EVE General Discussion

Basically heard someone say this in a in-game channel the other day. No one in that chat channel could find anything on it so I just wanted to ask here if anyone knows if this is true or not? I really want to know if this is true or not.

Also sorry if this has been asked before or whatever, quick google didn't find me anything.

Nobody from CCP has said anything about this ability so unless CCP says it is changing then assume it is rumor and not changing.

Now imagine docking ports are limited, hangar sizes are limited and what ships can dock are restricted, depending on the station. Then players can invest in the station and build extensions and gain a percentage of tax income from the station, depending on the amount they invested. And if facilities are not maintained, they deteriorate over time and need to be rebuild if left alone for too long or just renovated.

Imagine reserved facilities and expanded hangars for players with high corporation standing and the ability to invest LPs to increase those reserved facilities for yourself or establishing a whole section for your corporation/alliance with the logo displayed outside so everybody can see xxx corp lives here, your taxes go to us.

Imagine station structures representing their size in space, growing and shrinking as the tides ebb and flow, new sections being under construction or abandoned facilities falling to decay. Think of the trade hubs and the size of those stations!

Ten years! That's where I want to be in ten years!

Then you get people complaining about the rumor, others crying foul and swearing at CCP and two to five copycat threads spinning the rumor in different dimensions and THAT´s a regular day in GD.

CCP has been thinking in the other direction actually. There are a lot of capital threads in F&I that talk about the possibility of allowing Supercarriers and Titans to "dock" at outposts by "mooring" up to them and linking to one of X number of slots. The slots would be rented, but then the ship would be as secure as the station. if the station fell to an enemy all moored ships would become dislodged. That was the idea anyway, and some of the devs were favorable in their view... but technical difficulties may remain. That said, I think if they were going to disallow cap docking at stations there would be a zillion post threadnought stuck to the top of GD about it...

So what part of that indicates that they want to remove the ability of capital ships to dock?

Yes. They will not be able to dock while the server is down for patching. They will be able to dock immediately when the servers are brought back online after the patch.

Supers mooring up outside of Stations, now that something interesting. Supers becoming part of the superstructure? CCP may have something there.

....and doesn't even know enough about the current mechanics to ask the question properly.