Player Features and Ideas Discussion

- make FW plexes mobile outposts that need to be set up by players, built by players using gantries / PI material, blueprints bought by players from LP stores
-> would generate VP per hour for the owning faction
-> would generate LP for the owner
-> would need fuel blocks to run
-> outpost could include limited defensive cababilities

Note following little bit off-topic but still tied loosely to FW outposts:
[- empires would still deploy their own FW plexes in adjacent systems to contested systems
-> would create pve missions where the objective is to destroy the outpost
-> when a mission to destroy a certain outpost has been created -> owning faction will generate a defensive mission for the same outpost]
-> outposts set up by players could also generate pve(p) missions

- allow corporations to set up upgradable outposts that work by same principles but in addition:
-> allow to set up defenses (sentry guns, repair facilities, etc)
-> no LP gain, bigger VP gain (basically set up for entrenchement purposes)

- all outposts need to be set in special deadspace pockets that need to be scanned down using probes (maybe exluding the npc ones)
-> therefore no caps for these outposts

Congratulations, you win the award for the worst idea in this thread. And you beat such jewels as wormhole stabilizers, cloak detectors, and grid-wide invulnerability modules.

I'm pretty sure I'm going like a broken record here, but just a little hint for people to remember:

Anything that engages in direct combat, ever, is probably going to be a bad idea. (Because someone (read: us) are going to abuse this to its fullest and turn entire grids into deathspheres, then spam it with drag bubbles. Then might as well set up a tractor and salvage station to harvest that sweet auto-loot!).

Personally, I also think anything that harvests resources should be open-cargo-bay, perhaps with rare BPCs that allow passwording. It should be a viable strategy as regards farms-and-fields for theft to take place as well as destruction. This also helps to make fixed resources in space, such as asteroid and ice belts, potentially more valuable if well guarded. (And to be honest, I think there should be an open-access mobile depot as well). It should also be far, far more time consuming than manual harvest. (I'm thinking essentially an automated badger-with-a-mining-laser).

I'd imagine that anything that duplicates the role of a ship or sov structure entirely is unlikely to happen as well (eg: anchorable jump bridges, truesec enhancers, rorqual compression bays).

And I think wormhole stabilisers, auto-miners, decloak pulses, deadspace projectors (edit: and anchorable bombs have popped up a couple of times) are getting mentioned a lot in this thread, so worth baring in mind.

So unprobable, indestructible safespots. Sounds perfectly fine and balanced! /sarcasm

I'd also be concerned about them being stupidly, stupidly unbalanced. Nothing good can come from them being thrown up anywhere.

Mobile Locator Agent Station:

Deploys an agent-housing station (interactable only) that you can grind mission standings with until the NPC gains levels and ultimately becomes eligible to serve as a Locator Agent. Scan-able. Structure can be accessed by any player. Reinforceable; destructable.

Mobile EVE:Valkyrie Combat Arena Casino:

A deployable station where capsuleers can dock. Once docked, capsuleers may engage in Eve:Valkyrie event-focussed gambling or participate in EVE:Valkyrie Oculus Rift combat engagements.

Mobile Personal Depot with Automated Defenses

A comprehensive personal mobile storage and refitting facility. Scan-able; very difficult to probe down. No storage limit. Cannot be anchored within 1000 km of POS Force Fields or other mobile defense structures. Susceptible to hacking. Failed hacks trigger tremendous omni damage bursts, send a mail to the owner, and spawn a wave of owner-allied warp scrambling capable NPCs. Successful hacks make a small, randomly generated subset of stored assets vulnerable to theft. Multiple failed hacks initiate a hacking invulnerable reinforcement timer.

Mobile POS Targeting-Array Hacking Module:

When deployed within 50 km of POS Force Field, this chance-based mobile structure has some nominal probability of disrupting the normal operation of offensive POS modules such that they can't distinguish between friend and foe (whereas they normally make these distinctions as based on standings). The chance-based automated targeting system prioritizes Command ships and Tech 3 Cruisers when assigning aggression weightings.

