EVE General Discussion

Would you like it if Dust mercs could be sent out for station capture/destroy missions?

Here is my idea for it:
EDIT: I decided to add some parts to it.
First of all, you will have to capture all planets in the system, this makes the station vulnerable.
If you capture all of the planets, then you can hack the station defenses from the planets (or in other words, just push a button) and the station goes to a 24 hour reinforced mode.
This allows for the defenders to get their own Dust mercs into gear.
Also, the system will need to be blockaded.


Original post:
It should be really hard, really hard.
First, you will have to get 7 units of 24 Dust mercs (The max player count for one team if I remember correctly) to the station.
Each will need its own expensive one time use shuttle that clashes into the station ripping a hole in it, allowing for the Dust mercs to get into the vital parts of it.
The shuttle can be destroyed in EVE, stopping the attack until the attackers can get another shuttle and the clones back.
This will require for EVE players to lay siege on the station and not allow for any ship to destroy the shuttles.
The defenders will have a numerical superiority, each attacker group gets 38 defenders to face.
The attackers will rely on drop uplinks to respawn, as they can't respawn otherwise.
The defenders will have free respawns.

Each attacker group needs to take control of 3 control points.
Once these control points are taken, they give benefits to the attackers, like auto-turrets, clone chambers, ammo, etc'.
Once everything is taken, they move up to the control panel, and there they can either blow up the station, or shift the control to the corp/alliance the mercs are working for.
If they blow it up, they have 60 seconds to get out through escape pods or they will lose their equipment (which if you're bringing for a station conquest, it would be pretty high end to survive it, which means lots of money).

There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
If you choose to switch the station to your side, you will have to fight off the defenders for 10 minutes as they try to regain control, and if they do your respawning is cut off, even the drop uplinks won't work, so you pretty much lost the match.
However if you win, you won't have to rebuild the station.

Blowing it up would be a win, however there is the cost of rebuilding the station.




All of this happens in null sec of course ^


Note: This is just my idea, if you want to see stations destroyed/conquered by Dust mercs but don't like my idea, leave your own idea here.

If you don't want to see stations destroyed/conquered then you are sad and I don't wish to speak with you any further.


I'm posting it here because the reply in the Dust forums would be: "The final word would be from the EVE players", so might as well post it here.

And get drowned forever without anyone seeing it.
I'm not new to the forums, I saw ideas that were drowned and never seen, and then when they are mentioned in General discussion people like it.

Just tell me what you think, this is more of a gather player opinions thing than a suggestion for CCP.

And that is why I ask for opinions.
I just want to see the way the community thinks about this stuff.

BTW

If you read it, you will see that they require "expensive one time use shuttles that slam into the stations", aka EVE ships that can be destroyed.

So you want stations to be easily destroyed?

Like real easy like so that like maybe even a valley girl could do it.

I didnt read the whole thing obviously..i clearly said I had stopped right there.

Like, I really like the world like and I like, use it to like, annoy you.

I cannot defend my stuff when I'm asleep, or at work, or on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, or deployed. Real life comes first. Please factor that into any destroyable station ideas.

Destroying a station would be best left to ships in space, and should take a lot longer than a mere 24 hours.

Honestly, a multi-stage system lasting over several days, maybe a week, would be the best bet TBH. Stations are extremely expensive and should not be vulnerable to headshot destruction. Consider entire alliances base out of them and stockpile with ships and weapons. With a system like yours, not only is it the console kiddies making the decision, but it would be far too easy to just target a station when an alliance was on deployment and take it out before they could relocate the majority of its players and assets for a major defense.

Which is fine, until an ISD or Dev shows up and punts it straight back over to F&I.

This sounds like a "feature" or "idea". In fact, you use the word "idea" in your post.

Regardless if you think it will get drowned or not. Features and/or Ideas belong in that specific forum.

Many have tried to get around it and wailed and cried their "reasons" as to why it should be left in GD. But, it won't work. This is a "feature" and/or "idea" post. It needs to be moved.

Thank you.