Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Player Ghost Structures - Labs / Manufacturing / Research

They are scannable while deployed but not active,

Once active they are not scannable by probes.

When they are done the lab / Manufacturing/ Research cycle they become scannable again , and anyone can loot from them with some minor hacking.

(Remember.. all activity with a deployed ghost structure adds a suspect flag.. )

Player Defense Structures - Drone Defense System , Gunnery Systems.

Structures that can be deployed and when active can attack other players within it's attack range. If deployer is on grid while one starts attacking the owner get a suspect flag. These cannot be scanned, but have a high lock time. They cannot be deployed around gates or stations.


All these can be deployed in HS.

Mobile ECM Burst Unit
One-time use item. Immediate deployable and detonate. Cannot relock target in 10 seconds if jammed. 120 seconds delay to reuse.

Attributes:
Volume: 25m3
Shield capacity: 100Hp
Armor capacity: 100Hp
Structure capacity: 100Hp
Anchoring delay: 120s
ECM Burst Radius: 11.5km
Radar Strength: 9
Ladar Strength: 9
Magnetometric Strength: 9
Gravimetric Strength: 9
Accuracy falloff: 11.5km
Shield recharge time: 300s

lol Da fuq...

Deployable mobile cloaking field generator.

The unit itself would not cloak and could be scannable, but would cloak all ships within 15km radius.



Deployable Stasis field generator.

Smaller diameter bubble than interdiction bubble, less webifying than a targeted module.



Mobile ship hangar array.

Like POS ship hangar...but can be anchored anywhere.

should act like the old 64au probes.

can tell the owner what sigs are in a system remotly. listed as:

xxx-xxx combat
xxx-xxx data
xxx-xxx relic
xxx-xxx unk
xxx-xxx anom

beter versions bave better control ranges up to the same region. max limit of 5 per player at any one time.
fueled with some PI product
can be destroyed (has HP of BC)
1-4 hour reinforcement timer (owner is notified when it is reinforced)
on destruction can drop whats left of fuel.

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anyhoo my top 10

1- mobile moon harvesting arrey. not one that steels from a pos but is anchored at warp in to a moon and pulls X random units from the moon, is fueled
2-mobile tower hacking module. used on anchored towers structures has chance to scoop to an internal bay, tower may be destroyed in process
3-mobile dalvage platform
4-mobile compression arrey
5-mobile system scanner (see above)
6-covert field projecter, has range of 250km. reduces sig radious of any hull inside it to 1 10th its normal sig (for scanninf purposes only)
7-turrets (small only)
8-Ewar batteries (samll only, multispec ECM, sensor dampening, target painting, tracking disruption)
9-planitery ground fire platform (when deployed gid is perminently beaconed as if a player was there)
10-drone control bays

The two suggestions I have (which may have already been posted) extrapolate from what I understand is to come over the next few years. These two ideas support the idea of exploring unknown star systems that can be seen in the star field from New Eden but unreachable.

The first is a telescope.

This is a means to do some planet hunting around stars. No point in attempting to travel to a system that has no planets! The telescope will determine system characteristics at a marco level. If you see what you like you can get a detailed system report from the next deployable.

Micro information wormhole generator.

A unit that generates a micro wormhole that exits in the target system. Now you can develop a detailed picture of planet types, asteroid belt types, anomalies counts/types, possible npc types and numbers, any existing player structures that may have got there before you.

These units would allow you to determine whether a system is worth the effort to build a jump gate to allow travel to for a more personal exploration.

Hmm...

Two jump gate types:

A recon jump gate for only one or two ships. One time use only. Easy to make but time consuming. Hard to scan down.

If the system explored is worthwhile to bring more resources to then the second gate would be built. The second gate would be larger, persisting, require many resources and time, destroyable and allow only corp/alliance pilots through. Easy to scan down.

