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Please allow an EVE taxi service.
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Without Fear
Flying Burning Ships Alliance
#41 - 2011-10-18 07:44:20 UTC
If it's anywhere in lowsec, your pod is the best way to travel in lowsec. It'd be pointless to travel with someone else.
Unless you mean travelling in a t3 through nullsec. Otherwise jumpclones are what you need, possibly.

I think I remember people at CCP talking about this sort of thing. When they were thinking about ships like titans with multiple pilots and how they could do it. I think they couldn't work out what to do when one or a few disconnect.
Lojak 2501
Unitum Investigationis et Progressus
#42 - 2011-10-18 08:33:42 UTC
ok what i think the OP is imagining is this......

basically a contract that you can make to transport your jumpclones while u are doing what ever else you are doing.

i actually like this idea

+1
Tivookz
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#43 - 2011-10-18 10:24:09 UTC
Add new taxi ships too.. like the car from Total Recall.

Yeah.. that would be soooooooooooooo awesome........
shellree
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2011-10-18 10:27:08 UTC
geez not this topic again...... come on try atleast to be original
Poastmortem
#45 - 2011-12-15 18:33:39 UTC
I take a taxi all the time, I sold my car a long time ago for more taxi money. Hopefully we can tell eve taxi drivers to go to all four major trade hubs and say LEFT or RIGHT randomly to make them plot a new course.
Garra 82
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2011-12-15 19:06:54 UTC
So if you can take a Taxi does that mean you can kidnap people? Because that would be awesome! Or how about a Bus? Stations are Jita, dixie, rens, amarr.
Max Von Sydow
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#47 - 2011-12-15 19:13:05 UTC
Barbelo Valentinian wrote:
Carceret Rinah wrote:
RIP Wash wrote:
seems like a good idea to me +1

Offer the ability to put a jump clone in some kind of item, move item like any other.


This. Transport for JUMP CLONES not your active pod. If you lose it, no big deal - buy another one. Better than wasting an hour jumping across the galaxy.


Excellent idea.


Not empty quoting.
Ai Shun
#48 - 2011-12-15 19:54:59 UTC
eggbort wrote:
As in allow us to be transported by people in their ship. Far to often do I find myself in the middle of nowhere, dangerous place. Where I would pay a few millions to get smuggled out. This brings me to my next point, as smuggling is going to become encouraged, what would be wrong with people smuggling? This could also give a segway into small Incarna environments. As I meet 1 other (a partner) in their CQ, dock or meeting area before they smuggle me, or could meet them there.


I'm curious as to how you see this working.

1. What happens if you are online and doing something when somebody accepts the courier contract?
2. What happens if they open the package, discover you inside and decide to jettison you?
3. What happens if they load you into cargo and decide to never let you go?
Kaylyis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2011-12-15 19:56:44 UTC
I'm all for passenger transportation.

I'm also up for offering my passengers up to the highest bidder.

Twisted
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2011-12-15 20:11:42 UTC
Azahni Vah'nos wrote:
If EVE could run it, potential additions to gameplay revolving around having passengers in your ship:
* Ship interiors.
* Turn your ship into a 'pleasure craft' with gambling, mini-games, etc that are different to those within a station environment.


See, this is the kind of half-assed brony crap that brought us Incarna in the first place.

Which, in turn led to Crucible...

Rock crushes scissors. But... scissors cuts paper... and paper covers rock! We have a conundrum.

Dodixie > Hek
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#51 - 2011-12-15 20:15:12 UTC
eggbort wrote:
As in allow us to be transported by people in their ship. Far to often do I find myself in the middle of nowhere, dangerous place. Where I would pay a few millions to get smuggled out. This brings me to my next point, as smuggling is going to become encouraged, what would be wrong with people smuggling? This could also give a segway into small Incarna environments. As I meet 1 other (a partner) in their CQ, dock or meeting area before they smuggle me, or could meet them there.

ok, not sure what everyone else has responded iwth, but 2 problems...

