11:25AM Pizzasgood
Counter proposal: allow cap-ships to collect and deposit /gunners from within a station's NFZ. Then you can ferry your helper without him wasting space with his ship.

GREAT IDEA, i assume the player being invited would be in the station this is just to allow the cannot dock anywhere ever tridents to get gunners from other locations without wasting valuable ship cargo space.

+1 but only if they have to "undock" from the station and float into your ship's dock while holding their breath. Like that scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

+1 Pizza you are the man. Thank you for coming up with a more practical suggestion than my previous one. In your honor I am going to order a pizza tonight...

We already have the technology to beam cargo in and out of the ship so it makes sense that we would be able to beam gunners and even the PILOT in and out once capships are persistent

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What says you beam cargo in and out? I always thought it was an extremely complicated system involving flaps on the ships hull and magnets. But I always thought the way we transport ships throughout stations were extremely small wormholes. Maybe the same thing would work with transporting crew members to their respective vessels?
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You +1'd your own idea? :P

Nah this is a great idea! +1

Yes. According to Ganborro logic, it would have been impolite not to in this situation. It makes more sense if you pretend that the +1 post was by CS, and that the OP was by me.

It's just a temporary by-product of not being able to jettison ships anyway. We want that back more than anything.

TRS, I kindly request you to restrain yourself from troling at least this topic.

It has nothing to do with ship jettisoning! It's about adding the ability of carrying gunners WITHOUT carrying any ships.

We already have this ability for other ships, but the current method requires docking, which is not practical (almost impossible) for a capship.

Um, yes. And the point is that if you were to have the ability to jettison ships you wouldn't need to magically teleport from the station into the capital ship to carry a person without a ship.

It is practical for a capship but only in a capship station. The real problem is that we only have one capship station, a problem which has its days numbered. The suggestion is redundant.

Ok TRS, what makes you so sure an occupied ship would be treated as cargo and therefore even be able to be jettisoned leaving the pilot in the ship? Let the devs decide if it's redundant...

What makes me think occupied ships would be treated as cargo? The fact that as of Vendetta 1.8.267 they are treated as cargo.

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Yes in terms of taking up cargo space, but before the jettisoning of ships was stopped, could you eject an occupied ship in the same way you would scrap metal? if so , was the pilot left behind in a turret? Did you actually try this?

Why not instead make it so docked ships can exit their docked ship, turning it into cargo on the capship? You could take an EC-89 out to the capship, dock, then jettison the bus. No teleportation required.

Oh yeah, I forgot. Think of the cargo space... */me facepalms*

Stop ruining my/rins thread or ill find and kill you all! (why do you think old vets disappear HMMMMM) Murder! that's why!

I still say Pizza's idea makes the most sense by far. why leave ships floating just to get a gunner in place anyway? Im done wrestling with you TRS. My apologies Spence, this suggestion is important to me :)

This is a GREAT and much needed idea and should be put in place as soon as possible. Even after they open Capital Stations for Trident Docking, we will still have the need to recruit gunners from other stations.