Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's just too easy to carry a mobile depot around with you in your frigate or other ship, along with a backup set of fittings, and refit your ship in under two minutes with no station around. It cheapens the value of having fitting services available.

I think mobile depots should take up at least 1000m3 of cargo space. If you want to have a mobile depot for your fleet, you should bring an industrial along. You can fit the mobile depot in there along with ammunition, backup drones, alternate fitting options, bombs if you have bombers, and whatever else you want to carry with the fleet.

I think it would also be pretty cool if the hoarder had more standard cargo space and/or a fitting service. Combined with its extra high slot and turret hardpoint, it could become the standard bring-along industrial for roaming fleets.

Wasn't this the entire point behind their creation?

Maybe it could be slightly bigger but definitely not 1000m3. Any frigate should be able to carry one. As people pointed out before me, it's the entire point of the Mobile Depot.

As for your hoarder, as much as I like the idea of having an industrial ship suited for roaming gangs, it should definitely not have fitting services. You were saying that Mobile Depots cheapens the value of having fitting services available and you go on suggesting having that on a standard ship you could move around with you. Doesn't really make much sense.

You say that as if it's easier to bring a dedicated ship than it is to stick one in your cargohold for 50m3.

The main difference between a ship and a Mobile Depot is that the ship is even more mobile than the depot. You can warp it around, it can jump gates, etc. Of course it takes an extra pilot to have it, but still.

Typical, assuming I only suggest things that will directly benefit myself.

Actually I made this thread after I used a mobile depot for the first time while running missions. It seems too easy, small, cheap, and portable, and therefore I think it is bad for EVE.

I'm still a huge advocate of "can't refit while getting shot" which would help a lot with slowcat proliferation and such as well. That'd help with the "fit stabs while dying, moonwalk away" syndrome.

I agree with this. If your target is refitting it is because he feels his fit is sub-optimal, so if you can't pop him while he hovers near his depot for 60+ seconds then you're doing it wrong.
Besides, I don't think the depots were ever intended as a mid-combat tool. I'm sure that in some cases they can be used like that but if you're refitting mid-fight you're probably screwed anyways. The whole point of depots, as I understand them, is so that a roamer (solo up to fleet) can refit before/in-between/after fights without needing a station or an Orca.
They're also a big plus in wormholes, probes are always a good thing to have but not always a good thing to have fitted and depots let you switch your fits when you otherwise wouldn't be able. Or maybe you're a drone boat and you lose your drones, do you go all the way back to station to put new ones into your drone bay or do you drop a depot and move them over on-site?

Conclusion: OP is butthurt because he failed to adapt and/or plan. -1

I suppose that's possible, but in true Eve fashion I like my conclusion because it insults someone else and makes me feel superior.

I could see the potential for 1,000 m3 or greater volume mobile depot. The difference is, that this would be available to either members of fleet or corp, rather than just the individual.