Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've held off making a post like this, waiting until the EC's came out to see what their timers would be like, but with them apparently having the same 24-hour deploy and 7-day scoop timers as Citadels have, I feel it's safe to assume that all the future structures are going to have these timers.

I worry that this will cause problems in the future related to day-tripping and nomadic play-styles, since the deploy / scoop times would be rather meaningless for day-tripping, and the 7-day scoop time would be bad for nomads.

Essentially, it's a single-sized structure that goes up fast, comes down fast (an hour each, at most), but is pretty flimsy. A long post-deploy vulnerability period to make up for the lack of a 24-hour deployment period, daily vulnerability times (as opposed to weekly), no modules, rigs, or services, and only the necessary functionality to cover a small / medium POS with an SMA and CHA. Namely, docking, tethering+repair, and corp hangars / office (the corp hangers / office aren't even that important if the ability to trade and issue contracts to your mates are available, it's just a more convenient way to shuffle things around). Roughly the same size as an Astrahus (in packaged volume) is fine, as well, since it fits nicely in a Blockade Runner or DST.

Something like this should have no asset protection, and should be fairly easy to kill. Only one reinforcement period that ends a day after it enters, and a pretty low DPS threshold (2,500 DPS over 15 minutes to kill, perhaps), with a lengthy repair timer.

Hopefully it would also cost roughly the same as a fit-up small or medium POS, as well (250-400 mil), to basically function as a temporary base of operations that will be relatively easy to destroy, and would be a terrible place to try to use as a long-term base.

In fewer words, please provide us with a camping tent to go on trips with. Something that will protect us from a light rain and wind while working or sleeping, but is going to blow over at the first sign of a real storm.

ANYWAY! The exact specifications are less of a concern compared to getting a bug in CCP's ear about providing a structure that would work as a reasonable replacement to small or medium towers for day-trips and nomadic play-styles.

If you're going to troll, try a bit harder. Bringing up an Orca or even a DST would have been a better choice as a replacement to a small POS for day-tripping and nomadic play-styles than a mobile depot.

He wants the equivalent of a POS. Which is entirely reasonable for a small corporation operation. CCP currently lacks any new structure for small groups to use in low sec or 0.0. Offering up a mobile depot is just silly once you get past one player.

remember when a small wh group could use capitals? no need to shell out 12b just to get out of them? yeah looks like those days are over. CCP could not find anything to give to large groups so they just had to restrict the gameplay of smaller ones