Yeah capacitors is a good idea. Right now we have cooldown timers and the overheat on turrets to prevent nonstop spam and implement some sort of balance for vehicle modules. I believe adding cap would solve the issue better. Of course I am a huge fan of giving this game as high a skill cap as possible, and doing this would obviously increase the learning curve for new players, which could be bad.

Imo, the pros of higher skill cap gameplay, along with the possibility for new vehicle counters and new roles, outweigh the con of maybe scaring off new players. I would like to see more EWAR in general in this game to the point where it becomes a viable independent role/playstyle, much like it is in EVE.

We should be able too, these are simple things that should perma run as long as you have cap and are not neuted out just like eve.

Your sacrificing a slot for something that runs 10 seconds then cools for 30 sec that in eve eats minimal amount of cap and stays on permanently


This also leads to new tanking styles,

Intense burst rep tanks,

Better remote rep,

Better logistics,

Ammo will eat cap, depending on race.

I have a problem with leaving the control of my dropship's cap in the hands of the gunners...




On this note, I wish it was viable to do anything other than buffer tank my DS. It's got 4000 in shield (plus what the booster can pump out) and it's going to have 5K once I skill into the shields a little more, but I wish I could passive tank it effectively rather than just relying on the buffer and then sitting with my tail between my engines behind a building while I wait for it to come back.

As far as the gunners go, I posted that missiles do not take cap, use blasters for dedicated gunners, also gunner turrets are small therefore would take lil' to no cap as well.

Idea for getting around the "gunners wasting cap" thing, maybe instead of using cap to shoot, they use cap to reload. The pilot is in control of each gun's ammo regen, either automatic (uses most cap, is how ammo works now), or manual, where he enables the nano construction reload module when he wants to refresh the guns.

Eh, I'm still not quite convinced..

On another note, I think it would be interesting if your vehicle lost power when your cap is dry. I think it would be hilarious if there was an infantry module that drained cap, and you could just pull dropships out of the sky if they couldn't get away in time, or make tanks just sit dead in the water (err... Dust...).

there are already to many things to worry about when using a vehicle why would you want to throw cap in the mix

This would be a terrorable input to the game. In eve, cap is used when you do anything in your ship. Move, fire a weapon, warp, use boosters, ect. If we had that in vehicals nothing would ever have cap because stupid blueberrys hop in and fire your small weapons all the time as fast as possible at anything living or not and refuse to leave. So if your running anything standard or above the 2 gunners will destroy your cap as you try to move, shoot, use boosters, remote rep, ect

Stupid idea to have cap in dust. It's hard enough with a controller to run reps ect anyway. But having to aim shoot and then keep jumping in and out of the r2 wheel to micro manage. It's a step too far

I'd be interested in seeing it given a trial run. If nothing else, it would make sh*tty tank drivers that much sh*ttier, thus allowing me to swarm them into oblivion that much more quickly and get back to shooting fools in the face.

Not only do i want a capacitor but i want a cargo hold limiting Ammunition.

Yep or it could make a tank uber beast with an almost endless amount of rep power via cap boosters.

It really opens up the possibilitys and can make or break your fit.

I could go for that, I'm sure there will be since ccp said we'll have the ability to change ammo types.

lol. and just lol. Managing a cap is simple. More simple then cool down mods.

Far more effective then cool down mods.

I don't see how this is hard to grasp.

Maybe cuz you guys have never used it, but automatically assume it would be the hardest thing in the world to do.


If you fit your vehicle with 1 rep and active mods.

Well the active mods won't ever turn off so there goes you needing to micro manage those every 30 sec.

The booster runs until you turn it off or cap depletes, cap regenerates, there are also things called cap boosters that inject cap.

This isn't CoD don't expect the game to hold your hand, I think the majority of people who understand how cap and modules are related will agree cap is a good thing to have for vehicles here as well.