Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'll go back and read the list, but off the top of my head, I'd love to have a simple little mobile force-field projector.

You drop it, it anchors quickly, and projects a small ~4km diameter bounded sphere that simply cannot be flown through. It can have very slight EHP. It just needs to be a subject to collision detection.

I want to play bumper pool :)

how about some kind of local chat disruption field which removes players from local chat who are within the radius of effect of this structure
i thought about something like the cynosural inhibitor but smaller and shorter lasting to not make it too overpowered and cover huge fleets for a long period of time
e.g.
radius of effect: 10km or even 5km
duration: something like 1-5min, maybe 10min

cheers,
Verse

p.s.: if you´re really going to make that thingy name any of the meta versions after me('Verse' Communication Jamming Field)!

I kind of like the idea of a corporate launched storage array with a specialized bay that holds all types of ammo, or fuel. It would make siege operations interesting.

I like the idea of a "trade hub" array that allows purchases to be made in area's where there are no stations. However that might work better if this were developed into the modular POS or modular deployable array concept, where a variety of structures could be deployed together to form a sort of outpost or "city". Then a large variety of these array's could be attached in any manner the players choose.

Structures that facilitate jumping of any sort I think are a bad idea. Ease of moment in EVE is already a serious problem. However array's that inhibit the ability to jump (or deter one from doing it) for a limited time are an excellent idea.

Mine's have never worked well in EVE, however I could see the concept working now in some very specific scenario's. For example a "mine" structure that could be dropped on any grid that has a jump bridge (one per jump bridge) that detonates the next time the jump bridge is activated. The mine is easily detected in local and destroyed, however if someone comes through the bridge before that it could be very bad news for them.

An alternative would be a structure that simply disables a jump bridge for a certain amount of time is also a possibility.

I've always been a fan of holding Sov allowing some very neat perks, but that those perks be very vulnerable to disruption (often by small gangs). Meaning the more systems you have infrastructure in the more difficult it is to keep it all running properly... thus also providing lots of meaningful little things for small gangs to accomplish against larger entities. So the thought of a small gang escorting (and perhaps providing a distraction for) a Blockade Runner to get through and deploy items that totally mess up an alliances jump bridge network for a time has a lot of appeal to me... especially if it involves things like mines that blow up vessels using that network if undetected.

Needless to say, that mine would be useless in any other situation... and could not be deployed in groups. Only a jump bridge activation will trigger them.

I would really like to see a Merchant Mobile structure. You can purchase any item off market in Jita, and 2 minutes later a drop ship fires a container in space where you can warp to and grab your gear.

Anyone can scan down the container the minute it lands on grid and try to beat you to the loot. Maybe the customs office is where you pickup the loot and yes you pay the customs tax. Anyone can intercept you while trying to pickup your loot.

Could you use the same mechanic used for PI rocket launches to dispense bought items from the deployable trade hub market into space?

if thats the case you could use a large sized deployable thats extremely hard to scan down (or like the mobile depot - have rare types that are increasingly hard to scan down) and then when people buy items theyre dispensed into space and people purchasing get a journal notification with a warp to location to pick there wares up from.

obviously you could stagger different sizes to cater for larger size items and have a long reinforcement timer.

Faction exclusive deployables:

Amarr: Remote Evangelising Unit
Spams some random Amarr litanies into local chat every 30 sec and disallows everyone with Amarr standing below 5.0 to write in local.

Caldari: Anchorable Tax Office
Increases all taxes in current system by 10%, all extra cash is stored in this structure and can be accessed by any plyer with Caldari standing 5.0 or higher.

Dunno what for Gallenteans (they're flowerloving noobs anyway)

Minmatar: Portable Tinker Station
When deployed, it destroys one wreck in 5km range every few minutes, then generates random ammo, ship equipment or even whole ship (minmatar ships only).

Cynosural Mobile Desynchronizer

Instead of stopping cynos from being lit, it causes any ship to use the cyno to appear somewhere randomly on the entire grid. It should work on all cynos including Blops.

Concord Response Beacon

When deployed, it causes concord to have a reduced response time when a criminal action is done to the person who deployed it while they remain on grid with it. The actual time that the response time is reduced is based upon the person security status, the higher your security, the faster the response time will be. The person that deploys the structure takes a security hit every time concord is called, based upon the value of the ship they were called to destroy (This way rookie ships cannot purge someones sec status down to -10.0). The person also takes a security hit if concord does not respond to a criminal that causes concord to utilize the beacon at the end of the duration.

Faction Response Beacon

*Only deployable in lowsec* Causes faction police of the owning faction to appear if there is a suspect or criminal action done to the person who deployed it while they remain on grid with it. The response time and force is based upon the person faction standings with the faction that owns the space. The person takes a faction standings hit every time the faction police is called, and they also take a hit if the faction police do not utilize the beacon by the end of the duration.

Since people are actually, unironically suggesting wormhole stabilizers:

Gate Destabilizer: When one of these is anchored on each end of a gate, the gate itself is disabled, and replaced by a static wormhole between the two systems, which has to be scanned down. The wormholes are ordinary, but their capacity increases based on the distance spanned by the gate. Destroying both destabilizers immediately pops the static wormhole, but restores the normal functionality of the gate.

Wormhole Crasher: Once anchored, either accelerates the demise of the nearby wormhole, or counters the effect of one wormhole stabilizer.

Gate Stabilizer: Anchored on both ends of a gate, counters the effect of one pair of gate destabilizers.

And, for general hilarity:

Decoy Gate: once anchored, appears on overview as a gate whose name is set by the person anchoring. It's actually either a 20km (T1) or 40km (T2) warp disruption bubble.

Decoy Cyno: as the gate, but it appears to be a cyno.

Decoy Asteroid Field: as above.

Beacon: Once deployed, appears on the overview exactly like any of the beacons for, eg., the Epic Arc sites and behaves the same way. Available in cheap, small, throwaway versions and large, high-EHP versions with reinforcement timers.

Mining Support: (Since I really don't like all the do-all-my-work-for-me anchorable suggestions): Ore mining deployable has a 500m3 and 100,000m3 ore bay and a tractor beam that auto-targets white or blue jetcans and loots the ore from them. Unlike an industrial ship, the contents of the hold and the bay are publicly accessible. Gas mining deployable is similar, but (obviously) with a gas bay.

Hotel California: 40km radius force field that works the opposite way from a POS force field, with an infinite point bubble inside. Anyone can get in. Until it's destroyed, nobody within can get out.

a Mobile Lab that doesnt need a pos, but has fewer slots and can only be used in lowsec and nullsec

[Hotel California: 40km radius force field that works the opposite way from a POS force field, with an infinite point bubble inside. Anyone can get in. Until it's destroyed, nobody within can get out.[/quote]


Ummmm, did you forget the line..."they stab it with their steely knives but the just can't kill the beast" How about non-destructable..you only get out by self-destuct and the Hotel California field eats your capsule. You wake up in a new clone. Now that's bringing back HTFU!!!!!!