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New Ship Idea: ORE Contruction Platform
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Balor Haliquin
White Wolf Dragoons
#1 - 2012-08-18 20:22:48 UTC
ORE Construction Platform
The Ore Construction Platform is a battleship sized ship that the ORE corporation put out to assist with the deployment and deployment of towers. This ship effectively reduces the anchoring and onlining time of towers and tower modules. In order to do this the ship must enter its construction mode and will be stuck in place while it is deploying the tower and its modules.

* ORE Construction Platform: The ORE Construction Platform is exclusively for industrial construction of space objects. It is designed to reduce the time needed to deploy full towers in any space. They are very weak ships designed for base construction rather then combat. While in construction mode the ship is immobile for 15 minuets. The siege unit requires fuel to use. The bonus is that it allows the pilot to set up a tower in about one third the time.
* Construction Rig Module: This modules is the main way that the ORE Construction Platform works. While in its special siege mode anything deployed by the pilot has a massive reduction to onlining time anchoring time. It also allows the pilot to online an additional module for the tech one module and 2 additional module for the tech two module.

Balance Requirements:
Because this ship would give one player the ability to rapid build towers, the cost to run the specific siege module must be high. This gives players a trade off in speed over resources. In addition the ship itself is inherently not built for combat in any way. So for the size of the hull it has very low HP.
Vakr Onzo
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-08-18 20:44:42 UTC
It would be limited by the fact that it can only focus on one structure at a time. They're a bit too massive for a single platform/ship to try to multitask. That would be part of the balance just saying.
Balor Haliquin
White Wolf Dragoons
#3 - 2012-08-19 13:45:02 UTC
Agreed, another limiting factor would be the limitation on how many towers can be set up in one day by a corp as part of an alliance. After setting up a tower or two, I found myself wondering why they didn't make a specific ship for this job. In other space based games there are constructors, why not in eve?