Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'?

Hey everyone. As most of you know, we are introducing the first four of our new Mobile Structures in the upcoming Rubicon expansion: the Mobile Depot, Mobile Tractor Unit, Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor, and Mobile Siphon Unit. These four structures open up a lot of amazing possibilities for EVE players, but they're intended to be just the start.

This summer we asked the CSM to help us brainstorm ideas for potential mobile structures in Rubicon and beyond. We've also been brainstorming internally and finding good ideas posted in this forum. We've already decided which new mobile structures we will be adding in Rubicon 1.1, but we'd like to open up the brainstorming to all of you to help come up with great ideas for the future expansions!

Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'? A decoy structure that imitates a specific ship on probe and d-scan? A vending machine that allows you to sell mining laser crystals to random people in a belt?

Let us know what you'd like to see out of the future of our new space structures!

Forgive me CCP Fozzie for maybe being blind but up to date I have not seen stats for the new structures. I you would publish them that would give us boudries to make new proposals. Again sorry if they float around somewhere and I've missed it...

a structure to reskin command ships to their pre-rubicon skins. thanks.
oh...and an ore compressing structure would be nice as well.

Hey everyone. As most of you know, we are introducing the first four of our new Mobile Structures in the upcoming Rubicon expansion: the Mobile Depot, Mobile Tractor Unit, Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor, and Mobile Siphon Unit. These four structures open up a lot of amazing possibilities for EVE players, but they're intended to be just the start.

This summer we asked the CSM to help us brainstorm ideas for potential mobile structures in Rubicon and beyond. We've also been brainstorming internally and finding good ideas posted in this forum. We've already decided which new mobile structures we will be adding in Rubicon 1.1, but we'd like to open up the brainstorming to all of you to help come up with great ideas for the future expansions!

Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'? A decoy structure that imitates a specific ship on probe and d-scan? A vending machine that allows you to sell mining laser crystals to random people in a belt?

Let us know what you'd like to see out of the future of our new space structures!

A deployable module that decrease tidi and reinforces that node..

Hey everyone. As most of you know, we are introducing the first four of our new Mobile Structures in the upcoming Rubicon expansion: the Mobile Depot, Mobile Tractor Unit, Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor, and Mobile Siphon Unit. These four structures open up a lot of amazing possibilities for EVE players, but they're intended to be just the start.

This summer we asked the CSM to help us brainstorm ideas for potential mobile structures in Rubicon and beyond. We've also been brainstorming internally and finding good ideas posted in this forum. We've already decided which new mobile structures we will be adding in Rubicon 1.1, but we'd like to open up the brainstorming to all of you to help come up with great ideas for the future expansions!

Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'? A decoy structure that imitates a specific ship on probe and d-scan? A vending machine that allows you to sell mining laser crystals to random people in a belt?

Let us know what you'd like to see out of the future of our new space structures!

A deployable beacon that anyone in system can warp to, for distress calls or for coordinating multiple fleets. Make it so that the user can configure who can see the beacon on their overview - fleet members, corporation, alliance, based on standings, or everyone.

I thought that read bacon not beacon

Forgive me for being frank, but I would rather POSes get overhauled before new mobile structures get introduced.

They are all up and seeded on Sisi right now, and there's quite a bit of discussion of their stats in the Test Server forums. There's also a dev blog coming very soon that discusses some of the stats.

To everyone who suggests deployable guns or logistics: imagine how stupidly overpowered these would be when used by huge fleets in sov warfare. Need to repair a POS? No need to risk carriers or logistics, just have each of your 200 combat ships drop one of these on the field and the POS will be fixed in minutes. Camping a gate? Just drop several deployable guns from each ship to get collective hundreds of guns instantly toasting anyone entering without you even having to be on grid.

Deployable mining rig, drop in belt, collect ore a few hours later.

Forgive me for being frank, but I would rather POSes get overhauled before new mobile structures get introduced.

