Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Following some leads from other sci-fi ships and stories... How about some ship classes that are non-warp capable, but have some other pretty bad-@ss abilities to make up for it.

They would need to be carried around in other ships with an SMB and deployed on field making them vulnerable to ganks, but the role bonuses would make up for it would have very high maneuverability, high base speed, good tank and low sig radius (depending on base class).

Most obvious candidate for this would be industrial or mining ships with a very high mining yield, low cycle time, high compression capability or excellent refinement. Maybe throw in a dedicated gas mining ship here.

Combat & Support ships could have nice logistical potential or bombardment and sniping abilities.

Just trowing it out there.

not really, most ships that can transport rigged ships already have an active purpose on the battlefield so those carrying the ship wouldnt be carrying themself but for another pilot.

I don’t know if this is a workable idea. In spite of what all the blob-bored people say (I’m one of them) fleet fights are actually pretty fluid affairs. Because of that, these ships would be little better than extra expensive POS guns. Expensive because they’d take up a bunch of resources to build and fit, but also because they take otherwise useful pilots and stick them in ships that will be stuck in one place for a fight that may range over a dozen different spots in system, if not spread over multiple systems.

Granted, you’ve stated that the mother ship will show up for the drop off/pick up. But what’s to stop the enemy and a couple sebo’d catalysts from podding your entire group of pilots as they move between their shuttles and these stationary ships? One salvo from a week old newbie can neutralize your non-warp ship. Plu they'll get a free ship out of the deal to when there is no one left to fly it away. Because of this, a few destroyer or interceptors can be delegated to stay with and prevent the stationary pilots from loading up their ships onto the carrier while the fight moves to a new grid … or just out of range.

No

Your friends and tactical intelligence.

Solid counter argument, and I agree its dangerous, but so is most of EVE. Given the proper defense offset, sig radius and maneuverability (along with fleet suport), these ships should more than be able to withstand one salvo from a week old newb. Im not exactly taking about Skiff or Hulks here. As to being in a pod... Im not understanding why would you be in a pod? You dont need to be in a pod to board a ship in a SMB.

Definitely not for solo activities.



Solid contribution

While it is an interesting idea, it does not become feasible for combat ships to not have warp drives UNLESS jump/boarding mechanics are changes such that multiple people can actually dock at a capital ship. Once the carrier jumps, they can undock in their warpdriveless ship, pewpew bad guys, then fly back to the carrier to get jumped out again.

While I think this system would be really cool (think of being able to drop a bunch of carriers and having them releasing a horde of 'fighers', just to pack up and leave when they are done), I believe CCP said the technical feasibility of being able to dock in another ship is very small (at least at the moment)

I like this idea very much, especially having NWC ships in a multiple-player-piloted carrier. There would have to be some sort of activity inside the MPPC to keep all pilots busy while they are traveling to a new system. Maybe an in-game poker table where avatars can sit down for a "live" poker game with "tells"?

So basically, you want POSes with propulsion systems, yes?

I like this idea, it could be very useful for gate/station/TCU/SBU defence and/or blockade; think of some really diesel manned sentries. Good for nullsec alliances and highsec logistics corps to protect their supply lines durring wardec.

OR

Alternatively, something less diesel that can be anchored and would be unmanned, operating based on standings.

I'm trying to find a reason to hate this idea but can't think of a whole lot except that it seems weird that a pod can fit a warp core onboard, but somehow something a thousand times its size goes without.

But honestly removing the warp core is a really heavy nerf and has the potential to create some balance in a lot of those ship ideas people have that would be otherwise game breaking