Player Features and Ideas Discussion

@Robert

Indeed, cars don't get repackaged for transport, but planes do. How about this, slight aftermarket modification and you can't disassemble the plane for transport, and its stuck in non-transportable form. With wingspan of maybe thirty meters for big plane, your only option for transport is really big ship.

you're right, there is always a RL analogy that sucks more than others

been making crap RL : EVE analogies since 2007

or were you not directing that to me?

Also, you idiots need to stop making RL comparisons. No one cares.

The game is not balanced around lore or RL comparisons. The game is designed around gameplay and the effects your decisions have on yourself and others.

No one here gives a damn about cars or planes.

OK OK OK....


Lets make an agreement here then.

Ships can't be repackaged with rigs.

HOWEVER....

When ships are put into a curior contract and shoved into wahtever they're transported in....

Then certain things are done that reduce the m3 of the ship..

Such as

Removing antennas
Folding in wings
Retracting weapons bays


You know, basically small things that aren't repacking, but reduce the overall m3 of the vessel for transport.

The ship will not be as small as it would be if repackaged, but it would reduce the m3.

Take a scorpion for example.

468,000 m3 unpackaged

50,000 m3 packaged.

So instead of repackaging it or forcing couriors to transport it at a fully unpackaged m3, then lets just say that the ship is prepared for transport (much like a fighter on a U.S. carrier) anything that can fold up gets folded up... Anything that can be taken off is taken off.

Anyone who's ever tried package a ton of items into one space knows that taking an antenna off of something is enough to clear up a whole new area to put crap. And there's many other things you can do as well, like putting boxes into other boxes and so on.

So what I'm saying is that prepping it for shipment is different than packaging the ship.

packaging the ship makes it 50k m3.

Lets say that prepping the ship for transport reduces the m3 by half.

So a prepped for transport scorpion would be 234k m3.

Now, they can only be done like this for curior contracts.

This means players with frieghters will be able to transport more rigged ships, but not a crap load of them like they could unrigged ships.


I think this is fair, makes sense on lore, and makes sense when you try to compare it to a real world situation like a fighter that goes on a carrier. The wings can be folded to make it take up less space, or the plane can be completely disassembled and tossed in a box where is will take up even less room because it's a nice square box that can be fitted snuggly into a storage compartment.

I feel this actually makes sense.

Good god you just don't get it do you?

The game is not designed around lore. Lore is created to suit proper game balance. And if this game were designed with real life parameters involved....well it just wouldn't exist.

I can't remember a single time when you have made a post that didn't involve you hitting the enter key after every sentence. More on topic, I support stuff just fine. AF buff, destroy stations, etc. Unfortunately, the horrible ideas outweigh the good ideas. A large portion of the ideas brought to this subforum (and to Assembly Hall) have a fundamental goal: make the game easier. This is not a good thing.




Sweet. Still don't care. This idea would mean one less choice to make in Eve, essentially one further step in dumbing Eve down. This is silly.

This actually only makes life slightly easier on what my suggestion was.
A freighter fitting 4 rigged bs's is only slightly better than 2



Like I said, my suggestion is only a slight benefit to transports, but enough to make a difference.
Where as the OP would make a huge difference.
I think my suggestion fits well in Eve.

Your suggestion is a 100% increase.

Its not better. Its just slightly less bad.

That's why I think my suggestion fits well. 100% isn't a huge difference, it's 4 bs's instead of 2, but that's enough to make a huge difference in Eve for the price of curior missions and the amount that can be transported at once.