Player Features and Ideas Discussion

1. Shield Generator - Creates a shield bubble of some size or another - Single Use

2. Point Defense Turrets - Tuned to be Dangerous to NPC and stupid players only

3. Trade Post - Would need to be used at a POS I guess or they would just be looted all the friken time. Stock stored on the inside of the POS.. Risk is that you are kind of showing if the POS is worth shooting or not for free.

4. Labs and Factories that don't need corp rights !

-CJ

Then CODE.

Will be busy, in either case, moar tears. Also I don't imagine the ship they bring to pick up the ore would be cheap,

Think of a mobile syphon unit, anyone can take from it :)

beat u to the idea buddy, also theres less metagaming / sandbox style usage of your version compared to mine, and the whole 'cannot be probed down / on dscan' thing is utterly terrible.

Mobile dampening structure. Prevents all target acquisition within a 25km radius.

Portable Monument, when you need some ego boost. (You can choose its name when anchored)

Also faction version, "CCP's Monument to Rage" that cause no flag when attacked and goes into 48h reinforcement, perfect for your last minute riot.

Mobile logistics depots. One for each health type, shield , armor, and hull.

Some sort of mobile device that destroys anchorable bubbles in an area. I get really sick of having to burn through 160km of bubbles that some renter has anchored around his gate for eternity. Yes i could shoot them for a few hours and kill them, but i'd like to see warp disruptors bubbles used tactically rather than a permanent safety barrier that allows people to be semi-afk. Obviously having the module activate instantly would be rediculous, should maybe take about 3 minutes to anchor therefore making it costly for someone to anchor 60 bubbles on a gate day after day.

Thats really all i want, and any other interesting new things the team comes out with :).

Gibby

A possibly terrible idea, but genius is usually borderline madness, or so I hear.

What about a transport, automated, supply train. Load it up with stuff, Send it to any system, it'll get there eventually. Make it slower than auto piloting it there yourself.

Hard to Gank, tons of tank...but, just give a suspect flag if it is attacked. Taking the suicide out of suicide gankers.
-MAYBE some reinforcement type, with notification to whoever sent it out, giving them time to try to catch the train, and fend off the attackers (this might make it invincible for shorter trips though, which wouldn't be acceptable)
-Make it unstoppable. It will keep moving through gates, no matter what, but slowly. If a fleet of train robbers wants to take it down, they need to follow it through multiple systems, grinding it down. Can't just gate camp it.

Don't use this if you want concord protection.
Don't use this if you want it there any time soon.
Don't use this if you can't let the cargo out of your sight.

Do use this if you need to move a bunch of stuff, and don't care how long it takes.
Do use this if you want to avoid suicide ganking, maybe fly next to it as an escort, or hire a corp to escort the train.

-This would improve the ability of people to move stuff themselves, while not really moving it themselves (ie: I want to move base, but don't have the means to do it myself, or the trust/funds to get a courier contract to do so)
-This would give people an option to be train-robbers, without giving into the seedy feeling of being a suicide ganker.
-Wouldn't hurt couriers business, if they didn't let it. Advantages are still inherent in transporting in person.
-Would increase demand of escorts.
-Would give enough time for passers by of a train attack, to msg the sender of the train with "Hey, your stuff is getting attacked, I will fight off for a cut. Yes?"

Like I said, might be a terrible idea, but to me, seems like a balanced, additional way of moving things, that improves both solo gameplay, and group gameplay, doesn't cut anyone's career out of the picture, provides another possible career, and seems like a generally interesting concept. Also, it doesn't directly nerf suicide ganking at all, but some suicide gankers may prefer organized attacks that don't hurt their standings/auto-pop their ships, giving them flexibility in their profession. It also may soothe some anti-suicide gankers rage, since this gives you a trade off that protects you from the "well, I'm aggroed in high-sec...I've already lost" feeling.

Eve is basically already the wild west....lets put train heists in too.

Going with the "personal use" theme...

Mobile Ship Storage unit.
- 250,000m3 storage
- drops loot when popped
- no other function
- 48hour reinforce
- 60second deploy
- 100m3 in cargo

Mobile Refinery
- 25,000m3 ore hold
- 10,000 mineral hold
- 1000 cargo hold
- 50% to 100% refine rate depending on level of a new skill called "Mobile Refinery Processing"
- Base processing speed that isn't boring, but can also be improved by a new skill called "Mobile Refinery Efficiency"
- 48hour reinforce
- 120second deploy
- 1000m3 in cargo

Mobile Shield unit (yes, I realize we have these with a POS)
- 6000m3 fuel hold
- burns fuel at a set rate every hour
- 240second deploy
- 100m3 in cargo
- disadvantage: small POS sig radius
The Mobile Shield would effectively be like a small POS shield, with a max of 48hours reinforcement. However, it constantly burns the fuel that it needs to run that reinforcement, thus an unattended shield would potentially only have enough fuel for 3 hours of reinforcement (or less if the owner is lazy). It's only purpose is to provide an extra layer of defense.

Mobile sig radius compensator
- 2000m3 fuel hold
- burns fuel at set rate per hour
- 60second deploy
- 100m3 size in cargo
- reduces sig radius of items in range by substantial amount (whatever it would take to make them very difficult but not impossible to scan down).
Used in conjunction with the mobile shield unit, it would make a small starbase very difficult to scan down. It would not reduce a mobile shield unit's sig radius by more than 50% though. Thus leaving the mobile shield unit with a disadvantage (if you want a mobile shield unit, you're going to have to deal with being easily found).

Mobile Micro Lab
- 100m3 hold
- 1 copy slot
- 1 research slot
- 1 invention slot
- 48 hour reinforce
- 60second deploy
- 25m3 in cargo
A micro lab. Copy/research/invention time modifiers would be up to the devs. It needs to be worth having for sure.

Offensive modules would be nice as well. Let the small base defend itself, just like a POS would. If I could, I'd certainly direct CCP to take the mobile/module thing to its ends and let players create their own little starbases with complete POS functions.

My primary goal with some of these ideas is to make the mobile structures more viable in low-sec. As it stands right now, the mobile depot is pretty much useless for deployment of more than an hour or so in low-sec. Campers and roamers who are bored will shoot anything, especially if it can easily be scanned down and provides a kill mail.

On a larger corporation scale, I like some of the other ideas in the thread. The mobile trade hub would be wonderful if implemented correctly. A corporation could set up their trade hub in a system with no stations and then make money by taxing transactions between players. They would need some guaranteed longevity though. The corp that runs it should be able to steal things, but not with ease.

CONCORD signal scrambler

If deployed only local police force will appear for one time only, after killing them scrambler stays online while there is fuel in it or it is destroyed. All pilots that want to enter system via gate or undock or they are after login will be warned about situation in system, that it was overtaken by brutal pirate force and concord will not help you only death....

And the best part is that warning message will appear at bounty office, a faction military has put bounty on destroying that concord signal scrambler and all pirates (capsuliers), also this will appear as message to scrambled faction militia as additional work to protect home land. So the idea is that this actions would appear as incursions for other pilots and they could arrange a fleet for liberating system from nasty pirates. This would be nice hi sec PvP activity. And more boring POS bashing.

Off course there should be some restrictions like abilities to deploy only in 0.8 systems or less so that Jita and other hubs would be safe from this activity.

p.s after deployment all local police should be destroyable and not re spawn, and gate turrets should be also destroyable, but should be fixed automatically time after time.