EVE General Discussion

Because the day those get introduced, I'll buy one, load it up with victims, and never let them off.

Also, when ships like covops frigates exist, there is literally no reason to ever feel worried about travelling somewhere alone. Its basically impossible to die in one, even if you take a gate into a 500 man 20 bubble gate camp.

They would be launched out in their pods after his ship gets on 50%(adjustable) structure or after selfdestruct was initiated.


They can freely jump off with their pods.


What.


He gets destroyed, passengers gets "catapulted" as always?


So you reenter if you want.

I would love to see ships that need multiple people to pilot them.

I just want to hold real people hostage in my cargo hold. Is that too much to ask? :)

even in wow (!) people abuse this to carry the player (whom they had offered a ride) towards the edge of the map, drop him into the sea and laugh as the poor guy dies from exhaustion.

Could just use the existing courier contracts too.

Imagine:

1. Right Click on Jump Clone -> "Unplug"
2. Makes an item called "[yourname]'s Clone"
3. Create Courier Contract
4. Item gets transported, stolen, destroyed, etc
5. If it arrives, finish contract
6. Right Click on item -> "Install Clone"
7. Functions like a normal Jump Clone after that


edit: The "Jump Clone" items would probably have to somehow count as a Jump Clone as far as Infomorph Psychology is concerned. Otherwise someone could just have a bunch of "unplugged" clones everywhere, without limit.

At the least it would be nice to see with maintenance bays be able to carry ships that have pilots in them. It would turn carriers into real carriers.

It would, of course, make it much easier to gank miners by flying in an Orca with pilots loaded up in their gank ships of choice.

Mechanics that might need to be implemented to prevent using hangars to get around certain current mechanics:

1. Security status of the pilot of the carrier is subject to the lowest sec status of those being carried. This would be to retain the limited freedom of travel that people with -5.0 or lower currently have to deal with.
2. The overview icons would need to be changed to indicate a ship is carrying pilots (side note: this would *not* be indicated on d-scan, and the overview would not indicate the number of pilots)
3. Carrier ship pilots would have settings they could put in place which would allow them to prevent other pilots from docking based on things like security status, GCC, etc. This is to prevent someone from "getting a ride" with a carrier, un-docking, getting GCC, then re-docking instantly in order to gank the carrier pilot.

There are all sorts of bad things people could do with this sort of feature, but I would think that for alliances and corporations, it would make a huge difference.
FC's would have more control for jumping a small squad all at once.
This could, potentially, increase the production of Orcas intended for use as cargo ships in low-sec. Dock up a couple pilots which can defend if needed. Smaller corps could also venture into low and bring two hulks with them to mine the belts.

Oh, and leave maintenance hangars un-scannable. That way they know, by the overview, that you have pilots on board, but they don't know how many, and they don't know what said pilots are flying. This would make fleet composition very difficult to determine, and allow for strategies to be developed by FC's to shoot for the element of surprise.

tl;dr: supported.

You used to be able to scoop pods into cargohold and the person would be trapped.

Led to hilarious griefing