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What for now Rorquals
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Serano Carretta
Industrial Cohorts Interstellar
#1 - 2014-06-22 00:19:47 UTC
With the impending addition of compression arrays, why even get into running a Rorqual? Much of their roles can be done far cheaper than investing a in a capital command ore taxi. The Orca is fine for all of that. With cheaper compression arrays, the last great role of the Rorqual will be deprecated. So CCP, what now for the Rorqual?
hellcane
Never Back Down
#2 - 2014-06-22 01:53:08 UTC
Cool looking space lawn ornament
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#3 - 2014-06-22 02:30:01 UTC
It will be able to mine moon directly.

Star Jump Drive A new way to traverse the galaxy.

I invented Tiericide
Froggy Storm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2014-06-22 02:39:41 UTC
Infinite point bait capital would be amusing.
Chris Winter
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#5 - 2014-06-22 04:31:58 UTC
The Rorqual's only real remaining use is for jump clones...and it's a bit on the expensive side to just be a giant jump clone factory.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6 - 2014-06-22 11:59:42 UTC
Hakaari Inkuran
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2014-06-22 13:46:47 UTC
Rorqual pilot gets to set bounties at a discount Lol
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#8 - 2014-06-22 15:22:41 UTC
Chris Winter wrote:
The Rorqual's only real remaining use is for jump clones...and it's a bit on the expensive side to just be a giant jump clone factory.


It's great for jump clones but I don't know if it's worth all the that training for a jump clone. The space ornament is an awesome use Lol

I'm sure CCP will give it a revamp soon.
Carniflex
StarHunt
Mordus Angels
#9 - 2014-06-22 18:25:52 UTC
Mining bonuses?

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Paynus Maiassus
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2014-06-23 06:43:27 UTC
Serano Carretta wrote:
With the impending addition of compression arrays, why even get into running a Rorqual? Much of their roles can be done far cheaper than investing a in a capital command ore taxi. The Orca is fine for all of that. With cheaper compression arrays, the last great role of the Rorqual will be deprecated. So CCP, what now for the Rorqual?


Jump clones.

Very cheap poor man's jump freighter.

Superior bonuses to Orca, when you can use it.

Transports your Indy ships.

Yes, it needs lots of love. It needs a god mode to be viable in belts and to operate as a true deep space industrial base without POS support. It needs a bigger ore bay since transporting minerals via compressed modules are going away. The clone vat bay mechanic needs to be updated so you can store yourself in the ship, rather than just create a new clone. So the ship needs love and it will get it. But until then it does still have the uses above. The Rorqual was never just a compression ship. It's always had other uses.
Kurtz
Eldorado Exploration Expedition
#11 - 2014-06-24 02:33:39 UTC
Seen in another thread on the Rorqual: "Allowed through stargates=Y"
That would make it viable for use in a belts.

At least change this:
10% bonus to effectiveness of mining foreman warfare links per level when in deployed mode

To:
10% bonus to effectiveness of mining foreman warfare links per level
Nolak Ataru
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2014-06-24 03:06:49 UTC
Give it some slots for capital strip miners / mining lasers / gas harvesters.
Velarra
#13 - 2014-06-24 21:39:17 UTC
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#14 - 2014-06-26 02:31:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Bugsy VanHalen
A boost to the tank, e-war immunity, and some sort of utility, like capital mining lasers to give it reason to be there, then you might see them in belts.

let it tractor in entire asteroids, rather than cut them up with a mining laser, pull the whole rock into its hold, and grind it into compressed blocks in one shot, but only when in deployed mode. puts you at huge risk, stuck in a belt unable to move, but massive mining yield in return for the risk.