Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Too Powerful !!! Require matching valet rig on ship. Valet requires depsoit of Consumables like Siege mode Dreadnought? POCO like public structure with multiple parking spots with parking fee?

Hideous! AFK miners who fall alseep would constantly lose ships to boarding theft after limited consumables ran out. Not practical outside hi sec or sovereign space.

Ship Anti-theft structure !

Upon deployment, after a one minut anchoring timer, it force-ejects the pilot inside the structure and renders his ship immune to any harm and boarding except from the person who deployed it. Does not work under weapon timer, pvp timer or logoff timer. NPCs does not shoot at this structure.

If attacked, goes into the same reinforcment process then the mobile depot, meaning 48 hours, and no mail.

The structure would be very cheap, and not scoppable just like the mobile cyno jammer. When the owner boards the locked ship, it unlocks it instantly. The structure can then be scooped by everybody and will function again next time it's launched in space.

I didn't read the 50+pages but I'd love to see the decoy ship beacon, it should be called the "crybaby" (tribute to firefly)

Mrchafe

Part 2: Suggestions

So items that would make this kind of long term space vagabond-ness easier without resorting to dual boxing, and fits with the concepts started in Rubicon:

1. Mobile Ship Hangar

A mobile hangar to safely store at least 2 ships. The hangar should be able to assemble and repackage ships (and containers), and allow you to switch between ships without ejecting into space. If launched near a Mobile Depot, they automatically link up, and both services and bays are accessible. I'm sure wormhole dwellers would find this very handy as well. A similar reinforcement timer to the Mobile Depot would let you log off for a day or so without worrying.


2. Mobile Scan Dampening Array

Having a mobile cloaking field would be much too powerful, but something to temporarily hide your home away from home while you're out, or make you harder to find while sitting in a gas cloud, anomaly, or asteroid field would be very helpful. For PvP, fooling DSCAN could have some significant uses when running gate camps, or keeping part of your fleet in reserve on a tactical.

This unit would burn Strontium Clathrates and be able to store enough fuel for 24 hours (for example). While active, anything within a 150km range will not show up on DSCAN. It will also make probing down anything within the field with combat probes very difficult. From a mechanics perspective, it could increase the relative sensor strength of the objects so they can't be locked onto without very good probing skills. It may be possible to create an unprobeable region with a few of these units, but the fuel cost would be prohibitive in most cases. Probably better for stacking penalties to apply.


3. Mobile Gas Processing Facility

I love the idea of a mobile drug lab - the Space Winnebago! Honestly though, the current method for reacting requires a lot of intermediate materials, and I think might be too complex for a small mobile setup. That many mobile structures would be pretty vulnerable without some defense (read: POS). At the very least, it would be a lot easier to do an intermediate reaction to reduce the size of the gas for transport. For boosters this may be the first stage raw booster. For wormhole fullerite gas, this would be one of the intermediate Fullerene reactions.

4. Mobile Ore Refining Facility

Right now, refining requires a station with services or a Rorqual. Being able to refine ore or ice even in small amounts for your own use while you are out in wilderness would be very handy. It should have a refining rate similar to outposts - so not as good as highsec stations, but good enough that you won't want to haul your ore to an NPC station to refine it. It shouldn't be an instant refine either; but should do a certain number of units per hour, similar to the Rorqual, but less efficient.

5. Mobile Deadspace Generator/Acceleration Gate

Even from when I started as a capsuleer, the idea of having your own deadspace complex was very appealing. From the wiki and lore, there are many enterprises set up in deadspace by both Empire and Pirate factions... Why not by capsuleers as well? This would allow you to create a more fortified or complex base, but would take a significant amount of resources. It might be something done to keep a base for a small corporation protected. I'm not sure where we are headed after Rubicon, but for the idea of building our own stargates, this might be a much smaller version accessible to a corporation.

-Possibly could use the "DED Deadspace Report" statistic in the star map to have a color showing a number of unknown DED space complexes in the area, without distinguishing if they are player owned or NPC.
-Possibly could create a signature to be probed down. Probably better if the acceleration gate has to be combat scanned.
-Can key the acceleration gate to your corporation ID, or require a physical key object, which can be changed by the owner. If your ship is destroyed in combat, the key may drop and can be picked up by an enemy, who has a window where they can attempt to use the acceleration gate to access the area and attack the structures.
-Acceleration gate/generator can be attacked/destroyed, with one reinforcement timer. Once destroyed, structures inside can be probed down directly. This gives a similar level of security to the current POS setup.

+1 to everything he said

+1

- Customisable (and destroyable) monuments

- False signature generator (maybe anchorable bubble wich you can choose false ship type probbable sig)

- P.I. syphon

- Interstellar chan scrambler (freeze the local chan protraits window till the module is destroyed, illegal product like boosters, cannot be used in HS, due to huge energy needed it must be anchored near sun, 1 at a time in each system, 200m3)

- POS spy (deployable near POS, allow to know the POS fuel remaining)

- Mobile repair station (owner set repair price, must be filled with cap boosters by owner, cannot be anchored near station or POS, appear in overview, can be destroyed)

- Mobile ammo trade station (owner set prices, owner fill inside charges to sell, cannot be anchored near station or POS, 200km near gates, appear in overview, can contain amo and charges, can be destroyed, 1 day of reinforcement, buyed amo is jettisoned in space but the can is buyer's owner)

- Capacitor radiant heart (give capa to every nearby ships but also deal damage to everyone nearby, explode with damages after a certain amont of time or if destroyed)

- Environnement modifier (introduce WH phenomena in K space, illegal, cannot be used in HS)


Mobile trade station can be a very good way to introduce black market and creating moar illegal stuff later

A deployable warp beacon;

launching this will a show a warp to able icon in the overview (no matter if you are on grid or not) in the entire system.

TIDI Disruptor - when enough of this are deployed all higsec care bears are kicked out of EVE and current node gets super reinforced.

I think that most Ideas are already covered in here already...

So the only thing I point is that all these mobile structures could be linked togather somehow... to create a bigger structure...

Think it replacing the POS....