Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A smaller MTU. Half the size, half the range, half the everything.

Pretty please? With sugar on top?

I think a mobile reprocessing unit could introduce some interesting gameplay. Essentially, it would allow modules and loot to be reprocessed into minerals for easier transport in the field. The base reprocessing would be less efficient than a station, but would open up a supplemental means of income people who are nomadic and would normally leave loot behind.

From my 1st reply.

A pos that has only been offline for a couple of days to a week should take longer to hack than a pos that has been offline for months or even years. 4 days is a little long to be sitting around waiting for a result, 1 or 2 hours for those pos's offline for more than a month, 12 to 24 hours for less than a month but more than a week, 48 to 60 hours hours for newly offline pos's (less than 1 week).

It adds randomness to the equation because unless you have been watching the pos's for any length of time you won't know when it will be successfully hacked. Anywhere from 1 hour to 2.5 days.

The module itself would be destructable (HP of an ESS), one use only, accessible by anyone and sell for around 10 mil.

I'd like to see some form of POS replacement. Instead of a control tower, a Mobile Control Unit that deploys a shield bubble same way as current POS system and same health stats but could be place anywhere except by gates/stations. Like could be placed in 'safe spots' when it comes to wormhole/null sec space. Also alternate modules to Ship Maintenance Array and to Hangars, to where any player can come in and drop their own Hangar/Ship Maintenance Array that connects to the control unit, maximum of 1 hangar/ship maintenance array per player per unit. These units would in turn use up a lot less power (by a lot) but in turn not able to store the 20 million m3 that the current version can. Mobile Hangar Unit and Mobile Ship Maintenance Array would only be able to be used by that specific player. The only issue I could see to this is space within the bubble, so perhaps modules could be placed side by side.

In the long run, I think the entire POS system could be replaced by Mobile Units that players could place without needing special permissions. In that sense if you wanted to provide a way to keep unwanted folk out of the bubble something like a password, corp/alliance usage option like the current system. And as long as a player has access to the MCU they can drop and anchor their own Mobile Units without the need of the permission system (in other words. Good bye permissions for POS related activities, well, sorta). What I mean by sorta in there is that perhaps whilst an individual Mobile Unit would not be available to everyone, perhaps a Mobile Unit dropped by someone that is allowed to control the MCU (leaving the Starbase Config Equipment role in play) could set Mobile Units he/she drops for corp/alliance usage, which would benefit R&D Corps.

Each MCU could have different presets to different functions which would in turn alter its attributes. Maybe a subsystem setup or just simply the option to do it at cost of extra fuel or isk. Each preset would alter its PG/CPU to allow different module types, so something like a Defense Preset would allow more shield hardeners, guns, or ECM modules, whilst a General Preset would balance things out and a R&D Preset would allow more Mobile Labs, Assembly Arrays, etc. Better yet, instead of simply having the PG/CPU cap a limit to how many 'utility' modules could be fitted to the MCU just like a ship, with the except of Mobile Maintenance Arrays and Mobile Hangar Arrays, where perhaps a limit on how many players an MCU (depending on size of MCU, so say you could have a small, medium, or large MCU) can handle. This would in turn dictate how many MMA's and MHA's an MCU can handle.

Another thing I'd like to see is Player Owned Billboards...players drop cans for recruitment anyhow so I wouldn't see why this could be an issue and it be easier for recruitment.

This is not a request for a Mobile Depot but a request for a new cargo bay to be added to the Noctis for the Mobile Tractor Beam Depot.

The reason for the request is quite simple. When removing salvage and loot from the Noctis cargo bay the time management efficiency factor involved with transferring the cargo is reduced because of having to work around the Mobile Depot stored.

I usually select all and then Hot Drop O'clock everything into the station hangar and then reprocess it en mass. Without having the Empty Bee in its own cargo hold and being part of the dropped load the reduction in time management efficiency is once again reduced as is the risk of mistakenly selecting the Empty Bee and reprocessing it.

So in order to keep the skill level of time management efficiency comparable to the environment is the reason I am calling for the Noctis to have an Empty Bee (MTB) specific cargo hold added to it.

Good day.

I was kicking around some ideas last night as I was trying to sleep so I decided to post them. I have read a lot of deployable suggestions both the humorous and the serious but I don't remember seeing these.

• What about a one time use transport sled deployable with which you can send/jump limited sized cargo light years away without having to use a freighter or other ship other than to open and light a cyno beacon? It would have a suitable distance limitation from stations or larger interfering bubbles at the destination and not available into a high sec destination.

• How about a one time use signature reducing deployable that reduces the sig size of all objects with in the area it effects?

• How about a limited duration one time use deployable that feeds cap to all vessels within range? or it can even burst cap feed when dropped..

• How about a limited time nav-sat deployable that mimics other ships to scanning? (I have seen this before but it was year ago)

I tried to come up with serious ideas.. though I do have plenty of non serious ideas rattling around in my head..

Mobile Smart bombs. Basically they deploy like warp bubbles, but deal damage in pulses to anyone with in range of their "bubble".

I'm sure this one has been suggested on every page so far, but :
Mobile Salvagers

Maybe couple the Mobile Salvager Depot with Salvage Drones as well. You deploy the Salvager Depot and then place five Salvager Drones in the Drone Bay where the drones then automatically salvage anything that is within 25 km of the depot.

Could be nice idea to incorporate repair and combat drones in the same manner.

Mobile Cloak Generator

Exactly as it sounds, with limitations.

Generates a 5k bubble in which all ships and structures that are inside are cloaked just as if cloaking with a covert ops cloak.

Movement speed is unaffected, however, warp is scrambled by an infinite point ( not affecting interdiction nullified ships ).

Any items exiting the cloak field will immediately become able to be locked and scanned.

A possible expansion would be a true cloak field which allows for an undetectable cloak just as a cov ops cloak does, where you are allowed to warp in/out undetected ( once you land only ).

As usual, you may not target from inside the cloak field and drones become lost as far as control

1 per 5k normal limits, 250m3, last for 15 minutes max, 180 sec anchoring/online time, around 5mil per.

Please add a constellation-wide resistance/damage disruption module.

The realization can be done the same way as it is done for Incursions although it should be deployable by players, unique per solar system and providing no distinction between players(no FoF detection).

Such module will allow players to organize their own incursions to harass sov holders who are not willing to protect their care-bears against such pirate blockades. This is a better solution for small PvP groups then station undock camping blockades as they are constellation wide and such a group can have a cyno ship per 2-3 solar systems instead of 10 people in each solar system in the constellation.

This will as well cause fleet fights over stations and Ihubs to spread around the constellation as those modules will effectively cause players to have too low DPS to kill the station in reasonable time with subcaps and too low resistances on their capital to risk those.

The modules should be rather expensive to prevent spam abuse. Optionally they might have versions to build up resistance penalty over time(1 hour) while having large HP pool in structure instead of having low HP but instant penalty application. Both versions should be around 50 mil ISK per deploy.