• Slow online time (hours).
• Require racial isotopes to fire, and have a limited fuel bay so they could only fire a few times before needing refueling (maybe 1 to 3 times?)
• Like titans, once they have fired they cannot again for 10 minutes, and cannot be refueled while on this cooldown.
• Do not fire on their own; must have a pilot take control and use them.
• Requires Anchoring V to anchor.
• Requires DD Operation I and Starbase Defense Management I to use and these skills would determine the damage (+10%/level), and scan resolution (+40%/level) respectively. The pilot must be and stay within 10km to take control of the DDD.
• Cannot be anchored w/in 250km of a POS, stargate, other celestial. Cannot be closer than Xkm to another Deployable DD? No idea what would be fair as I'd like to see multiples able to overlap an area, but not so many that it rains death on all the things.
• Not anchorable in Empire.
• Pretty weak in that while the HP and resistances would be decently high (perhaps half of a vanilla small control tower's EHP?), but they'd have no reinforcement timer.

Power Projection: A Brighter Future

eve style bounties (done) dust boarding parties imagine there is war and everybody cloaks - join FW

As with any human, we must map out everything for the sake of living. So what happens when you put the same aspect in a game with random events? They go nuts trying to figure out how to predict and map out everything.

eve style bounties (done) dust boarding parties imagine there is war and everybody cloaks - join FW

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• Deploy time between 30 sec and 1 min; It shouldn't be used in reaction to a run in progress, but as a ward against potential runs.
• Limited range of effect: somewhere between 15-30 km. Good placement is important.
• Limited rate of fire: Destroys one bomb every few seconds; between 5-10 secs, could even be randomized a little
• Limited life time: Expires quickly; 5 min or so. This could be balanced with HP to unit itself, where a successful bomb run against it shoots down a couple bombs, but dies to like 6-8 bombs. Make it more tanky but expires faster if it's desirable to have the unit survive more than one run. This also could be handled via limited number of shots it can make, but that's probably more complicated. This would also make a fleet using them have to constantly pay attention/manage their use for them to be effective during ops.
• Another way to tone down the effect would be to make it only useful against one type of bomb, with each race getting a unit they can make to counter one of the others.

Zalmun wrote:

Mobile Anti-Bomb Point Defense Launcher

A deployable that can shoot down incoming bombs before they explode. Some ideas for balancing:

• Deploy time between 30 sec and 1 min; It shouldn't be used in reaction to a run in progress, but as a ward against potential runs.
• Limited range of effect: somewhere between 15-30 km. Good placement is important.
• Limited rate of fire: Destroys one bomb every few seconds; between 5-10 secs, could even be randomized a little
• Limited life time: Expires quickly; 5 min or so. This could be balanced with HP to unit itself, where a successful bomb run against it shoots down a couple bombs, but dies to like 6-8 bombs. Make it more tanky but expires faster if it's desirable to have the unit survive more than one run. This also could be handled via limited number of shots it can make, but that's probably more complicated. This would also make a fleet using them have to constantly pay attention/manage their use for them to be effective during ops.
• Another way to tone down the effect would be to make it only useful against one type of bomb, with each race getting a unit they can make to counter one of the others.

I think a point defense weapon that can destroy a couple bombs coming in on a run would be an interesting tactical tool for use by less mobile fleet comps, perhaps even helping open the door on BS and BC doctrines becoming more viable. It would help deter bomber harassment, but would only have limited effect against a dedicated and well co-ordinated bomber fleet.

With all the changes to bombers lately, this might not be as useful as it would have been a year ago, but it's an idea I had that I thought was worth sharing. With the demise of ISBoxer as well, it might become a moot point too.

If you think this is interesting and worth trying, also consider putting different qualities in, say via faction BPCs or exploration sites, and make the higher quality ones pre-detonate bombs they shoot down. I know that would be way way too powerful, but would be pretty funny.

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1. Requires fuel. No free 30 day reset. Fuel can be tiny, if need be. Coolest setup ever, in my opinion, would put say one of these units, and three or so days of fuel into a blockade runner.
2. Easy to scan down. Easy as in drop probes, 4 au, and it gets a lock.
3. Keep the anchor anywhere idea like OP had, lets get some of this stuff off moons.
4. No reinforced mode, or a very short one. Large amounts of hitpoints, like a customs office maybe. Or a really high regen rate on the shields to deter a single, or duo of players from taking them out. I think something that takes 4 or 5 players an hour to kill, but 20 players 5 minutes to kill would be great, which would mean a good blend of EHP and regen. Perhaps the reinforced mode could provide a 2-5 minute safety net for removal of goods (didn't like the safety net at first but I think a lack of one would make the unit pointless)
5. partial, or no loot drop on destruction. (Eve needs more isk sinks right?)
6. Mobile depo is anchorable close by or unit has a fitting service.
7. Small bubble on it to protect refitting ships - when I say small, I mean like you can barely squeeze two or three cruiser sized ships in it. Battleships might not be targetable partially inside but would hang outside the bubble.
8. rapid deploy time. Since they can be scanned down so easily, they should go up quick. Or perhaps unscanable or almost unscanable until anchored and onlined.
9. letting it run out of fuel causes it to be destroyed, loot and all. Nothing drops.
10. should be small enough to be deployable and lootable from/to all Deep Space Transports
11. no targeting within 10k of bubble (hurts close range attackers maybe, but stops ships inside from jumping in and out as part of a defense tactic).