@Flash: Thanks man!

Now your regular ships that fit a cloak are speed restricted, currently. I’d change that such that their cloak would fail once they crossed a certain speed (well below their normal safe speed), not like today when you just can go any faster until you drop the cloak.

This could apply to the SBs too, and other cloakers, if allowing them to charge around at very high speeds while cloaked is too much of an advantage. If they exceed their normal safe speed (or some other set limit), their cloak would fail. Or if they exceed some amount of structure strain. There are several options.

Start way off target point in, say, a Stealth Bomber and accelerate in. Would dropping the cloak cause completely massive strain such that you would pop, and would you be able to drop a bomb or torps at that speed…?

Could make for some very interesting tactics if it did work

Just a thought.

Some people tried to cross into Jovian space by flying their spaceships for a very long time. In the end the made it there .. according to the map. (the map has many problems, this being one of them)

However each solarsystems in EVE is run by a single node on Tranquility. It will only transfer you from one node to another when you go through a stargate.

So yes, you can fly in any direction for a long long time, you will however not end up anywhere.

Actually, there’s another problem with my proposal – if you can’t accelerate when webbed, the gate campers have an “I win” button. Your ship can be held at a standstill if webbed by campers when you decloak, post jump. A ship still needs to be able to get moving from a stopped state, especially after jumping.

So I think the solution is that the webifier will interfere with a target’s systems such that the max safe speed is reduced, as well as reducing acceleration beyond that max speed. So if you web an orbiting ship and it’s speed is now over the max safe speed forced by the webifier, then the ship’s structure will take on more strain than it can handle and if it doesn’t slow down, or stop/change the orbit, structure damage will follow. If you’re in a straight-line chase, then you have reduced ability to accelerate beyond the web-reduced maximum, but you still can.

So the webifier will reduce a target’s maximum safe speed, and inhibit acceleration beyond that max speed. For a ship with an AB, the webifier reduces the max safe speed and inhibits acceleration down from the enhanced levels given by the AB. For a ship with a MWD, its the same: the webifier reduces the max safe speed and inhibits acceleration down from the enhanced levels given by the MWD. If you scram the ship too, you knock out the MWD, and the webifier acts on the target’s base max safe speed and acceleration attributes, which is in line with a scram+web vs MWD target today.

That better? I think so.

About the acceleration strain idea: I see the point, but you’d need to be able to set the acceleration. Presently, the UI lets you set the speed you want to be at, and the ship accelerates/decelerates to that speed (I assume the ship calculates the optimum acceleration). So that would be a radical shift in the UI controls – from 1 target speed setting, to effectively a gas-pedal/brake-pedal control where how hard you press on the control is a factor. Might not be ideal for a mouse-driven interface.

Is there a fixed edge to the solar systems? I know the grid can grow as you move, so perhaps the grid just goes with you indefinitely?

It’s good to learn such a mechanic is working in another game – I was nervous about the post in case there was some glaring hole it the logic that I was missing.

More seriously though, I believe this mechanic is present in the Starfleet Command games, and added an interesting component to the battles.