Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey everyone,

first of all ... maybe someone brought the idea up already at one point, then sorry, did not search for that. ^^

Since i just read a bit in the threat about stagnation in nullsec, i thought a bit about a possible thing that might change it.

One thing of interest are and have been always the moons.

Since POS-attacks are something really interesting and can happen from time to time, what about if you could inflict temporary damage to the moons itself to damage the direct income of the opposite party for some time.

What i thought about it would be some kind of super-based ship, maybe a T2 titan with special ability to mount some kinds of doomsday weapon that cannot attack ships, but can be used to attack moons directly.

That weapon would need to run for quite some time then, maybe 2-3 hours, the ship could not abort it, could not warp but could of course defend itself and would probably need defense.

If the attack succeeds, that moon could not be used to harvest materials for 1 week. If the moon is under attack, at that moment transfer of moon-goo will stop and the owner might receive a mail, with a notification that the moon-harvester could not harvest any materials, because of unknown circumstances or something like that

Could bring up some action.

Why a titan-based ship? Well if it's too small and too easy to build, it would make it easy to attack at several points at the same time and would inflate attacks on moons. Thatswhy that ship with that weapon needs to be expensive enough that you might want to defend it with a proper force. Or you want to generate content by pulling in a defense-fleet to have a fight.


Best regards
Pinky

If you can afford a T2 titan you can afford enough dreads to RF the pos in 5 minutes. Or just drop siphons constantly.

What stagnation in nullsec?

you are going to drop a (t2) titan into the middle of their space and hold it there for 2hrs? if you are able to do that you are able to take the system and put up your own pos

Moons just need to deplete over time. 24/7 moon mining hollows out a moon after mining it for a week. ISK gained with no effort (moon mining and PI are at the top of this) needs to go away

Well sometime you get a response fleet and possibly a fight.

yeah that can be interesting but the bashing certainly isn't

I was coming in to this hoping for a suggestion that would turn good moons in to fuel for stationary weapons plaforms.

I am disappointed, so I offer a counter suggestion.

A structure that anchors on moons capable of targeting other structures in the system with DPS relative to the quality of moon goo it takes in.

Basically deathstars with system-range structure-only doomsdays that have to be fueled with goo from a moon they're anchored on. So you'd have to choose whether to use good moons for mining or as power sources system security.

You'd have to align them to target a specific structure in system for them to work. So, if not targeting anything, structure has a custom vuln window. If targeting something, it adopts the target's vuln window, meaning it can only fire at the target when both it and its target are vulnerable to attack. Because its a giant space gun its target is clearly visible by looking at it. "Targeting xxxx"

With a couple of these set up you could siege a vulnerable structure from a defensive rather than offensive position, kinda like having bulwarks and trebuchets set up while attacking a castle in stead of sending a bunch of dudes at it and trying to climb the walls like we do now.

You could even have racial variants with cool weapons. A Caldari one with macross-level cruise missile spam across the system, giant amarr death laser, giant gal mass cannon that shoots massive asteroids, or giant minmatar artillery that just shoots old mammoth hulls loaded with IEDs