A New RP Platform: The Icarus Mobile Station

[Croft]

The name is only a placeholder but you get the idea, a huge ship designed to be RP'd as a mobile station and actually look the part. Yes we have the Barge but that thing is a warehouse, a floating factory and has way too much cargohold to not be abused.

We've been talking about this in the Orbitals chat for a few days after we came to the conclusion that most of the ships in Disco wouldn't be suitable for a floating district. Battleships and carriers don't fit our RP and as said previously the Barge doesn't look the part, so we're stuck with Pilgrim liners which work but they don't look like somewhere folks would live. So why not make a new ship for the purpose? I'm sure there are factions out there who would love to RP a true mobile station without needing to build and maintain a base.

The rough details we've got so far is a ship that:

• Looks like a mobile station, living quarters, landing bays and food domes etc.
  
• Has 10k cargo or something along those lines so it can store stuff without being abused for trading.
  
• Is SRP only and as such available to all.
  
• If it has a large cargohold (30k+) make it unable to use jumpholes/gates or leave the system it was placed in to prevent powertrading abuse.

Would anyone be interested in giving this a shot or have a few ideas about it?

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[Sath]

I think the old Zoner Juggernaut kind of looked like what you mentioned.Its neutral and with a bit of SRP,I think it could have made up for all the needs.Decent cargo hold and it looked like a moving Freeport.
Any ship in that line would do good,I guess.With a neat 2k cargo hold and looks to suit a base.No BS weapons on it.And well,some docking bays with no place for Cloaks/JD/Hyperspace scanners and no heavy weapons on it.
Just a suggestion from a newbie.

[Lythrilux]

I wouldn't mind seeing this.

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[Remnant]

So you're saying.. A supersized ship, which perhaps moves slow if at all.
Perhaps ways to have it not be used as a warship.
Low cargo so it's not abused as a trade ship.
Big.

I can get down with that idea, it'll be cool to see something like this.

[Croft]

Sathish we did consider using a Zoner ship, we even had one nice guy try to donate one to us but we Orbitals like to keep pure to our RP and an SRP Zoner Juggy really wouldn't fit.

That's exactly the idea Moveit, guns if any would be defensive so maybe flaks, bs secondaries or gb turrets. I'd personally go with none at all.

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[Narcotic]

The more unique/rare ships, the better. There's hundreds of good ideas. All we need is modelers.

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[Laura C.]

Good idea. I still wonder why barge model was changed. It was meant as processing plant/small station for RP and old model looked exactly like this. New model look like container cargo ultra large carrier.

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[Croft]

Only the dev team could answer that I'm afraid Laura. I imagine the Barge was changed for ore moving, risk and reward on a massive scale well until jumpdrives.
On a more positive note we've got a few interest folks all we need is a brave modder to rise to the challenge.

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[Pancakes]

Good idea, thumbs up.

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[Gulryz]

Good idea i think orbital faction and other factions need it made it SRP and can't use jump systems

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