Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Why?

What advantages does this thing have over using a station or a POS to manufacture your things? Or just bringing enough ammo with you in the first place?

I was really just thinking it would be fun to do the manufacturing I do while undocked to be honest lol!

For the risk though you could maybe make things faster, or make them with less materials. I was looking at the Industrial ships and was sad that none of them were orienteered towards Manufacturing, just mining really. I was thinking more of a specific class of ship, i.e. Factory Ships, that made things while undocked, not just random ppl making more ammo because they were out.

Maybe you could be a wormhole industrialist and use your connections to hide out and make stuff, or live in high sec and try to sneak your way into lowsec while you were logged in so you could make stuff faster and cheaper but be putting a ship at risk too.

Just an idea, an idle thought I had while setting up new manufacturing jobs, that this would be fun done from an Orca type of ship or something like that. I could run Manufacturing Ops and guard systems while we made stuff, just thoughts like that to get industrialists out of stations and into space at large. For nothing but fun reasons initially lol.

I've always really liked this idea, but years later and I can't figure out where or when it would be useful.

The only reason would be if you lived very nomadically, but manufacturing anything that is actually useful would be enough of a logistical headache that just hauling everything in would be no harder.

But when would you ever actually use it to build anything, at all?

It's like you people have never heard of a POS.

Yea, I thought of a POS actually, and I have ran one mostly for research previously, but it just doesn't seem the same, or as fun. Plus it would be fun to have Industrial ships that did stuff other than mining and hauling. Moving a ship around and moving a POS around are very different as well. Adding a Manufacturing Configuration to the Rorq wouldn't be a terrible idea. Manufacturing ops would be fun, and have a reason for industrialists to be in space doing stuff other than mining. Plus POS code is something that is often lamented, this could be a good transition away from POS's to let the code be reworked into something more fun. The thought of sneaking out of Solitude and into the surrounding Null/Low sec area's to do a couple hours of manufacturing just seems fun!

If I could make stuff in a Rorq for a Material/Time saving I would be doing it right now, as would others I am sure! Maybe even smaller batches in smaller ships. *shrug* just seems like more fun could be had while manufacturing, not just waiting for the money's to be made.

Good questions!

Hrmm.. Maybe more material and time savings than a POS or Station? Or maybe some stuff could only be made while undocked? The benefits of using the ship for production would not only have to overcome the POS & Station services but also justify the risk the ship, materials and Blue Prints are being subjected to. Theres no doubt thats a significant amount, maybe a mountain that can't be climbed without making something silly. I would likely limit the length of runs to an hour or so, if you log off your ship isn't in space so either the time pauses or the job is cancelled.

What do you think? Would there be a way to justify this kind of in-space action or would the risk outweigh any reward?

Combating system cost index for one.. Would like to see something like this myself..

The risk vs isk is not logical in case of such ship. It's gonna be a very popular victim for roams all kind with high chances of tasty drops inclyding minerals bpo/c's and already stuff built.

I can't remember anything close to that idea exce0t some kind of mobile labs where drugs are cooked. [Hi there mr W. White]

-1, we have enough of an oversupply problem with peoples armies of alts building insane numbers.

the whole galaxy needs a reset save the characters SP and perhaps a modest amount of ISK so your not starting from scratch, ofcourse youd have to save the things people spent real money for like plex.

Originally, Industrial Ships were meant to do just that. They were supposed to haul industrial modules that took up a large volume and a lot of CPU, which is why they used to have an overabundance of CPU along with their huge cargo capacity. CCP never released the industrial modules though, so Industrial Ships were destined to forever be just haulers.