Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Armed mobile tractor units, that are capable of destroying anything less than a t3 or battleship when attacked.
Important it does not activate a limited engagement with anything other than itself.

It should be indistinguishable from a normal tractor unit until it webs, scrams and destroys aggressors.

Cost equivalent to a t1 battlecruiser.

So I'm sitting here looking at different types gear. Noting the differences in each, Ships, Ammo, Mods, Ect....

We all know that the differences between T1 & T2 can be from marginal to quite large. For example T1 Cruisers vs T2

A T1 cruiser has its base traits, with T2 you get additional traits such as extended web or disruptor/scram range, better damage and tracking, as well as a nice bump in resists. Same goes for T2 mods and ammo they all have some sort of secondary effect weather good or bad..

Now as I look at the Mobile Warp Disruption Fields i.e bubbles there really isnt much of a difference in the T1 and T2 variants... Sure the T2 version of the bubbles cover a larger radius and can be deployed faster then the T1 version. but those are the only differences. The T2 bubbles take up just as much room in your cargo hold as a T1 and cost twice as much.. So to me the time and area differences are not that much of a " Bonus " concidering the time you spend training to be able to deploy them.

T2 Bubble also have no true secondary effect as almost all the rest of the T2 gear does

So here are the changes in which I personally would like to see made to these wonderful and overlooked pieces of deployable goodness..

We all know that these bubbles warp disrupt your ship. What if the T2 version of this also webbed the ship? Now i'm not talking about an 85% or 90% web effect but like a 50-65% reduction in speed or disallows the use of a MWD

T2 Warp disruption bubbles as they currently are in game
Using a large for purpose of example
Volume: 585 m3
Anchoring delay: 240.00 s
Warp Disruption range: 40.00 km

Changes I propose
Large T2 Bubble

Volume: 350 m3
Anchoring delay: 300s
Warp Disruption range: 40km
Speed Reduction 55%

As you can see I've lowered the volume size of this bubble to make it easier for a Cruiser/BC hull to carry them but increased the anchoring delay slightly

Now as for Manufacturing the new bubbles not much would change with the exception of now you would need to add a Stasis webifier into the mix only slightly raising the cost for production.

Also you may have noticed I changed the phrase Warp Scramble Range to Warp Disruption Range the reason for this is quite simple. In game these lovely bubble are called Warp Disruption Fields and as such they disrupt the warp drive of the ship(s) with-in its radius. Also as we all know these Bubbles do NOT warp scramble. A warp scrambler not only scrambles the warp drive of a ship but also disallows the use of an MWD, which these bubbles do not do..

Which brings me to my next point. What about a new variant called the Mobile Warp Scramble Field? A warp scrambler fitted to a ship has the capability to not only stop a ship from warping but also disabling the use of the MWD prop mod as well as having extra points of warp scrambling. But this comes at a cost of reduction in range. Thus the new Mobile Warp Scramble Field would have a smaller radius of area effect then the Disruption Field.

T1 Large Warp Scramble Field

Volume: 585 m3
Anchoring delay: 480s
Warp Scramble Range: 13.25km
Disables Micro Warp/Jump Drives: True
All other attributes same as the Mobile Warp Disruption Field
Skill Requirement: Same as the Mobile Warp Disruption Field

T2 Large Warp Scramble Field

Volume: 300 m3
Anchoring Delay: 300s
Warp Scramble Range: 20.50km
Disables Micro Warp/Jump Drives: True
All other attributes same as the Mobile Warp Disruption Field
Skill Requirement: Same as the Mobile Warp Disruption Field

Of course the numbers for a small and medium version of these would have to be worked out as I only used the large as an example of what could be done..

I think a Mobile Mining Depot would be awesome to have. The MMD would have enough drone volume for five mining drones. The MMD would selected and then from the menu Deploy and Activate Mining Drones would be selected. The mining drones would then randomly pick asteroids to mine and then return them to the ore hold that is rather generous at 4000 m/3 and a cargo hold of 150 m/3 for extra drones or whatever you may want to put in the hold.....possibly even some of that good stuff that Concord says "No, No." about.

