My main is a level 700-ish sniper (and has always been sniper). I just noticed this thread last night and have a couple of suggestions for sniper-only items.

How about a sniper-only item that improves projectile speed by a significant percentage for a certain number of shots, after which your shots would revert to standard projectile speed? It would be like a permanent tweak item that has to be activated by the player (manually or by hotkey) to be used (rather than something like the panther ambush that is outside the player's control). There would be a cooldown period (not too long - maybe 15 or 30 seconds) before the item could be activated again to alleviate concern that this would be overpowered. If the cooldown period alone is not enough to alleviate overpowering concerns, make it so the item can only be used when you're still.

Several versions of these projectile speed enhancers could be available. The projectile speed bonus granted, amount of energy used, cooldown time, etc., could vary depending on the level/quality of the item. These could be sniper mission rewards, sold at sniper's armory in lyceum, ai drops, ruin extracts, etc.

Another idea would be a sniper-only witches broomstick-type item that is permanent (or at least has an extremely low failure rate).


- Brock Grocklyn

test is now reset back to current.

Also, Sniper kinda needs all the range it can get. Without the 100% boost, my sniper would only have about 1400 range with a zspitter, which is barely more than a platty, and that's while standing still...

Just post it in both threads.

However, 1x the max speed and then OFF seems like a silly way to do it, as it would penalize, snipers and seers who, for example, got microwarpcaps, so they couldn't cloak while APing.

How about some sort of -cloaking scale? That scales from 1x to 2x the ships max speed. So, for example, at 101 speed on a 100 speed ship, you get 99% your cloaking power. 130, you get 70% your cloaking power, etc. At 200, the cloak deactivates.

Perhaps it would be better to scale from 1.3 to 2.3, though, to avoid penalization for getting skills that boost speed.

The 1.3-2.3 sounds good to me.

Just post it in both threads.

However, 1x the max speed and then OFF seems like a silly way to do it, as it would penalize, snipers and seers who, for example, got microwarpcaps, so they couldn't cloak while APing.

How about some sort of -cloaking scale? That scales from 1x to 2x the ships max speed. So, for example, at 101 speed on a 100 speed ship, you get 99% your cloaking power. 130, you get 70% your cloaking power, etc. At 200, the cloak deactivates.

Perhaps it would be better to scale from 1.3 to 2.3, though, to avoid penalization for getting skills that boost speed.