Ships & Modules

You want Hulk yield, 5 heavy drones and a bit more tankable than a Hulk.
Basically, ask for a buff to the Hulk: better fitting and more drone bandwidth.

well doesnt have to be like i said lol but something with a little more utility then a hulk, like the moon mining idea and just being more tankable with a larger hull and drone bay so +1 med slot and + 1 low slot woould suit... ya great ideas guys, when i said hull the size of a battleship i wasnt referring to the fitting slots i just meant bump it up from a medium to a large but i think a slightly larger mining yeild even if its just 2% per skill level there has to be a little more incentive then just tankability since it is a mining vessel

Actually I expect carebears would use it for completely ungankable, riskless AFK high-sec mining.
Which is why it wouldn't work. Because completely riskless income sources are against the EVE design concept.

As a cap ship this would not be a factor anyway, it can't go into empire space.

Both of which are the exception not the rule as every other cap ship including the Rorqual as an industrial cap ship cannot go into empire space and neither of them have anything close to a cap ship level tank.

Can't have a capital mining thread without Chribba's fleet:
http://eve-files.com/chribba/mining_tango.jpg

Im thinking this would be awesome, but with a twist. It mines 2x as much as a hulk, but it takes 4x as much away from the rock that youre mining.

For example you're mining from a rock with 100,000 veldspar in it, with a hulk one cycle of all your lasers would give you 14,360 veldspar (perfect skills no bonus/implant) and leave the rock with 85,640 veldspar left.

You hit the rock with one cycle of this thing's lasers and you'd get 28,720 veldspar (perfect skills no bonus/implant) but you'd leave the rock with only 42,560 left to mine.

This thing would destroy belts, but how "high end" are you willing to go at 1/2 efficiency? I think this would be a reasonable balance against the hulk, allowing you to mine faster but not necessarily better.

Also the amount put into your cargohold would be what counted toward the industry index, not the amount removed from the rock so everywhere wont immediately be at level 5

I would think, the OP wants to increase mining capacity lvls because in solo one would have to go back and forth to from and to a station to do a good amount of mining. If anything the hulk hold could be increased to allow for larger mining time between dumps. I agree it is a simple application or increase the percentage of the tech 2 cargo optimization rig.

I know one does not want to sit there with drones on an orca and mine for hours about hours to just get a portion of mining with respect to me mining in a hulk for a few hours. One solution is to increase the t2 cargo expander or increase the t2 cargo optimization rig. perhaps have a skill to optimize ones ability to manipulate those modules and rigs to increase hold capacity.

^^really? you would still mine arkonor with that thing? wont your alliance mates be pissed off that you wasted half their arkonor?

Please CCP do the above