Levarr Burton
B0rthole
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Posted - 2013.11.13 20:22:00 -
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I don't like the idea of deployables which decrease the necessity of activity (like auto-miners). Nor do I like the isolationist ones (portable deadspace acceleration gates which restrict access to your own little pocket covered in web towers and deployable guns). Rather, I feel deployable structures should provide points of interest in systems where player interactions are encouraged. I humbly present the following:
'Caravan' Mobile Market module.
Provides 50 (maybe more, maybe less) market slots available to the deploying player (or their corp/alliance/public if they so choose), and a limited amount of POCO/PHA-style storage per player.
The player may set the standings needed to place, view and interact with buy and sell orders, this may be in-corp only, alliance only, excellent standing, good standing, or any. Being able to buy from sell orders or sell to buy orders does not mean you have the standings to set buy and sell orders.
The deploying player may also set the broker's fee on the structure, and adjust the fee based on standings.
Items purchased (or to be sold) are put in your personal storage. A transaction which would over-fill your personal storage will not be able to be completed, though the limitation on storage to put up sell orders means it would take at least 2 transactions to over-fill your personal storage.
Enters a 48 hour reinforce mode at 25% shield. Upon reinforcement, all orders are frozen, and cannot be bought or sold, but may be cancelled. Items from cancelled orders are moved into storage. Upon destruction, all items in storage are destroyed or dropped as loot (with a lower drop-rate than fitted modules or standard cargo).
If unanchored, all items remaining inside on order or in storage are destroyed (like PHAs), and broker's fees for outstanding orders are refunded out of the owner's wallet.
If you have the standings necessary to view orders available in one of these structures, it will appear with your market settings set to "In This System" "Constellation" or "Region." If you are in the system that the item is available in, the location will read "Deep Space Facility" or something like that. Right clicking on the order will allow you to warp to the market module containing the order. If you do not have the standings required to see the order, you may not purchase it, but you are able to scan down the structure.
"Meta" versions of the structure may provide more market orders, reduced NPC tax, more storage and/or be harder to scan down.
Perhaps multiple market modules could be "linked" to provide access to more orders from one storage hanger (assuming one module has 50 order slots and 10k m3 of personal storage, 2 linked would provide 100 order slots and 20k m3 of personal storage, allowing larger complexes to also host larger items in larger quantities).
Multiple modules linked together could also reinforce each other's shield grids, though there would be diminishing returns limiting the net shield output to somewhere in the neighbourhood of a large POS, with many market modules linked together. Alternatively, a second deployable could be introduced which would link to a market module structure to increase its shield amount.
Obviously could use some tweaking, but that's the general idea. |