Assembly Hall

So CCP said they want it to be use by both new and older players. Here's a simple idea that may actually do that.

New module for the Rorqual: ORE Jump Portal Generator.
The range should be the same range as the Rorqual's jump range.
Only ORE frigs. can jump with it.

This way small corps or groups of friends have a 'new' idea for an op. Ninja mining in NPC 0.0, or whatever fun ninja mining shenanigans. Still has a bit of risk, because you'll have to fly these ORE frigs into lowsec to get to the Rorqual (the very good reason why I didn't say Orca). Unless of course the rorqual is a bad-ass and is carrying some of these and jets them for people to use.

Old players may want to do it, new players can tag along an feel cool because everyone but the Rorqual and scout are in the same ship. Helps make mining a bit more fun, back to group ops where people sit in voice coms shooting the **** and drinking beer.

I read this and I try to think of a reaosn it isn't a good idea. But no matter how much I think about this, I cant find anything wrong with it. On top of that, I really like the idea of adding tools to make carebear activities less carebearish.

Hesitantly supported.

I want to see if anyone else sees a problem with this.

Well that depends on how well the frigs will mine and how much fuel it will cost to jump them. Easily fixed with Role bonuses and such.

For once, an intelligent suggestion in "Features and Ideas". I have a single question, though.

Why not ORE Ships in general? Jump portals are useless in High-sec where most ORE Ships meet their end anyway, so this might get a few more into better mining systems.

Also, anyone know if there will be a T2 ORE Frigate in the future?

On the PVP side.

Oh look, it's showing a cyno lit up in 6R-PWU, lets go check it out guys!

And they may even catch a rorqual out in the belt.

The Rorqual already has a jump drive, 1m m3 SMB, and a Cloning Vat... who needs to jump all those frigs individually?

1) Have everybody install blank jump clones (no implants) on the Rorqual.
2) Rorqual jumps out to the destination system
3) Everybody clone jumps to the Rorqual
4) Everybody gets in the ORE ship of their flavour from the SMB (Frig, Barge, Exhumer) and gets to mining.
5) When op is done, everybody sticks their ships back in the SMB and self-destructs pod (no implants, no money lost, safely back in hisec system of their preference).
6) Rorqual jumps back out.

Only downside to this is you have to wait 24h from initial jump to get back in your implanted clone, though this could easily be fixed by allowing you to chose a non-medical clone as you default clone when you get podded, or by increasing the number of times per day you can jump clone.

Thank you kind sir,

Well, I thought about this deeply for the past few days.

(TL;DR: read the underlined)
Here's how I feel about this...
A few things came to mind while talking about this over a few beers with friends:

It would be ridiculously cool to have all ore ships able to do this. But...

1).No older char would want to use the frigs then.
I figure that you should sacrifice something to have this kind of mobility. Else all the older players would do it in a ship that could mine more. This would be a role for the ship. A way of use, much like a Mack is currently for cutting ice. This would be a newbie mining ship AND a ship that they will want to still get in after a year+ if they enjoy the play-style.
Also, it won't be like now where you sell the previous ship when you acquire a new one. Each one will have a unique function.

2) This may sound strange or lazy of me, but my second reason is that there may be a way to abuse it. Right now, CCP is designing the ORE frig. If they want to give it this ability then they can insure it does not get abused (or later enforce/patch, because Eve Players are quite crafty). It could be used to transport cargo, fit some guns and hot drop, Ninja PI'ing, and god knows what else. (We tried to brainstorm considerably, and the more beer, the crazier the ideas. None however were all that game-breaking in our opinion) Right now CCP can design it as a ship role rather then a patch in later.

3) It should NOT use a Black-ops ship to jump it. Covert Cyno's would make it too OP in my humble opinion. A cyno at least is visible in local, lights up in the Map if you're looking for it, and the ship lighting it is giving everyone an invite to warp to them.

Isnt this a bit unnecessary? Store mining vessels in Rorqual, jump rorqual to destination system, unload mining vessels - store ore in Rorqual, when done store ships in Rorqual, jump home - profit?

Isnt that actually the idea of a Rorqual in teh first place? It can even have a clone vat bay...