Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I kinda of like the player owned dead space pocket idea. What if you could scan down a dead space pocket with a special type of probes. Then put an acceleration gate at the edge of it. This gate takes you to a random place in the dead space pocket. (IF they were big enough multiple people could live there.) Here you can setup a POS or maybe a POS-lite. Access via the gate is controlled in the same manner as jump bridges and the like. The gate could be scanned down with difficulty then hacked, but hacking it takes 48 hours and it becomes unhacked in a window determined by the defender. (Target gate activate cracking module, wait 5 minutes, 48 timer starts.) The defender could reset the gate once it becomes cracked but they'd need to basically spend 5 minutes next to the gate. with a hacking module.

The major issue is that the locals could camp the gate. On the other hand if the POS-lite were small enough to fit in a blockade runner or indy then you could simply run. Sure you might need to leave minerals and loot behind, but those were the risks you took. Also if the gates were cheap enough then you could setup dummy gates.


PS- Am I the only one who thinks you should be able to hack the abandoned POSes, and other anchored stuff. If something was abandoned in space but anchored you should be able to unanchor it and take it. Maybe there is a timer, or maybe you just have to sit there for 5 minutes hacking it. It annoys me the number of abandoned POSes I see in HS and WH space. I've known a number of small corps in worm holes who live in a hole with a couple of abandoned POS. Simply because they lack the firepower to take them out.

This can be prevented, at least for the massive blob part.

That folded space pocket idea I mentioned uses an entry like a WH.

Limit it to the amount of mass the pocket can hold, at one time.

(Nothing as big as a capital ship probably, maybe like the equivalent of 5 Battleships worth of mass)

The deadspace idea, not sure how you would limit that, maybe the gate blocks ship types like the NPC ones do?

We could also make the gate un-probable. The way its found is the enemy propes out your ship when it warps to the gate. With persistence eventually they probe you while you are using the gate, thus locating the gate itself.

That sounds cool... bring espionage into the mix.

Cloaky player hideouts for the win!

Quite seriously, I am agreeing with you.

If the tower goes offline due to neglect, it should be vulnerable to theft by others. Same with the modules.

Oh, that. The owner still sees the POS and associated items as their own. In theory, you must have been spying on them to see they suddenly dropped shields, and became vulnerable, when they ran out of fuel.

(If the items can be snatched, in a first come first serve basis, people may start keeping an eye on these more often, which could be viewed as spying)

I would like a way of telling how much fuel is left in an enemy POS, so I knew when to come back and see if they had refueled, or could I now snag some modules for my secret cloaky hideout.

I think we should get bonus points for using stolen POS items in the cloaky hideout, but others may not agree.

That's nice, but it should relate to player owned hideouts. Grabbing offline modules and towers on it's own is not the intent of this thread, but if you should start one, let me know. I like the idea.

i like this thing, and its would be 100% better than the orca i use now because i don't have to be logged on for corp mates to use it.


as it stands now i use a orca to hide the stuff inside of, and so far its been working great. it holds replacement bombers and ammo and mods for them.


but i would rather have these.


so long as they keep the reinforced timer

I like the fold space pocket idea but with a few additions.

The entry portal must be a destroyable object looking something like a jump bridge. Only one such portal to your pocket can exist at a time. Anything inside at the time of its destruction is stuck there until the alliance builds a new one.

This may be exploitable as a super jump freighter as the owner may simply load it up with an unlimited supply of stuff and self destruct the portal and build it somewhere else.

It might also be possible to set it as a jump bridge exactly but it leads to a place in deep space between stars, set at the time of construction on the galaxy map the same way a probe is sent on the system map. Its bubble will show all the systems that are in jump range of it and may have the option of linking multiple bridges to it.

I see what you are getting at, but I think you will get too many opposed to the idea of what amounts to a portable hole, (from dungeons and dragons).

The original idea was more along the lines of a POS or mini station, that relied on being hidden. It substituted being hidden for the reinforced shields as a defense. Keeping it hidden by moving the entry within the same system, or the device making the entry hidden, is what would be threatened and maintained by the opposing sides.

And to make the balance equal, where it would take a fleet to repair / defend the regular POS / Outpost, this one would also be smaller, requiring fewer to support it. It is also less of a threat, in theory, due to it's lower ability to shelter and provide for players.