Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Instead of mining an asteroid, after completing the strip miner cycle it de-spawns the asteroid and deploys a defense platform at the asteroids old location that aids the one who deployed it and/or his fleet.

The idea is to transform asteroids into defense structures to help build a turtle like defense for miners operating in hostile systems. Possibly, depending on the asteroid you transform gets you different stats and abilities.

It's an idea, probably not the best or the only one but an idea to open up low-sec mining

As it stands, mining in low-sec is unprofitable because:
a hulk with full orca boosts harvesting pristine jaspet makes at most > 45M/hr
security defense contract which will lock the system down and get you a few carrier support > 500M/hr
Ship investments > hulk 220M each, orca 900M, and freighter for hauling 1.3B

Risks:
-Someone could still overwhelm the security force and come to blow you up for giggles would stop the op and put your ships at risk while leaving them isolated in lowsec
-the security defense contract relies too much on trust and there is no game mechanics to support or enforce it

So to break even in lowsec, a mining op requires about 12 hulks minimum with orca and hauling support.......... An unprofitable fleet worth almost 5B

All mining crystals break eventually, I see no reason these can't as well

Enough to balance the game and not too little in that they break the game

Why am I getting the image of a Sentry drone with its damage and abilities dropped down to the equivalent of a Light Drone?

I say no due to the simple thing of: It will be abused like hell

Can you imagine warping in on a belt just these magical sentry turrets? Could you even further imagine if you are by some chance at war with the person that turn this entire belt into sentry drones?

Better idea...

Instead of tying up one of your strip miners (a rather precious commodity when you only have 3) with building defense structures with nano bot pumped lasers, AND wasting an asteroid by turning it into a gun pod, how about either having a structure, much like the station and gate gun pods, that you can carry out in the cargo hold of a even a procurer, and you set them up, and they take 5-15 minutes to finish building. They have similar weapons and capabilities as gate/station guns, but are much smaller, and are portable. They would not require a station to be tethered to they would simply sit out in space until they were either destroyed or you collapsed and removed them or you tractored them to a different spot.

Another idea you might be able to do... parasite pods.

Read The Short Victorius War by David Weber (Third Book in his "Honor Harrington" series), there is an idea, that the main character (Honor Harrington) comes up with, that is basically revamping old, outdated combat technology, to increase her ships' firepowers.

Basically, you would tow a parasite pod along behind you on a tractor beam, and said pod would have nice big schmexy missles. Once it uses them up though, the pod is useless unless you can reload it. Basically, it is a semi-disposable missle pod, with a link to your ships tgargeting systems. Yes you can reload it but, that takes pulling it into your cargobay, and reloading it there, then jettisoning it, and reattaching your tractor beam to it.

But it would basically carry 20 something or so missles and you could carry multiple pods if you had the beams for it.

It would NOT be a replacement for drones, and would NOT be anything LIKE drones. It is simply a missle pod floating along in space, that you tow behind you. Now, in the Honor Harrington book, they have tractor beams fitted by default on their ships, and can have tractors and weapons without the tractors taking high slots. This would not work in EVE. So, perhaps make these pods, deployed from your cargohold, and then they just set up and you have missle batteries just floating around you that you can tractor around if you have a tractor beam.

The turrets don't have to aggres on warp in, open fire and then they go to work defending you - how u get it into space is up to who ever I just though a crystal would be an easy thing for ccp to make design wise - im sure there are already models of turrets or something in missions to resuse

Resolution:
Join an alliance that has interests in mining,
that exact same way you are refering to in this senario.

When mining, those long hours,
start talking about the general out lyings
of this idea, and get feed back.

Do not expect that each person would agrre with the exact same resolution that you would want.
Try to maintain it will result in arguments and general ego related problems.

When your mining corp or alliance has given you enough feedback,
reguarding idea, that they agree with,
tell them help you BUMP , the discussion thread in these fourms.

Bump, refering to addind a +1 comment , thus the discusion geos to top of fisrt page.


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Sounds like a rig and or module you put on a ship, that turns it into an un moving tankathon, that pew pews PVP'ers.

Also, new focusing crystals:

-9x% cycle time (get cycle time in line with medium beams)
Damage, tracking, and range bonuses (or penalties) as such with the various laser crystal flavors.

An anchorable sentry platform that Industrials could haul into a belt wouldn't be too bad I guess....

but the ability to anchor these things everywhere could easily be abused...

Maybe they have to be assigned to a ship that is on grid and counts toward that ships drone control limit, much like fighters from a carrier are assigned to other ships.

Basically, they'd be "super-sentry drones" that take time to anchor and online, and 5 would be a threat for a lone PvE fit cruiser.

Get a few barges in there, each controlling 5 platforms... and it would be hard for a lone ship to stay and fight.... although it may be able to gank all the barges first, and thus offline all the sentries.
Tanked procurors might be difficult, untanked Covetors, would pop too fast for the sentries to help