A communications structure that completely disables local while deployed.

this. so much this.

Deployable mining rig, drop in belt, collect ore a few hours later.

POSes will be dead within two expansions :D

Local cloak detector...

All cloaked ships within area of effect...let's say 150km...for arguments sake. Either uncloak or show up on overview...

Structure which makes new sites to not spawn in system unless destroyed.

"Only you can prevent forest fires!" structure that floats and tells people how dangerous a system is by emitting a green, yellow or red light.

To everyone who suggests deployable guns or logistics: imagine how stupidly overpowered these would be when used by huge fleets in sov warfare. Need to repair a POS? No need to risk carriers or logistics, just have each of your 200 combat ships drop one of these on the field and the POS will be fixed in minutes. Camping a gate? Just drop several deployable guns from each ship to get collective hundreds of guns instantly toasting anyone entering without you even having to be on grid.

A structure that cause the same phenomena found in dead space pockets... something that keeps people from warping to your location, within 250km.

you can warp away from it, just not to anything around it.

A vending machine that allows you to sell mining laser crystals to random people in a belt?

Mobile ship wash: You pay 15 isk and the ship is washed (the shader increase the specular factor by 5 fold during 1 full hour and adds 5% extra resistance against lasers).

- Localchat scrambling unit
Works only in nullsec. Puts local in the entire constellation into delayed mode but broadcasts the system where the unit was onlined every 30 seconds in local, only 1 can be onlined per constellation.

- Decloaking pulse generator
Sends out a decloaking pulse every 5 minutes that decloaks everything on grid.

- Scan signature Jammer
Cloaks everything in a 100km radius from directional scanner aswell as scan probes, the Jammer itself however is probeable.

- Wormhole effect inducer
1 for each wormhole type, projects wormhole effects to the whole grid, only one can be active at a time.

- Mobile Grid Cleaner type 'agmar'
Targets and destroyes wrecks in a 150km radius, 8 wrecks per 10 seconds are destroyed. Once the grid is cleaned it will write in local "Agmar sends his regards"

Webbing Structures akin to Stasis Towers would make gate camps just a little more interesting...

Cloak Disruption Unit, a deployable that works systemwide, when deployed it will disrupt the cloak of all ships in the system for 1 hour and will then "burn itself out" (self destruct).

Cloak Disruption Unit, a deployable that works systemwide, when deployed it will disrupt the cloak of all ships in the system for 1 hour and will then "burn itself out" (self destruct).

Probably an idiotic idea but what about some kind of consumable cyno beacon mobile structure? Not too dissimilar from the current cyno beacons that require sov but these would be temporary (something like 15 minutes), show up system-wide on overview, etc. They would need to be somewhat expensive considering the utility of them. The cost/consumable aspect of it should be far greater than what is required to get the required sov level, deploy ihub, etc.

Probably an idiotic idea but what about some kind of consumable cyno beacon mobile structure? Not too dissimilar from the current cyno beacons that require sov but these would be temporary (something like 15 minutes), show up system-wide on overview, etc. They would need to be somewhat expensive considering the utility of them. The cost/consumable aspect of it should be far greater than what is required to get the required sov level, deploy ihub, etc.

How about a deployable structure that would house le Mittani's ego? It would be very expensive considering the cargo capacity it would have to have.

A capital Mobile Warp Disruption bubble, that can stand up to super firepower.

none.

when will we finally see something happen to POS?

edit: i just did 32 jumps in a freighter, dont think i am anywhere close to being positive about Rubicon...

A wormhole stabilizer.

A decoy structure that imitates a specific ship on probe and d-scan?

Deployable Shield-generator

One time use (like the cynojammer), limited time - upon deployment generates a 10km-ish shield bubble with similar effects as a POS-Shield: Nothing inside can target/damage anything outside and vice versa, only the owning pilot can leave or enter at will. Shield can be attacked (will flag the attacker suspect) and destroyed (no reinforcement) HP of a Battleship.

