Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Let me make a little home away from home... use the mobile depo (or another structure) as its base, then let me add on ore refineries, drug labs, drone bays (defence?) whatever.... might need power units etc

Modular ;)

Let me stick it in a out of the way pirate den or something... let me keep npc structures as a nice backdrop :)

That can be how you find them... look in a pirate site and oh... oh ... clone base

Mobile Concord office...

Anchored near a gate. After 24 hours, the security status of the system increases by 0.01, the neighboring system on the other side of the gate decreases by 0.01. Office then expires. Can't be used to increase a systems security beyond 10 or decrease it below 0, so not much use in core empire systems, or in null.

This could be used to gradually affect the security status of systems on the high/low-sec or low/null sec borders. FW systems going above 0.5 sec would be locked to that faction and stay out of FW until the security is pegged back down.

The overall 'amount' of high-sec space would remain pretty much the same. There'd be little chance of anywhere like Jita ever changing from 1.0 sec, unless a long-term coordinated effort was made. This might lead eventually to Concord being spread more thinly (i.e. more low and mid-sec systems and fewer 1.0 sec and nullsec systems), akin to the 'civilisation' of outlying systems.

After reading through several pages of suggestions (too lazy to read all of them), I decided to make three different lists for suggested structures. The "Good" list for suggestions I think would work, the "Maybe, but there are some possible issues" list for stuff that might work, and the "Oh god no!" list for suggestions that seemed common, but are just plain bad. In the spirit of optimism, I'll start with the "Good" list.


"Good" list (in no particular order)

1. Mobile Refinery:
A structure that refines ore placed in it over time at a reasonable efficency, whith that efficency based on refining skills of the deployer. Acces to the structure could be set to: personal, corporation, fleet, alliance, or based on standings. Reinforcement mechanic similar to the Mobile Depot, but possibly with a shorter 24h reinforcement timer. Different sizes intended for differet scale of mining operations, but mainly aimed for smaller scale operations as larger groups can use other methods to make the ore more transportable, such as the Rorqual.
Example: Fleet of miners mine for 2 hours and place the ore in a Mobile Refinery. The refinery refines the ore into minerals over the next n>4 hours and the group can scoop up the refined minerals and the Refinery itself on the next day.

2. Mobile Wormhole Collapser:
Basically a method to allow players to close wormholes without jumping back and forth and risk getting sranded. Insted of collapsing the wormhole instantly it would greaty speed up the decay rate. By a factor of 10 or 20 or possibly even more. Or it would counstantly reduce the ammount of mass the wormhole can support. The latter would ofcourse be more effective on smaller wormholes if the reduction would be linear, so reducing the limit based on the precentage of maximum mass allowed through when it was full might work best.
The structure should propably be multiuse as the logistics of importing stuff into w-space can be a pain. Limited to one per wormhole.

3. Mobile Repair Depot:
Essentially a device that, when activated, repairs all hull damage, armor damage and heat damage to modules as well as recharges shields and capacitor. After activating it, it could not be activated again for a spesific ammount of time. Reinforcement similar to the Mobile Depot. For fuel, when activated, it could require cap boosters and/or nanite paster. Also to limit the usability when actually in combat it could require no weapons flag or no pvp flag to activate.


"Maybe" list (in no particular order)

1. Mobile Ore Compression Array:
This might stomp on the toes of the Rorqual, making it obselate. Also the Mobile Refinery fills a somewhat similar role. Might work, if it would work in a way that makes the Rorqual a safer or faster option. Or both.

2. Deployable Guns:
To prevent these things from becoming the new, totally independant and even more OP version of Sentry Drones there would have to be some limitations. First being the inability to deployed them near gates or stations. Or maybe deployable at gates, but when deployed there, they would only attack rats.
Another possibly a good idea would be to limit their deployment in conjunction to other mobile structures, similar to POSes.

3. Mobile Wormhole Stabilizer:
W-space is supposed to be difficult to access and making it possible to stabilise them would make them more like normal space. A module thet would prolong the lifespawn of the wormhole might be acceptable, especially if it did this at the expense of the max weight limit.
However growing the weight limit to allow more ships throug or worse, the max weight limit for the heavist ship allowed throug would make moving huge fleets into w-space possible. And that doesn't seem like a good idea.

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Mmmm...

Suggestion 1:

Mobile Remote Shield Extender

Range: 2500m

Tech 1: 65% Shield HP Boost
Meta 2: 70% Shield HP Boost
Meta 3: 75% Shield HP Boost
Meta 4: 80% Shield HP Boost
Tech 2: 90% Shield HP Boost

Runs on Cap charges, with a fuel bay. Each charge runs a 10minute cycle. When destroyed, owner ship looses boost on current shield (not the % of total shield).

Effect applies to the owner who launches item only.

Cut's the high sec miners a break on high sec ganking (and no I don't mine). Can be used in PvP but is not really overpowered as owner will have to maintain orbit within 2500m of a fixed point.

Cannot be deployed inside a site, plex or other instance (making the mining sites less well protected than belts but, it prevents heavy use in FW site and on PvE missions which are too easy already). Cannot be used near jump gates or stations.

A cyno structure to cyno structures.

Just place it close enough to your other deployed mobile structures, light a cyno somewhere else, remotely activate the cyno structure to gate whatever other small mobile structure is in range and itself to your cyno beacon.

Or have a buddy light the beacon, and activate the cyno structure from close by to gate yourself and the structure and nearby mobile structures (that you own) to the beacon.

Also, steal other peoples leech structures. Profit.

I bet that sounds way better in my head.

I have a few very simple ideas, which could affect a large part of the Eve Community:

1) Spy beacon.

Strictly limited (e.g. 1 per player), but can (choose 1, or have multiple types):
a) give you a view on what is happening in Local Chat within a system (as well as who is in local)
b) give you the same functionality as a d-scan from that point (not directional)
c) attach to a gate and give you a report of who/what jumps through
d) deploy in space and notify you whenever a ship comes on grid (uncloaked) with pilot name and ship type

Option to be cloaky and/or hard to scan down. Probably has a lifetime (similar to the cyno jammer). Incredibly useful in PvP for intel gathering.

2) Cyno beacon

It's just a cyno in a can. Still requires Liquid Oxygen, is disposable and fully shootable. Lasts for 10 mins (if not shot), very low EHP. Will still cost around the same as a cyno frig + cyno generator, just saves you having to warp off or be stuck in place for 10 mins. Assists both PvE and PvP as helps out JF pilots just as much as anyone else. Requires same skills to launch and activate (and can't be activated instantly to stop it being used for hot drops).

3) User video boards / marketing beacons / advertising platforms

Saves all the anchored "join our corp 'cos we are l33t" anchored cans in hi-sec. Instead you can link them to a corp advert/market order/contract. Or ideally a video, but that might be asking a little too much!

Might be better to limit the number per system/station/stargate/whatever and sell the advertising space onwards instead of having everyone cluttering up Jita with their scam contracts.

Not necessarily and 'in game advertising' service.

One structures that he prevents that the jump bridge works and that it should be destroyed. It can be like siphon, that the pos does not attack him but if the weapon if it is controlled by a player

A mobile 'screw u' emitter that tampers with corporation standings in alliances in nullsec.

The rage...

*blaps

Mobile Discoball, heh.

Seriously though, anchorable weapons and EWAR. Put them on gates, in faction warfare sites, on player owned stations, etc. 30 day decay timer.

Personal labs and such would be awesome as well, because screw corp roles. Your CEOs and other officers will love you.

And as long as were at it, how about fixing refining arrays? So much waste...