Sci-Fi fusion-plasma whatever engines don't need fuel. True story ;)

I'm pretty sure in EvE their equivalent is the capacitor. It gets depleted from using on-board systems from what I've heard, although I don't play EvE personally.

I'm pretty sure in EvE their equivalent is the capacitor. It gets depleted from using on-board systems from what I've heard, although I don't play EvE personally.

I'm pretty sure in EvE their equivalent is the capacitor. It gets depleted from using on-board systems from what I've heard, although I don't play EvE personally.

Yes, that's the idea.

I made a post in Feedback about how I hope vehicle capacitors can come in for 1.5.

Imagine being able to make your vehicle cap stable and perma-run your resistance hardeners?

Now, AVers, before you panic, imagine getting a grenade or mine you can use the drain energy from vehicles to make them vulnerable.

Now, suddenly, you have both superior vehicles and more tools for AVers brought in at the same time, and the subsequent vehicle buff is automatically kept in balance.

No

CCP, et al.:

In real life, how far a vehicle GÇö be it ground, aerial, underwater or spaceborne GÇö can go is dictated by how much fuel it carries or can generate on its own accord.

So, with this in mind, why not implement such a system in Dust 514? Here's how I envision it would work:

All vehicles would come with a base amount of fuel, TBD by the Dust 514 development team with, of course, input provided by players, especially those who have skilled into vehicles.

A fuel skill would be added into the vehicle skill tree. Instead of boosting the skill by percentage per level, it would instead provide a boost of, say, 25 fuel units per level. The skill would add to the base level of fuel that a vehicle has, and would be a skill that would need to be leveled for each type of vehicle (much like what folks have to do with each type of weapon they specialize into).

Each vehicle could travel an "x" amount of distance per fuel unit, again TBD by the devs with player input.

In this scenario, supply depots could also serve double duty as refueling depots. It'd simply be a matter of devs coding them to include fuel among the supplies that are restocked when players and/or vehicles are near them. The depots would dispense the largest amount of fuel and, thus, would be highly prized and protected.

Nanohives could also serve as fuel dispensers, albeit on a much smaller scale than supply depots. Perhaps the devs could create another specialty nanohive, one that focuses on providing fuel, up to a maximum of a third of that given by a supply depot.

In exchange for this fuel system, one that would make vehicle use much more strategic than, say, the "murder taxis" we see careening around the battlefield now, CCP would buff the shielding and armor systems aboard vehicles, or provide some other compensating component or two.

I am a non-vehicle user, aside from the occasional "free" LAV to get me from Point A to Point B, so I am writing this based on general observations of Dust 514, with no particular animus toward vehicle users GÇö many of which, by the way, I count as my allies in Dust 514.

My goal is to ensure that the use of vehicles GÇö LAVs, HAVs, dropships and the upcoming fighter jets, speed bikes and so on GÇö is strategic in nature, while also preserving them as the "equation changers" they're meant to be, particularly with HAVs. That's why in the points above, I specifically noted that vehicles should be buffed in exchange for the implementation of a fuel system.

So, that sums things up. What do folks think? Is it doable? Not doable? If yes or no, then why?

I'm pretty sure in EvE their equivalent is the capacitor. It gets depleted from using on-board systems from what I've heard, although I don't play EvE personally.

yeah it really seems like an ideal way to balance it all out, stronger tank and stronger AV, all within bounds created by the opposing sides tactics.

energy neutralizing grenades, mines and a energy neut version of the remote repper, along with webber versions creates the tank trapper mindset, countered directly by tanks now trying damned hard to steer clear of any situation that allows infantry to get that close.

a balance sweep on turret and module cpu/pg would allow
a. low meta turrets and strong passive tank,
b. cap stable tank with the highest meta turrets fit-able or
c. high meta turrets with temp active tank for glass cannon hit and run.

balancing so that version a. can only fit 3x small turrets would be a doozy, as far as cpu/pg balancing goes.

/just_an_idea

the nerf demands gets more ridiculos by the day

When you accept having to refuel your dropsuit's fuel, I'll accept having to refuel my vehicle. Until then, no deal.

So you get 4 things to take out a tank and the tank gets to steer clear of infantry. Guess what tanks already have to do that as it is. If you get all that energy neutralizing and webbing I want smart bombs to kill infantry with in a 50-75m radius.

The question is: are you using your secondary gun slots, or trying to solo-tank to avoid secondary gunners "stealing your kills"?

Most of the AV that gets you in the game right now is coming at you from long range.

Cap draining devices could be a grenade, for instance, requiring the player to get well within range of your small turrets to successfully use it, and it might take several of them to drain you out completely.

So with this proposal, having someone get you in their sights with a Breach Forge at 400 meters is no longer an instant death sentence, because you can have your hardeners always active.

Capacitors like in EVE would be amazing on vehicles. Do you make a cap stable tank constantly able to cycle its mods or one that uses it cap for brief prodigious module use?

So you get 4 things to take out a tank and the tank gets to steer clear of infantry. Guess what tanks already have to do that as it is. If you get all that energy neutralizing and webbing I want smart bombs to kill infantry with in a 50-75m radius.

Cant really redline a blaster tank, least not if you are going to be useful.

This is the worst idea since the Vietnam War.

I like this idea, would be cool to make vehicles explode in a larger ball of fiery death if they have more fuel too.

Given the disposable nature of our clone bodies, the lore could simply state that tanks aren't made with current fusion reactor technology because it's not cost effective to miniaturise and put into tanks for such short engagements where loss of life is of no concern, so why should battlefield equipment?

However, the general concept can be applied to having active modules run off of a continuously recharging capacitor, which I think is an excellent idea.