1) currently any attempt to render mroe then a single avatar in an environment makes computers cry
2) players being in cargoholds with the current way the server and system works would make the hamsters cry.

so while interesting ideas, they wodlnt work out without a MASSIVE overhaul to mechanics and pther shiznit im not entirely educated in (only dabble a bit in programming)
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#52 - 2011-12-15 20:15:15 UTC
It's mentioned but cannot hurt to repeat, especially since this taxi thing pops-up now and then.

Your clone is your taxi. Every 24 hours you can use it.
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#53 - 2011-12-15 20:16:55 UTC
Ai Shun wrote:
eggbort wrote:
As in allow us to be transported by people in their ship. Far to often do I find myself in the middle of nowhere, dangerous place. Where I would pay a few millions to get smuggled out. This brings me to my next point, as smuggling is going to become encouraged, what would be wrong with people smuggling? This could also give a segway into small Incarna environments. As I meet 1 other (a partner) in their CQ, dock or meeting area before they smuggle me, or could meet them there.


I'm curious as to how you see this working.

1. What happens if you are online and doing something when somebody accepts the courier contract?
2. What happens if they open the package, discover you inside and decide to jettison you?
3. What happens if they load you into cargo and decide to never let you go?


or what happens when they decide to put you in a corp hangar? or in a corporate cargohold? along with 500 other victims, and proceed to maniacally laugh as they blow it up.
1-Up Mushroom
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#54 - 2011-12-15 21:28:48 UTC
I Believe It's Called Autopilot?
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Burseg Sardaukar
Free State Project
#55 - 2011-12-15 21:50:36 UTC
I like this idea, especially if used in tandem with an ability to launch ships from another one you are "docked" in.

My vision: Orca rapid deployment of several Catalysts, already piloted, next to a Hulk.

Can't wait to dual box my Dust toon and EVE toon on the same machine!
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#56 - 2011-12-15 22:27:22 UTC
Here's the thing. What is to stop me from never, ever removing you from my cargo hold or docking, ever again? Create an alt, advertise taxi services to X destination for cheap in Jita local, undock, emergency warp, assassination complete.
Thaylon Sen
The Boondock Saints
#57 - 2011-12-15 22:38:07 UTC
Brynhilda wrote:
You would really trust your pod with someone else?

EVE is based on trust or the lack thereof, why would this be any different?
Beaches
Doomheim
#58 - 2011-12-15 22:44:21 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Here's the thing. What is to stop me from never, ever removing you from my cargo hold or docking, ever again? Create an alt, advertise taxi services to X destination for cheap in Jita local, undock, emergency warp, assassination complete.


There could be a 'safety hatch' i.e you can eject yourself in case of an emergency, like they have in car trunks.


Burseg Sardaukar wrote:
I like this idea, especially if used in tandem with an ability to launch ships from another one you are "docked" in.

My vision: Orca rapid deployment of several Catalysts, already piloted, next to a Hulk.


CCP could make fighters pilotable and low-sp new corp members could be launched out of carriers like bees! doing 1.5x damage!
Taedrin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#59 - 2011-12-15 22:44:58 UTC
Allow us to hire someone to smuggle us into enemy territory and/or get us into an enemy station...

I like it.
Evei Shard
Shard Industries
#60 - 2011-12-15 22:50:21 UTC
Burseg Sardaukar wrote:
I like this idea, especially if used in tandem with an ability to launch ships from another one you are "docked" in.

My vision: Orca rapid deployment of several Catalysts, already piloted, next to a Hulk.


This would be a heavily used tactic, and totally within the mechanics provided. Much as I don't like suicide ganking, it is a great strategy for that end.

Orca pilots could potentially take advantage of the same function, only drop out a couple hulks for mining.

Carriers would be useful as carriers of small fleets.

There are quite a few areas of potential for this idea beyond just a taxi service. It also adds a whole new aspect to the current mechanics of local. If someone is being ferried through a system, do they show up in local? If they don't show up in local, do they get listed on the kill-mail if their transport is taken out?
People with multiple accounts could really make the anti-AFK-cloak crowd go rabid. Group of 5 people or so jump into a system, but only one ship shows on d-scan/combat-scan.
Dawn of the age of mini-hot-drops.

This would totally suck for miners, but as PvP and sandbox mechanics go, it is an idea that has a lot of options.



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