Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I thought it would be kind of fun to throw open a thread where we can give our new ship ideas out. The whole point is they don't have to be realistic, just focus on ideas for now and don't care about whether they are exploitable or unbalanced.

The idea being that people can get creative without limiting their imagination. Here's a few ideas of mine.

1. T3 Specialist cargo ships - These ships can be fitted with with subsystems that will allow them to specialise in certain areas. Such as 'Ammo Cargo Ships', 'Weapon Cargo Ships', 'Hull Cargo Ships', etc. The bonus would be this, they would gain stacking bonuses. So while in a normal industrial ship there would be no difference if the ammo you were carrying or not was stacked, but in a T3 cargo ship, you would get a stacking bonus of say 60%, allowing you to carry considerably more than you would in a normal ship of the same hull size. This would encourage specialist industries, Ammo ships could become part of fleets going on long roams, and more stuff could be got to where it needs to be!

2. Command Carriers & Short Range Fighters- These ships while flown by a single player, can launch a fleet of short range fighters. The SRFs would have formation bonuses which the Command Pilot Can change, this will reward his fleet with different bonuses. Here's the cool bit, the short range fighters must be flown by pilots. The skill requirements would be fairly low, however these ships would be limited in several ways.

• First, they have no warp or jump capabilities.
• They cannot be altered or modded in any way.
• They would have a limited amount of power. Should they fail to re-dock in time, they're dead in space until they are scooped up or Pewed.

This would allow relatively new and casual players a change to enjoy big battles, and add an interesting new dimension.

3. Tug Ships - These ships can tow several fitted ships through space at a time.

4. T3 Battleships (Strikers) - These battleships are equal in firepower to their T1 versions. What would set them apart would be their insane maneuverability and speed with microwarp drives, and insane warp speed. They would be real shock attack ships. The usual Subsytems would be there, but they wouldn't have the insane resists of strategic cruisers.

There you go anyway, I'm keen to here other peoples random ideas. More sand for the sandbox.

A ship with absolutely no bonuses. But it does have all 24 slots.

Logistics frigates.

T2 mining frigates <-- If these are in the DB, release them already! (I'd never fly one, but hey, more ships is always good.

A destroyer/battlecruiser equivilent as a midpoint between BS and caps. In both gunship and droneboat flavours.

The oft-suggested black ops bomber

A specialised PI ship that acts as a factory installation (IE you fill the hold with P0 items and it makes P1s, with appropriate penalties.)

A jump-capable blockade runner-esque ship (Basically, plug a black ops jump drive into a mammoth)

Teir 4 T1 ships

That does sound kind of fun.

Seeing as pods are all Jovian ... or descendants of Jovian tech, it makes sense that they're all the same (else, then you get stuck into "well, you're Gallente, your pod only fits in Gallente boats" or some nonsense).



They're only spec'd to make it able to fit Deep Core Miner I. So, I'm ambivalent on them being in the game -- with the needed skills (frig 5, astrogeology 5, deep core mining, etc) you're pretty far along the path for being in a retriever...