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Primae-PI Drones
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Erasmus Grant
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#1 - 2014-12-31 02:47:57 UTC
I know the Primae is just a blue Noctis to make PI feel special, but it has the appearance of a drone bay. I was wondering if it was possible for CCP to add PI drones that would go pick up containers launched in space from the planet below instead of having to warp to the containers.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#2 - 2014-12-31 02:50:59 UTC
Laura Agathon
Nothing on Dscan
#3 - 2014-12-31 10:40:35 UTC
lol

Use a spaceport/launcher thingy?
Leyete Wulf
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-12-31 14:16:11 UTC
"Lets rehash a dead ship and invent a useless drone so I don't have to move my ship a few km."

First, no.

Second, no. There are so many other thread with better ideas for what the primae could be. (Moon mining ship pls)

Third, no. For everyone who doesn't belong to and NPC corp and do all their PI in high sec surviving your PI pick run means being able to grab and go. Hanging around watching your overly specialized one-use-only drones ferrying container contents back you your ship is a death sentence.

Fourth, no. It's called a tractor beam.

Finally, yes. Please for the love of Pete, CCP give us more ships and styles of game play other than blowing stuff up. That way there are more people out generating that content in more parts of space. (And conveniently more people for me to blow up.) As a player that does both PVE and PVP for fun I would love to see a dozen new ways to make a living in space, and the more active (read as ships in space where they can be tackled and killed) the methods are the better.
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-12-31 14:24:34 UTC
Leyete Wulf wrote:
"Lets rehash a dead ship and invent a useless drone so I don't have to move my ship a few km."

First, no.

Second, no. There are so many other thread with better ideas for what the primae could be. (Moon mining ship pls)

Third, no. For everyone who doesn't belong to and NPC corp and do all their PI in high sec surviving your PI pick run means being able to grab and go. Hanging around watching your overly specialized one-use-only drones ferrying container contents back you your ship is a death sentence.

Fourth, no. It's called a tractor beam.

Finally, yes. Please for the love of Pete, CCP give us more ships and styles of game play other than blowing stuff up. That way there are more people out generating that content in more parts of space. (And conveniently more people for me to blow up.) As a player that does both PVE and PVP for fun I would love to see a dozen new ways to make a living in space, and the more active (read as ships in space where they can be tackled and killed) the methods are the better.


On the final point I'd like to be able to deploy a dropship to fetch my goods from the surface to avoid taxes at the POCO, being seen by the owner (or a member of their corp) makes you suspect and fair game :D. obviously in losec the danger is the time the dropship takes for a round trip
Erasmus Grant
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#6 - 2014-12-31 19:50:58 UTC
I do not know much about moon mining. Sorry for trying to find a use for an apparent drone bay.
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-12-31 19:54:16 UTC
On a PI ship the drone bay is there for EC300's to try to escape if someone scram you down
Bloody2k
SKULL AND B0NES
#8 - 2014-12-31 20:00:27 UTC
Primae needs something unique to make sense using it. Actually it is obsolete.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#9 - 2014-12-31 20:08:53 UTC
Bloody2k wrote:
Primae needs something unique to make sense using it. Actually it is obsolete.



No it doesn't, it was a free ship handed out to encourage people to try PI. It was a gift. A present. A freebie. It does not need to be better than anything else at what it does.
Bloody2k
SKULL AND B0NES
#10 - 2014-12-31 20:28:14 UTC
@ Danika Princip

I can't follow your statement. The "Leopard" was a gift too and it havesomething unique (20AU/s warpspeed). Because the Primae was a gift, it should not have something unique? CCP is generally interested to give a player the reason, to make every single ship use for. PI does not have impact to game for any single player so it wont be the OP PvP ship, I just call for something to make sense to use it (sorry for this sh*t english).

for example:

1. the multirole PI-ship
- high PI-cargo
- fast align speed
- enought cargo for POCO built or command center ect.

2. the PI-cargo-king
- highest PI-cargo

It wont be something unique with huge impact, but something uniqe will be great.
Liet Ormand
Sons of Bacchus
#11 - 2014-12-31 20:29:19 UTC
Erasmus Grant wrote:
I know the Primae is just a blue Noctis to make PI feel special, but it has the appearance of a drone bay. I was wondering if it was possible for CCP to add PI drones that would go pick up containers launched in space from the planet below instead of having to warp to the containers.


Hi there. Welcome to the cycle of abuse and derision from the community that reads the Eve Features and Ideas Discussion boards. Don't let the various folks shouting down your idea get you down, it happens to everyone here.


I think personally that drones that retrieve stuff aren't a horrible idea, maybe a mobile tractor unit could do this?

I now return you to the de rigeur idea bashing in progress.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#12 - 2014-12-31 21:05:38 UTC
Bloody2k wrote:
@ Danika Princip

I can't follow your statement. The "Leopard" was a gift too and it havesomething unique (20AU/s warpspeed). Because the Primae was a gift, it should not have something unique? CCP is generally interested to give a player the reason, to make every single ship use for. PI does not have impact to game for any single player so it wont be the OP PvP ship, I just call for something to make sense to use it (sorry for this sh*t english).

for example:

1. the multirole PI-ship
- high PI-cargo
- fast align speed
- enought cargo for POCO built or command center ect.

2. the PI-cargo-king
- highest PI-cargo

It wont be something unique with huge impact, but something uniqe will be great.



You're in luck, doesn't it already do everything you list under number 1? 2000M3 command centre hold, 3AU/s warp speed and four lows to mess with align times?

And a freebie is never going to be the best at something. Yes, the leopard is fast, but it's still a shuttle. It'll explode when someone looks at it funny.
Petrified
Old and Petrified Syndication
#13 - 2014-12-31 21:09:01 UTC
Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:
Leyete Wulf wrote:
"Lets rehash a dead ship and invent a useless drone so I don't have to move my ship a few km."

First, no.

Second, no. There are so many other thread with better ideas for what the primae could be. (Moon mining ship pls)

Third, no. For everyone who doesn't belong to and NPC corp and do all their PI in high sec surviving your PI pick run means being able to grab and go. Hanging around watching your overly specialized one-use-only drones ferrying container contents back you your ship is a death sentence.

Fourth, no. It's called a tractor beam.

Finally, yes. Please for the love of Pete, CCP give us more ships and styles of game play other than blowing stuff up. That way there are more people out generating that content in more parts of space. (And conveniently more people for me to blow up.) As a player that does both PVE and PVP for fun I would love to see a dozen new ways to make a living in space, and the more active (read as ships in space where they can be tackled and killed) the methods are the better.


On the final point I'd like to be able to deploy a dropship to fetch my goods from the surface to avoid taxes at the POCO, being seen by the owner (or a member of their corp) makes you suspect and fair game :D. obviously in losec the danger is the time the dropship takes for a round trip


Now that would be a cool addition. Imagine how much destruction would be wrecked upon these ships in The Forge.

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