Not locks. Eject button.

Believe it or not, stolen vehicles is intended to be a thing.

About that, if the person doesn't have the skills for said vehicle, I don't think they should be able to even steal it (maybe recall it, but seeing as they don't ahve the skills, it'd be only useful as trophies and extra ISK).

EDIT: I'd like eject buttons as well, for hot drops and such. Like people queue up for drops, and the pilot hits a button, launching everyone out of the passenger seats.

Indeed. How can they hack the vehicle if they do not understand the basic operating systems of the tank or the modules used in the composition of it?

CCP, I want better bonuses for UHAV instead of fitting bonuses. Something to help them be really tanky. The fitting bonus for small turrets should be given to HAV's. The skill for UHAV should not only unlock UHAV but give some sort of bonus, maybe 2% resistance to armor and shield per level.

CCP, I want better bonuses for UHAV instead of fitting bonuses. Something to help them be really tanky. The fitting bonus for small turrets should be given to HAV's. The skill for UHAV should not only unlock UHAV but give some sort of bonus, maybe 2% resistance to armor and shield per level.

Eh, 2% per level wouldn't be enough.
More like 3% or 4% per level.

Ok, Ratatti cleaned up the spreadsheet (Thank you!) so i think I'm reading it better...even so if I have it wrong, I apologize.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A6p9jXdSNHTtmo_PtuQdgkntr-JpY-vo5cTAWjEijw8/edit?usp=sharing

the UHAV seems much more reasonable, good call on droping the base HP from x2 to x1.5. Also glad to see you spread out the HP drop on the DHAV over the armor and shields, those look a lot more reasonable now.

Meh, unless all av is getting nerfed then the UHAV won't be much tankier than now, just a 400 hp primary tank difference.

That spreadsheet, how do they get 10k ehp?

The effective HP assumes a hardened state. 40% for Shield, 25% for armor.

But that is weird. I was running ad 3975 Shield 3385 armor Gunnlogi today with a 40% shield hardener but I got taken out in 10 seconds by two Minmatar Commandos. That with hardener is 9000 HP, and two commandos took me out with ease, I wonder what a slower HAV with 2000 more HP will help me with.

The effective HP assumes a hardened state. 40% for Shield, 25% for armor.

I appreciate you taking the time to respond. While I'm disappointed that capacitors aren't on the short or medium-term horizon, I appreciate that you're at least communicating that to us.

I don't really see capacitors as another layer of complexity. I see it as unifying the complexity of multiple cooldowns that we currently have. It's actually a simplification of the current system. You're right that not everything in EVE should transfer to DUST/Legion. They ARE different styles of games, and managing lots of systems is a big part of EVE's combat experience that wouldn't translate well to DUST--I agree with you there. For one thing, I don't think overheating would make sense in an FPS. It requires too much micromanagement. But with the ability to configure your HAV to your taste, you would have the option to build cap-stable fits that require LESS management than what we have now. It gives the player freedom and flexibility.

I also see it as a major balancing tool for you guys. Right now you can really only tweak things that directly increase or decrease survivability. This would give you other variables to tweak that would affect survivability only indirectly. I feel like it would probably be useful to have those balancing options in your toolkit.

I know you're not a huge EVE player, but there is a lot of manual piloting in EVE, trying to maintain transversal against your opponent and position properly (If you're clicking "orbit" or "approach" in PvP, you're doing it wrong). Honestly I don't see much changing from a module-management standpoint with the addition of capacitors. You may have to turn a few things off more often to conserve cap, but it would be unwise for a player to fit more active modules than he can manage on his HAV. I'm sure there's a sweet-spot of module count that's reasonable to manage while still engaging in visceral FPS vehicle combat (a repper, prop mod, maybe a hardener or two, it's really not that crazy).

I hope this has been at least somewhat helpful in terms of maybe influencing your thinking of how/when capacitors might fit into a longer-term roadmap. In my opinion it would be a mistake to write capacitors off as adding complexity to an already complex game. I don't want to derail any progress. It seems like the train is already too far past the station at this point, so I'll respectfully bow out.

As always, thanks for your hard work. o7

Now, could you send me on [email protected] your thoughts/designs so I can truly see how it could pan out. Really don't like closing doors, but sometimes it's necessary.