David Grogan
Gallente
Final Conflict UK
Warped Aggression
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Posted - 2010.03.31 00:40:00 -
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Edited by: David Grogan on 31/03/2010 00:46:53
 Originally by: Desdemona Neptune
Hello - had an idea for a useful and game-content-appropriate new ship class (or sub-class perhaps:) the Starship Hauler.
Yes, I'm well aware of the "carrier" capital ship class, which cannot use jump gates nor operate in hi-sec. In my mind the carrier is essentially a combat ship; I'm suggesting a variety of industrial or freighter.
The Starship Hauler is designed specifically for carrying other ships around, just like the car-carriers we have here on good old Earth. It's size could be somewhere between the largest capacity industrial ships (Iteron V I think) and the freighter class ship; maybe comparable to the cargo capacity of the Orca; certainly it should be large enough to carry 2-4 assembled battleships. It shouldn't be cheap, but perhaps not as expensive as freighters, which generally cost 600-700 million isk.
Most importantly, the Starship Hauler can carry assembled and / or rigged ships, at the expense of standard (i.e. non-starship) cargo capacity. We can debate whether it should have the ability to launch ships into space, carry a ship-fitting bay, etc.
Skill-wise, it could compare to freighters, perhaps a bit less skill intensive, since its overall a smaller ship.
I don't imagine a huge demand for this, but for those players who have large personal ship collections or who build/trade a lot of them, this could be a useful tool; it could also be used for ship-transportation courier contracts or other for-hire purposes.
Being able to move many assembled ships around hi-sec would be a real advantage to many players. And I do think that something along these lines fits into the overall game design of EVE.
Additional suggestions welcome...
no need for such a ship
u can already carry upto 2 rigged battleships via courier contracts inside a freighter
u basically courier contract the ship using your main to your freighter pilot and then deliver it to where u need it moved
orca can carry upto 1 rigged bc
NOT got a second account no problem create a noob alt on your account and use that to contract the ship to your freighter pilot
works like this -
step 1 main creates courier contract for noob alt to move the ship
step 2 noob alt accepts contract and then contracts the package back to main
step 3 main puts in freighter and hauls it to desired location
step 4 main contracts the package back to noob alt at new location
step 5 noob alt right click's on package and delivers it
SIG: if my message has spelling errors its cos i fail at typing properly :P |