This is an awful idea for the following reasons:
-Supercaps become invincible.
-POS bashes will take weeks.
-Any well tanked ship will own.

-1. Not supported.

I don't claim to know exactly what the soul of EVE is, but it's not about fights being fair. If anything it's about dark and ruthless capitalistic system where everything goes as you try to compete for dominance and survival. Having more people on your side than what your enemies can deploy seems to fit quite well in my version of EVE.

You do also understand, that the blobbers will still win against you in the new system just like they do in the old system. Ignoring the obvious balancing issues, larger numbers is always an advantage and should always be one all other things being equal. If it isn't DPS, it's going to be RR, Ewar, or whatever mechanic you can think of. The people who have been able to make the most out of the current game mechanics aren't going to continue doing what they do now. They'll adapt and still be on the top in the new system and we will be back to square one with these complaints how unfair it is, that others have more allies than some people and how fights against some foes simply can't be won with the resources you have.

Not supported.

Are you daft ? People in this game spend BILLIONS on their ships trying to eke out a few extra percentage points of resists, damage, speed, etc.. and yet you say fleets will ignore totally the effect - which is easily explainable and makes sense by the way - of numbers of their shots getting wasted ? Measurable percentages ?

You seem to think I am advocating nullifying one side having more ships than another.

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So kindly point out where I advocated or said what you implied, or retract, please.

I hate blobs.

Are you daft ? People in this game spend BILLIONS on their ships trying to eke out a few extra percentage points of resists, damage, speed, etc.. and yet you say fleets will ignore totally the effect - which is easily explainable and makes sense by the way - of numbers of their shots getting wasted ? Measurable percentages ?

Better idea, if there is anything in the line pointing from your gun to your target, your shot/missile will hit the thing between you and the intended target instead.

In addition, add subsystems to all ships that can be modified, though not to the extent of T3s. Add subsystem targeting skill and the ability to target a ship and then specify a part that you want to start breaking. Make it so that depending on the angle you're at, that part might be easier to damage.

So if your drake is right behind another drake and you fire, your missiles hit your bro's engines and he may suffer a velocity loss. Or your artillery volley could sail right through another Mael's solar panels and wreck their capacitor recharge, wrecking their tank.

And when the fireball that used to be a server is put out...

Running checks to see if there's anything in these lines will cause servers to catch fire? I suppose if it was as in-depth as I initially stated it would be, maybe, but it doesn't have to START like that. If that's too heavy-duty for servers to handle then it can start with hits occurring like they do now.

Different weapon systems fire at very different rates, depending on character skills, ship types, weapon classes, etc.

How would this damage reduction work?

- First hit, full damage
- Seond hit, 98% damage
- Third hit, 95% damage...
- Fourth hit, 92% damage... etc...

Over what time window though? Arties fire at a rate on the order of 15 seconds, blasters on the order of 2 seconds.
Damage received is not constant, like the dps graphs in EFT suggest but is arrives in a random and discrete manner. It varies in the incoming rate, it varies in the incoming quantity, it varies in the incoming type of damage...

How on earth can you balance Large Neutron Blasters aren't nerfed for taking 10 rounds to output the damage of 1400 Howitzers?

What happens when a fleet self targets the primary with 50 civilian gattling guns.... does this suddenly reduce the enemies incoming dps?

This just isn't feasible...

I hate blobs. They kill the very soul of this game IMO.

Tactical Shield Manipulation - " Skill at preventing damage from penetrating the shield, including the use of shield hardeners and other advanced shield modules. Reduces the chance of damage penetrating the shield when it falls below 25% by 5% per skill level, with 0% chance at level 5. " Now this may be much simpler than what I am suggesting, true, but its similar.

When a certain threshhold is met ( X amount of incoming fire volume/ area of ship ) then Y amount of damage will be reduced. Once you think about it its the same thing.

In that light, I could perhaps point you in the direction of literally any MMO with instanced PvP?

(in other words, go back to WoW)

It doesn't reduce damage. It stops armor/hull from taking damage when being shot while your shields are below X%.

Exactly wtf does that have to do with this discussion ? I state that I don't like blobs and you...thats right, somehow make the connection that I am some former WoW player ( which for the record I'd like to state now that I have never played. Something you probably can't say, since you seem to think you can readily recognize said players, a condition you likely developed thru long term WoW exposure ).

Would you turds that have nothing to add to the discussing of an idea please go have a pillow fight somewhere else? Consider yourself flushed.

If you want to see less blobbing, split up the giant alliances that are blobbing. Make it so that sov systems are exponentially more difficult to maintane and fund, and you'll see alliances shrinking their borders, allowing for new branches to come in, allowing for more pvp action between smaller groups of people, and less giant blobs.

All this talk about diminishing returns and altering sig radius is just treating symptomatic problems caused by the ease of maintaning a huge alliance in eve.

The way to disincentiveise blobs is to change the sov system away from shooting millions of HP of structures, but, not being a game designer, I don't pretend to know how to do that.

Anyone wishing to locate and blob Monomorium please join "Mono hearts blobs" channel after today's DT.

Also, hahahaha: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12757282#lostLoadout

That is probably one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. I thought you were trolling, so I checked your KB, turns out you're just exceptionally bad at Eve.


On a serious note, anyone who disagrees with you sucks. According to you. Everyone disagrees with you.

In short, you suck, according to everyone.