I'd like the activation delay on the mobile cyno jammer to be reduced to 20s. As it stands on release, at 2 mins I can see it mainly being used to prevent drops on larger operations that plan to be in 1 place for a long time (gate camping, shooting pos, etc). This is a small twist making it SAFER for these ops. I'd hoped that this module would bring more surprises and DANGER to flying around looking for a fight. I want to be able to see what I think is bait with a cyno, get close to him and poop this module to spoil his day. I want people who fly cyno bait to have to think more. I want NEW gameplay, not less risky OLD gameplay, and a long activation timer doesn't give this

I get the sarcasm and understand there is a local channel, dscan and that large entities often have scouts in many systems. A "graviton detector" would be useful for reasons that Local and D-Scan aren't useful. You can't find a cloaked ship with D-scan. You could with a well placed detector. Small gangs can't afford to leave scouts behind in every system, but they could strategically drop detectors. WH corps can't see things in local, but if they took the time to put them next to the WH entrances they could get an idea of traffic coming into and out of their system, even while not logged on. Granted there is always a 1 sec window to d scan someone coming into your WH but I get little enjoyment from spamming the scan button on d-scan for hours on end. I'd rather place 3 detectors near my WH entrances and wait for a spike. I could then put them up at celestials in the the system to see where they warp to and cloak up.

You can start with any station service and make a mobile structure of them all that make sense, like refining, research, ect. Then move to stuff you can do at POSes if possible, except any form of resource extraction.

Refine stations may obsolete Rorqual compression, but that's ok, just rebalance them during the ship pass. May hit nullsec station taxes a bit, could add a sov holder option to tax these automatically where the taxed minerals appear in station or in a new corp based mobile module or a POS module.

Repair stations slowly repair your ship and drones if out, but only if you have no combat timers.

Mobile salvager. Salvages but leaves the jet cans of loot behind. Opposite of the new mobile looting device.

System wide cloak destabilizer, that only lets you then scan down cloaked ships with ship scan probes or new cloaked ship probes. Getting a warp point would warp you to a random place around the actual target, say 0-50km or 5-50km. You would then have to manually search the area with the usual decloaking tactics.

I don't like any of the ideas that would provide passive income, and its one reason why I think the siphon unit is silly. So please no mining units, ect. Mining assist units such as those that tractor jetcans and have large ore holds would be ok though for those newer players without orcas and the like.

Mimic units, of various styles that would appear as something else entirely on a D-scan or probe scan, including the ability to name them. From ships, to Pos mods, to other mobile structure types, to cosmic sigs, wormhole sites, ghost sites, ect ect. And yes, It's a Trap!

Local cloak generators. One shot use. Removes ships and itself from D-scan and regular scan probes within 15 km. Pairs well with mimic units.

Jump bridge units. Basically a single use, one way titan bridge to a cyno. Available in squad, wing and fleet sized versions. I don't like bridging at all, but if its going to stay, then don't leave it as a niche activity for the rich and powerful.

Wormhole bridge. Bridges the group into a random wormhole system. If its random would any one use it? If its not then its surely OP or destroys WH as we know them. Dunno about this one.

Mobile vending machines. Lets you put stuff up for sale with them. Either to everyone or based on standings, corp, alliance, ect. Similar reinforce mechanic to the mobile depot. Be awesome if they showed up on the market as well, but dunno how feasible that is.

Corporate mobile depots and other corporation based units.

Mobile billboards. I'd probably hate it, but folks do it with jet cans and the like anyway, so may as well formalize it.

I would kill for a small hangar-like structure that would allow swapping between two ships without leaving them unprotected in space or a POS bubble, as I find myself unable to solo mine in 0.2 or lower without having a combat ship nearby to deter any undesirables.
No need to make them dockable (preventing reinforcement safety abuse) just make them spit out your pod upon depositing a ship the first time or have them deploy containing a noob ship. Also make them unusable when under any kind of agression timer.

Off the top of my head that drug lab and some sort of mobile gas/reactant/booster dedicated storage tank come to mind too.


A bigger deployable secure storage container would be nice. Make it be like warehouse when compared to the garage that are yurts.
Maybe make a T2 variant with ore compression to enable the inexistant mining frig roams and/or ninja short term wormhole mining.