Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So ive been mining in a fleet for a while now and i had a revelation. There are a ton of miners that arent in range due to smaller ships or lack of skills. It makes it harder on the newer players who are trying to get into the game.

My idea is to make a tech 2 version of the orca that has a module much like the bastion module in the fact that you cant move and your stats are boosted by it but, it would create a gravity well that would pull all asteroids in the current belt within 10km of the ship, therefore allowing all miners to get to the roids.

The Shields of the ships mining would protect them from the gravity and when the module is turned off the roids would go back to their original position. now yes that means the tech 2 orca wouldnt be able to haul but with a big reward of not having to move fleet you need a downside of having to have haulers for the mining op.

LET THE FLAMING BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!!

if the orca is sitting in one spot for the maximum benifit of the mining barges that have way better range then they would have to take it back to the orca or have the orca tractor it in. as far as i can tell most orca pilots dont want to have to put out effort other than boosts and hauling lol

Yeah Biatch, Magnets!

This would be a tech 2 ship and module. requiring more training and a specialized use. 75% of ships have a tech 2 variant so why not give orca pilots something else since they have been in the same ship doing the same thing for years now

Orca has mining links bonus, mining links have T2 versions, small tractor beam has T2 version. There are also skills (Leadership category) which miximazing work of whole fleet and fleet booster members. Not to mention implants.

If your corpmates are cba to click in space and fly to the next roid then all of you i repeat ALL of you should burn in hell of raged fire of Revelation's lazor beams.

******* magnets, how do they work?

Only 1 capital ship has a tech 2 variant, so the orca isn't out of line there. Tech 2 is meant for specialization into a certain area, whereas the orca and rorqual roles are general support.

Otherwise you're adding another ship for the sake of having another ship.

Sounds like you need new Orca pilots.

There is no reason the Orca can't move with the rest of the mining barges. It HAS thrusters.
Granted, the Orca won't win any races... but mining is not exactly a "fast-paced" activity.

Also... the Mobile Tractor Unit is dirt cheap and takes up little space in the cargohold.

Not magnets, silly, gravity.

Moving slowly through a belt while barges consume it takes almost no effort at all, I advise you to get Orca pilots worth a damn instead of having CCP waste time and resources in order to compensate for their idleness.