The limitation is that only a single MMD could be deployed in a solar system per pilot to help keep monopolies from taking place.


The MMD would have same the anchoring and lifetime expectancy of the Mobile Depot.


I also think that Mini POS using the Mobile Depot would be nice to have as well. The Mini POS would have a fitting service, cargo hold of 500 m/3 and have enough hangar volume to handle two fully rigged battleships.


Another idea for Depots are Trigger Depots that can be anchored any where in a system and if a ship comes within the established range of the Triggered Depot than a certain event would take place.

Events that would take place could be :

Stasis Field is applied to the ship for x amount of time.
Warp Scrambler Field is applied to the ship x for amount of time.
Smart Bomb Field is projected into the area surrounding the Depot for x amount of time.
Warp Bubble Field is projected around the Depot for x amount of time.
Broadcast Beacon signals the pilot who deployed the Beacon that an intrusion was taking place.

Triggered Depots could not be placed within 300km of a gate or NPC Station or any other non player owned structure.


Possibly even a Remote Camera Depot might be nice where the owner could watch a certain location for x amount of time which would be based off of the pilots skills.

I would like to see a mobile structure similar to the mobile tractor unit but it also salvages the wrecks (as well as pulling loot as it currently does). I think this would be useful in areas where there are not many stations and saves you from carrying salvage drones to do the salvaging portion of missions. Either this or allow drones to be dragged from the cargo bay to the drone bay so we can alternate between drone types.

and here comes the carebears...
sigh

Why dont we just add a supid mobile structure for everything you can in EVE

I would like a :

mobile MWD unit
mobile MJD unit (OH NVM...)
mobile salvager unit
mobile tractor beam(OH NVM...)
mobile ratting killer
mobile PVP unit
mobile remote repair unit
mobile ship fitting unit (OH NVM...)
mobile mining unit
mobile scan probe unit


stop this ******* ****.

I support the cause !

PL will be busy raving ... my ratting carriers are now safe !

Something I think EVE could really use:

A structure to anchor within 100km of an offline control tower. If the tower stays offline for 72 or 96 hours, it starts unanchoring the control tower regardless of the tower's owner. Perhaps it sends a notification to the owner of the control tower, perhaps not.

This could work wonders for high-security moon clutter.

That would be awesome.

Maybe even and automated system to package the entire POS Structures up into POS Structure Blocks similar to how the Fuel Blocks have taken the old components and packaged them up into a convenient cube...thingy.

As someone mentioned the hilarity of it in another thread, should ship painting become a thing and there are changes on the backend to have it done easier, Mobile Coating Station, for painting ships in space. When deployed you can drag and drop various colors into a specialized hold, and anyone can use it. When finished it can be scooped to cargo hold by the owner, which will also scoop the contents of the deployable.

As part of a ransom for allowing some to leave pirate territory or flee from battles, players could force others, with threats of ship destruction or podding, to repaint their ship whatever color they want, from cowardly yellow to hot pink.

Now that the unanchoring timers for softmods, defensive structures, and... well yeah, basically anything that isn't the tower itself... have been lowered to mere seconds instead of minutes, I think half the fun is in unanchoring and scooping the mods yourself.



I really don't think so. All it needs to do is send a mail to the POS's owner when the anchorable is first put down.

You've missed an important point: PVP is what happens when uncertainty is introduced. There's nothing very uncertain in transferring the ownership of an offline control tower. But when four days go by where people are aware that towers are going to be scoopable soon? An unanchoring control tower that people know about is one of the greatest locuses of PVP that I've found in the game, with a great prize at the end. Absolutely anyone can scoop it, and nobody can make the timer stop.

I think the whole concept of "hacking" towers is exceedingly silly.