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Dev Blog: Better Living Through Mobile Structures

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Lucy Riraille
Taxeva
#221 - 2013-12-15 11:45:20 UTC
Well, I'm quite ambiguous when it comes to the new Mobile tractor Units.
Yes, they are quite useful. A missionrunner now can quickly deploy such an item and forget about the looting.
Which is a good thing for the missionrunner, but a bad thing for EVE!

I highly support Sophia Wolf and her thoughts on this subject : linkylink

First I was disappointed that someone could attack your MTU and get only a suspect flag, no CONCORD intervention and it generated a Killmail and loot.... No way... On the other hand, MTU's really facilitate getting more isk out of missionrunning wiht no extra time or effort.
As I have no 0.0 experience wht MTU'S in huge PVE hubs, I see the danger of the Noctis becoming obsolete. Dual boxing with a PVE Ship and a Noctis was kinda fun, but u nedded 2 accounts to do it, or frineds from your corp....
Since there is no reason to join a player Corp in Hisec whatsoever, ppl tend to have loot chars at their ready. Still it wasn't an afk generated income.

Now, as I see it, it is well thought of CCP to have the MTU's made easily attackable and lootable. There shouldn't be a riskless ISK printing machine. Every ISK gained should need atleast a minimal amount of action by the player.

So, I like the idea of MTU's being the new ninja lotters' targets.
I am planning to look into MTU warfare as a means of preventing loot value drops to become hurtful...
Malseir Dabian
Shadow Consortium Holding's
Invictus Mortalitas
#222 - 2013-12-28 23:00:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Malseir Dabian
CCP Falcon wrote:
Hello Capsuleers!

CCP Fozzie is here to share more Rubicon goodness with you, and talk to you about the mobile structures that are coming with EVE Online: Rubicon on November 19th.

Check out his latest Dev Blog here, for more details regarding stuff you'll be able to put in space that does fantastic stuff for you, when Rubicon arrives next Tuesday!



On the mobile depot,

The name "Depot" Screams Industry, yet it is anything but with a measly 4k Hold.... I will never find a use for this item, though if it had a 100k m3 Ore bay, I'd buy 100 of them. As there are many systems too dangerous to put a pos in which have no stations. Making mining in them... laborious at best and pointless at worst.

I was really hoping this item would fix that issue, It seems unfortunately I was wrong.

That being said,

It's a good Idea, but I mean beyond using it as item storage (Not Industrial Storage) and for fitting in Nullsec/Highsec/Lowsec, it's a bit pointless to about 80% of the players of eve (as that's about the % of industry guys and girls),

You, the dev's are fully aware that when it comes to industry and ore storage 4000 m3 is well..... Pitiful and useless.

Are you planning on adding an industrial version of this with a massive Ore bay so the industrial guys can mine in systems without stations or POS's?

Thanks
Kawaiian Breeze
Doomheim
#223 - 2014-01-08 20:40:26 UTC
Next deployable please: Mobile Drone Inhibitor. This deployable scrambles the bandwidth of any drones within a 350km radius rendering them unresponsive. Destroying the unit allows one to reconnect to lost drones.

OR something really fun would be to make the drones go Skynet and attack the nearest player Smile