Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I myself like the idea of the larger size pos's have more mooring points and letting pll dock but as the size of the pos lowers it also lowers the mooring points and the number of ppl able to dock in them.

I'd prefer to see people be kept in space as much as possible as it discourages people from going AFK as much as stations do.

What I'd like to see is small docks for small ships, but put them inside of areas that only small ships can visit. Basically a kind of anom beacon that does not allow heavier ships to warp to it, or to bookmarks within a thousand kilometers of it. Do the same thing for medium to XL ships.

If there is a kind of deadspace effect around it, or even large warp disruption bubbles, that would be interesting. If small docks could be parked on the same grid as larger docks, I would be fine with that.

The biggest factor that is going to govern the security of docks could be sensor strength, which governs whether or not they can be scanned down. Docks might as well emit a mobile signal inhibitor effect.

If they can't be scanned, nor the ships around them, then pilots might consider going afk, even without a bubble to protect them. However, their bigger threat then will come from spies.

Perhaps there could be small bubbles within the larger scan inhibitor bubble. The bubble could double as a warp disruptor, negating its effectiveness as a staging point, if that is even needed. I like the idea of players being able to fight in the vicinity of docks though.

What we need is an ability for a lot of people to access fitting services in space, resupply their vessels, store a number of ships, yet allow for a squad or fleet commander to get a visual approximation of his or her fleet composition.

Please explain to me how a POS allows you to log off safely for two weeks. Then I will believe your argument has merit.

Much as I do believe Moored ships should be safe and do an auto 'safe warp & log off' that can't be stopped if the structure is flipped. Otherwise people will just never use Mooring for more than 30 minutes.
But I believe you are asking for something that a current POS does not provide.

Except that's nothing to do with a POS, that's just Logging off while in space.

If you actually use a POS to store your Super it is at risk of it being stolen randomly by anyone with access to the POS, and it can get blown up & stolen as it stands already.

Like I said, I agree mooring should be safe or it won't get used just like no-one uses the CSMA's to store supers now. But it's not a removal of an existing feature, it's the addition of a new feature.

But if you Moor and it's not knocked over then you are utterly fine also.
So you aren't losing that at all.

But you aren't going to lose anything.
If you log out in space you are going to be as safe as you are now. Since you can log back into a bubble camp on your POS or your POS destroyed currently (or even a hostile POS where yours was). So the fact this can happen to a new structure is identical to the current POS. If you log out at a Safe, well, same either way and unaffected.
If you Moor & log out, you will at the very least be safer than leaving your Super in a CSMA since no-one else can steal it (the way they are currently describing mooring)

What you are actually asking for is increased safety, not a copy of the current mechanics. I'm on board with this, just stop being so dumb and pretending that you already have what you are demanding, because insisting that you currently have perfectly safe logging out really isn't true.

Suggestion 1: Build structures to defend super caps.
Shouldn't other structures such as gun batteries and missiles protect the ship that is moored from being bumped?

These POSes should be protected ports, and you ought to be able to "build" a "city" out of multiple POS structures on the same grid.

A smart corporation/alliance would put up multiple gun batteries around the mooring area that is protecting his super cap fleet from lol-bumpers. Any non-registered personnel that enter the area get popped (just like a naval base).

Suggestion 2: Mooring area has "tractor beam" that pulls ships towards anchorage area based on mass of ship. The larger the ship, the larger the force pulling it towards the mooring spot. players can warp off or move freely within a dead zone (to align), but once outside they get pulled back.

Maybe we wouldn't explain.

Though it is true even if we catch supers we never actually hold tackle....

The mooring mechanic is supposed to be there to keep your ship from being bumped away from your large POS. This ought to be perpendicular to ship safety when logged off.

I think that if you log while you are in your ship, then the ship still ought to warp off and/or disappear - even if it is moored.

Problem solved.

Watchlisting should be removed and locator agents should be nerfed before or at the same time as this is added.

Since monitoring anchorages will be such a powerful intelligence tool, remove the other overly powerful intelligence tools at the same time.

Removing locator agents and making them a part of the observatory array could also work.