Player Features and Ideas Discussion

SUMMARY:

1. Merge freighter skills back into one skill called "Freighters" (keeping separate jump freighter skill).

2. Give skill voucher to those (hopefully) few people who have ranks in separate freighter skills.

3. Create an ORE freighter that carries well, ore - in an unpressurized ORE hold (similar to barge/venture)

REASONING:

Big box with engines, is fairly similar to "other big box with engines" - you are already going to be familiar with the controls from the industrial skill and know the languages.

Given that the freighters have no fitting and rig slots, the performance data is going to be fairly well understood when collating the data used in designing the skill books.

With recent changes to the game, the ORE industrial skill has become more relevant - giving that mining frigate essentially means there is a relevant "racial frigate" that can be put in the skill chain.

SPECIFICATIONS:
Description: the needs of the ORE corportation for bulk unpressurized storage has grown, requiring a cheap and simple freighter with the capacity to defend itself while taking on cargo in the asteroid belts.
Freighter Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to cargo hold capacity and 5% bonus to maximum velocity per level
Attributes
Structure Hitpoints: 100,000 HP
Capacity: 0 m3
Drone Capacity: 50 m3
Drone Bandwidth: 50 Mbit/sec
Mass: 500,000,000 kg
Ore hold capacity: 500,000 m3
Inertial Modifier: x0.1
Volume: 5,000,000m3 (500,000.0 m3 Packaged)
EM dmg resistance: 0%
Explosive dmg resistance: 0%
Kinetic dmg resistance: 0%
Thermal dmg resistance: 0%
Armor
Armor Hit Points 10,000 HP
Armor Em Damage Resistance: 50%
Armor Explosive Damage Resistance: 20%
Armor Kinetic Damage Resistance: 30%
Armor Thermal Damage Resistance: 40%
Shield
Shield Capacity: 10,000 HP
Shield recharge time: 1000 s
EM dmg resistance: 20%
Explosive dmg resistance: 50%
Kinetic dmg resistance: 40%
Thermal dmg resistance: 30%
Capacitor
Capacitor Capacity: 4800 GJ
Recharge Time: 240s
Targeting
Maximum Targeting Range: 100.00 km
Max Locked Targets: 10
Scan Resolution: 50mm
Magnetometric Sensor Strength: 75 points
Signature Radius: 2500m
Propulsion
Max Velocity: 100m/s
Ship Warp Speed: 1 AU/s
Fitting
CPU 0/1
Power Grid 0/1
Calibration 0/0
Prerequisites
ORE Industrial level 5

Uh, I probably copied too many lines and should of made it a little more unique.

My original concept was for an "entry level freighter" - just to make it more clear, not a cut down command ship.

I find Orca ore bay limiting, TBH... A pair of Hulks can ramp the ore uphill with spectacular speed.

I'm not saying that you can't take my baby (ahem, idea) to shove in butchers' block and start chopping - I tried to at least put up a starting point.

Freighters are already split down at industrial prerequisites - they don't represent a variety of ship classes as diverse as cruisers - they are a single ship class and don't contribute signficant enough differences to warrant being split that way.

Now that the cargo on Orcas has been nerfed, there is a greater than ever need for a mineral freighter that is cheap and entry level for somebody who needs to build something bigger than a couple of frigates or a cruiser.

It is logical for ORE to build an expendible or toughened freighter to haul minerals into more populated regions, they certainly don't have markets out in deep space for anything more than a few luxuries to keep their miners happy.

I'm all for an ORE mini-freighter and a general line of ORE haulers (all with moving parts, of course) but I don't see the need to condense the skills into one. I'd rather see smaller, specialized freighters for each race added to make the separate skills worthwhile.

Stealth AFK miner thread?

Do you know how long it would take to fill a freighter with mining drones?

It's just asking to be eaten by rats - I'd certainly be running around trying to bump it.