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Mobile Depot Jump theory, debunked
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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-11-27 11:09:24 UTC  |  Edited by: The Spod
1) cyno alt drops MD and lights cyno after deploy
2) jump
3) fit microwarpdrives to nuke your max cap with MD
4) jump

This would possibly speed up jump chains, can be used at pos gun perimeter with permanent MD jump points :)

EDIT: debunked below, MD can be only used by the one who drops it.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-11-27 12:31:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
The mobile depot has a 2,500m access range. Caps jump to a random point 5,000m away from the cyno. Unless you are a psychic, you wouldn't able to reliably place the depot close enough to where the cap lands.

(I don't know how this would work with titans' fat-ass models. I've never flown a titan.)
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#3 - 2013-11-27 12:55:19 UTC
You can only use a MD that you dropped, not someone else's.

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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-11-27 12:55:55 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
The mobile depot has a 2,500m access range. Caps jump to a random point 5,000m away from the cyno. Unless you are a psychic, you wouldn't able to reliably place the depot close enough to where the cap lands.

(I don't know how this would work with titans' fat-ass models. I've never flown a titan.)


Good point!

Does the MD have a proximity limit with other MD's or a despawn timer? Because cyno arrays could well be blotted with these for the purpose. Does a MD cause a bump if you land on top of one?
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-11-27 13:02:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
War Kitten wrote:
You can only use a MD that you dropped, not someone else's.

I am a huge derp and didn't think about this at all. /facepalm


You can still drop a depot from the cap itself. Sure you'll have to wait the one minute activation timer, but that's still significantly less than waiting to cap up by yourself. (Considerably more dangerous than warping off and cloaking though. Only use in safe systems.)


The Spod wrote:
Does the MD have a proximity limit with other MD's or a despawn timer?

6,000m minimum distance from other MDs, 30 day despawn timer after last access. All the info is in the patch notes.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#6 - 2013-11-27 15:44:18 UTC
do we really need caps to be able to jump faster anyway?

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Niddengolliah
Limit Everyone Nowhere Kingdom
#7 - 2013-11-27 16:04:13 UTC
This could probably be done with a carrier that allows other caps to refit off of it. But as said above, MD only allows the person that deployed it to use it. I still think it is total crap because of it, as an op can bring an Orca or a carrier to allow fast fleet refits without the dumb gimp that EVERYONE has to bring their own depot.

I was really hoping on going WH pew pew with a couple of buddies and one blockade runner to bring ammo and deployable structures that it would deploy for everyone. Oh well...
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2013-11-27 17:18:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
CCP's development strategy lately seems to be "if it's broken, exploit the crap out of it, and we'll fix it". So if you want fleet depots, I suggest getting together a couple fleets and mass-dropping two hundred depots every couple of jumps or during a big fight to refit.
The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-11-27 18:02:14 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
CCP's development strategy lately seems to be "if it's broken, exploit the crap out of it, and we'll fix it". So if you want fleet depots, I suggest getting together a couple fleets and mass-dropping two hundred depots every couple of jumps or during a big fight to refit.


With spies in each of the rival fleets, this will result in fleets refitting hardeners etc. in a continuous dance before the engagement happens, with FC's willing to go only with the right fitting versus the rival fleet :)