Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Probably been suggested already, but a "Remove from Local Generator"

Just to annoy nullbears massively.

Gate timer hacker

Nullsec only - makes a nullsec gate like a WH. You can jump with a weapons timer. Hell, throw polarity in if you want.

Gate jump magnet

You know how people appear in some random gigantic sphere around a gate? You know how it's super inconvenient to camp that entire sphere? What if you just had a 5km radius to worry about instead (yes like WHs you may notice a theme). Forces all ships jumping into system to appear within 5km of it.

List of Commonly Proposed Ideas

User Content Creation Ideas:
--- System Beacons (deployable-system wide warpable beacons)
--- Deadspace pocket creators.
--- Mobile Acceleration Gates.
--- Decoy Ships.
--- Signature Decoys (for false scan reports)
--- Capture the Flag Device


Interesting Features:
--- System-wide create-a-WH-effect
--- Player-Created Incursion Device (System wide damage penalties, resist penalties, bounty penalties, etc)
--- System-wide or grid-wide anti- off grid booster module

Gate Camper Wet Dreams:
--- Deployable AOE Decloakers.
--- Group cloak structure.
--- Group obfuscation from dscan.
--- Covert Cyno Inhibitor.
--- AOE Webbers.
--- AOE anti-nullification bubble
--- Warp Interceptor Device (catches ships midwarp rather than at destination)
--- Sonar device to show you the location of cloaked ships.
--- (Lowsec) Warp deviators (ship randomly lands within 15 km's of warp destination)

Travel Features
--- Create your own Stargates
--- WH generator (usually limited as k-space to k-space)
--- Stargate disablers
--- WH stabilizers (the better ideas slowly regen mass and extend lifetime, the pisspoor ideas allow 200 BS in at once).
--- Jump Portal and/or Jump Bridge structures
--- Cyno Generators
--- Public Cyno Generators
--- Warp Tunnel Generators (to warp faster between two points).
--- Device that allows Supers into WH's (better if it is a 1-way trip).
--- Destructable Gates

Carebear Features:
--- Auto-mining structures (Gas, Ice, Ore).
--- Auto-hualing structures.
--- Deployable Auto-repair service
--- Deployable Mission Agents
--- Deployable Shield
--- Deployable anti-bomb device
--- Deployable Logistics Platform (including energy xfer)
--- Sun Harvesters
--- NPC Bait/Tuant Module

Anti-Carebear Features:
--- Anomaly & Signature Suppressor (stops them from spawn and/or despawns sites)
--- Disable or Delay Concord Structure
--- POCO Syphon
--- Reaction POS Syhpons
--- Mobile destroy-all-wrecks grid cleaner
--- System-wide Syphon NPC bounties from ratters.

Assault Features
--- Deployable Mines
--- Deployable boobie trapped cans (open them and boom)
--- Deployable Time Bomb
--- Deployable Weapons
--- Deployable EWAR batteries (webbers, ECM, ECM Bursters, Neuts)
--- Deployable Drone Assist Units (cause your 5 drones aren't enough)
--- Deployable auto-RF POS seige device
--- Planet Bombarders
--- Anti-Cynojammer (allows you to cyno into a cynojammed position).

Industry Features.
--- Deployable Manufacturing Depot
--- Deployable Labs
--- Deployable Refinery
--- Deployable Ore Compressor
--- Deployable Drug MFG Depot
--- Deployable Market Hub
--- Deployable Black Market
--- Deployable SMAs
--- Deployable PHAs
--- Deployable Storage in many forms

Other Ideas:
--- Disable Local
--- Deployable Provide Fleet boosts Structure
--- Deployable claim an (offline) POS module
--- Increase TiDi device.
--- Deployable Clone Vats Bays
--- Repair burned out modules Depot
--- Repair drone Depot
--- Create random effect creator (waberjack, infinite improbability generator, etc)
--- System Danger Alert Deployable
--- Scan the other side of a gate deployable
--- Ship tracking Unit
--- Prevent deployables Deployable.
--- Slave Maker and/or Liberator
--- Mobile Casinos
--- Mobile Brothels & pleasure hubsl (stripper generator)
--- Deployable Camera
--- Deployable Travel Logger (through a gate, WH, System).
--- Deployable Local Spammer
--- Deployable Billboard
--- Deployable Pet

a structure which disables the functions "keep at range", "orbit", "approach", "assign drones" to other ships.

so that everyone has to fly on its own like it should be
and not anchoring up on one person who will move everyone and go afk

I would like to see the t3 or ishtar fleets, if this structure is going online and suddenly everyone has to move on its own.
Prolly half of the fleet would burn in another direction because they dont know anymore how to move alone

While I like the mobile cyno jammer as an idea, I think the solution is a bit archaic and final, which doesn't seem to have been your gameplay philosophy over the last couple of years.

Instead of just downright blocking cynosural fields, why not play about instead with the liquid ozone required to light a cyno the closer a pilot gets to one of these structures? Obviously I don't have numbers, but I would imagine the general principle would be simple, the closer you get, a progressively massive increase in the amount of ozone it would take.

This wouldn't be a deterrent against the price of lighting a cyno, naturally, rather that a pilot would have to significantly alter a fit, or even better, switch to a industrial ship to carry the required LO to light the cyno the closer they want to be to one of these modules.

In its current format, we all know exactly what will happen, slowcat/dreadsuper blob jumps in, drops one of these in the middle of them, and the dread meta switches to LR guns. Nothing fundamentally changes gameplay wise, which I assume is what we'd like to achieve here.

The above solution, or an alternative to it, achieves your goal of inhibiting cyno's if a pilot wants to do so, but still allows for the players to work with a gameplay mechanic in a fluid and dynamic way

I thought this is what the siphons were going to do when introduced.

But yes, a siphon that takes POS fuel or Stront (separate mod?) out of a POS would be fun....well for some lol

wormhole stabiliser ,make wormhole last longer and can pass more mass,consume strontium clathrares.

The second structure seems to be something that might be dropped in sov space to reduce system standings, but the first needs more explaining.

Deployable Cyno Beacon - would reduce the purpose of using a cyno alt off a station or something like that. Have someone drop it, can be jumped to as normal beacons. Lasts a certain ammount of time before it deactivates. Can be refuelled? Anchorable etc.

Deployable Billboards - because Nullsec want them too? Except not wanted ads - could be used for messages (nonflammatory) or recruitment.

+1 Approval for fireworks / snowball deployable for festivities.

Deployable pleasure hub.

You dock in it, and it's like a captain's quarters - except there's exotic dancers in there.

And the damsel.