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supercarrier Dock in station! CCP let supercarriers dock in stations
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Kein Echerie
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-12-04 11:40:52 UTC
Sphit Ker
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2011-12-04 12:10:58 UTC
pity reply

It knows what you think.
Wolodymyr
Breaking Ambitions
#3 - 2011-12-04 19:14:16 UTC
well then I won't have to buy a Nyx holding logoffski alt off the character bazaar thread on this forum. All this change would really do is save me 5 bil.

I honestly think PoCo based sov is a good idea https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1417544
Sephiroth Clone VII
Brothers of Tyr
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2011-12-04 19:37:19 UTC
Physically it looks like they can dock in stations but, they should be 10 times the size of a regular carrier. Half the size of a titan. Hell I would think a carrier should be anywhere twice to 10 times its current size, then scale the super even greater.

Super caps are supercaps, not everything needs to be able to dock in station, but maybe a secure way of keeping in a POS should exist without the Juggernaut of current POS corp roles, and setting up personal ones.
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#5 - 2011-12-05 10:38:24 UTC
Not supported, as with anything we train for there are upsides and downsides.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#6 - 2011-12-05 19:55:00 UTC
Umadbro

CEO of Lanate Industries

Citizen of Solitude
Wolodymyr
Breaking Ambitions
#7 - 2011-12-05 22:02:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Wolodymyr
I have been thinking about this and I think the whole docking thing comes down to what CCP's original intent was with not letting them dock up.

I think the original idea was to have Supers and Titans be this corp / alliance asset that no one person would be able to dock up for themselves and would sit in a POS someplace when it wasn't in use. Then their enemies could come by and siege the POS and get at the phat lootz inside.

But nowadays people just hide their supers using an alt. You get the super for your main and then train up or buy a super holder alt that can go in one of the 3 character slots on your cyno alt account. It has carrier 3 trained and nothing else. All they can do in the universe is climb into your super and logofski.

Now you can fly around on your main doing whatever you want, while your super holder alt (who is still firmly under your control) is offline keeping the super safe. Then when you want to rock and roll you go to the safe spot you put your alt in, log it in, and switch ships.

Actually I think the super is safer logged off in space than it would be docked in a station. I've lost ships because of getting booted from an alliance while on vacation and I can't dock up and get them. Also I think I have been too lazy once or twice to pull a hurricane out of a station that we lost in sov warfare.

I think there are two solutions to this depending on how safe you want supers and titans to be.

1. Just say that supers and titans can't wink out of existence when you log off. That way you'll have to park them at a POS.

OR

2. Let them dock up.

Right now the super holder alt convention is more of an inconvenience than a game changer.

I honestly think PoCo based sov is a good idea https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1417544
Tiger's Spirit
Templars of the Shadows
#8 - 2011-12-06 01:14:37 UTC
Nothxbye
Asuka Solo
I N E X T R E M I S
Tactical Narcotics Team
#9 - 2011-12-06 05:07:36 UTC
I support super cap docking.

I support new station hulls that would allow this.

I support new super cap hulls to abuse this mechanic with.

I support single moms dancing on poles on docked Titan bridges.

Eve is about Capital ships, WiS, Boobs, PI and Isk!
Jonas Xiamon
#10 - 2011-12-06 07:40:03 UTC
Because CCP totally doesn't want us spending our money on a second account.

I usally write one of these and then change it a month later when I reread it and decide it sounds stupid.