Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello Space Friends!

My name is Lyris Nairn and I have been playing EVE Online since 2008. I have come to you with something that I think is relevant to many of you, and it is certainly relevant to me! I think we need bigger flying boxes.

Right now the ship with the biggest cargo hold is the Charon, which hauls a little less than a million cubic meters. I do not think this is enough cargo space for some of the really big industrial tycoons, market barons, or logistics folks. I would propose a new class of ship, or perhaps just a single ship usable by any race, that would have an utterly massive cargo hold. The proposed ship would be able to hold 10-100 million cubic meters at least, which would make it a lot more versatile.

Such a ship would allow Sovereignty structures to be moved more easily, as some of them presently require a full freighter to move individually due to their size. Such a ship would allow capital and supercapital production to be streamlined by making it easier to move the capital components and the enormous amount of minerals needed to construct them. Such a ship would be able to more easily supply forward bases for deployed forces, in all areas of space: whenever there is a war between any two parties there is a lot of logistical burden required to move the billions of cubic meters of ships and modules. Such a ship would allow patch day and post-devblog day rushes on the markets to be done more quickly, which would lead to more quickly stabilized prices and quicker payouts for those who benefit from them. Such a ship would also allow someone to actually make profitable use of non-refinery systems in nullsec (by moving an absolutely tremendous volume of ore to a refinery), thus expanding the number of systems that people can use in both NPC and Player Controlled nullsec.

And so on. The benefits of such a huge ship are many. I think this a great idea that will have positive effects on the game.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

or how about a covert ops freighter?

Capitals already exist in high sec: Freighters, Jump Freighters, and folks who file "stuck" petitions or acquired them when they could previously be built in high sec. If you're talking about sticking packaged capitals in its cargo, then while that's true a simple change to the packaged volume of capital ships would avoid that "problem" if it's a concern. Alternately folks could be allowed to transport them to highsec all they want, and just not be allowed to assemble them there for whatever fluff reason.

Also, if you make it a supercapital I will kill you

Yeah but then you what, sit it next to a station on the undock and have normal freighters try to fill up and dock in order to transfer stuff into the station?

Works I guess

And a specialized ship freighter, and a specialized sovereignty module freighter, etc? I can understand risky, but difficulty or annoyance in execution as a game balancing metric doesn't make sense to me.

It should be like a Freighter with no fittings and have about 10k EHP.

Alone for this Post you get a +1

I think a better idea would be to reduce the volume of sov structures and make an ore/mineral freighter.

More annoying than making 2 trips in my Charon is having To pull my Charon out to move like 50k m3. Maybe make freighters faster when they're cargo hold is near empty or something?

We also wanting a uber freighter, bigger and expensive than super freighter.