Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The basic concept already exists in the form of POS gunning but this would be an interesting extension of that. In fact, some of the things that have been mentioned about the forthcoming POS revamp (being able to drop them anywhere, for example) make me think that some of the groundwork in place on that forthcoming expansion could be retooled towards this idea, rather than it being a totally new feature that has to be completely designed from the ground up.

Innnnteresting.

These ships would be perfect siege ships. But they should get some weaknesses while deploying or when they dock. F.E. the deploying and docking needs 30 s and in the meantime you can´t use any moduls.

Would the pod with pilot be already in the ship while it waits in the mothership or do you have to board the ship after it is deployed?

Hmm... this essentially sounds like a 'semi-mobile' set of POS guns. I could see them deployed to defend a major mining operation for example. The problem as I see it is that they're very finicky to use without a warp drive at all... no use in mission running and so forth, so maybe an extremely slow one could be fitted and a mechanic introduced so that they can't use their weapons without deactivating their warp drive. But how should it... oh, there's an idea.

Perhaps its a sub capital ship fitted with perhaps capital sized weapons (only one or two turrets/launchers). These weapons draw to much power to fire without the activation of a module that disables the ship's warp drive (similar to a siege module). Maybe they have very few module slots so they're basically a set of guns floating in space.

Sounds like the EVE Online version of a Monitor. The slow moving defense ship fitted with over sized weapons... it's an old concept dating to the Victorian age, but it might be viable.