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Posted - 2008.05.18 06:15:00 -
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You have put a lot of thought into this Nova Fox and it is a fantastic idea.
 Originally by: Reven Cordelle
...these Tenders should be pretty resilient to attack, but harmless. As they have no turret or launcher hardpoints, they are.. essentially when unfleeted, flying pinatas full of charges, ammo and other goodies. Give them some nice resistances, possibly HAC resistances, these things can't fight back if warping to a fleet in dangerous space, so don't let them be paper thin.
I think this is a good goal for the ship and is a good reason to keep the ship class on a cruiser hull.
Originally by: Travis Shireen
If its a fitting ship, it needs to be a BC or BS hull, and it has ZERO offensive ability, but lots of high slots.
Good point, the ship would have to be large enough to do the fittings. The module could be done as a high slot module that immobilizes (like the siege mods, but no fuel) both ships because it takes all of the processing power of both ships to operate, like Sir Substance's idea. Though I think the chance part is a bit harsh, as both ships would be immobile for a short time (30-120 seconds).
As for transfering ammo, lorewise using drones to transfer the materials would be the best. However the current interface would be horrid for this type of operations with drones but this seems to be a good comprimise:
Originally by: Travis Shireen
Just [take] those little invintory management drones and load em in your drone bay. But the interface for moving cargo from one ship to another would be crazy as well. You might need to utilize a cargo scanner first to view your friendly ships cargo hold, have another little 'bin' for drone transit cargo. You move stuff to transit cargo, move drones to ship, move items from drones to friendly cargo, return drones. Or you could make it automatic, but that would require some funkyness. Perhaps a module needed for 'cargo bay synchronization' that works like a weapon or sensor booster to designate which ship the drones are unloading cargo too....
The above would be ideal but a lot of work so the firing cans of ammo like a missle would be simplist. However, the target ship should have to slow so that the can would stay with 1500m of the ship for about 5 seconds for the "salvage" (pickup) drones to grab the stuff. 5 seconds would require the ship to be traveling under 150m/s, which is not much under cruise speed for most ships that would be in combat for a long duration. The smaller ones would just warp out to a SS with the tender in position. 150m/s is also normal for scooping mining drones in the event that the drone based mechanism is used.
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