I leave the tactical implications to everyones imagination :)

Anchorable Hacking unit. Allows you to take over a pos, or other anchored deployable unit whose shields have been drained or which has no fuel remaining. Make it so its skill and time based and there is a limit to the number you can control at any one time....

+1 for this. Preferably it would expand the wormhole enough to allow Supercaps in; Wormhole PvP really needs a shake-up that only nullsec alliances are capable of giving it.

Excactly, Khador. Just what we need to finish off those offlined-towers spamming all moons in highsec. If people don't maintain their ****, they shouldn't have it. Perhaps it should be limited to offline towers alone. Capture the tower and you capture the whole POS with modules, gunes and everything.

Wormhole stabilizer

A mobile structure anchored on a wormhole that forces it to stay open for a set time regardless of mass jumped through(instead it has a set maximum mass of ships that are allowed to jump like acceleration gates), makes fighting around wormholes easier and one side can't just close the hole and trap the other. Would make wormhole pvp more common and increases the ability to be agressive in w-space.

Once anchored and online it's invulnerable and both itself and the wormhole is destroyed/collapsed once the set time ends.

EDIT: Oh, someone already suggested it, well this is how I think it should work

A mobile thing that lets you put supercarriers and titans in a wormhole.



















Just let it happen.

A mobile brothel that for the right amount of ISK dispenses relevant merchandise for people to put in their cargo holds. Pimp my kill mail CCP. Think GTA... but in space.

Edit. Naturally the mobile brothel would be an equal opportunities employer. Hell I might finally make some ISK if I can sell my clones...

Most here talk about unit, but let me bring up an old idea with a new twist.

Deployable anchorable mines.

Now having seen(and heard) the squawking about what happened with mines in the early days, I understand these would have to be CAREFULLY studied(not able to deploy within x km of a structure, not able to be deployed in x distance from one another) but there are some real possibilities for gameplay, including mad ebil ways these could be used.

Also, opens up some specialization for detection and removal.

Just another form of griefing? Could add an interesting aspect to the game.

This isn't the bad idea thread...

Make it a one-way street.

Supercapital retirement home. Wheelchairs 4 all supers.

Made me laugh alot. With the wormhole stabilizing Idea I dont think supers should be allowed to enter wormholes. There have been alot of complaints in the past about wh space not having any conflict drivers and how being aggressive in wh space is too hard, I don't think wh space should stay like it is today forever.

maybe make it so the total cumulative mass remains unaffected but the limit to jumpable mass still remains. so you cannot jump supers etc into it but regular capitals can jump without it affecting the wormholes stability until the mobile unit has expired.

Two things:

1. Deployable "stealth" unit. - Hides ships from D-scan ,but not combat probes or overview. Can be used in deep null or wh to stage an offensive, or hide a defensive force.

2. Mining colony - Deployable structure that mines ice, gas, or asteroids and deposits the contents into a mobile Depot. Mobile Siphon units may be attached and divert resources from the deployable's output. They run until the belt is cleared or their depot is full.

I web bubble variation on the warp bubble would be better than a structure.

Local Disruption Unit.

Doesn't hide who's in local, or anything like that, this has a far more vicious effect: It spams the local channel with unceasing terrible chat. Configurable, too - choose from such options as 'Jita Local Spam', 'General Discussion forum highlights', 'fofofo forever', 'Burkey saga', 'Rapid Missile Launcher Rage', and much more.

Wormhole stabilisation Array:
regenerates x mass per hour of a nearby wormhole.
Slows down the time collapsing.
Up to 3 units can be deployed next to a wormhole to keep it up for up to 7 days.
Does not increase maximum mass for a single ship.

Wormhole stabilisation Array:
regenerates x mass per hour of a nearby wormhole.
Slows down the time collapsing.
Up to 3 units can be deployed next to a wormhole to keep it up for up to 7 days.
Does not increase maximum mass for a single ship.

