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Spoon Thumb
Khanid Aerospace Group
Khanid Provincial Authority
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Posted - 2007.05.22 15:42:00 -
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Freighters are big.. really big.
So it should follow that they could act as the base vehicle ontop of which various internal modifications are made.
What if you could retro-fit (for a lot of iskies and minerals) your freighter into a mobile city, picking up passengers and supplies and so on. Factories could produce Trade Goods or Modules and Ammo.
How about a moon minerals processing platform? Or a mobile Ore Refinery?
This could be extended to capital ships in general, with the hull etc, requiring different capital components for different uses. From a technical perspective, the modifications would act like some uber-rig system, and you wouldn't be able to repackage the ship without losing all the innards. But then who ever repackaged a capital ship?
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Ramashek
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Posted - 2007.05.22 22:15:00 -
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i have to say, the sound of a custom freighter is nice... personally, im a nomad, i travel about alot, but i end up hauling crap loads of stuff from place to place, it would be nice to say, have a freighter with a station like hanger, where i can keep all my ships and equipment seperate...
i suppose the size of a freighter and its possible versatility is immense... they have insane hitpoint and id imagine the space inside if u stood in an equivilent space in real life would be breathtaking...
my one question about freighters is "why no jump drive?" if i was a scientist in eve, this would be my first thought, so mass ammount of resources can be shipped to and frow from 0.0... realistically, with their size, they would be more than capable of having a jump drive...
i dont know about internal cities and stuff on them, but i suppose you could have mini games on your freighter... lik sn internal casino, now that would be ammusing if completely fluffy and useless to actual game play...
but a frieghter with possible factory slots would be good, cus honestly, finding research slots in empire is like getting blood from a stone!! it may be a good way to get around it... also allowing your corp to access its abilities while its docked maybe... *stops blabbering on* oh the possibilities
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Sarf
Asgard Industries
Safe And Fun Environment
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Posted - 2007.05.22 22:43:00 -
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Edited by: Sarf on 22/05/2007 22:42:54
well since eve doesn't support a system for customizing a ship.
How about a bunch of relatively cheap bpo (100m) that convert freighters of a given race into some basics. All the variants look the same as there normal counter parts (aka no new models)
* Jump freighter (50% reduction in hold space, and capital ship jump drive.
* MFG freighter (25% hold space, 25% hold as mineral store/ bpo, 50% ad MFG plant.
* Refining freighter (75% hold space as refinery, 20% for deep space loading tubes aka scoop cans)
* Ship Transport (95% cargo bay converted to ship racks, ships take 1/10 normal m3 space) - can't load capital ships
* Logistics Freighter ( 50% hold as logistics and maintenance equipment) - ships can change drones and modules when withing 5km of logistic freighter.
* Q freighter ( 95% hold space converted to weapons bays, and power generators and computing space) 8/5/7 combat slots, armor, shields, and resists remain the same, 10x speed increase.
To mfg, take a bpo, a freighter, and additional modules and put it in factory, 1d later out pops the new ship. for instance to make a jump freighter, you would take a freighter, and several capital jump drives some sensors...
To make a logistics freighter you add several capital maintenance bays.
- Sarf
CEO, Director of Freighter construction.
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Ramashek
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Posted - 2007.05.22 22:56:00 -
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ah, kinda like tech 2 freighters? only there'd be a bunch of different kinds... i like that idea
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Spoon Thumb
Khanid Aerospace Group
Khanid Provincial Authority
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Posted - 2007.05.23 02:17:00 -
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Yeah, exactly the sorts of things I was thinking of.
Walking in stations? Well you could walk around your freighter-city! (well, maybe)
The only thing is (and I was careful not to suggest this in the op) was not to have them too militaristic or risk stepping on the toes of existing carriers' functionality
Still, would be cool to upgrade them also, or have a freighter as the hull of a phoenix or Dread with the hull of a Charon!
Khaldari
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SonTzu
The Dark Horses
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.23 04:35:00 -
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So i u have a MFG frieghter for example...would u need to be online 24/7 to run the thing? If freighters of such capabilities do come into play, people might rethink the idea of owning POSes considering cost and inflexibility.
funny idea to think about.
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Kredan Rasok
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Posted - 2007.05.23 11:38:00 -
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Well given that a shuttle only takes up 5000m3 space when assembled, and assuming the cargo bay of freighter is just one huge big empty cavern... Why not use them a shuttle race track??
could you imagine the fun of trying to fly shuttles around inside another ship while it was moving?? might make for a fun sport.
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Spoon Thumb
Khanid Aerospace Group
Khanid Provincial Authority
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Posted - 2007.05.23 11:49:00 -
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I was thinking maybe a circus or theme park :D
Khaldari
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