With the back-to-the basics approach to the upcoming 1.5 vehicle rebalance, there will never be a better opportunity for CCP to implement a capacitor system for vehicles. As more vehicle content gets added it will only get harder to add these later, requiring another major vehicle rework and balancing effort when they add them later. It may become so cumbersome later on that CCP gives up on the concept entirely.

Capacitors could be implemented using the existing stamina system and expanded/improved as needed over time. Capacitors are fully compatible with CCP's stated goals/vision for vehicles in DUST (the ability to tank bursts of damage for limited time, but being vulnerable to attack when their cap is dry). Capacitors open up the opportunity for cap warfare down the road which would give DUST a gameplay element that doesn't exist in any other competing FPS title out there. Capacitors give vehicle users more flexibility and control in their module activation choices. They are an easy concept to grasp, and appeal to EVE players who may decide to play as vehicle specialists due to a similarity of mechanics.

Please post if you think adding vehicle capacitors is a good idea for 1.5. Or if you disagree, please share your reasons why you don't want them.

Nah. Capacitors are an EVE thing. Let them stay there.

Adding them to DUST is potentially a ton (tonne) of work. The weapons systems work a particular way and there is lots of code that makes assumptions based on the current implementation. Maybe they are planned. Either way, a lot of work.

CCP doesn't have to coddle us. They don't have to try to make things baby simple.

If anything the clunky cool-down system is more complex to deal with than stamina.

Yes let's just call it what it is, vehicle stamina. Infantry stamina is terribly simple. You use it up at various rates as you run and jump, and it "recharges" over time and is affected by modules and skills.

That's too complicated you say? People won't know how to deal with it? Ok, let's change that.

Let's give infantry a movement module. When a merc wants to run he activates his boost module and he can run until it runs out or he shuts it off. Then he watts for it to cool down before he can run again.

So simple isn't it?

Nah. Capacitors are an EVE thing. Let them stay there.

Adding them to DUST is potentially a ton (tonne) of work. The weapons systems work a particular way and there is lots of code that makes assumptions based on the current implementation. Maybe they are planned. Either way, a lot of work.

I don't play EVE, but the capacitor idea sounds great.

Imagine the rage and cries for nerf threads that will be created when we figure out the perfect balance between cap and rep.

What, you gonna make me have to worry about ammo, overheating, and cap?