159Pinky
Trans-Solar Works
Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2009.09.04 09:04:00 -
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So, let me try to understand this request: you trained for a supercapital ( which takes a long time ) so you knew before buying the ship that it'd be impossible to dock with it. At first, it didn't sound like such a bad trade for flying a pwnmobile. But after a while you understood that this actually is a huge drawback and now you want to negate that drawback?
Sounds to me like asking for a dread to be able to jump while in siege.
Anyways, since this game is a sandbox and changes can and are being made, why not think about it. But I do advise you to tweak it.
First of all: why limit it to sov 1 - sov 4 ? Smaller alliances might also have supercapitals and no access to sov space. So imo, let's make it so that it's limited to all 0.0 ( adding lowsec would actually be a bit stupid, you shouldn't make it too easy to undock and get away in a system where you can't bubble ).
Secondly, to avoid having a dozen of supercaps docked at a station I suggest limiting it to 2 motherships or 1 titan per station. With a limit of 1 such station per constellation. Why? The drawback should still be that these ships are hard to dock up, thus by limiting the ammount of parking spots it would require teamwork in an alliance to avoid having the same ships docked up all the time in sov space. As for non sov space I suggest limiting the time a pilot can dock up to 3 days / month / station with offcourse a nice fee he/she has to pay to the NPC corp owning the station ( in sov space the corp holding the station can set this fee as they see fit ).
Thirdly, since these ships remain outside the actual station they should be vulnerable to an attack. I suggest they can be shot to hull. At this point the station would kick in to avoid the ship from taking any further dmg ( like incapping guns and mods on a pos ). The only way a pilot could repair this dmg is by undocking from the station.
These are just a few things I wanted to add because let me say it again: you knew it was impossible to dock so no need to change it to full docking. However something in between with disadvantages and limitations should maybe be possible. Maybe something CCP should implement in their upcoming winter expansion?
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