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[PI] Interplanetary transports
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Ligraph
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-04-08 23:18:53 UTC
A spaceport-like building that transports things between planets.

I think there should also be a way to transport things between systems, but that should require some in-space infrastructure, like a citadel in-system or something.
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#2 - 2016-04-08 23:23:31 UTC
Im resistant to these ideas because you're just making passive income more passive. The thing that transports pi goods between planets and systems is your ship.

What id totally be on board for is being able to courier contract pi goods between custom offices.

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Corvald Tyrska
Valknetra
#3 - 2016-04-09 06:34:32 UTC
Ligraph wrote:
A spaceport-like building that transports things between planets.

I think there should also be a way to transport things between systems, but that should require some in-space infrastructure, like a citadel in-system or something.


More than happy for there to be the ability to contract NPC haulers to haul goods from one planet to another for you, even across multiple systems, as long as they can be blown up and looted by anyone willing to take a sec status hit.
Praal
Bearded BattleBears
#4 - 2016-04-09 07:16:05 UTC
Corvald Tyrska wrote:
More than happy for there to be the ability to contract NPC haulers to haul goods from one planet to another for you, even across multiple systems, as long as they can be blown up and looted by anyone willing to take a sec status hit.

This. Make them work like those hisec hauler convoys and actually contain the materials being moved and have to go through a gate if they move between systems.
Ligraph
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2016-04-09 17:40:51 UTC
The convoy idea would be neat. But maybe the haulers should have a few escorts...

Another idea is to have a way to auto-contract the goods (courier contract) once they get launched to the POCO, then any player can move them.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#6 - 2016-04-10 09:39:40 UTC
Or you could just play the damn game. Undock, move your stuff. PI isn't exactly complicated as is and this wouldn't really improve it (compared to, say, reducing the frankly ABSURD number of clicks it takes to reconfigure a planet). The only way I could see this working is if the transport was prohibitively expensive. At that point, if you want to lose money on it? Sure.
Ligraph
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-04-11 20:12:19 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Or you could just play the damn game. Undock, move your stuff. PI isn't exactly complicated as is and this wouldn't really improve it (compared to, say, reducing the frankly ABSURD number of clicks it takes to reconfigure a planet). The only way I could see this working is if the transport was prohibitively expensive. At that point, if you want to lose money on it? Sure.


Is clicking undock, warp to, and loot all really that many clicks? I agree with having to play the game, but hauling stuff from one planet to the other isn't my idea of playing. Now maybe in null or w-space... Maybe disable the interplanetary transport unless you own the null Sov, and disable it entirely in w-space.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#8 - 2016-04-12 05:39:10 UTC
If players can do it npcs shouldn't

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