Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think CCP should develop a Drone Mobile Hotspot Depot that would appear randomly in systems throughout New Eden. When the Drone Mobile Hotspot appears in a solar system any player deploying any type of drones would have the ability to increase the total number of drones by no more than two with a maximum bandwidth output adjusted correctly for each type of ship that is present in the solar system.

For example a mining barge has five small drones deployed when the Drone Mobile Hotspot appears the barge pilot would then be able to deploy an additionally two small drones that would operate just like the rest of the drones while the DMHD is present. When the DMHD disappears then the pilot has to scoop the two extra drones back into the drone bay.

Approximate time of Depot duration would vary from ten minutes to three hours.

An even better idea could be to add the DMHD to the Territorial Claim Unit list of structures that once the DMHD had been deployed and anchored each pilot could inject ISK into the DMHD in order to be granted additional drone usage and drone bandwidth.


Here is a possible example of the pricing

Small drones deployed increased by x 2 = 10,000,000 ISK plus allotted drone bandwidth for two hours
Small drones deployed increased by x 1 = 5,000,000 ISK plus allotted drone bandwidth for three hours
Small drones deployed increased by x 1 = 20,000,000 ISK plus allotted drone bandwidth for five hours.

From the looks of things it seems CCP is moving towards Mobile Depots that are not needed to be anchored to a structure. I think CCP needs to implement the above module type that would also include Damage Mobile Depots that would increase the damage types by a certain amount for a period of time, Resistance Mobile Depots that would increase the resistance values of shields and armor by a certain percentage for a period of time, etc. etc. etc. Use of course would necessitate an amount paid by the pilot in order to be able to use the Depot.

Depot's that effect any type of characteristic of a ship would however not be able to be used by Incursion runners.