Kiran
Minmatar
Knights of Azrael
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Posted - 2011.03.09 18:51:00 -
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I like this idea.
I think it should stay with the fact it can only jump if there is a wormhole in system. No wormhole no jump.
Players can dock up and go off line like a normal station and their ships will be safe, but the nomadic station can be conqured which in effect would lock all facilities to those who do not belong to the corp or alliance even if they are blue.
Once jumped players can undock and start to do their own thing, but the station will need time to intialize its services say over a 24 hour period the in station refineries, factories etc will start to come online at set points over this 24 hour period. In the station management screen the player who is in control of the station can determine which services will come on and in what order.
The player who is essentialy flying the station must remian within it unless conqured.
As for fuel sure it will need robotics, mechanical parts for the general upkeep but as for ice why not extend solar pannels out to get power that way instead of isotopes?
Players wont be able to have individual hangers though instead it will have one massive corp/alliance hanger, and a fuel storage bay.
Captial ships can not be docked within it appart from frieghters and captial industrial ships. This will stop huge cap fleets from entering through one wormhole, if they are needed in the same wormhole then the players will have to look for the new entrance and cyno them through normal space to the new wormhole entrance.
These movable platforms can enter high sec as well as 0.0 and nul sec. Mainly due to the fact that you never know where the wormhole will lead. But if they are in high sec after a 24 hour period they will be billed by the controlling goverment per day for their staying in the system either through the starbase charters or through a isk payment. This will stop systems like Jita and Rens getting over populated with these stations. The higher the security rating of the high sec system the more isk or charters they would have to pay. Also it should not be allowed to online in high sec.
You could call it a flotilla or Atoll.
The station could only produce ammo, drones, and other basic tech 1 or 2 equipment no ships should be able to be made in this station. It can refine much in the same way as an intensive refine array but can be upgraded. But no labs.
But one benifit could be that once everything is online after the 24 hour period it sets up its own local beacon much like what we now have in normal space.
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