... Are you suggesting warp drives on tanks? 'Cuz I could go for a warp drive on my tank.

*Warps to top of tower* *Opens tank hatch* "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!" *Watches the redberry sniper **** bricks*

We need warping tanks! That would be the best thing ever! Maybe a longer cool down than 30 seconds though? Maybe 45 seconds?

Oh. Yeah, that would be much more balanced. I really want to see at tank warp into somebody and kill them, preferably with a large bloody explosion.

I like this idea except... I want the tank to cloak.. Black op ships in Eve cloak so, calling a tank a black ops tank and not having it be able to cloak is kinda... I don't know insert your own word after kinda can't think of one..

You suggested that tanks be given the ability to teleport. Why would a tanker hate the ability to instantly insert themselves into a firefight without having to worry about traversing the field and dealing with AV'ers along the way?

Fair is Fair

Allow other classes to do this....

Including AV

*Tanker comes to the field, gets around 20 kills*

*AV comes out and nearly destroys his tank*

*Tanker teleports to his redline, safe from all AV*

*Tanker comes back a few minutes later, spam, rinses and repeats for the entire round*

That mechanic would be so broken that it wouldn't even be funny. I could just farm kills, and teleport to saftey with no consequences, drive to a supply depot for a bit and wait for my mods to cooldown and keep doing it with no consequence whatsoever. Tanks would be invincible. (Not that they won't soon be already).

How exactly do cynos work in EVE? As I understand it, Titans can warp where they like and bring other ships through with them but at the cost of being temporarily vulnerable. I think this is the mechanic that's being aimed at here, and not a get out of jail free card.

Obviously, there would be conditions on a successful warp and some sort of penalty upon arrival.
For example, a tank must take 60 uninterrupted seconds of not receiving damage to spool up the warp drive. Upon successful warp all vehicle modules are depleted to their normal refresh rate and the warp drive requires a 5 minute recharge.

I think this would be an absolute blast and dramatically change the tactical environment of Dust. Saying goodbye to redlining would be just the start.

One reason this probably will never happen though is that if warp drives can fit in tanks why don't we have them in all ships in EVE? I guess they're huge.

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As someone already said, this wouldn't be a Black Ops HAV anymore, since Black Ops implies cloaking abilities ... maybe call it a Scout HAV with its scanning abilities or a Interceptor HAV or something.

Maybe in order to jump to a certain position you would need a CovOps LAV or MAV or HAV to activate a cyno in the area, Cov Ops vehicles would have to be weakened by having Medium turret slot instead of Large or MAV having light instead of Medium or LAV having no turret slot, but your Interceptor HAV could keep its Large turret, maybe gimped a bit in tank by the 'jump' module taking up a high AND a low slot (if that's code-able)

Also I kind of like the idea that other modules can't be activated while 'spooling up' but turrets work ... however once jumped maybe the opposite, so you can active your other modules to repair damage received before jump, or counter incoming fire after jump, but your turrets are disabled for 10-15 seconds after jumping, or tracks are disabled for a period ... so you're not just jumping into the middle of the fight and being 100% effective straight away, you'd have to be more tactical about jumping just outside the fight and being vulnerable for a short time before you can wade in.

Just my thoughts.

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Thanks, but could you explain as to why you do? I'm curious