Player Features and Ideas Discussion

First, I'd like to thank CCP for the well thought out rebalance of the Tier 1 industrials. Good job giving them focused roles! However, if I recall right, there were several indusrials which disappeared, namely, the medium industrials of the Caldari and Ammar lines.

I have an idea to toss out to revive one of these scrapped hulls. Have a medium sized general carrier, faster than an Iteron 5 with a smaller cargo capacity, slower than an Iteron 1 with a lager cargo capacity. It also can carry 1 (one) fitted frigate. My thought is, the frigate is mounted on external skid clamps/tractor beams (kind of like a US Navy cruiser carries a helicopter), therefore only 1 frigate sized ship can be carried.

I am sure that creative players would think up uses for such a combo. Here are a few to illustrate my idea a bit more fully.

Docking and pulling out your scout frig to see what the next gate or 2 are like, saving an insta-dock - insta-undock set, etc is only the most obvious use.

Running a "paper route" where you have multiple bids out for things "within 5 jumps" of multiple systems, say Malluker, Rens and Hek. Use your frig to pick up your purchases, loading them (and the frig) aboard the Indy, Fly to the next center of purchases, rinse, repeat.....

Set up a temporary base of operations to run level 1-2 security missions. The Indy can carry reloads of drones and ammo, mission fit hardeners, etc to allow the mission fit frig to grind standing until you can run level 4's for that corp.

As above, but for PvP, carrying your supplies to take out your wardec's POS, camp their home station or whatever.

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That was a joke, right?

...right?

wrong section, imho. You should probably post this in suggestions section. And suffer rapid disappering of your post under swarm of other "meaningfull" suggestions.
Small and agile industrial with hangar, even small one, will heavily misused in many possible way. On the other hand hangar in Nestor, even if it can hold only 1 fitted frigate (yes, including rigs), would be reason to buy this other way very overpriced ship...

You're probably right about it being posted in the wrong section of the forums.... So, yeah, move it if you wish, Moderators.

Also, "misused" is often used instead of "used in a way we didn't expect" or "used in a way which harms me/us." But EVE is not intended to be safe and friendly....

Also, I agree that this would also be good on a Nestor instead of that refitting bay.

Agreed. The dedicated holds free up both the lows and the rigs for other uses.

Indeed. No ships much less hulls were removed during the rebalance.

what about glorious Iterations of Iteron 1-5?

This smells like a tuned down version of the Orca

Their new names all sound like they're Alliance Tournament prizes tho....

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