The Warbarge is your mercenaries base of operations.

The Warbarge is presented as a new screen in the NEOCOM.

The Warbarge can be upgraded using Warbarge Components.

Each upgrade adds a single new Warbarge Platform.

Each Warbarge Platform houses a single Warbarge Subsystem.

The Warbarge Subsystem can be upgraded using Warbarge Components.

The first Warbarge Subsystem is the "Mobile Factory" that generates Components at a rate, and can be upgraded.

Subsystems can give bonuses and/or produce a "yield" that can be claimed. Those that have yields, also have a max capacity.

For the first phase, we are working on these Subsystems:

Phase 1 - Merc Warbarge
Mobile Factory - generates Warbarge Components
Market Network - generates ISK
Battle Statistics Center - SP boost
Augmented Ammunition Facility - Primary weapons damage boost (we wanted to start with armor rep or max armor, but it was difficult, eventually we want to have a choice here).
Armory - Increased number of fittings + something smart
Experimental Laboratory - creates a random number of weapons, up to officer but also new Experimental weapons, meta level 9, better than proto, need level 5 primary weapon skill.

Private Military Company Hub - Earn small amounts of LP for NPC corporation's empire you fight for in public matches.

Apologies for asking if this has been covered here or elsewhere I have missed it. Will the warbarge be something we can move? I.e. on the starmap or something?

Or is it just something theoretical that we base from instead of a station?

[HEHE desk work? i hope not.. :) I already have a day job and also play EVE. To many spreadsheets already

When I think think New Eden I think visible in eve which I know they wont be (at least in the short or medium term). From a gameplay part in dust I see things on the roadmap like warbarge raids.

Implemented over a medium term it would introduce a new level of game to dust in which you jump your ship and can raid other peoples vessels if they are not paying attention to the map.This could open up a whole new gameplay side of things if you were only able to jump them and raid from, say 2 systems away.

If you were involved in PC or FW the starmap should show you existing battles or those being queued and and your ships location, then allow you to jump your ship to them and join in all using the map thus immersing you more, rather than just going to the battle finder and selecting the type of battle enforces the lobby shooter feel.

I realize at this point the warbarge mechanic is only being finalised from an existing gameplay point of view.
This is still a lobby shooter but I think we should suggest ways this can be camouflaged, or at least introduce ways of drawing focus from it with new gameplay elements.

I just want to know how in the world does every mercenary have his own personal Warbarge.

Like Pilots having thousands of Ships and Titans in their inventory...

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You want the latter of the two to become easier? Buy more Aurum.

2. Why would every single merc own a warbarge that is made to hold an attacking force of multiple mercs? Where are all the npc mercs?

3. The whole economy no longer makes sense. How can I own a capital ship but not be able to buy prototype suits all the time?

4. Why not present these new game features in a manner that is consistent with the rest of the game? What I proposed (mercs own small modular ships that dock to war barges) fits nicely in the current game model and allows for all the new features that have been proposed.

Let me tell you I have spent plenty of time walking around my little room wishing I could change the channel on the TV or do something stupid yet interesting in my room.

(I really like your posts Rip, you give it to them straight.)

... Y'know that's kind of what you do in faction warfare and planetary conquest

Rip, I hear your argument but I want my warbarge with a fully stocked bar and a wall sized TV playing naughty movies. Don't squash my dreams.