Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be nice to see the new specialized industrial haulers -- the ones with the ore, mineral, and ammo holds -- be moved into something like ORE and be made race independent. Unless you have a lot more differentiators coming for the racial industrials it just doesn't seem to make sense to create four version of each of the new haulers and it seems unfair to those investing in the other races skillsets. And I'm a Gallente/Minmatar pilot. I can recognize that in order to add balance back you either have to take away or give. So you could come up with new industrials for the other races, but it seems silly to force that kind of equivalency when you can just move them.

From a story perspective you can say that ORE bought the rights to produce those blueprints. Though at the same time it would be nice if ORE moved some of it's blueprint and manufacturing arms into hi sec so at least the industrials will still be accessible to new players.

I think it makes sense that the basic races handle the basic industrial capabilities and that ORE handles the rest. Still the available design space it seems CCP has left itself in differentiating industrials isn't much without going into specialty holds. In that there's little reason to pick one industrial over another unless your needs are very specific.

That said, I did think the drones on the Iteron were neat and that overall CCP did a great job with the 8 primary industrials that were revised. Perhaps a more comprehensive review of industry and the role of ORE moving forward will be coming soon. I eagerly await what you all have planned for winter.

They still wouldn't have their ships removed from the game. Nor the blueprints. They would just be listed under another race for manufacturing. And it would only be the four hulls in question (3 Gallente, 1 Minmatar).

For the lore, I'm sure the writers could find plenty of reasons.