How would you guys feel about a third option for ending skirmishes? I'd like some opinions on this before I throw it into feedback, I want to get the details ironed out and see if you guys even think it's a viable addition. I'm thinking something along these lines:

How you can capture the enemy MCC:

Put an MCC control override in the base camp of each team

If you do not have control of a single objective for over 2.5 minutes, your redline becomes inactive, allowing enemies to enter your base camp

If while your redline is inactive your team takes an objective, the enemy team has until the control of the objective changes hands to escape the redline before it becomes out of bounds again

Once your redline becomes inactive, the enemy team can attempt to hack your MCC control override. The MCC control override will take around 2x the time it takes a null cannon to change hands once the virus is uploaded.

If the enemy team successfully takes the MCC control override from you, they earn a 1.1x bonus to SP gains, a 2.5x bonus to ISK received, a 3x chance for receiving salvage and the battle ends immediately.

How would this improve the game?:

This would deter AFK farming a bit since your gains from it could be cut very short if the match ends quickly and your team is on the losing side.

Your team would be forced to try to take objectives instead of hiding behind the redline since the redline will disappear if you don't get an objective quickly.

This would give the winning side something to do other than sitting back and camping the redline.

This would provide a mercifully quick ending for matches where one team is completely out matched by the other.

This would provide a mercifully quick ending for the winning team so that they aren't forced to just stand around hoping an enemy tries to make a run for an objective.

• It would introduce new strategic elements into skirmish since you would have to learn plans of attack against every type of enemy base.

What you ask is capture the base mode , there is a reason why the MCC is up in the AIR

That's a really cool idea dude. It's kinda fixes ark farming, gives incentive to play and win and broadens the game.

One issue I can think of is that the mcc will eventually be a purchasable asset so once it's hacked, where does it go?. Will the winning team all get a share of it?.

In Corp battles that would be great but that means in pub matches there will be alot of ISK to easily plunder.

I think that when the hack is complete it should start a self destruct sequence which will remove issues with ownership. Then the winning team gets all the salvage from the mcc shared between them.

bigger boost to sp because the sp is partialy based upon how much time you are in a match so you must make is worth going for the MCC other wize people will rather wait the match out for more sp- an sp multiplyer worked out from how much MCC health left- more health= more sp

The only problem with this is that the MCC will eventually be mobile and can roam the map once it is piloted. So I don't know how that figures into your plan.

If only this also fixed the K/D stats I'd be happy...

I like it. Another!

If only this also fixed the K/D stats I'd be happy...

One question: Why would they have a control panel for the MCC on the ground? Why would they do that? This is why I think this idea is stupid. It can't just be down there because it is. There has to be a reason to have this panel on the ground.

So it's not a control unit for the MCC. It's a TACNET control panel that manages data transfer between the MCC and ground forces.

That would also help to explain why using it to hack the MCC and trigger a self-destruct would take so much longer than a NULL Cannon hack.

Indeed, the point isn't WHAT it is in the base that can end the battle, the point is that there is SOMETHING there that can. It could be almost anything. The whole point of it is to open up the map and to allow the swift end of drawn out skirmish matches. It just has the side effect of solving many other issues as well.

Another suggestion (which is simpler and more direct, but seems less logical) is some kind of shorter-ranged, but more powerful anti-air weapon that takes the MCC out much faster. It wouldn't insta-win the battle, but it would speed the process up if you can hold it, and with the limited range, it would only be able to reach the "friendly" MCC above it, rather than firing across the battlefield like the NULL Cannons do.