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Eagle Tarquinas
Gallente Reliables Inc Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.09.13 20:10:00 -
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The current iteration of supercarriers used to go by another name, motherships. However, when they were given their current buffs they were given a different name, with the mantle of "mothership" to be used in the future. This is a simple concept idea on what is essentially the ultimate logistics platform, designed for large corporations and alliances. It would be a supercapital intermediate in price to supercarriers and titans, but with a different role.
Unique abilities:
* Can enter a mode (ala siege) that projects a shield with functionality similar to current POS shield. Only in this mode can it attack others, using POS modules which are stored during times it is not in its deployed state. Using another module, it can become invulnerable for up to three hours.
* Ships fleeted with it have the option, when enabled by the pilot, to "link" with the Mothership and jump with it (slightly different than jump portals, as those do not require the titan to come with). If the mothership is deployed, ships that stay linked within its shields for five minutes are completely repaired (modules too) and have their capacitor refilled.
* Give motherships an "Alliance Hanger" which can be used by anyone in the alliance. Make it very large (say 1 million m3) to give it logistical purpose
* Has a very large ship hanger (Able to store even Carriers and Dreadnoughts)
* Can fit eight gang links
* Give a slight bonus to weapon damage and tracking/explosion radius to those in fleet, nothing game-breaking but noticeable.
Drawbacks:
* Cannot Dock * Cannot enter a POS shield, or attack/be attacked by another POS * When deployed it shows up on the universal map
This is just a rough idea i came up with, lemme know what you think, or any ideas you have to add onto it.
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LoveKebab
Caldari LOST IDEA C0VEN
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Posted - 2010.09.13 20:54:00 -
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- can use no more than 5 drones/fighters/f-bombers perhaps ? xVid4PSP MKV Encoding Tutorial |
Eagle Tarquinas
Gallente Reliables Inc Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.09.14 14:12:00 -
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updated OP
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1600 RT
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Posted - 2010.09.14 14:39:00 -
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motherships shouldnt be allowed to fight not even 25mb of drones they should just be a movable station with huge cargo/hangar, medical/repair and other services (maybe make them modules to fit on the ms and not just built in) they should be about the titan size and cost with comparable HP the POS like shield thing is good so maybe you can anchor the MS itself for when the pilot is offline. it should be able to go to wormholes as well
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ataboo
The Knights Templar R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2010.09.15 08:42:00 -
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I think it should be like a mobile pos, complete with shield, you can cyno into position. This could be used for transporting ships and ammo to the front. It could also be a strong point to duck into (same as a pos) but could be brought right into the battlefield. I like the name firebase but that's just me.
If fitted differently it could also be used in a gipsy style marketing or industrial role and could be brought through wormholes.
On the other hand I don't think it should be an uber deathstar (fighters and all that) cause this has all kinds of messy implications for balance.
Control: I don't think it should be piloted. Things could be controlled through a right click menu and corp roles.
Movement: Since it wouldn't be piloted I think it should only be movable via jump drive. This should have a decent cool down of an hour. Something would have to be figured out to keep it from bumping on arrival though.
I like your idea of being able to jump with it so maybe it could fit a titan bridge.
From what I saw in the other thread, it would be a technical nightmare to have something you can dock in move around other than during downtime. Instead of being able to dock in it a corp hanger and ship maint. bay would be built in.
Combat: I like the idea of it being armed but I think the shield itself provides such an advantage in combat that it shouldn't have more DPS than a dread or two.
(awesome artists conception of full broadside)
The firebase could be fitted like a ship instead of having to anchor everything but the guns would be manned like pos guns.
I like the idea of the built in cyno gen too but maybe when its' cyno is up everything else stops working for the duration including the shield. This would save a lot of bumping issues.
It would have a tank comparable to a titan's and I was thinking a 3 or 4 hour RF cycle before being vulnerable. If the RF cycle was that short though it should be stowable in a cap maint array or something along those lines.
It would also have to be as expensive as all hell in time and resources.
TL;DR: Unpiloted pos with jump drive
I've just started reading a bit about the whole mothership or hive ship concept and my ideas have probably been pitched but I thought I'd give my 2 cents anyways.
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The Rincewind
Galaxos Schild Schmiede
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Posted - 2010.09.15 10:41:00 -
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@ Rage:
hm, what u looking for is a fly/warp/jump-able Station
Let it as it is.
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LoveKebab
Caldari LOST IDEA C0VEN
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Posted - 2010.09.15 18:08:00 -
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1) u cant delegate bombers, if u would be able to do that it would be ******ed 2) we dont need a supertitan 3) no supercapital will EVER enter wormhole (i belive that's what ccp said when they introduced wh) 4) jumping how far ? cuz expanding the jump range on a ship thats far bigger than titans to jump further than titans would be epic fail
overall we do not need a super-duper-titans in game, kktnxbye xVid4PSP MKV Encoding Tutorial |
kano donn
Black Serpent Technologies
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Posted - 2010.09.15 18:41:00 -
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This idea is very similar to the proposed Hive ships
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1200517
Perchance there are two versions, a Wspace ship and a null space version discussed here.
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Arklan1
Dunedain Rangers
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Posted - 2010.09.15 20:30:00 -
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isn't this sorta a pointless discussion at this stage? we know the motherships, whatever they are, will be introduced in the next expansion, as part of the prize for defeating incursions. that strongly suggests to me they've already pretty much figured out the stats and look of the ship and are now building the modelsand code for them.
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LoveKebab
Caldari LOST IDEA C0VEN
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Posted - 2010.09.16 01:45:00 -
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Originally by: Arklan1 isn't this sorta a pointless discussion at this stage? we know the motherships, whatever they are, will be introduced in the next expansion, as part of the prize for defeating incursions. that strongly suggests to me they've already pretty much figured out the stats and look of the ship and are now building the modelsand code for them.
and all this time i though CCP actually said they aint going to introduce any new ships (including t3 frigs or new caps) but focus on improving PI in next 18 months (which includes said "next expansion")... silly me xVid4PSP MKV Encoding Tutorial |
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