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codepic
Mithril Inc
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.08.30 14:48:00 -
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It just beats me how many threads we got about the same issue while in my opinion it's all just too easy to solve:
Improve Camping Equipment
Deflection Field Emitter
- deployable
- drops any ship from warp 5km from the object the deployable was dropped next to
- deployable in low sec & 0.0
- larger Field Emitters might be used in 0.0 only (in flavors of 10km for medium & 15km for large which pretty much nerfs instas completely)
- consumes liquid ozone
- interdictors might be able to naturally generate these
- or alternatively, interdiction sphere launched by an interdictor would generate a deflection field in low sec and you could select in 0.0 which one you wanna launch...
voila, you can defend your area without touching bookmarks at all
Reduce the server load and dreaded management issues related to bookmarks dramatically
Corporate Bookmarks
CEO & Directors could maintain a set of bookmarks. Each shared bookmark folder would have permissions & roles. So we could determine whos got the permissions to view which bookmarks.
Example:
Ceo creates a new corporate bookmark folder
- He gives every corp member the permission to view (not edit) the bookmarks
- He gives directors the permission to edit the bookmarks too
- He drags a regional G2G set into the folder
BOOM: Every member has the gate to gate set visible in their people and places
Decreased Server Load With Corporate Bookmarks
As everyone will be using single instance rather than personal copy of the bookmarks, this leads to people deleting a lot of personal copies as corp can provide them sets... Bookmarks need to be queried from the server any way but with this solution, there's be just a fraction of the bookmarks that currently exist because of the dreaded personal copies...
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codepic
Mithril Inc
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.08.30 16:03:00 -
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The Deflection Shield Emitter, if allowed in low-sec, would also allow CCP to let people to warp within 0km from gates nerfing Gate-to-Gate sets completely, leading people to delete them (to speed up loading ppl&places) and only the personal bookmarks, like safespots & for cans etc.. would remain...
This would get us rid of loads and loads of bookmarks at once and remove the need for ridiculous "5 bookmarks at a time" copying restriction which is currently under planning...
And people could defend their space...
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codepic
Mithril Inc
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.08.30 16:41:00 -
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Mobile warp disruptors don't work in low sec...
Here's the bottom line of the problem:
- People don't like instas because it makes regions hard to secure
- Nobody likes bookmarks because of the dreaded management & server load they create
- People need instas to travel fast
And the solutions:
- Deflection Field Emitter would improve the ability of defending a region while not being too effective for low sec (Note: It wouldn't disable the access to the gate or disable ability to warp, just drop you 5km from gate so you need to approach it)
- Corporate bookmarks would fix the management issues
- Warping to 0km would allow normally fast travel times while rendering most of the current bookmarks unnecessary
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codepic
Mithril Inc
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.08.31 02:02:00 -
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Edited by: codepic on 31/08/2006 02:03:25
 Originally by: Maya Rkell
bubble could be made to affect only war targets
And allow noob corp alts or your enemy enter with corp switching or allow your enemys merc corp or anyone with a little more brains than an average amoeba pass through..
I think not... 5km isn't a distance at all to go through if you've fitted your ship right and be prepared.
And let's face it, low sec IS low sec. "Low Sec" as it is, means low security. Not a kindergarden where noobs hurdle by with shuttles waving to gate-camps...
A Deflection Field is a very mild version of a warp bubble and fits very well in low sec.
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codepic
Mithril Inc
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.08.31 03:05:00 -
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Originally by: Maya Rkell
5km is dead to snipers in even mild lag.
And yes, LOW security. Not NO security. Someone pushing stuff off gates should be gategunned.
5km isn't dead to snipers.. Unless with stupid fittings, nervousness, no player skills etc added to the stew... Hey, we don't need stupid features in the game to avoid people dying from stupidity!
Admitted, haulers will pop like corn, but they already do so with snipers anyway so no big deal... If you are stupid enough to haul through low sec a hauler without any kind of intel knowing deflection fields exist, you're asking to be popped... Otherwise use a ship that can tank for the magical 5km (a cruiser)
There IS security. Gate-sentries WILL shoot anyone initiating aggro against anyone (not in war) and this is NOT about pushing something away from the gates. This is just slowing the approaching ship down before the gate without bumping it back...
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codepic
Mithril Inc
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.09.02 08:48:00 -
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I don't think selective bubbles would work. At least not if it requires a war dec. Do not promote declaration of war just to be able to set up a gate camp. It's already way too easy for any corp to dec war on any other corp and leave the fees unpaid...
And you know, war decs have other significant effects on corporate logistics which reaches also high sec.
Do not talk about warp bubbles as I don't think they should be EVER introduced in low sec.
What I proposed, was a Deflection Field Emitter which isn't selective, doesn't require war dec, doesn't cause aggro, doesn't suck in (like warp bubbles do), just slows down the approaching ship 5km before the gate. Just like the force field in POSes.
Maybe if you want a believable storyline behind this, the Deflection Field Emitter is a hacking device for the gate to launch it's natural self-protection systems. This way, when successfully hacked, it's quite obvious that there's no CONCORD response.
If this appears later on too aggressive for low sec, maybe CONCORD adds hacking detection methods into the stargates which when triggered, will cause aggro, deflection will fail etc.. funky effects...
Please share any ideas you get.
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