Jump-Drive

[Beagle23]

Does anyone else have anything to add? I'd like to try and get this going.

Commodities perish if you jump. I'd like to just say a wizard does it but you could probably blab about how the stress destroys them or something. It's just there to stop trade abuse though.

The expensive fuel idea is interesting, but would just keep factions powertrading more to fill up a jump bank. May as well just screw up commodities in the jump so you're not punishing people who aren't trying to abuse it for monetary gain.


As other people have said - yes, restricting it to only carriers begs for player docking - hell, the idea in general begs for playerdocking - but playerdocking and jumping would beg for all ships too big to dock on the carrier to have it too, otherwise fleets wouldn't be able to move together. If people feel all caps having Jump would be unbalanced or some such, perhaps a Carrier can jump all winged cap ships in its immediate vicinity with it, like a mothership?

On another important note, I can't see it as being very fun/meaningful if it's just there to be a random escape mechanism, nor will it be fun if a million restrictions are put on it to prevent theoretical abuse, in a fashion similar to banning guns from the server because Corsairs might go to New York and shoot someone with them. Adding to this sentiment, I think having a 6 hour cooldown might be a tad killjoyish.

How about giving it fairly long windup time, say two minutes or so, while stopping all guns and ability to nano/shieldbatt for that time - leave the actual shield online. Once the jump's done and you're winding down, have a little cooldown period before guns and repair comes back online, say thirty seconds or so. Keep the cooldown for jumping again meaningful but short - twenty, thirty minutes or so. It's not oppressive, but you can't just jump everywhere instead of flying.


If it's something people seriously want added I think we'd have to accept that it's not something you stick in and then think of ways to restrict so it doesn't get used a lot - this would be used very commonly, no two ways about it. Still, just like player docking, it sounds too good and fun to be adopted, but I'll hope for it anyway and give my sign of approval!