Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be nice to have a public transportation system throughout high sec that would join major trade hubs and branch out into other busy systems. Like a Greyhound Ship that you could board and pay an amount based on how far your destination was. It would be intentionally slow (it is public transportation after all) and make stops at stations on the bus (ship) route and even give you a one minute option to off board at station stops before it moved on. Maybe have something of a 24 hour travel time to long destinations. Once boarded you could even log out of game, go to bed, go to work the next day, log back in the next evening and be close to arriving at your destination. Kind of like sleeping on the bus until you get where your going. If you arrive while not logged on your character will automatically be off boarded into the destination station you chose. From there you could purchase a shuttle and fly yourself to the particular system and station your headed to. No cargo would be able to be transported, only the character.

this idea has potential though if you could trust yourself being moved in a seiled container by somebody elses ship or freighter, like being smuggled lol

I agree about the WT gatecamps completely. Good point and easily addressable. If your corp or alliance is at war then the public transportation authority would not allow you to board because of the danger it could impose on other travelers. Restrictions to public travel could also be limited to using the same criminal travel restrictions already in place based on your security level. So your at war? jump in a shuttle, use a JC, its your problem. Your a criminal? Jump in a shuttle, use a JC, its your problem. You're a good upstanding citizen in society? Then a perk of that could be using the public transportation system with protection from Concord.

Yes you can jump in a shuttle, autopilot and go to sleep. This would just be another form of moving your character around in high sec if you meet the criteria, Your still penalized by the length of time it takes to get somewhere. It should be slow to get where your going. You could always off board at a stop though, buy a shuttle and take a direct path to your destination instead.

It's only reasonable to assume that something like this would be in place. Every society some rudimentary form of public transportation in place, why not Eve.

I like the idea of pods being movable like any other cargo thought not by NPCs only by players. I could see some benefit to wanting to be able to move a pirate toon to jita and then move him back to low sec for example. Clone value could be secured by collateral and a pod always has the option to self destruct.

What could be interesting is suicide gankers finding a pirate with a ridiculous bounty and getting to collect on it because the gankers scanned down the cargo and found him..

Another similar thread thats recent.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=386055&find=unread

Seconded for clone courier contracts, if this is going to be introduced in EVE it should at least be in the hands of the players.

Also, it would be hilarious to pay-off a courier to deliver your enemy WT's pod directly into your hands.

Fortunately, this doesn't smell anything like that.

Unfortunately, it's putting a role on NPCs that really should be on PCs. That's the only reason I'm downvoting.

If getting smuggled into hi-sec actually meant something for pirates and those with negative standing it might have been a good idea.

You autopilot?

i thought for such things you can use autopilot and a shuttle ?

And no we don´t an save transport service use a jumpclone.