Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Make so that rigged ship can be repackaged and transported without losing the rigs. Either repackage it as ordinary ship, and make rig transportable as another item, but bound to that ship so it can be attached only to it, or maybe repackage it together with rig, with rig name on a ship appearing maybe in brackets beside the ship name.

Another solution is to make rigs reusable and detachable from the ship obviously. But then Apoc rigs would fit Apocs only, and rig names would need to reflect that.

Sole purpose of this is to make rigged ship transportable.

though, there are solutions as Velicitia mentions, i think the idea would be usefull. unless it would affect the market, but dont see that would be too much of an issue.

this will probably not happen though, because i know that ccp likes the idea of rigs not being removable. thats why the warning pops up when you install them. and packaging them with a ship is one of the more common reasons for needing to remove a rig in the first place. and hence the risk, and the larger ships to transport. (i realize my imput on this was entirely pointless...)

Rigs are definitely different than modules, and I'm OK with the idea that those custom modifications won't survive repackaging and reassembly back to standard specs.

Take something apart for transport and reassemble it later on. It is not quite the same, and if it's some precision equipment you HAVE to do some re-calibration after assembly.

Simple...

Allow rigs to be packaged with the ship, but they increase the m3 of the packaged ship..



You're correct. Rigs are different than modules.... Modules can be removed from the ship, rigs cannot.

However, that's really the only difference.

Just because rigs can't be removed from the ship doesn't mean the ship can't be repackaged with the rigs still on it.

These ships are designed with rig slots, therefore, ships are already calibrated for rigs before they are even unpackaged.

In order to say that the ships can't be repackaged with rigs, then you have to say that the ships aren't designed for rigs, which would mean they wouldn't have rig slots.

Even if the rigs don't go into the center of the ship somewhere, then they attach to the exterior of the ship.

If that's the case, then it falls in line with the start of this post, which is that a packaged ship with rigs just has a larger m3 volume.



Oh, and it would mean that rigged ships can be sold through contracts and actually transported to different locations without having to actually fly it there.

bad idea.

repackaged ship means fresh new ship as it comes from the market.
Ships arent equipped with rigs when they come from the market, so the idea contradicts basic game fundamentals.

You can transport rigged ships via transport contracts, or carrier. Well latter isnt possible in high sec, is one of the drawbacks of high sec, accept that.

and ppl FFS stop asking for things which are already available in game but not accessible for you due to intentional limits!!!
Rigged ships can be shipped in carriers SMB easily, if you want that, f*ck off from high sec or accept NOT HAVING THAT FEATURE!

then, why dont you just write an e-mail to CCP directly, instead of posting it in a public forum?!?

@Robert

Because that's the purpose of this part of the forum. Anybody who posted suggestion here in the forum did it just because there is a chance that game developers will notice, not because of us gamers.

@Salazar

If limitations are fun, I'm sure such limitations could be made to the game to make you go crazy trying to play it. You can think my idea is bad, but if you want to explain your opinion, though nobody forces you to explain it, try to make sense.

This change wouldn't make the game easier. Not a single aspect of the game. It would be just a convenience.

this is where you're wrong. There are "slots" for a gameplay perspective so the game can handle (and to an extent, limit) what it is you're doing.

RL analogies suck ... but think of it this way...

Take a sportscar, stock from the dealer. It has so much horsepower, fuel economy, whatever.
It has "rig slots" for you to use up by replacing stock parts with aftermarket ... e.g. better exhaust, bigger carburettor (well, on an older car), etc to get more performance out of it.

The car wasn't necessarily designed to have those aftermarket parts installed... but you're perfectly capable of installing them, given the right know-how.

Why not get the ability to wrap anything in a courier package without creating a contract for it? Just putting something in pink present paper and its ready to be hauled, though the volume should stay the same.