Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Acceleration Gates and the complexes contained therein are one of the staples of gameplay in EVE Online. Acceleration gates are found everywhere, across pretty much every sec level. They are completely ubiquitous, and seemingly easy to build and move from a lore/RP standpoint.

And yet, despite that, I can't go to the market and buy and acceleration gate.

My idea is thus, allow player constructed deadspace outposts. Allow players to build rooms, unique structures, possibly even hire NPC defenders.

How it works is, just purchase an acceleration gate, take it where you want it in space, aim it in the direction you want it to point, anchor and online it. It will come online and create a deadspace pocket 5,000 km from the gate, just like a normal NPC acceleration gate. Inside this pocket can be placed structures that are only anchorable in deadspace. Things like defense turrets, freeflying shipyards, power harvesters, asteroid colonies, research facilities, whatever. You can also anchor other acceleration gates, allowing you to have multi-room outposts. These outposts are scannable, but if you scan them, you end up on the outside of the first room.

More complex things:

This could be made much more complex as well, so here are some ideas to get people's brain juices flowing, as to how player built complexes could be built and balanced.

*Lockable acceleration gates that can be hacked.
*Place power generation structures to power other structures such as turrets and shipyards.
*Destroy acceleration gates to brute force your way through an enemy outpost, and reduce it to a bunch of junk floating in safespots.
*Get your own acceleration gates and tunnel into someone elses network with careful calculations and observations.
*poisonous gas clouds become traps to pursuing forces.

Key parts:
These acceleration gates would be anchorable anywhere in low, null, or wormhole space. They can be stacked inside of each other, you might even be able to do some things like put a tower, poco, or stargate inside a deadspace pocket, creating a tremendous amount of space terrain and opening up the game to all sorts of interesting things. I would not give them a reinforcement timer, but I would give them a lot of eHP. This allows a very large group dedicated to a well dug in group's destruction, to destroy the first acceleration gate, therefore making the defenses in the first room inoperative, letting them bypass those defenses and push deeper into the complex. There's all sorts of interesting ways that it could go.

Cool.
What about anchoring restrictions?

I fully support this.
I also would love to see us able to buy the kinds of stuff inside deadspace pockets, even if it's just asthetic crap like hab modules and bunkers and ect.

Also acceleration gates can't be scanned with probes, which might be irrelevant but if we're talking about player bases, that would probably be quite an important consideration.

problem i see is that these basically become super-safe havens unless their is severe arbitrary restrictions on it, like thousands of battleship rats or towers/etc.

simple so;ution would be to disallow gats from targeting anything but deadspace. I like the idea of player owned complexes but not yet sure what utility they would provide.

EDIT: In terms of building deep space POS maybe from deployable modules then the POS would be scanable but when you warp to you would drop out at the first gate as with missions

+1 i like this idea.

+ from me i like to build a mining outpost in giant spod roid :P