Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Howdy,

I've been looking over freighters, and while I've never flown one, I've heard rumors as of to why the cargo capacity caps out under 1,000,000 M3. The word of the day is that it's so that we can't haul certain capital ships around. To be honest, I can't see why there's a cap. From what I understand about high-sec dynamics is that cap ships can't undock in high-sec. I'm also assuming you can't even build the stuff ('cept the freighters and Orcas) in high-sec, but I may be wrong. Regardless, you still can't undock it.

That said, I do not see why we can't at least have enough rig calibration to put the capital rigs on it. The trade off is that the rig slots are cargo cap rig specific and won't mount any other rig, like defense mods, and whatnot.

On the eve of Rubicon, and the perfect back-story to support it, I don't see why not implementing a little something like that. Capsulers get their hands on something to upgrade their gear. The manufacturers of the respective factions went into a Ghost Site and snatched something up to upgrade their ships with. There's also no reason why we should be barred from merely hauling super caps around. That way we're not restricted to have to go to low-sec to build and cyno out cap ships.

For some of the null alliances, it would also be a god-send due to the changing of the warfare logistics. For them, they'd be able to have a neutral character move their ships around, as needed during the war, and position them in for more lucrative placement on the chess board, so to speak. It will also give the manufacturers more to work with and more ability to take on bigger jobs.

The roles would fall as follows;
500 Calibration Total
Cargo Rigs Only (Other Rigs Barred)
No (E)HP Redactions, Rigs Penalize As Is

If anyone has suggestions, please feel free to include some notes. I would like to see some of these changes implemented, as there's no valid reason why we can't, at least, shuttle the gear around. You can't do anything else with it as is, so it shouldn't be a problem. Just a thought for Rubicon 1.1 or after.

You can undock capitals in highsec if you had one there before the change. Go look up Chribba's "Veldnaught". He flies that thing in Amarr mining veldspar on occasion.

When you actually read the whole post, let me know. I made mention of the rig HP reduction, my friend.

I think freighters should be revamped with a few rig, low and/or medium slots - with the caveat that they can't utilize cargohold rigs or expander modules.

• Charon, Fenrir; 1 rig slot (100 calibration), 2 lows, 1 medium
• Providence, Obelisk; 1 rig slot (100 calibration), 3 lows
• Rhea, Nomad; 2 rig slots (200 calibration), 2 lows, 2 medium
• Ark, Anshar; 2 rig slots (200 calibration), 3 lows, 1 medium

This would allow them to run a Damage Control, Inertia Stabilizer, Nanofiber, Overdirve, Armor/Hull repair, Shield booster, etc. Nothing earth-shattering, but with hyper spacial rigs these could be utilized to bring freighters back up to pre-Rubicon warp speeds.

It's not just the warp speed, it's also the align time.