Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Cool so long as we can shoot them with only a suspect flag.

You should join an industy corporation. Your view reflects that you see the world from one single point of view and what will happen is that large member alliances will put hundrets of those in any belt or anomalie and bake super capitals and capitals even quicker than they do now.

Seriously we need less capitals, not more.

Losing is sad, I know and some folks like sitting in supercapitals to feel save and stuff but all the real fun and challenge is in subcaptials.

I mine from time to time, maybe twice a year and while it seems boring, waiting for someone to gank and collecting faction stuff in the process is actually nice.
So thank you True Sansha and Dread Guristas destroyer fo dropping a long point and a ballistic control in my lap to spare me the imagination of the Ferengi.

Mining can be cool, just don't do it all the time.

You mean...

Already proposed 200 times and same reception as here.

Yeah...

Again, as I said, I have not found any threads relevant to mobile mining outposts.

Correction, I found a forum post asking for them in a thread dedicated to mobile structures in general

I found another thread for a full blown structure(not a mobile structure) which would help assist in defending miners. While the mobile structure I suggest is more like a depot or deployable tractor base. They provide no assistance with defending. They can hold stuff inside of them, and allow for a very limited refit of ships, and use only mining drones, drones that can be targetted and destroyed by rats. Ontop of that, require fuel to operate and strotium to activate it reinforce mode.

Think Small citadel... or even X-Small. Not all Citadels are outposts; there's medium (POS) and small too

Moon mining is afk mining, lets make it so that you need a cap to sit there and mine that instead. Risk vs reward, isn't that the null war cry.

I think the way of this structure is a pretty good idea, it will likely need some changes but i definitly would want to deploy some of those

+1 from me

The game needs fewer methods of AFK income generation, not more. Moon mining and PI need to be replaced with active methods to generate those resources.

First of all, it not a mineral faucet. Suggesting in adding in another mineral faucet would be me crying for them to add drone goo back. That would be an extra mineral faucet.

No, I understand, you are a precog. Thus you can predict a future that has far more variables then even I can account for. Which of course, means that your precog ability says even though there are mechanical hard locks, (Minimal distance they must be deployed from each other ontop of max distance that it can send it drones out.) Which of course means that mechanically, once you put enough on the top bottom left right front and back, then you can't really fit more into the area. However your precog ability tells you that they will still fit thousands of them when I once again say that I really don't see that happening.

As for back in 2005, yes they were meant to be used as a weapon of doom, however, you know what they turned into? Glorified bridge transports. Titans originally had an idea that they could send a dooms day through a cyno, and that would me you could make mobile smart bomb platforms that had the potential to kill everyone as soon as the cyno was lit. Of course this changed to making it into a giant smart bomb, which then was later changed to target only cap ships. Lately they are of course used as giant transports now, used to bridge sub-caps into battle. Of course based on what you said, that can't possibly happen because sov has turned into a cap vs cap blobfest. But, you are precognitive, so you clearly must be right, even after you admit that you are observant till random people start making "Then quit mining" rants. Despite the fact that I made this thread for improving the mining experience, I labeled it, I wish to discuss mining with you all. Not "HEY HERE A MINING BASE." If you don't think a mining outpost will work, please explain based on your precognitive ability on why they already plan on adding them in? Of course maybe in a way that you all might not, or might enjoy based on who you are. Those Drilling platforms look like a interesting structure.

Sure, you can try to afk mine with these structures, you can try to put hundreds if thousands of them into a belt, go for it, more power to the player, however they will still find that they spend hundreds of millions of isk on setting up a system that would do what barges already do, but of course the barges doing it much much faster, and strip mine a belt clean, and you are left with a bunch of random mobile mining outposts. Of course that assuming that no players, or rats come along and start to knocking off the drones.

I'm sorry that I don't put much stock in your precog powers, but I don't take stock in people when I've said repeatedly that I'm willing to work with them to change things, and all they do is basically tell me to "**** off" Lets get some facts for you

First, it not minerals, as you've said yourself, clearly minerals arn't a problem in their construction because titans were originally meant to be unaffordable mealstroms. The real price here, is the time it takes to construct a titan, and yes, it takes time, and outposts to construct titans something that most big alliances already have. So I actually find your precognitive points rather... moot.