EVE General Discussion

yeah. a civilian bus. I am sure noobs would pay to be flown through amamake. Its probably even the most effective way to score a multi podkill.

(capacity of 1000 capsulears, 10 pods for evacuation, taking the titanic as paragon)

Oh I have more but majority of the time everyone ends up dying

This would be amazing, the ability to shuttle players around in a capital :)

If the driver Logs off the ship safe warp after the ship vanishes the docked players appear in mid space.

If the ship is destroyed the passenger appear as floating pods near the wreck (pretty much as what happens now when your ship explodes)


How i envision this?

Now ppl can Operate pos guns from their ships.

Let's allow that a shipless friendly pod can dock up into a Capital size vessel on the same way it does in stations.

Inside the Cap he can get his own spin image of the cap but totally unable to maneouver it, but just get access to a new kind of weapons only he can manage. maybe smaller size guns like Large or Med guns, (this way the capital remains pretty much as they are now but extra players bring some extra defense against smaller craft)


Now let's configurate a fixed side for each docked player. (one manage left side, another the right side) just like the Old gun stations from the B-17 Flying fortress.

Just a couple of weird ideas comming out my nut

This would be a great mechanic. I would say add a little to it and make it an industry. Allowing gate and station guns to pod players who have a low enough sec status would justify the introduction of new smuggling hull modules that can allow pilots to smuggle pods into high sec where they can be jettisoned at a safe spot. Jettisoned pods then go about their business. Of course the transport ship would have to be able to pick up pods in space per the previously mentioned gate gun podding mechanic. Introducing a timer that would auto eject if the pods were not manually jettisoned and if the transporter A. logged off or B. took too long would keep "hostage" situations from arising. Of course the same modules would be able to be used to facilitate normal transport. I can even imagine a t3 version for running null sec pipes.

Player transport services could even lead to wonderful pinata kill mails.

Hire some scouts, get your jump clone out there - then when the jump freighter delivers, you can check your market every few days.

I also agree that being able to carry passengers would greatly enhance Eve. No more flying alone to pick up another expensive craft and having to leave the first one there, instead just take a friend and both fly back.

They can do this in virtual worlds like Second Life - if the owner of the vehicle logs off then the passengers and the craft remains in-world. Usually the craft can only be controlled by the owner but there are craft that can be controlled by others. In Second Life though there is no way to track a logged off person's location relative to craft, they can only login at their last location, their Home or a specified sim.

Of course there are certainly more difficulties to overcome in Eve as the above posts have pointed out - such as should a passenger be able to eject during flight in case the pilot is a crook/nutcase/enemy. Anyhow hopefully it will come soon although I doubt it as the changes needed would be huge.

Perhaps if we occasionally keep raising this issue and CCP see it as cost effective then it might come about.

Woot, some great ideas here.



I think it could be done so if drivers ship gets to 50% structure, they all gets launched out.

If driver logs off, his ship warps out, then shoot passengers off at safe spot.

Its a great idea, except for two things (that I can think of).

1) do you really trust the your implants tot he pilot of the ship

2) the hamsters really do not like it

They tried something like this I think when they were planning on introducing titans. The database could not handle 2 players in one ship. It kept crashing out and having issues. If they worked on it for a few months or maybe longer. Might even be a year or more then maybe they could find a way to get it to work. But with all the old code still being there and not all the devs being original devs that worked with the original . It will take them a while to replace stuff and add something new like that. They first have to completely understand how the old stuff managed to work in the first place and what sort of messed up gods the devs were praying and giving offerings of alcoholic substances to.