Mobile Fleet Links Jammer:

Fleet links are rendered inert within a 1000 km on-grid radius. For each year that the Mobile Fleet Links Jammer is deployed, the probability that Fleet Links will be brought on-grid increases slightly.

Mobile ISBoxer Capsuleer Neural Interface Hacker:

Renders client modifications such as ISBoxer unresponsive within a 1000 km on-grid radius.

Mobile API-Fueled Intel Gathering Module:

Generates gate activity data in a convenient API-accessible format with date and time stamps in addition to logging ship-type, pilot name, corporation, and alliance membership information.

Mobile API-Fueled Siphon Unit Dscanner:

Logs dscan information on the status of mobile siphon units on an hourly basis within a given solar system and provides that information in a convenient API-accessible format.

Modular Mobile Space Genitalia:

Can only be anchored in nullsec. Serves as the first-pass SOV mechanic rework and thereby the mechanism for establishing SOV. Whichever alliance can build the bigger set of modular mobile space genitalia will claim sovereignty.

Mobile Hisec-Trade-Hub Market-Order-Interface Hacking Array:

Can only be anchored within 50 km of hisec stations. Augments the market interface by enabling 0.01ing market pvpers to leave comic-book styled captions, empty threats, and retorts to one another (complete with expletives!!!) when updating orders. Russian localization not supported.

Mobile Faction Warfare LP-Farming Optimization Assimilator:

Structure can only be deployed on active Faction Warfare deadspace beacon grids. Kills the defending NPC spawn, and hijacks the fitting of affected Faction Warfare pilots by refitting their ship with 2x Warp Core Stabilizers in their low slots and substituting one of their high slots for a Prototype Cloaking Device. Renders the affected ship unresponsive to capsuleer commands. Forces affected pilot to orbit the Faction Warfare beacon until site completion. Initiates warp in the event that non-allied militia members, war targets, or neutrals arrive on grid. Occasionally posts outrageous isk-per-hour boasts in random player-owned intel channels. Capsuleer attempts to regain control of their ship are met with the receipt of 'working as intended' notifications. Only grants ship control to the capsuleer pilot once the Faction Warfare site has been completed, but awards full LP amount to the hijacked pilot.

Mobile RLML Small Gang PvP Missile Ship Nerfer:

When deployed, this mobile structure will bring solo back within a 1000 km radius. Will consider the expansive small gang PvP experience of elected CSM members as more credible and relevant in future balance iterations than the feedback offered by players who actually do any small gang PvP. Can only be anchored within two weeks of a major expansion release date.

Mobile RLML Rebalancer:

During the 40 second RLML reload interval, a RLML fitted ship may anchor the Mobile RLML Rebalancer Mobile Structure and RLMLs will be instead subject to a normal 10 second reload timer in addition to reducing their base damage application rate by some iteration-dependent amount in the range of 25%. For each year that this mobile structure is anchored, the likelihood that a major missile damage application rework will occur increases slightly.

Mobile Wormhole Stabilizer -

• Uses some kind of fuel, fuel bay not to big to force some kind of activity around it
• Two of them are needed to keep wormhole open - one on each side of WH
• When deployed, a signatures of each sides of WH must be entered on both MWS (for simplicity order doesn't matter, system will solve proper identification of WH)
• Once one of MWS is destroyed or runs out of fuel WH colapses to critical and enters into 1 hour EOL.

Several variants available, only one kind can be used per WH at a time:

• Lifespan Extender
• Total Mass Expander - on jump a fuel of Stabilizer is consumed instead of WH mass reduction
• Max Mass Expander - raises max allowed mass per jump, but shrinks total allowed mass

And you don't think we wouldn't abuse this to its fullest? Seriously?

Cloaking bubbles are a goddamn terrible idea

Mobile spidermining nexus. Deploy inside an ore belt and over time (much slower than a Hulk would) it mines the ores within range and stores the ore in it's cargo bay. Can be destroyed by anyone even in highsec within getting concorded, after which a portion of the mined ore will eject and the rest is destroyed. Can be accessible either to an individual or a corporation.

Decoy. Redeployable structure that looks exactly like a mobile depot but when it is looted or destroyed it flags the looter/destroyer as suspect, and can be shot by you without concord intervening.