Element 22
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.04.23 00:23:00 -
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2 things here:
I love the idea, it would make EVE much more "realistic" (even though we know it isn't and never will be). I also loved the story (and was very very disappointed when I read about how it wasn't true). I have only a few suggestions
-Cloaked Covert Ops shouldn't be seen on the "passive" radar (as someone else suggested), but should be seen on the active radar, but as a sevearly reduced signiture (that would increase if they're using MWD) that could only be seen within "line of sight" (aka 250 KM).
- Recons should be seen in passive radar, but as a reduced signiture that mimics that of a frigate.
-Stealth bombers shouldn't show up in passive and should show up sometimes in active depending on the radar operators skills and the stealth bombers skills.
-I can't agree with the EM current idea, while very good (and ripe for imaginative use), it doesn't address two problems with it:
We can't really move around in space, even at the very fast speed of 3-10 Km/s we simply can fly fast enough to make it feisable, otherwise we're stuck again in the "warp to 0" problem someone else mentioned. This could be solved by having an "overdrive option", it takes a full minute to start up, and it takes 30 seconds to stop but allows you to go at maybe 10% or 1% of your warpdrive capabilities (you also go in a striaght line).
The community is constantly complaining about lag, but I can't see this helping in anyway. But that's not a real problem, and I can see how it wouldn't contribute much to the lag anyways.
I also really liked the idea of sovernighty and stations. They should be able to place armored and defended "outposts" in space that actively or passivly scan the area with the active ones showing up in the scan quite easily. This puts a whole new use to the skill of hacking, a Covert Ops could warp to it while cloaked and hack it (they wouldn't have to take down the cloak) and be able to insert a "time trojan" in the form of datachips in 5/10/15 minute increments so a coordinated team can swoop in and take down the intelligence network and actually be able to do Covort Op like things.
Now for the meta-comment: CCP probably won't listen to us, and it's both good and bad that we can accept that, but at this point harping on that is avoiding the purpose of the thread which is to simply talk about something we would/wouldn't like.
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