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McDodah
Langskipet
#1 - 2013-11-13 19:12:01 UTC
When I first heard about the mobile depot I was stoked! Then I saw it on sisi and thought it was a joke or unfinished as I thought it was a toy (so tiny!) It seems useful dont get me wrong. I just had different expectations.

Anyways what I was HOPING it was, was a small personal station where an individual or small group could call home. So how about a similar depot skin X20 and putting a small shield around it with a small ship hanger (a few cruisers and down) With possibilities to anchor a few of these new deployables around it. IE small turrets, science lab, manufacturing, refining with no penalties (you could add specific skills so its not so easy to get around station refining penalties. Like modular personal depot refining!), Giant space advertisement board that I can plaster my lovely face to, etc...

Make it affordable to individual players with the option of expensive but useful deployables and internal moduals (with externally identifiable skins of course) to balance it out. So for instance the station is "cheap" but the turret expansion option would cost mucho ISK and SP!

Its all about the player wanting to feel like an individual and have their own "land" and a place to call home. As the current NPC stations offer little to no player interaction anyways. Hire me whenever you want to...

Fin
Adam Zalonis
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-11-13 19:16:07 UTC
All it would take for me to really love the new depot is options to launch for corp, alliance, and fleet.
samualvimes
Brothers At Arms
#3 - 2013-11-13 19:18:52 UTC
McDodah wrote:
When I first heard about the mobile depot I was stoked! Then I saw it on sisi and thought it was a joke or unfinished as I thought it was a toy (so tiny!) It seems useful dont get me wrong. I just had different expectations.

Anyways what I was HOPING it was, was a small personal station where an individual or small group could call home. So how about a similar depot skin X20 and putting a small shield around it with a small ship hanger (a few cruisers and down) With possibilities to anchor a few of these new deployables around it. IE small turrets, science lab, manufacturing, refining with no penalties (you could add specific skills so its not so easy to get around station refining penalties. Like modular personal depot refining!), Giant space advertisement board that I can plaster my lovely face to, etc...

Make it affordable to individual players with the option of expensive but useful deployables and internal moduals (with externally identifiable skins of course) to balance it out. So for instance the station is "cheap" but the turret expansion option would cost mucho ISK and SP!

Its all about the player wanting to feel like an individual and have their own "land" and a place to call home. As the current NPC stations offer little to no player interaction anyways. Hire me whenever you want to...

Fin


From what I've seen around the reason this is only personal as opposed to bigger is that these are the first objects in a new line of deployable code that has been written.

The old code for POSes is so old and forgotten about no one at CCP DEVTEAM knows really what to do with it without breaking it.

I'm optimistic that later in EVEs future this will be iterated on with a replacement for the POS system to call home somewhere. This is just testing the water as it were

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nerdman234
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#4 - 2013-11-13 21:29:52 UTC
I honestly think they should take the POS code, ctrl+A, backspace. Then completely rewrite it factoring in future changes, ideas, and what not. Yes, this will **** people off. Yes, it will take a lot of work. The POS system has had unfixed, irritating bugs for years, I feel it's about time they either fix them, or start anew by focusing on what players want/ need.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#5 - 2013-11-13 21:43:22 UTC
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I honestly think they should take the POS code, ctrl+A, backspace.


Can't do this, as it would destroy NPC mission AI. Because Poses run on the exact same code.

Really.

Honestly though implementing the personal hangar structure in poses was pretty big for a lot of people.

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Sarah Stallman
Pen2 Logistics
#6 - 2013-11-13 21:48:20 UTC
As I understand, what they are doing is implementing new POS code iteratively. With the Rubicon additions we are seeing the building blocks of the new system. I suspect by next Winter they'll have a solid release schedule for replacing the entire system.

By the by, it would be really kick-ass if any modules that go inside the shield were plugged in to the main tower, rather than floating off separately. Then letting us put guns on using a polar rather than Cartesian coordinate system would be pretty awesome too.