It is a neat concept. It might have some current coding issues but it seems they are trying to clean up the code.

Some new things that would have to be added to the game:

• The ability to target while in warp.
• The ability to dynamically adjust your warp speed.
• A means of actively determining your targets distance. (D-Scan would be insufficient in this case)
• Something I was thinking of earlier and will now defiantly create a new thread for it. A Navigational System Decryption module, allows you to see what the targets destination is if it has one.

I think this sounds cool

In addition, I don't like the huge targeting penalty stabs have right now, I think the loss of a lowslot is already a big penalty and the targeting penalty means they're never used except on non-combat ships. I think the penalty can be lowered.

Uh lol no.
The entire point of stabs is for the defenseless to get away easier, the defender doesn't need to lock quickly, so it doesn't matter for them.
The targeting is the reason they are not used on non combat ships because letting ships be viable while being at no risk to themselves is moronic, and one slot is definetly not that big a drawback at all.

It would be easy to give up a nano or BCS for a warp core stab if it means you can escape, it doesn't matter that the slot is gone now because you can pick your fights. Being unable to lock back quickly means that a ship that knows it will easily fall victim to you can get away, preventing a WCS fit ship from being an invulnerable bullshit machine.

Commander Ted:

This is a very intriguing idea.

These are powerful changes .. but I'm also worried hat they would be very unbalancing and would probably break a lot of existing gameplay, like bubbles and scanning. How would you remedy this?

The idea was not to make WCS a no-drawback fit on a combat ship, but something you -might- fit instead of -never- fit. An actual option on a combat ship instead of a non-option, still with some kind of significant penalty. It was meant to go along with your 'make the WCS make warp speed faster' bit. A WCS doesn't make you invulnerable, though :P

Anyway. I don't want to derail your thread. (sorry) So I'd prefer to leave this disagreement.

Right now Gate camping is a necessary evil because ships need to die during travel.

However right now gate camping blows nut sacks and usually leaves the victim with no escape options.
this would also spice up other types of pvp.

Gate camps are only a necessary evil for lazy players (not unlike AFK mining).

Also gate camping requires you to very much be there.
Or is your vision of Eve one in which non consensual pvp doesn't exist?

I have more respect for gankers than gate campers; the former at least requires some degree of skill and effort.

Being without risk should NEVER, be an option on a combat ship.

Also no apology needed, I just don't want to see tornadoes that are even harder to kill than they are now alphaing frigates.

wait... I though this is what light interdictors did?

Omg, yes. Probably even some more. Also acceleration to maximum warp / slowdown to sub warp should both depend on ship size to make the differences in warp speed more meaningful.

So...you are in warp, and come along side your target. You warp scramble them and they drop out of warp and you...continue on? Stop as well? If so, how do you stay in range? If you have the faster ship it seems that the other person will have a very hard time getting out of a system. Of course, maybe they'll make dozens or hundreds of mini-warps so that the other person has no chance of "catching up" to them in warp.

Seems overly complicated.

BTW, I thought dictors really did do this way back. If you put a bubble halfway between gates it would pull you out of warp halfway between gates....and it was removed.

Doesn't alignment depend (at least in part) on ship mass, which depends on size? So this is already there.

Yes it does:

TimeToWarp = -ln(0.25) +ù Mass_kg +ù Agility / 1000000

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Aligning

Really, learn to use the search button, and not just for the forums.

Bigger ships have more mass and less agility--i.e. they take longer to go into warp or align.

Really, learn to use the search button, and not just for the forums.

That too is already in the game. Get in a freighter, and go to warp. Note how long it takes to drop out of warp. Now do it with an inty or frigate.

This. The difference in getting to maximum warp after entering warp and slowing down again before dropping out of maximum warp is almost meaningless between the ship sizes.