Traveling sucks, watse of time and fuel. Would be great to traveling fields for every class or W5...

What would you guys think of a non class locked non hull locked travel field, of decent size, that upon equipping adds X amount of speed (thinking 70~ but that is pretty much up in the air. It could also be a % but I am against that as it does not help the slow classes much) for the cost of say -200-300% resists and instant overhulling (-90%~ hull).

Total shield bank would not be affected meaning if you are not injured much in your travel you would be good to go at the end but the aura would persist for 1-2 minutes after the unequipping of the field.

The basic idea being you can get where you are going a lot fast and besides a predetermined amount of downtime at the destination, are good to go without having to rely on an ShM. This would also open up anyone traveling under the field's influence to very easy pirating considering how bad your resists would be along with being unable to fire any weapons.

Thoughts?

I can just taste having 4 "shield monkeys" and 4-6 seers traveling in company, only to be pirated by a couple of players, and then the nukes start flying!

24 drones aided by 4+ stealth classes deployed upon poking by enemy !

Fuck yeah !

The fact that overhulling would not stop drone deployment, fighter deployment and missile launching was brought up. It would stop the recovery of said drones and fighters along with stopping the unpacking of missile crates. My view on this is that if a player wants to deploy destroyable items with -300%~ resists and no ability to recover them for at least 1+ minutes then they can feel free.

/signed. New AEM? If so, look at ArgH. Pm me for alot of cool tips and such, I have tons of ideas I can pass onto you.

Also for seer revamping.

I could see that being useful.

I like it.

/signed

Why dont admins add Teleport device? It would be like mobile factory which work on creds or commods, 1 jump, cool down would be like 30 mins or 1 hour.

Currently not possible with current code, JeffL had said. Which means like a whole universe of time worth coding and debugging for one dev.

This idea sounds pretty awesome, sounds like a bit more of a toggle-able Oly Travel tweak.

Traveling fields are boring, give ships travelling mode!

I am not a fan of the -90% hull workaround. It's inelegant and doesn't stop a droner from dropping 6 Acmes, Titans, or Heph Drones. A Gunner could also launch several salvos of missiles if I'm not mistaken. On top of this, slaves (which I am assuming would have to get similar traveling fields --- they're pointless for slave classes otherwise) can fire when overhulled so that mechanism would completely fail for them.

I'm not yet convinced that this is even a necessary addition. There should simply be more juxtas in the Wild and Earthforce layers. Most things you would want to go to in Perilous are no more than 10 jumps from the hub. That's not to mention that Olympus Entrance, one of the most popular Peri-space destinations for endgame players, has a big fat drone in it that will be happy to poke your -300% resistance ship when it lands there unattended. More juxtas means more places for pirates to hang out; everyone wins.

I just remembered as well that certain ships already have inbuilt aura generators and wouldn't be able to uses these fields. That's bollocks to begin with but yet another good reason why this is a bad idea.

New AEM, cool. Look at Gunner! Skill change now!

Would not PM for ideas.