An Infinite Improbability Generator.

When anchored in orbit of a planet, it randomly generates sperm whales and bowls of petunias.

Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'? A decoy structure that imitates a specific ship on probe and d-scan? A vending machine that allows you to sell mining laser crystals to random people in a belt?

How about a deployable structure that would house le Mittani's ego? It would be very expensive considering the cargo capacity it would have to have.

Mobile warp gates

Allow anchoring in both low and null sec - allowing pirates and sov groups to create their own 'deadspace' areas, where other structures could potentially be anchored (such as mobile depots, cyno jammers, mobile research facilities).

These areas could also be defended with deployable weapon platforms.

Please increase the "cant anchor within X of a stargate or station" to more like 1 AU.

Also I would like to see
1) A structure that steals a portion of all ratting bounties in the system, stores it inside until retrieved (either by the owner, or hacked by someone else)
2) Module repper - anchor, feed nanite, rep full burned out modules, drones, etc
3) NPC bait - deploy it and it takes highest priority npc aggro

We're already working on designs for this. True story.

But i want to anchor jammers on station grid.

Made me laugh alot. With the wormhole stabilizing Idea I dont think supers should be allowed to enter wormholes. There have been alot of complaints in the past about wh space not having any conflict drivers and how being aggressive in wh space is too hard, I don't think wh space should stay like it is today forever.

Hey everyone. As most of you know, we are introducing the first four of our new Mobile Structures in the upcoming Rubicon expansion: the Mobile Depot, Mobile Tractor Unit, Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor, and Mobile Siphon Unit. These four structures open up a lot of amazing possibilities for EVE players, but they're intended to be just the start.

This summer we asked the CSM to help us brainstorm ideas for potential mobile structures in Rubicon and beyond. We've also been brainstorming internally and finding good ideas posted in this forum. We've already decided which new mobile structures we will be adding in Rubicon 1.1, but we'd like to open up the brainstorming to all of you to help come up with great ideas for the future expansions!

Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'? A decoy structure that imitates a specific ship on probe and d-scan? A vending machine that allows you to sell mining laser crystals to random people in a belt?

Let us know what you'd like to see out of the future of our new space structures!

Can you please address all of these stupid mobile decloakers in the OP post so people stop flooding the thread with this idiocy.

A structure that cause the same phenomena found in dead space pockets... something that keeps people from warping to your location, within 250km.

you can warp away from it, just not to anything around it.

Two words: Casino house

Preferably straight in front of the undock.

In the shape of a giant dong.

There are no bad ideas in brainstorming.

Mobile Sentry guns. You drop them in a belt and if an enemy or pirate appears, they shoot him. They should have a range equal to that of a siphon, and when attacked they go into reinforcement mode for 48 hours.

(serious idea ITP)

CONCORD signal jammer. 3-5 minute anchoring time. When anchored, CONCORD doesn't respond to criminally flagged players within range. (But they are still free game for other players.) Can't be anchored on grid with stations or gates.

Gank AFK bot-aspirant miners with great justice. Anyone watching the game has plenty of time to get out of range. (POS managers have to check on their POSes every hour now, it's only fair that miners should have to check their screens once in a while too.)

Also allows for friendly fleet vs fleet or FFA combat within highsec without having to abuse stealing mechanics or having to start fifty duels.

(serious idea ITP)

CONCORD signal jammer. 3-5 minute anchoring time. When anchored, CONCORD doesn't respond to criminally flagged players within range. (But they are still free game for other players.) Can't be anchored on grid with stations or gates.

Gank AFK bot-aspirant miners with great justice. Anyone watching the game has plenty of time to get out of range. (POS managers have to check on their POSes every hour now, it's only fair that miners should have to check their screens once in a while too.)

Also allows for friendly fleet vs fleet or FFA combat within highsec without having to abuse stealing mechanics or having to start fifty duels.

