Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hahaha, no.

CCP banned input multiplexing and you basically want to bring it back again by stealth. Multi box PvP with remote control module.

Worse, this proposal doesn't even need multiple characters. Just one character with multiple ships, one of which needs to be a mining barge/exhumer/frigate/industrial command. No thanks.

This is so abusable.

It wouldn't even achieve what you are trying to achieve. Wardeccers could use this very same approach and come at you in a mining barge, max tanked and supported by a fleet of 100 battleships. Just one character. Hahaha.

On top of that, you also seem to be suggesting that you can fit up ships and modules that you don't even have the skills for and then use them as a bot army to protect you. Otherwise, if you could fly them, then you can already protect yourself, by going and getting in your combat ship.

I give you a like for something original I guess. But what a terrible proposal.

On further thought, perhaps a better solution is to increase the Hitpoints of the mining and cargo ships significantly. Also, could give option of a "Anti Warp disruption system" to put in the cargo hold, or install in a medium slot,maybe rig, to allow the Mining and Cargo ships to warp out to safety if under warp prevention influence by a big enemy fighting ship. As said, We have nothing to fight back at them with mining and cargo ship, so Passive systems like these will certainly help us survive.

You mean like T1 haulers, who can either have sufficient cargo and no tank or not sufficient cargo and still not enough tank? Or Blockade Runners, who can either have sufficient cargo and compromised align time or not sufficient cargo, but align time, and their only real advantage is the cloaked warp? Or like DST which are only viable since they got a dedicated cargohold that does not require cargo expanders to be sufficient? Or like the special hold haulders, which are also only somewhat viable due to their special holds? I think you naively romanticize what "slots, PG, CPU" are able to do for a hauler ship.

If anything, slots on mining ships show that they are nearly useless as well, as only 2 out of 6 mining barges have a chance to withstand an attack of 2 T1 destroyers. And that only if you compromise yield as well as after a rebalance that made then competitive with the other 4.

Having said that, and before the heads of certain people explode over the above because "Poor ganker lifes matter": This is in no way an advocacy for more tank on a Retriever. This is also not an advocacy for artificial protection mechanisms like in this suggestion.

This is, however, a reminder that the slots for freighters came with a massive reduction in raw HP to compensate for fitting space for even the most basic tank modules. Giving freighters, for instance, even more fitting room for weapons, better tank modules or propulsion inevitably means that they will lose even more HP and become even easier to gank because, for instance, contract creators do not care about that, they just need their 880k m³ moved. Nor do your RL time constraints, which will knock on your door and remind you very quickly that you have an appointment in 10 when you just finished moving 1 out of 10 trips with your tank fitted freighter, ie. you waste even more time on hauling for no gains or better rewards whatsoever. The only things that go up are your risk and your unrewarded time investments.

I did try to get barges fixed in the last barge update but hit a wall of miners who couldn't look past yield

You can greatly improve a haulers chance of not just surviving but also being an effecting ship to hunt down others, they are actually in a rather good place. Personally I don't like the fixed cargo/ore bays, I think it should always be a choice to have either max cargo or max tank, not have both at the same time.

Hehehe.. its like you would want oversized drone defending you at all times even when AFK. Not gonna happen.

You can't make a drone out of your ship, but you can assign your drones to Guard a friendly ship that is in fleet with you, as long as you all are within drone control range.

Since there are many ships in the game that use drones as primary weapon system, it seems to me that what you want already exists.

Still a silly idea, even if CCP would make controlling other people's ships possible they could just make a fleet option to follow FC's broadcasts automatically. Attack this, approach that, group up, rep my shields. All the controls already exist you just have to follow them manually.

Do the "drone" ships defend themselves? If not, I can just shoot them and get ez kills.

Do the drone ships respond to attacks on themselves or other drone ships? If so, I'm getting a DST, ramming as many computers into it as possible, and unleashing a legion of ships on everything dumb enough to shoot me.

We already have an anti-warp disruption system. It's called warp core stabilizers.

Or maybe you could, I don't know, keep your ship aligned to a base/safe spot/celestial, spam dscan and hit the warp drive a soon as something nasty appears on it. Granted, it's not 100% effective, but having battleship-sized drones is just ridiculous.