Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think deploy for fleet would be better since most times we have alliance members in fleet so corp use would be redundent but still needed in some instances

I think what the OP is referring to is that only th pilot who launches the MTU can access its contents or scoop it. When you're in a decent sized fleet, it would be nice to be able to let anyone from corp or fleet be able to interact.( and obviously leave a log in the loot logs)

Indeed.

Not everyone rats alone. I realise that profitability is altered, but I find ratting in groups more enjoyable, much like mining. (Being sociable in an MMO, blasphemy!)

I am all for a "Launch fo Corp/FLeet" option.

Perhaps even make the current MTU's open to anyone to open, while T2 version could be password protected, or locked for corp/fleet with a smaller capacity that also works slower. Risk vs Reward and all that.

You really are missing the point. I think it's safe an agreeable to let MTUs be set to corp/fleet use. +1

Nope.

It's common practice in WH's for the ratting groups to have a dedicated salvager following behind them in a Noctis to clean up the sites. When the fleet lands in the anomaly someone drops an MTU and bookmarks it, and the site is marked as clean when everything is destroyed in Siggy if you have an especially large amount of anomalies that day, otherwise just going in order from the top to the bottom of the probe scanning window suffices, since you won't likely have any changes in fleet and thus changes in order of procession. After the ratting team is ahead by a few anomalies the salvager leaves the POS and starts cleaning up the wrecks, but they can't pick up the MTU's or clean them out. This means that after all of the sites have been run, and everything has been salvaged, 4 or 5 people have to go back to their bookmarks to fetch the MTU's they personally deployed.

It's annoying that the Noctis pilot couldn't scoop those MTU's up and return them to the POS as he was salvaging in the first place. Even when he gives the ratters a head start he often ends up waiting for them to finish the last couple anomalies, and the poor guy gets so damn bored just running salvagers on the pile of junk that was swept together that they start trying to make small talk in between the FC overseeing the ratting over voice coms. After several months this can lead to debilitating social issues where the pilot pauses every few words expectantly during normal conversation, apologizes needlessly every time their speech overlaps with someone else's, and long periods of up to several hours of silence following polite requests such as "Excuse me, kind of busy" or "Give me just a moment Dave".

Since being a salvager is not a dedicated role and everyone ends up filling this spot regularly, this eventually leads to players needing rehabilitation before being acceptable in polite society and turning to their D-scan button as a means of finding companionship and personal interaction.

It's not their fault, and it's something we can help. Just give the salvagers a little bit more to do during their periods of boredom.

The one I want is a fleet/Corp option for the mobile depo.

I've not had any luck with that. Every time I try that and there's more things than my hold can hold m3 wise I get a urfuqt message. that's why I thought about being able to turn the thing off and eject what it holds. maybe that's just a problem on my end?

Been there, done that, you're doing it wrong. I used a frigate fit for align time to warp in on site being run, drop MTU, then run screaming back to pos before sleepers shifted aggro to me. Once next site was started, repeat procedure and then go get noctis and salvage first site. Come on, what else are you doing while waiting for corpmates to finish site so you can salvage?