(serious idea ITP)

CONCORD signal jammer. 3-5 minute anchoring time. When anchored, CONCORD doesn't respond to criminally flagged players within range. (But they are still free game for other players.) Can't be anchored on grid with stations or gates.

Gank AFK bot-aspirant miners with great justice. Anyone watching the game has plenty of time to get out of range. (POS managers have to check on their POSes every hour now, it's only fair that miners should have to check their screens once in a while too.)

Also allows for friendly fleet vs fleet or FFA combat within highsec without having to abuse stealing mechanics or having to start fifty duels.

There'd probably be some massive whining if it just stopped CONCORD flat-out, but I think adding a big delay (30s or so warp-in time, 10 seconds extra delay before Concord lock and fire, enough time to help murder pretty much most things) to Concord response to anyone performing a criminal act on grid would be plenty. And then it can get anchored on station/gates.

Yeah because high sec ganking isn't enough of a problem already. I'm half surprised there hasn't been a "gun-control" regulation call for high sec given the number of murders and massacres happening all over the place.

Would you like to see a mobile drug lab with a meta version called the 'Winnebago'?t

Mobile Cynosural Unit - Creates a Cyno. Everyone can jump to it.

- Mobile Grid Cleaner type 'agmar'
Targets and destroyes wrecks in a 150km radius, 8 wrecks per 10 seconds are destroyed. Once the grid is cleaned it will write in local "Agmar sends his regards"

If you don't notice someone setting up a 10-minute anchor of a fragile Concord Disruptor and not warp out, well, not sure what to say really. (PS: The whole point of this thing as I'm thinking is that the consequences are still inevitable, but delayed.)

Hmmm, I suppose it SHOULD probably only have limited battery life too. Probably in the span of minutes.

Mobile Cynosural Unit - Creates a Cyno. Everyone can jump to it.

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My original idea changes the consequences from being beaten to a pulp by an invincible NPC entity to being shot at by other people. I specifically said "CONCORD won't react to criminal timers", not "people won't get criminal timers". So if you go GCC near one of these things, you have to sit it out for 15 minutes. If you warp out, you still get CONCORDOKKEN on landing. But 15 minutes is plenty for your victim to reship into a combat ship and take revenge.

Mobile Depot had a ton of small gang groups super excited to use them to deploy behind enemy lines as we could have a base we could all use without anchoring a POS that would notify the SOV holders we were there. That excitement was lost when the "Only the person who deploys it can use it" rule was made public. So I want a Mobile Depot that is password protected so small elite groups can have a base of operation when we deploy behind enemy lines.

I just checked with CCP Masterplan and it turns out this would be a fairly simple modification to the auto-tractor.

Hmmmm......

Asteroid Scanning Array:

Spawns a better quality asteroid field/ice belt (small one)/gas cloud. Bookmark dropped in the array's cargo.

Skill limited for how many you can anchor globally.

Cool down after scan.

Once warped to, the signature can be scanned down by anyone. Must be mined out before the array resets.

Possibly add, in empire space, some kind of claim system for these. So the discoverer can stake their claim. Anyone that mines from it after that goes suspect.

Deployable player owned billboards for corporate advertising, alliance propaganda and community service announcements near gates and stations.

I like it.

The claim system sort of discourages "content creation", read: player conflict.

Id rather have it the opposite way, or no suspect flag, and if someone else finds it they can steal the bookmark.

The problem with these is TTP

I just checked with CCP Masterplan and it turns out this would be a fairly simple modification to the auto-tractor.

Hmmmm......

As an aside, I think a general rule-of-thumb would be that anything that involves direct combat should probably be a Bad Thing (TM), so no portable sentry guns or logistics. Because I can guaran-damn-tee you that otherwise someone's going to stuff 200 carriers with the things, drop them all, and form an unkillable death-sphere around every station and point of interest in the game.

(Hint: It'll be us)

I just checked with CCP Masterplan and it turns out this would be a fairly simple modification to the auto-tractor.

Hmmmm......