Player Features and Ideas Discussion

POS fueler would be great actually, just as long as it's properly done!

I'd suggest a new Caldari and Amarr industrial for this purpose actually.

And keep the rest of the industrials as is.

And you can put drones into the normal Cargo.

Drones are a special case; while you're in space, you can't transfer them from a cargohold to a drone bay without using a fitting service on an Orca or carrier, unlike with ammunition, which just needs to be in your combat ship's main cargohold to be useful.

Specialized bay (ship hangar) capable of carrying assembled ships. Could limit the volume, but for many in empire I'm sure the capability would be appreciated.

Loving these changes, superb in fact!

It's great to see some real differences between racial ships with specialised roles, changes like this kill claims of homogenization dead which is a good thing.

Well done to the balance team and thanks for listening to the community guys.

Well, time to sell my now useless Bustard. T2 Deep Space Transports are pretty much worthless from these changes.

It's an interesting set of tweaks. My question is primarily about the collier. Is it accessible from space, or do I have to dock to a carrier to offload ammo?

Someone also mentioned Q-ships, which would be a lot of fun, and a nasty surprise for suicide gankers and small gangs, but there's no way I can think of doing it right without what would amount to strategic haulers (which I would totally support).

It would be cool to have a fleet of strat haulers go out, half with cargo subsystems, the other half fitted as Q-ships. All people see is a fleet of strat haulers. Not hard to do either with the subsystem framework. I posted a bunch of strat hauler ideas in the last thread, no one seemed interested.

Too much Harrington in my past probably.

Good start though.

Ellie

If anything the T1 ore haulers now are a huge complement to the Orca's fleet support role, because the Orca can stay on station in the belt while the haulers lighter off the ore to station. This will be a big deal when "big changes" to OGB hit (assuming that ever happens).

And when it comes to hauling anything other than spar and trit, the EHP of an Orca vs. any special hauler says all you need to know about whether the "roles" of these ships overlap: they don't. One invites you to die in a fire every time you undock. One does not.

Still no comment it seems on whether the ammo bay can be accessed by fleet in space like a fleet hangar.

Probably not since no other bays are accessible in space by anyone other than yourself. If there was only a way to--I dunno--jettison things into some sort of container, a can, if you will, that would spin in space and be accessible to everyone....if only there was a way...