Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Unlikely since currently you can see capitals inside pos shields with a d-scan currently and observation arrays [perhaps] and d-scan inhibitor modules are designed to hide things from d-scan.

A dedicated docking array with no mooring allowed at other structures I think would be preferable, then you can anchor docking arrays alongside other structures and close to other structures, to get that building a space port base feel. Anchor as many docking arrays as you feel is necessary. A limit to how many arrays a player could anchor in space could equal 5 maybe?

I think Mooring can be attractive if it improves other quality of life issues.

POS shields are nice because they provide a safe place for supers to stage and do their work. Logging off makes gathering intel harder, and that balance feels good. I can know what system a given pilot is in, provided I've learned through observation, research, or spycraft that they are a super holding alt or a super pilot. Location Agents don't tell me precise location within a system however.

Mooring could show just the hulls moored (no pilot name, just ship name), or just the active ships, maybe not even an accurate number as RL harbors have ways of covering and obscuring accurate numbers. Perhaps groups choose between more mooring capacity or more hidden assets.

I'd really like if a moored super cap could be ejected from and the pilot feel safe in leaving that ship. Spaceship coffins are currently a bad barrier to entry. I get it, they can't dock for insurance/reprocessing and other balance concerns but surely holding alts and character prisons were not the intention of the ships, at the very least it's not fun game-play and requires players to game the system rather than enjoy the game.

A moored super should be able to access corp hangars/fitting services and those sorts of things from the structure they're tied to. That same structure should be dock able for sup-caps and caps. Today feeding supers is a laborious task of trucking up goods, staging them in an outpost, shuttling them to a POS... Let's take this opportunity to remove this unnecessary middle step. It's unnecessary due to the relative safety of feeding supers via this method, so it's not a conflict driver, and the amount of headache it creates to group logistics.

A moored ship must be able to rep themselves.

Bridging: This must remain a possibility. interdicting a bridging titan today takes coordination, timing, and sacrifice, that should remain true, and remain possible. Perhaps the L and XL structures have the mooring point be somewhat interior to the structure so there's a physical barrier that needs to be navigated. Bridging should be possible while moored. Otherwise it will not be worth the risk and a huge segment of end-game capability will be 'risked out of the game.'

Have unmooring give the same 30s (60?) invul timer as undocking.

Assist (and defend) is far from the same mechanic as assignment was off grid or on grid.

I +1 this idea.
You want to know whats currently moored? Get your eyeballs on it.
This way when someone sees supers/caps on d-scan they know that are active and not currently moored.

Seems the idea of moorings is so that people can leave their super coffins as if they had just docked inside a station. If that were the case you wouldn't seem them on d-scan anyway.

considering they also want to add intel gathering deployables i think they can manage to find a balance at the same time you can see how active a structure has been based on its animation perhaps they can add to this by ensuring there is an animation only active when a player is docked


something like the docking bay light is on

I have lived in WH space for years you see this as penalizing us to be honest i see it as a new chalange and a change to the landscape WHs have gotten stale this will spice it up.


if this would put one group at more of a disadvantage than another then yes it would be a problem but it doesn't


if anything this can help to promote fights in lower class holes as i will know i'm not going to get 3 triage carriers warping in on me mid fight

at the same time it can make having caps riskier so if you don't need them groups may not build as many

Make supers cloaked when they "Moor" = no free intel.

This is effectively just docking supers, protection with no intel is the same as docking, but maybe it's time to allow that?

I see that as a doable option.
Still think hard mooring should not be on d-scan while soft mooring would show on d-scan.