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trollsroyce
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Posted - 2013.01.14 12:22:00 -
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This module, on the eve side of the universe, could make the link between dust and eve on boarding player owned ships and stations:
Boarding CRU (ammo)
Used by a boarding CRU launcher.
Contains 20 clones stored in collision dampening goo and boarding dropsuits.
Speed 100m/s, upon impact creates a hole in the enemy ship hull and inserts clones inside the ship. Requires the boarded vessel to be warp scrambled during the whole boarding mission; dropsuits unadjusted to warp acceleration will deteriorate if the vessel gets in warp.
Contract can be made on capture or sabotage of any vessel containing alliance/corporation/player owned clones. This contract can be accepted from dust side, which will give the clones into possession of mercenaries to kill the hostile pod pilot, after which the mission is deemed successful and the ship will be left unpiloted in space.
Smuggled boarding CRU (item)
If this item ends up in a player owned station hangar by any means, the clones inside can be contracted to a mercenary group in order to capture or sabotage the said station.
A station consists of capture points akin to a skirmish mission. The mercenaries can choose to either detonate the points, resulting into station service pop, or to hold the control points simultaneously, resulting into a station flip after the station defense clone count drops to critical.
Note that it's elementary to board back a station in your own territory, but a successful flip will hurt an alliance's deployments for a time period. |
trollsroyce
Seraphim Initiative.
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Posted - 2013.01.14 12:37:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:Already a number of threads regarding this and they never seem to answer the same prevalent question: Why? It's cool, sure, but it's a major imbalance for the guy who doesn't want to drop $250 on a PS3 solely to be able to defend himself and/or hire some Dust Mercenaries to defend his ship from something he has absolutely no method of direct intervention.
POSes or Stations, sure - why the hell not. I'd be pretty sick to suddenly lose control of a Station because Infantry took it over.
Ships? No. Just no. Unless I can purge your ass with a smart bomb or shoot your CRU thingy down before it gets to me this is a Jesus feature that will cause more problems than benefits reaped.
If your ship is scrambled for the time it takes to board it, you're screwed in the first place. Though now that I think of it, this might obsolete ransoming. |
trollsroyce
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Posted - 2013.01.14 12:44:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:Further more, I'd like to add - EVEN IF YOU COULD HIRE DUST MERCS TO DEFEND YOU.....
How long do you honestly think interstellar battles last, exactly..? I mean, two ships go at it in Eve Online and it's over in minutes. The only people who are going to wait for a Dust match to get started up (hiring a defense team, having them come to the rescue, wait timers etc etc) are low-sec pirates with nothing else to do but gate camp or really bored nullbears.
Capital ships are the only things that would last long enough and they're almost never alone - at least not long enough for something of this extent. To which extent, I'm almost positive they'd self-destruct before allowing the chance for the ship to be confiscated.
Should have read this before replying to the first :)
You gave some good reasons why it's balanced here, basically what I meant in that first reply. Also, boarding ships is a very piratey thing to do, which is why it would have it's place in the universe. Battles can take as long as the victorious side can afford, with certain timers in place (logoffski still in?). A successful boarding could also scare out the pod pilot wanting to preserve his clone, resulting in a much faster ship bust.
An excellent merc group could be able to run it down before it self destructs, making it a selling point for the organized dusters.
Just to point out, "two ships go at it" relates to a honored 1v1 and well, it's eve... |
trollsroyce
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Posted - 2013.01.14 12:46:00 -
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Baal Omniscient wrote:Had my own thread on this. And I still like the idea. +1
That must have been a good thread +1 |
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