CCP Praetorian already alluded to capacitors during a Q&A session either in Advancing the Core of FF last year or the EVE Vegas presentation, I forget which. In any event, it would seem they are headed for DUST at some stage.

Personally I think all previous promises CCP has made should be thrown out. With CCP Rouge in we have no idea what he will or will not pursue so unless an idea is supported while he is in office I think it is safe to say the idea may have been thrown out.
It's a shame we have heard so little from him but I expect this years Fanfest will be very informative and, now that they have a decent EP, can be taken seriously with the expectation of real results.

I'd think capacitors will show up in vehicles rather than suits.

In fact, I think it will be impossible to properly balance vehicles without capacitors. Requiring god mode tanks to contend with cap stability will introduce this mythical window of opportunity that is supposed to exist for AV.

Yea but if we get cap and i get all the cap skills so it recharges faster and lasts longer and my mods require less cap and all my support skills are at 5 with 30mil invested etc etc etc and my vehicle is even better than now and i have figured out a lovely fit then infantry will still cry god mode anyways

Yea but if we get cap and i get all the cap skills so it recharges faster and lasts longer and my mods require less cap and all my support skills are at 5 with 30mil invested etc etc etc and my vehicle is even better than now and i have figured out a lovely fit then infantry will still cry god mode anyways

Ewar variety sounds good until you die everytime cause your suit cant compete in actual combat

No. Cloaks work just like vehicle active mods do now.

You turn it on and once it's off, it need to recharge.

Only difference is it can use a half charge.

Ewar variety sounds good until you die everytime cause your suit cant compete in actual combat

Personally I think all previous promises CCP has made should be thrown out. With CCP Rouge in we have no idea what he will or will not pursue so unless an idea is supported while he is in office I think it is safe to say the idea may have been thrown out.
It's a shame we have heard so little from him but I expect this years Fanfest will be very informative and, now that they have a decent EP, can be taken seriously with the expectation of real results.

We all know that the cloak cannot be reengaged until it reaches 50% power, this sounds eerily similar to EVE's capacitor system.

Basically in EVE, you cannot activate modules without your capacitor being at the minimum required power level. If you try and activate a module without having the minimum capacitor level, you will get a cool female voice telling you that you have "Insufficient Power," and the module will not activate.

I know what you're thinking: why don't you consider the Active Scanner to be the precursor to capacitor? My reason is that since the AS must reach 100% before being able to be reused, it is simply recharging it's own internal batteries and does not draw power from the suit.

Now in EVE there are these modules called Nosferatus which are energy vampires. Basically a nosferatu drains the capacitor of a targeted enemy and replenishes your own capacitor, the catch is that they will not drain the enemy capacitor lower than your own capacitor level. I have a hard time envisioning CCP implementing capacitor for dropsuits because it would make the game far more cerebral than it currently is (new players already have a hard enough time), but IIRC, CCP did mention possible future modules that sound like they would work on a capacitor system. One of the modules I remember most clearly is something that scrambles voice chat. I could see that working the same way as the cloak, fire it once for the effect, but then having to wait until your "capacitor" hit "x" amount before it could be reused. Same idea would apply to things like RADAR jamming modules, EMP modules, and other EWAR modules.

What are your thoughts, a possible hint to capacitor, or am I over thinking this?

P.S. An awesome easter egg for 1.8 would be to have the TACNET AI say "Insufficient Power" if you try and fire the cloak when beneath its required 50% recharge level.

Aisha, I love the way you think. This kind of eWAR sounds fantastic!

However, some things just wouldn't work in practice.

Like the Voice chat jammer. You know what would happen if that became prevalent? We would just put voice comms on skype or something.

Everything else sounds cool though

Not everyone has access to skype, so some people would still be affected. I would simply love to see more EWAR modules to give battles more depth and make it feel like we are actually playing in the future.

We all know that the cloak cannot be reengaged until it reaches 50% power, this sounds eerily similar to EVE's capacitor system.

Basically in EVE, you cannot activate modules without your capacitor being at the minimum required power level. If you try and activate a module without having the minimum capacitor level, you will get a cool female voice telling you that you have "Insufficient Power," and the module will not activate.

I know what you're thinking: why don't you consider the Active Scanner to be the precursor to capacitor? My reason is that since the AS must reach 100% before being able to be reused, it is simply recharging it's own internal batteries and does not draw power from the suit.

Now in EVE there are these modules called Nosferatus which are energy vampires. Basically a nosferatu drains the capacitor of a targeted enemy and replenishes your own capacitor, the catch is that they will not drain the enemy capacitor lower than your own capacitor level. I have a hard time envisioning CCP implementing capacitor for dropsuits because it would make the game far more cerebral than it currently is (new players already have a hard enough time), but IIRC, CCP did mention possible future modules that sound like they would work on a capacitor system. One of the modules I remember most clearly is something that scrambles voice chat. I could see that working the same way as the cloak, fire it once for the effect, but then having to wait until your "capacitor" hit "x" amount before it could be reused. Same idea would apply to things like RADAR jamming modules, EMP modules, and other EWAR modules.

What are your thoughts, a possible hint to capacitor, or am I over thinking this?

P.S. An awesome easter egg for 1.8 would be to have the TACNET AI say "Insufficient Power" if you try and fire the cloak when beneath its required 50% recharge level.

If I ever was using voice comms, I would do so via third-party tools.
Also, "not everyone has access to Skype"? Seriously?
I'd wager that more people have Skype (Because it's, you know, free and available on basically all platforms on this planet) than people have mics that work on their PS3s.

I kind of feel old-school now. When did people start using Skype for multiplayer games?
Back in my time, we had Teamspeak servers. Everyone had Teamspeak servers.
And no one would use in-game voice chat tools because they all, without exception, ******* sucked and were an extreme hassle to set up.
The only point for ingame voice chat is for ad-hoc teams. For everything else I'd expect a tool that isn't at the mercy of issues with the game's infastructure (like lag or voice channel limitations).

Anyway, an anti-voice EWAR attack is extremely silly for this reason alone. You basically penalize the groups that are already weaker (random blueberries that organize), while the stronger forces (proto stompers with Teamspeak) won't care. You also break an important feature of the game, which is extremely frustrating. That's on the level of randomly inverting someone's controls or removing the hit/death feedback systems for a player.

If it was during EVE Vegas than don't throw it out because that was well after CCP Rouge arrived. If it was during last year's FF then definitely throw it out.

Not everyone has a laptop or cell phone...yes, less fortunate people exist.

Not everyone has access to skype, so some people would still be affected. I would simply love to see more EWAR modules to give battles more depth and make it feel like we are actually playing in the future.

Out of all people, scouts know how dependent upon people are of their RADAR, hell if they can't see you on their RADAR, then you simply don't exist. Imagine an EMP module that takes down peoples' HUDs for a period of time -- people would absolutely freak out.