Topic: "Support" Mechs
My Idea comes from playing EVE for many years. I feel this game is going great in many directions, but alot of room for improvement, and expansions.
There are 2 mechs I believe are really missing, proper support mechs, and true full scale haulers.
The Support Mech
My Idea is quite simple, to add a ship similar to the "Industrial Capital" ships in EVE.
It would be a very large, very expensive Mech, that would cost probably around 5x more than anything in the game atm. It would also hover in the air solely.
It's a mech that could carry 2-3 corpmates ground based mechs underneath it. This could be shown as a blue elctricity field attaching between the 2 mechs.
This Mech would also act like the Orca in EVE, where it could install 2-3 Head slots for Nexus boosts.
Variants
There would be 2 different styles.
Industrial focused: Would be lightly/medium armored with a large cargo capacity. Able to carry mining items for the miners, such as Mining Charges, and Geoscanner charges, etc. It could also hover over the mining area, and give Mining boosts to the miners linked with it as well as dropping the mining charges, etc. into crates for the miners to pick up and use.
Combat focused: Would be much more heavily armored, with a smaller cargo, but able to carry some ammo. It could carry 1 extra mech than the Industrial, and give combat boosts to the mechs linked through the Nexus.
Industrial Haulers
The Industrial Haulers would simply be very huge haulers capable of carrying vast amounts of supplies/goods.
This would be good for many aspects. You could trade, and or haul large amounts of supplies to other bases to sell .
You could also use it to transport large amounts of stock you bought on the market to your base. Or use it for Mining Ops.
Variants
It would come in 3 sizes.
Industrial Light:
Simply 4 treaded medium sized Mech with a similar load to the Sequar. 100 U
Industrial Mech:
Larger 4 treaded sized Mech with roughly a 150 U Cargo capacity, with more armor and slower.
Industrial Heavy Mech:
6 treaded extra large mech with roughly 350 U cargo capacity, very large amounts of armor, and able to allow corpmates to drop ore directly into it.
It would also have a 50 U seperate cargo for corpmates to access directly that can hold Mining charges, etc.
