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Overall I like all the changes suggested in the Resource Shakeup in Odyssey: Just don’t call it a Cataclysm + Companion blog... However I have a suggestion related to the ICE/ORE mining.

If CCP is reducing the ICE in HIGHSEC and giving more ORE incentive for players to move players to LOWSEC or NULLSEC then you need to do something about the COMPRESSION game mechanics.

Suggestions

1. Buff the RORQUAL stats for compression.
a. Increase the ICE/ORE HOLD by 100%.
b. Increase the COMPRESSION FACTORY SLOTS by 100%
c. Decrease the COMPRESSION TIME by 50%.

If my numbers are not realistic (I think they are) please do your own calculations and adjust them as necessary.

2. Create a POS module for ICE/ORE COMPRESSION.
a. Make it big like a Rorqual and take up a lot of CPU/POWER resources on the POS.
or
b. Make it small like a refinery so you can put several of them on a POS.

This could be done instead of changing the Rorqual stats or it can be done as a added feature/option.

Thanks,
Loney

+1

I like the idea of making more options for compression instead of just the Rorqual as the bottleneck factor, but I think if they just change some of the stats on the Rorqual there would not be a need for other things like a POS or Station compression mechanics.

My ides for Rorqual:

GOOD THINGS

First - Make the ORE and ICE be taken from the ORE ICE cargo hold of the ship before compression and delivered to the SHIP cargo hold after compression. This will allow for 250 pieces to be compressed in one time instead of the CURRENT LIMIT of the SHIPS cargo hold.

Second - Give the Rorqual a ship bonus of -%5 production time for compression per level of ship skill. So with a level 5 Rorqual pilot you would have a -25% reduction time in the compression of ORE ICE products.

Third - give the ship more production slots. The current 4 slots limits the ships ability to actually be useful for compression when conducting a mining operation. Currently with the Exhumers abilities to mine massive amounts of stuff and with the suggested -50% decrease in ICE cycle time 4 slots is not enough to keep up with mining productions. I say increase the slot to at least 8-11 slots.

Okay now: I understand CCP's whole ISK sink vs faucet debate so I can't give recommendations for making things better without making them worse too!

BAD THINGS

First - For all the above added features of the Rorqual there should be some cost, right? Well I say that you should TRIPLE the Heavy Water usage while in siege deployed mode. This will not only make the extra features of the ship justifiable but also give a rise to the very under utilized and poor market factor of Heavy Water (though not by much honestly).

Second - Okay I don't have any other things.

This is my thoughts and I'm sticking to them!

I like the idea of a POS module like the refinery... it would be up to the DEV's to decide the specs of it.

I also would like to add something that maybe you can edit STATION's so it can compress ORE too! This would have several benefits I see:
1. It would give the compress mechanics currently limited ONLY to the Rorqual other methods of compression.
2. It would also add more value to the compression industry, I mean seriously why do you even have ORE and COMPRESSED ORE's on the market as nobody buy or sell it cause it too much of a issue to do it.
3. It would reduce or eliminate the need for people to compress other items like rail guns and sensor booster, etc. I remember the reason you guys mad compression changes for lots of items but still people don't compress ORE and ICE cause its limited by again the HORRIBLE (for compression) Rorqual.

Summary: I like the POS module idea and I think compression should be allowed in stations too!

I hope this helps.

YES for a rorqual boost, the ship should be the "rolls" of 0.0 mining ops. (nerf orca, only allowed in hi-sec/low-sec?)

I like the idea of the POS module BUT it should not replace the rorqual in his role.

So the POS module should work at full speed in 0.0, 50% speed in low-sec...
why not 10% speed in hi-sec and limited to one / pos

+1

With the new expansion being about exploration how about some serious increases to the jump range of the Rorqual? It is after all supposed to be the ship that makes industrial gameplay possible in the nether reaches of non-empire space. Limit it to its current jump range in low sec but double it's range when jumping into or around in Null sec. Some additional fuel consumption penalty for longer jumps should been implemented and a larger fuel bay should be a module Rorqual pilots could add.

That is not a bad idea... but if they just fix the compression problem and perhaps enlarge the ore hold and factory slots some I think your issues would be resolved indirectly.

I like what you are thinking, but by making the Rorqual itself a POS item will still not solve the problem.

The POS module will only be able to do 1 job at a time and probably at a slower/normal rate of compression, with a limited number of them anchored at POS because of CPU/POWER that a POS has.

To not make the Rorqual obsolete you would give the Rorqual more slots to manufacture and give it a compression reduction time big enough to make it better then POS module by far...

Also Rorqual will not be obsolete anyways cause pilots will always use it to give mining bonuses!

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+1
stats should be
holds the same - ability to grab ore/ ice from any bay - finish any bay
300% increase in slots - someone suggested 6 + 1 per level, Perfect :)
time - I think there should be a -5% reduction per level for manufacturing time related to Production efficiency skill.
nuff said