Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What would be the benefits over just using a carrier?

Sounds like an Orca, only able to hold more ships.

Perhaps. But it would be specifically designed for living out of. vs the Orca which is primarily an industrial platform. It might have the ability to anchor and put up a force field or some other method of protection as is commonly proposed.

The uniqueness (and problem) with a nomadic base of operations is that the pilot is screwed. To make the pilot less screwed, you'd have to give it a way to be protected when he's not around, and moved, while not leaving the pilot behind.

You see, one major killer of ideas like this is that they are written by pilots wanting a solo platform. Fly out in your base ship, park, undock your super-fit ratter, do your thing, grab your miner, do your thing, dock it all back up and go about your business.

That ship sounds awesome, till somebody steals it from you. Or blows it up knowing it's full of goodies. And what is a proper amount of hold and capacity?



If you can find a way to make this mobile base ship less solo focused (which, if you haven't gathered, CCP is against solo play on the basis that this is an MMO), then you get a cookie and we start an idea that might actually have merit.

But if an idiot like me can think of ways to abuse it mercilessly to my own advantage? Then your right in line with the other ideas which we don't see in game.

this could be morphed into a BAD ASS idea.

a mobile pos.

a ship, with small pos like shields (only A WHOLE LOT LESS), that can anchor and be utilized as a mobile command center.

warp into a wh, anchor this ship. it can use its own fitting station to change from link to link (for mining or combat bonuses), you can dock ships in it, maybe 5Mm3, it has a large ore hold for gas and ore, plus fleet storage tabs etc.

doesnt have to have alot of storage, but some descent ammount.
it has cruiser shields until anchored, then more than a titan (since its a mini-pos now). the shields extend to 1/2 that of a small pos in area covered. only takes 10 mins to anchor and unanchor. no refine capability, no way to anchor anything like a pos..its simply for nomadic purposes.

or, give it a very small refine and manufacture capability (maybe ammo/drones only) 2 slots or so.

maybe the size of a carrier, but weak and frail. mega-expensive.

catch one at a gate and blast it for lolz...but once anchored, its pretty tough. not unbreakable and NO REINFORCING it. it dies if not actively defended. no weapons, no mobility once anchored....

this would be kewl for those nomadic wh folks, or folks that want to "free graze" null sec.
also, once anchored, it might have a reduced sig radius like an anom, but not as small. difficult to scan, but not "hard".

it would have limited capabilities, but for those who would use it in this capacity, it would be a live saver and allow us to cruise around and live out of our "mini-van"...

what he wants is this:

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4848331841734299&pid=1.7

which i do want too, i dont need jump drives, repairers, gank bonuses or any of that crap, all i need is a high sec capital ship that can carry 5 or 7 Fitted battleships on a single trip.

no ship currently in the game fits this role:

orca = mining support ship, industrial cargo ship. can carry only industrial shisp.
Freighter = material hauling can only carry 1 battleship on a courier package whic is stupid by the way, useless for this purpose either.
Carriers= fleet support ship, that repairs others, offers firepower with fighters is a combat ship.
Mothership/superCarrier/Titan= same as the carrier.


see how NONE of this ships fits the role we need? i m thinking people might be too obstuse to understand what we are asking for, since they keep suggesting for ships that do NOT offer what we need a simple Space faring trailer, MAYBE with a passcode for piloting it and getting ships in and out of it.

If anything, the increased output of the shield generators should increase the signal strength, making it stick out in the cold void of space like a beacon. In return, it could have a small clatharate bay, maybe enough to reinforce it for 6 hours, but with a kicker (to discourage just leaving it out in the open): the pilot needs to trigger the reinforced mode manually. This way, the six-hour siege break could be timed tactically, for example to coincide with the arrival of friendlies, which can pick off the attackers by not having to worry about their mobile base.

I could imagine this as an "T3 Rorqual" - a mobile base capable of sustaining a small marauder fleet, possibly even providing configurable boons (both combat and industry), at the expense of inordinate amounts of skill training required, and the material costs of the ship running somewhere between a Rorqual and a Titan, and the lack of weapon fitting, naturally (no matter how big, nothing has enough reactor output for everything)

Sounds like it should be a Thukker ship

I think your wrong here, firstly what the OP wants, isnt a high sec, gate jumping bs hauler (that is what you want).
Secondly, the orca can haul any ship type, the Rorq can only move mining ships.

Personally I think the OP's idea is great, but would require a silly amount of adjusting to be viable just yet. It would be nice to have space less owned by sov control, but more malleable and to see nomads, or entire corps of nomads, wandering the stars with their VW space campers in tow.
There could be some interesting applications for PVP to =)

QFT.