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The ESS discussion took all the attention before, so i neglected to say something about the Mobile Scan Inhibitor.

I understand trying to throw in something odd, but here is the weird decision with regard to this deployable:

When active, the Mobile Scan Inhibitor will prevent the operation of both combat probes and directional scanners by or against anything within its 30km radius. The structure itself is always visible to both probes and directional scans, and is extremely easy to pinpoint using probes.

Why make it visible at all, if it is capable of hiding everything around it? This doesn't make sense, certainly not from the users perspective. Warping towards it at range will reveal everything that is there, without the users seeing any Intel themselves. This block suggests it works by nullifying all signals in its influence sphere which should make itself also undetectable.

It is probably done to counter complains that it might otherwise be too powerful, but i disagree. From a user point of view it should stay hidden, else it would have very limited application. The most logical place to use for such a structure is as a rally point or as a way to hide your presence in WH space. The first use is severely compromised by its visibility, the second one is downright nullified.

Which essentially leaves one use left. Using it in say missions or behind bubbles as a trap of some sort to catch anyone that comes to inspect it. This makes it a deplorable bait ship and an obvious one at that....in essence rendering it useless.

It would have been great to get more info on siphon usage. I think you erred a little too far on the side of caution, but I can understand the concern.

Nice changes on the ESS!

+1 from me

I support this objection.

It makes no sense for the deployer to be scrambled by his own device. That just doesn't compute.

It's like you're walking up to your car. There's a guy lunging out at you with a knife. You have to wait 30 seconds for your car to open the door before you can jump in and race to safety.

I can see why it's done but the feature should not work like that for the pilot dropping the device. It is not reasonable to assume you'd deploy a device that would then prevent you from escaping.

Unless

you explained it as being badly designed by the corporation making the device. I want to see the hero who makes that argument.

Solution, for we are nothing if not the combination of our collective intelligence.

The mobile structure works exactly as designed

BUT

On deploying the mobile structure, the structure drops a key fob into the hold of the pilot deploying it. The key fob has one of those lovely icons the graphics gods in Reykjavik so generously share with us, it has a nice and cool description that makes fun of somebody, it weighs nothing

AND

it acts as a key fob. As long as the pilot has that thing in his hold when he's collecting from the device, he is not going to be scrambled by the mobile unit.

The mobile unit delivers one, and only one, key fob to the pilot deploying the unit. The pilot can put the key fob into the hold of another ship he's using, but it is bound to him [somehow], he can't pass it on. It can't be dumped in a jet can, traded, contracted or sold.

This way the internal logic the fair gods in far Reykjavik have built into this device remains intact. The pilot will be susceptible to the influence of the mobile unit, should they happen not to have the key fob on them, but if they do, they are not hampered by the device they themselves deployed.

Now, tell me that is not a nice and elegant solution to a pesky problem. Everybody gets something and we don't have to make it so as if our feelings are hurt.

The Empires feel their control slipping away. This is one of their efforts at saying, "F– you, Empyreans!"

It's not your device. It's the empire's. You deploy it, they get to determine the rules of how they pay out. So it's more like the poker machine: when you want to pay out you press the button and wait for the attendant to arrive. All the while you are vulnerable because the stabby guy with the knife is watching as you receive your thousand dollar winnings.

Meh, Rubicon 1.1 is about overheat everything not some stupid boxes in space.

From what I understand it is. So yeah, that.

Ok...mobile structures great. However, as they fit into a cargo hold, they should be "scoopable" to cargo hold -- just like abandoned drones...if reinforced...not so...that's fine...but just sitting there abandoned, no reinforcement...no! Cmon...the uni is cluttered enough! It's as bad as seeing all the wrecks on DSCAN and not being able to scan them down and convert them. Just adding to the mess. If you can see it, you should be able to scan it down and do something with it.

And please; attack a mobile and hope for a cargo drop, but wait....48 hours...are you kidding?

The ESS blueprint should be BPCs that come from the LP store. Charge ISK and LP. Get an ISK and LP sink while still allowing it to be playermade.

Also preserves the lore as they can come from the same Navy LP stores you are grinding for.

500k subscribers, 10k deployments per day = less than 2% of players use deployable structure (one player can use it multiple times per day).

Mobile siphons: 240 billions stolen / 60 days since expansion = 4 billions per day. Single headquarters incursion fleet is ~50 times more effective and make the same money in 30 minutes (usually there are 5 HQ fleets running).

Could be much more interesting to know - how many toons use sleeve tattoos and cybernetic arms?

I'm not saying you don't have a point, could you maybe phrase it so that your point of view would meet with acceptance rather than a defensive stance that will have people push the argument away instead?

There are so many ways you can voice that argument. Language is so diverse, you can put the letters in any sequence you want.

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