Honestly, GroPos is the silliest abbreviation I've ever heard, you also forgot Halle from the NPC corp list.

But other than that, agreed wholeheartedly.

The MCC thing would be another system entirely separate from all this. Basically with an MCC in your corp/alliance you would designate a "jump clone" to be stationed on there with associated suits, weapons, equipment, and vehicles for him to use. Then when needed, you would just "clone jump" from where ever you are currently at to the MCC to work out of the MCC until you either clone jump out of there, the MCC blows up, or otherwise becomes nonviable.

MCC's are supposed to be like mini-mobile-stations probably piloted by an EVE player. When in transit they are supposed to be vulnerable to attack from other ships and thus should be escorted by fleets. Once in location over a planet they should enter into a mode of deployment in order to start attacking any of the districts on the planet below. While in this state if anyone attacks it, it would enter into a "reinforced" state where it's basically invulnerable for a time (usuaally 1 to 2 days) with a timer so both the attackers and defenders know when to come back for the final battle as the MCC becomes vulnerable again. Then if the MCC is destroyed, so are all the clones, suits, weapons, equipment, and vehicles on board.

Anyways, this was all detailed at the last EVE Vegas event.

Actually what I suggested was to take into account both the distance traveled (jumps as you put it) AND the size. So as I stated it was 1000 ISK times the distance times the volume.

So if you wanted to transport 10 cubic meters 10 lightyears (about one region's worth) it would cost:

1000 ISK x 10 ly x 10 m3 = 100,000 ISK

The drawback to using this system is the time it takes. it's 5 minutes per lightyear so in this case 50 minutes travel time.

Hiring an EVE pilot to do it faster would require in the millions of ISK to get their attention, but they would be able to traverse the same distance in about 15 minutes or less assuming no issues from pirates etc.

Instead of using lightyears as the unit of distance for charging, it is possible to instead use number of jumps along the shortest route between point A and point B. In the end it results in the same idea.

I like the sound of this, it will also increase scamming. I always felt we need more assholes in dust stealing stuff but it doesn't allow you to do so. And once you scam one person they tell everyone else what you did.

I agree with some of what the OP says and some of what this guy is getting at.

As far as transfering ourselves we should be able to utilize whatever superluminal communications devices are present to 'cast our consciousness to any station with a clone vat. We would have to pay for the clone and maybe have a modifier for the distance to account for the higher energy cost of farther 'casts. We could have the ability to purchase a storage tank for the clone on the station, so if it's a region we go to frequently we would only have to pay a small amount for the 'cast itself.

This would also mean that we could deploy to any battlefield in New Eden from any location.

Now that just covers our consciousness, which according to lore can be reduced to packets of data, what about physical goods like guns, dropsuits, tanks etc.? For these we would have to rely on capsuleers or the NPC corp mentioned by the OP and could utilize the same system of pricing and such that OP mentions.

"Now wait, if you can instantly deploy to anywhere in New Eden but your gear needs time to transport how is that going to work?" you might ask. My solution for this is that you could have a storage locker on a station, and whatever gear you have in that locker would be available to you at any battle in that region, so you have a locker on a station in Molden Heath you can use the gear anywhere in Molden Heath. If you don't have a locker in a region then the corp you are taking the contract from could provide gear for a price, so if you are jumping into a pub match made by NPC corps, you could say have access to std level gear at a slightly higher than average market price, or access to the 'starter' fits for free. If you are entering a Factional contract they could have access to higher tiers of gear and such but most likely only gear made by that faction, so if you use Cal gear and are doing Gal FW and don't have any of your gear in region well you should have thought that one through. If it's a player (either DUST or EVE side) that is making the contract they could offer whatever selection of gear they want (as long as they own it and it's in a locker in that region obviously) at whatever price they want, it could be free, could be expensive, or they could not offer any and make it a "contractor must supply their own hardware" type of contract.

You start off with a locker in whatever station you start in and can use that gear in any matches in the region. You can then purchase storage lockers in other stations to expand your area of operations, you could also sell off lockers if you have no interest in that system any more. Also Corps would have access to hangars like in EVE, they can have a general pool of gear that their mercs in the region could have access to for whatever prices they want to designate for their troops, also corp members could open up personal storage in the Corps hanger for their own specialized gear.

Now obviously features like this are way out and there are many more areas of this game that needs to be worked on, and this would also require the introduction of a number of systems that don't exist yet (contracts among others) and a revamp of existing systems (like battle finder to filter battles [contract] by region) but I think this would be an awesome way to do things once the time comes.

Corps/alliances would have to set up supply lines like they do in EVE, they could establish a reputation for themselves in various regions that they primarily operate in, again like they do in EVE. It wouldn't limit us with regard to what contracts we can take so, if some scrub gets himself stranded in 0.0 he can still enter pub matches back in hi-sec to earn the isk to get out of there, if you want to deploy with some buddies but are on the other side of New Eden you still can, you may just have to rely on basic gear, or if they are really your friend they could sell you some of theirs.

this is a good point and I don't know, if it was a 3D printing thing and you have purchased the rights to produce x number of that suit/module/ whatever, which makes the most sense to me, then it would seemingly negate the need to transport anything. which would be totally lame

We are still in the same universe (probably) as we were before. The universe ain't called New Eden; the Cluster of stars we're in is called New Eden.

I'm not touching that part of the "lore" as CCP has already changed how all that works from the beta. Originally, when you bought stuff off the market you weren't actually purchasing the items themselves. Instead you were purchasing a limit number of BPCs (blue print copies) for each of the items you used. Then when you deployed to a battle you used up a clone and one of the limited licensed runs of your gear that you had previously purchased.

BPOs (blue print originals) have unlimited licensing rights and thus allow you to have the right to spawn and infinite number of them. Thus your starting militia fits and gear are BPO's while anything you purchased in limited numbers were only BPC's.

However CCP (for whatever reason) seems to have stepped away from this. So I don't know if it's indeed how they still envision things to work or if they have in fact changed. The reason for the change is that EVE plots need the ability to manufacture the actual item out of minerals from the BPO's and BPC's that they will maintain in order to make a combined market work correctly. This means no "magical 3D printing" of gear on the battle field.

On a side note, back during skirmish 1.0 days, the CRUs were about 4 times the size that they are now and actually had doors on them big enough for a gropo to fit though suggesting that it was more the gear and clones are already supplied inside there instead of created instantly.

Anyways, due to logistical concerns with combining the markets, I'm leaning towards the non-virtual stuff and gear has to be transported idea.