Player Features and Ideas Discussion

First off, I lover the MTU concept!

But what I miss is role specialized versions, like one for mining what can contain a lot more in a dedicated ORE/ICE vault then the current MTU, which seems to be designed for mission loot (volume wise).

Obviously the ore hold should be directly accessible by the owner and it needs to be more sturdy then the basic MTU to avoid easy destruction by almost everyone with a gun or launcher (it sits stationary for far longer and doesn't require probing to find).

The regular hold (if any at all) should be rather small, making it unsuited for loot and it should not tractor in wrecks of any kind. Having two on the field otherwise turns into an endless game of "ping pong". They get so distracted that they forget about the real work to be done!

Mobile Recon Unit: Player would be able to link to the unit and see through it as it would be his ship. He can make directional scan and maybe launch probes. The unit should be reusable.

Apologies if it has already been suggested (as this is a long thread to read all of it) but :

An Orbital Siphon Unit

Once deployed in or around a planet of your choice you can target a PI network on the surface and steal some of it's production.

as an add on: I like the idea of using the hacking minigame to take control of a PI network and get it to launch stuff to the customs office or into space for collection.

"Mobile Anti-Cloaking unit"

1) Single use structure, no rescooping.
2) Current stats are 60s activation time, 5 min lifetime (Disables for 5 minutes all Cloaking modules in current system)

I assume these have been mentioned before, but I decided to give up reading the entire thread on page 15 :P

Weather Machine:
Has a long spool up time, but while active it projects a field that mimics the environmental effects of a wormhole in a medium sized area. I'm sure there are plenty of people that could find a way to use the different effects to their own advantage.

Gate Lock:
Can be anchored next to a gate to only allow players with the proper standings to pass. Only one allowed per gate, fairly easy to destroy.

White Noise Generator:
Lowers the lock range, drone control range, and signature radius of all ships in the effected area. Extremely easy to detect.

Warp Displacement Generator:
Lowsec / 0.0 only. Adjusts all warp jumps in a system so the final location is anywhere between 0-100km from destination. IE warp to 0 on a gate, you could land up to 100km away. Easy to scan down, provides interesting pirate mechanic.

System Intelligence Disruptor:
When online you can set several characters to either appear in local, or enter and leave the system randomly. Would be good for pirates trying to conceal their movements.

Not an ESS.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but how about a Mobile Distress Beacon.

It would emulate a distress signal from an npc ship that other npc's would respond to, as they do in some missions.

This would cause more ships to spawn at the given site instantly. ( to keep it in line with the instant spawn you see in local while running missions)

To keep it from being OP, it would have to be a single use item, with an approx cost of 5 mil per use or somewhere around that. This would keep someone from using a single MDB from being used to infinitely farm a single site.

To keep it truly balanced and possibly even make it a high risk item, it would send out a General Distress Signal, which would be broadcast on all npc frequencies, thus eliminating the need for racial modules and allowing for a single type to be used in any space, however, the signal would be so general and wide spread, it would likely cause a insta warpable object on the overview.

If you would like to dumb it down just a bit, it could lock a site from despawning for it's duration, as if a player was in the site, with a life span of say 10 minutes. Which would severely hinder the chaining of similiar anomalies. ( ie an anom that takes 10 mins on avg to kill, would not despawn for an additional 10 minutes while the structure is still active, thus making the total time 20 minutes. )

There would be no limit ( other than cargo space and isk you want to invest into the structures ) of how many could be used in a single location, each adding 10 minutes to the sites despawn time, while each MDB only allowing for a single spawn.

Of course, the 5km range limit would apply to the MDB.

Yet again, another option, is to allow the deployment of the MDB at any location other than the normal gate/pos/station ect ect... which would allow it to be deployed even at a bookmark, however, deploying one would either create an instawarp location on the overview, or a cos sig which could be warp-to-able from that menu.


The variations of this item could be based off of the types of spawns they create, ie 1 type could cause a few frigs, maybe a bc, and a bs... another type... more bc's and bs's... and another type to mainly bs's... maybe with frig support... each option costing more for the higher spawn it is likely to cause.

Portable POCO

- allows player to bypasses interbus/player custom house.
- Takes fair time to get PI off planet .. say 1 hour per 10,000 m3
- can be shot like an MTU for same status penalty
- can be looted like a cargo container for same status penalty

Wormhole Stabilizer

- Halts wormhole decay from lifetime for as long as its active.
- No affect on stability from mass (as that would just make it easier to blob in WH space).
- Lasts 24 hours before the absorbed instability destroys it.
- 100k ehp, 50m sig radius.
- Must be anchored within 100km of the target wormhole.
- Self destruct option.
- Must be manually activated (to prevent people from just anchoring 100 of them to keep a hole open).
- Market Cost: 10 million.

This would add more pvp opportunities to wormhole space and give wormhole capsuleers more control over the systems they're connected to. Since stability from mass would be totally unaffected, holes could still be crashed even if these were active.

If this were implemented, we'd probably see a rise in the number of wormhole POS bashes as wormhole corps could more easily come back after reinforcing a POS, but there would still be the same mass limitations to minimize blobbing (to some extent). I think you'd also see more wormhole corps with a k-space presence in particular regions, and wormholers would/could actually make use of mobile siphon units since they can have access to them for more than 24 hours (thus making it actually possible to profit on them). There'd be a lot more PVP in general as smaller corps would have to actually come out of their POS to shoot the stabilizer or crash the hole instead of just waiting it out. People would also have even more incentive to use low-mass ships in wormholes so they could take advantage of particular holes for longer periods of time.

MCC - Mobile Command Center

can be fitted with warfare links or mining links