one-shotting one ship at a time, because that ship will probably have it's damage protection in that direction. Instead the fleet will have to be divided in several smaller groups that try to dogfight into a better position than the enemy. It will be more important with different squads and a more distributed fleet leadership. Instead of the FC giving orders to the entire fleet they only give it to the wing leaders and they to the squad leaders.
* Ships that require to get to close range to inflict damage (read gallente) can equip such a module in a front direction to be able to close in on the target without taking damage.

From a technical standpoint I think something like this would be possible to implement on the server without too much complications. The angle of the ships and the relative position of the ships is known to the server and it can therefore easily calculate which quadrant takes the damage for each shot.