Terrorfrodo
Renegade Hobbits for Mordor
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Posted - 2015.04.27 11:11:03 -
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The ideas in the OP are bad. Except maybe that characters could be allowed to respawn in a pos module in a wormhole, albeit with a reasonable delay. For example a player could choose to respawn in his home system but has to accept that his character will be stuck in a limbo for maybe 2 hours. This way podding someone out would still eliminate them from the current engagent but the podded player can later return without the hassle of travelling back from hisec. Most players will compensate the limbo time by switching to an alt.
As for more pvp between big groups where everyone expects the others to have more backup, I guess only a mechanism to enforce roughly equal firepower on the field would make a noticable difference.
What about establishing a cap to effectiveness of RR or even regular weapons. Say, if a ship is repaired by more than two or three Logistics, every additional logistics ship gets a harsh penalty to effectiveness of repairs, so that the fifth or sixth repair ship has basically no effect anymore. Similarly, if more than 10 ships unload weapons onto the same target ship, every additional ship gets a penalty to damage.
The lore explanation would be pretty straightforward: If several Guardians are already patching up a ship's armor, any additional repairer has a hard time still finding a spot on the target's armor where its nanobots can be effectively applied without interference from another repairer's nanobot beam. As for damage penalties, they simulate the increased difficulties of coordination and effective placement of shots when many attackers are on the field.
The effect would be a more or less hard limit on engagement sizes. Drastic, and maybe a little against the traditional EVE philosophy, but whatever. To accomodate different player needs, the limits could be dependent on system class, and only exist at all in wormhole space, because obviously something like this will never be acceptable in nullsec strategic blob warfare.
Personally I don't really care. More players currently in c5/6 should leave the wh empire bandwaggon and form smaller groups in c2-4.
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