Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Right!

Let's hope that CCP will come up with a system that let's you go all the way from 1 to 2.

Have been reading that:
X-COM: Enemy Unknow JJ ABRAMS STYLE

I remembered playing and liking the original game, so I had a look at it and found this:
The Base

A base within EVE (be it a POS or a POS-ship or whatever) could have some of those features as well.
E.g. building labs close together provides additional slots, or faster research

Think about that:

1. Move your into a new system.
2. Anchor
3. Board Covert Ops/Stragic Cruiser for scanning
4. Board ship to run the sites waiting for you
5. Board and unanchor
6. repeat

features:

• able to use stargates
• able to jump to (regular) cynos (not the covert one)
• ship maintenance bay (equals a ship maintenance array when anchored)
• corp hangar
• some defenses (e.g. shield or being unprobable when anchored)
• anchor could be removed by pilot (anchor for self) or permitted corp members (anchor for corp)
• research slots
• manufacturing slots
• clone vat bay (clone in AND out, would be a very welcome feature for Rorquals, too)
• add more interesting fea

Of course the ship should be scalable from 1-person to giant alliance duty, i.e. the more features you want the bigger the ship is getting, e.g. at a point it might be too big to pass through stargates. Think of it as depending on the current captial (and super-capital) hulls

I hope CCP to do something 10x better then firaxis did there... and firaxis did an awesome job...

looking for your own space winnabago ... x up here to tell CCP what you're looking for

Some of your ideas are interesting but I have some concerns about making space too small. The easier it is to haul your digital life around the smaller space becomes. Some inconvenience is a good thing.

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Big +1 for this whole thread.

The idea of a nomadic POS-type ship is very interesting. Just keep traveling and traveling.

I think, though, that its facilities would have to be less capable than a standard station or POS. Limited manufacturing - someone mentioned no bigger than a Battleship. That works. It also shouldn't be able to carry a whole bunch of big ships, either. Divide those bays so there isn't one HUGE bay but a bunch of smaller ones, this will keep from just filling one with Battleships (or worse, Capitals). In fact, no docking of Capitals at all. Shuttle supplies. Yes, I know it'd make a problem for players to log out. Nomadic players would have to work on owning the big ships in "shifts".

When mobile, I think services should be very limited. For instance, no manufacturing of ships, research or refining. If the crew wants to do those things, they should stop and set up (anchor) the proper facilities. Then, when done, dismantle, pack them up and move on. This fits in with a nomadic way of life. The caravan goes to an area with resources and sets up tents (in this case, the POS's) when the area is depleted, they pack up and move on.

If, at a later time, a T2 or even T3 version comes out then allow for some extra abilities.

As far as slots go, I'd say there should be very few. The crew and their ships need to provide what the slots would have. I am not sure I'd even put weapons on it. Give it enough slots to allow for variety, or, do a subsystem sort of thing except the subsystem is a permanent addition and must be destroyed to be removed, like a rig.

The downside with these is that there would be a HUGE target on them "just because" everyone wants to kill the biggest thing in the game. One of these would require a large and dedicated crew across several time zones to pull off. Making them unscannable just doesn't make sense. I suppose you could cloak them...but...really?

Big bump. Love this topic.