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Deadzone
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Posted - 2004.03.25 01:25:00 -
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I was just pondering an idea of ship to ship docking and wished to get feedback on it.
We all know that we can setup one or more ships to boost shields of other ships, somwwhat like a medic-type role. What I am thinking takes this a step or two further.
Each class of ship can have a certain number of docking links on their ships. IE a frigate, since it is so small, would maybe have none. Cruisers would have 1 docking link. Battleships might have two. Titans, (although not in game yet) could have three or four.
The purpose for this would be to have a dedicated "medic" ship. These ships could equip armour regen mods, hull regen, shield and cap regen ( as they can now) and anything else used to heal ships. But in order to "heal" other ships, they need to dock with them. This would be most effective for those fleets a great deal away from stations, or used for extended battles.
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Deadzone
Vice-Admiral
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Military Command
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Aronis Contar
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Posted - 2004.03.25 01:31:00 -
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Sounds very nifty.
As far as I know, it is planned for Titans that you can dock in them. You can use them as a huge fleet transporter, jumping around through EVE.
Something far simpler I would like to see is trading in space. You just fly up to someone (less than 1.5km), right click->trade, and get a normal trade window. Ah well...
Ciao, Aronis!
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Sylia Masters
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Posted - 2004.03.25 01:33:00 -
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Another use could be transfering of cargo without the use of jettision containers. This could put an end to all the arguments about jettisioned containers (ie: thier size).
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Lysender
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Posted - 2004.03.25 01:43:00 -
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I agree. Nice idea. 
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Brolly
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Posted - 2004.03.25 01:46:00 -
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Some ships seem to have docking bays already, the megathrond and rupture pop to mind...or maybe they are for something else. Would be neat if you could get a shuttle or an interceptor in, maybe anchor your ship and shimmy off. Don't know why you'd want to do it, but it seems like a good idea
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Czar Marcus
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Posted - 2004.03.25 02:49:00 -
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What if you could join several frigates to fight as one giant battleship , like transformers. Then each person could control a set of guns, and one would steer the ship. 
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Silverlancer
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Posted - 2004.03.25 02:50:00 -
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Sounds like... guess what... HOMEWORLD :).
*ponders support frigates from homeworld*
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.03.25 04:33:00 -
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Yes make it like Transformers, that would break open the asian market! 
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Knefru Khamen
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Posted - 2004.03.25 04:42:00 -
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Edited by: Knefru Khamen on 25/03/2004 04:43:32
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What if you could join several frigates to fight as one giant battleship , like transformers. Then each person could control a set of guns, and one would steer the ship.
Voltron!
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Tripoli
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Posted - 2004.03.25 07:21:00 -
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I'd really like to see the capability of a ship being able to scoop a friend's capsule into cargo. Would be a great way for corp members to help each other out in dangerous space.
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NeoMorph
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Posted - 2004.03.25 09:46:00 -
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I'd really like to see the capability of a ship being able to scoop a friend's capsule into cargo. Would be a great way for corp members to help each other out in dangerous space.
Bloody excellent idea... Actually the whole docking thing is a good idea too... Just don't think the devs will go for it though as it would mean all the ships would have to be changed slightly to add the docking ports and then the docking code would have to be done.
Alternative would be a cargo transfer beam to link the ships together... you would have to use a high slot similar to a shield transfer beam. You could drop your cargo into that slot and it gets transferred across to the ship you are linked to. If there is not enough room it asks if you want to do a partial move.
Sounds a lot simpler to do that docking imho.
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jason hill
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Posted - 2004.03.25 11:28:00 -
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shouldnt this be in the ideas lab ?
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Killash Larz
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Posted - 2004.03.25 12:04:00 -
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What about Repair Drones - IE: Like Mining/Battle drones but instead of attacking they repair (your friends) Ships Hulls and Armour etc.
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sutty
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Posted - 2004.03.25 12:16:00 -
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repair drones exist just not in game.
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Max Bateman
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Posted - 2004.03.25 12:19:00 -
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This is a great thread and should be moved to ideas lab! 
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Ishiko
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Posted - 2004.03.25 20:23:00 -
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What would happen if the ship that you docked with logged out?
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Athule Snanm
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Posted - 2004.03.25 20:53:00 -
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repair drones exist just not in game.
Wow, that's quite philosphical! :-)
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Deadzone
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Posted - 2004.03.26 08:07:00 -
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If the ship you docked with logged out, the system would act as though you simply undocked from that vessel. As for the idea lab, I stuck the thread in there as well. But being that this area gets more attention than the idea lab, I thought sticking it here might generate more discussion about it  and might gain the Devs attention.
Thanks all for the constructive ideas ( minus the Voltron thoughts -hehe-) Keep the ideas flowing and let the Dev teams know how we feel about it all.
Vice-Admiral
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Cutter John
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Posted - 2004.03.26 09:06:00 -
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i always liked the idea of cruisers an bs being able to dock frigates.. have a little repair bay, reoutfit bay and thats it. a dedicated carrier for frigate support in fleet battles would be nice. pretty much a mobile box with a couple guns that can dock mebbe 10 frigates. would let frigate pilots have spares, or repair, when they get mauled by drones. kind of a mini titan, or a carrier from HW. would add a whole lot more strategy to battles.
as far as the medic ship, the current modules are just far to limited in range to really be useful. large shield transporter only has range of 6k. 15k would allow much more flexibility. and all they would have to do is add repair transporters, that send a stream of nanobots on a beam of ionized plasma or whatever, that, coupled with the shield and energy transporters, tracking links, and sensor links, would make a pretty good medic ship.
another problem, is to use all these mods you have to target the ship you want to help. would it be possible to shorten by a great deal the time required for targetting gang members? as it stands, if you want to escort an indy, the only thing you can do is fit shield transporter. so you an indy warp to gate. theres a pc bs there. you have to wait for your lock to finish on your FRIEND before you can boost his shields. and when you get to the other side of the gate, he might phase in 40k away from you.
how about a shield sharing module also? you target your friend, activate the mod, and both ships shields are melded together. damage to one is damage to both. would want to put some sort of negative on this so 2 shield tanked scorps cant take extreme advantage though.. -25% all resistance, or -25% off the added shield capacity, plus a rather short range.. something like that.
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Jequan
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Posted - 2004.03.26 10:06:00 -
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Quote:
What if you could join several frigates to fight as one giant battleship , like transformers. Then each person could control a set of guns, and one would steer the ship.
Hehe that will never happen but i really like the idea. :)
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