LightBound
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Posted - 2011.08.16 19:00:00 -
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I dont quite see why some say we'd need bookmarks or a means to enter co-ordinates to place a homestead... it should be as simple as launching the homestead from cargo, loading a beacon into your civilian scan probe launcher, moving the "probe" to where u want the homestead and clicking deploy, since everyone can go do the scanning tutorial, and if they cant figure it out from there they shouldnt have a homestead, much less be in 0.0
have the homestead work like the PI command centre, starting at lvl 0 and pilot skill and isk determine what it can do, more defence/power/storage/refining/manufacturing/etc...
I'd leave research to the pos owners, unless there is a desperate need to flood the market with free 100000ME bpo's in a few months time or u have ppl train supercomputer-housing-facility V before its viable.
lvl 0 having lets call it 15% refining efficiency (+10% per lvl), used to refine feul from what ever u intend to use for feul, be it ice, (PI)minerals or scrapmetal/modules, or refining to get the raw materials to build the fuel items in a manufacturing slot...
a single manufacturing slot with its max run increased by lvl. retricted to module&ammo manufacturing, possably adjusted by skills.
placing defences / upgrades (micro silo/refinery accelerator/solar shield regenerator/[insert awesome idea here]), well we already have the PI interface for a basic frame, launch to space, open homestead interface, move as required inside the upgradeable bubble, anchor/activate or link to homestead.
as for finding it, be it friend or foe, i'd say give it a 1m sig radius, but... if u put a frig in it u get a -75% sig bonus to the frig, so the new homestead sig radius is (35m-75%)+1m, relatively hard to find, put a cruiser in it it goes down to -50% sig reduction and BS, well, there no hiding 500m of cold hard tritanium. this should negate the fears of it being used as a respawn point for assaults into controlled space. how well this will scale for small corp operations i'll leave to ppl with more time to ponder.
I'm also going to say it always launches for corp, acting as an audit logged container, so its not a hiding place for items "borrowed" from the corp hanger, and borrowing items from it is posting your name on the "please pod me" list...
it should show up on the system scanner or overview if its from your corp, u are its friend after all.
as for making it viable / profitable for the system owners to not kill u on sight, once upgraded to lvl 3/4 i'd say make it's bonus to you (better belts / anomalies/ whatever ) bleed over to the bonuses from the TCU in the system, so having a few active homestead gives them an extra 1/2 a pip (max) on their TCU's rating of the same type.
and that concludes my 2c worth.
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