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Rorqual Rebalance
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Lamiod Bill
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-04-05 06:24:01 UTC
The Rorqual will be broken come the Summer expansion. My corp built a Rorqual in a C2 WH for the sole purpose of compressing ore and shipping it out. While it's already 90% useless, it will be 100% useless when the refining changes are made this Summer.

So, out of pure self-interest and with no consideration to what other EVE players may want or need from capital industrial ships, I suggest adding some magical ability to transmit capsuleer consciousness by hyper-space (or some sci-fi mumbojumbo) that allows the use of clone bays in WHs.

Other bland generalized suggestions:
A mining/link bonus when the industrial core isn't active and/or a MASSIVE bonus when active and on grid.
Tank and/or agility bonuses to fleeted industrials
Can use remote warp core stabilizers (would also need that module to exist)
Allow the ship bay to carry any ship type -- so mining carebares can scramble into their shiny underutilized PVP ships.

OR

8 highs for strip miners and rename to Ultra-Hulk.



...also, self destruct sequence that emits a doomsday-like blast would be nice. Then we could get rid of our Rorqual in a blaze of glory.
Gigan Amilupar
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2014-04-05 07:56:23 UTC
This Dev Blog.

"Also, we do know the Rorqual needs more love to be a more viable ship, and that is being looked into, but chances are this won’t make it in EVE’s summer expansion." --- CCP Ytterbium
Toshiro Ozuwara
Perkone
#3 - 2014-04-05 08:06:06 UTC
"Hey Rorqual pilots, you have a crap ship, and now we're really going to bone you this Summer. We'll fix it one day, right after we get better POS code..."

It didn't take long to locate the tracking beacon, deep inside the quarters for sleepin' They thought they could get away Not today, it's not the way that this kid plays
Syrias Bizniz
some random local shitlords
#4 - 2014-04-05 10:58:58 UTC
And thus the age of battle Rorquals began.
Lamiod Bill
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-04-05 13:21:42 UTC
Syrias Bizniz wrote:
And thus the age of battle Rorquals began.


We've done that...unfortunately, it survived.
Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#6 - 2014-04-05 13:39:39 UTC
Replace the compression deck with a casino? Maybe a swimming pool. It's kinda pointless with the new compression array being introduced. Maybe it will have a better compression ratio than the POS module? IDK.

Casual Incursion runner & Faction Warfare grunt, ex-Wormholer, ex-Nullbear.
Rowells
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2014-04-05 15:23:14 UTC
give it a booze hangar, so i can drink my sadness away as i sit alone in my POS boosting
Markku Laaksonen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#8 - 2014-04-05 15:33:00 UTC
Swiftstrike1 wrote:
Replace the compression deck with a casino? Maybe a swimming pool. It's kinda pointless with the new compression array being introduced. Maybe it will have a better compression ratio than the POS module? IDK.


Casino and swimming pool? Work on Incarna 2.0 needs to begin ASAP! Cool

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Lamiod Bill
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-04-05 16:10:22 UTC
Markku Laaksonen wrote:
Swiftstrike1 wrote:
Replace the compression deck with a casino? Maybe a swimming pool. It's kinda pointless with the new compression array being introduced. Maybe it will have a better compression ratio than the POS module? IDK.


Casino and swimming pool? Work on Incarna 2.0 needs to begin ASAP! Cool


The swimming pool is now available on SISI. The casino will require some work to program the ISK draining module, all pilots on grid lose .05% isk in wallet per minute, once the wallet hits zero, ships are immediately impounded in the rorqual's hanger.
Ingrid spasskowski
Dehar investments
#10 - 2014-04-06 01:02:52 UTC
I was hoping to read some constructive ideas regarding Rorqual.

Thou we do need a ne way to mine moon goo :)

Also would be nice to have bigger ships in mining, not sure if a capital ship would fit that bill would like to see a BS class ship first.

Thou the idea of a capital mining ship is intriguing, let the ship mine in siege mode would make a operation really dangerous.

Or what do you think ? Any more ideas regarding rorqual?

-Ingrid
Shepard Wong Ogeko
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2014-04-06 04:50:16 UTC
I use my Rorqual all the time, and still don't have the skills to fit the Industrial Core.

It's like a jump freighters that can fit rigs and modules.


They could use a bigger drone bay. And it would be nice if the restrictions on the ship bay was removed.
Beserker Bob
Independent Traders and Builders
#12 - 2014-04-07 18:39:30 UTC
This thread is a little most constructive:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=335337&find=unread

There needs to be an incentive to get them out of POS shields.

How about an asteroid tractor beam that consumes whole roids of a specific size or smaller? It can be bonused based on level.
Most asteroids would be too large, so smaller mining ships would have to whittle them down before the Rorqual finishes 'em off.