Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Since mining is usually a solo occupation and not everyone wants to be in a corporation I think to help defend against gankers and pirates that a Target Breaker designed just for mining Barges and Freighters is in order. This module would require a mid slot for the freighter.


The Mining Barge /Freighter Target Breaker would be about 15% less powerful than the Battleship version and would would consume nearly half of the capacitor with one cycle. Using a lot of capacitor would allow the barge or freighter to generate a single large burst of energy to try and escape the pirates or gank.

The last mining op I was in had 60 blue pilots in local. All working together for mutual defense and profit. And not a single one was harmed.

What are the chance of a TSB to ever do anything when locked by at most 4 ships?

Maria
Or...do your own research. The data is out there. You just have to know how to find and analyse it.

The point was pertinent.

The average EvE player is not deeply invested and the ability to solo mine effectively is important. Your dismissal of a player raising that point is invalid.

No. Learn to scout. Don't mine in systems frequented by CODE., and fly a procurer/skiff and fit a tank.

And this is an MMO...playing with others is what is intended. Solo play is typically harder than group play.

We should call it the scissor technique.

I think it should disable tank on the ship though.

Just some thoughts.

Hopelesshobo, if this module would be useless or nearly so what is the harm of having it in the game. If your theory is correct then a miner fitting this module would be gimping their tank and that would be good for the gankers and pirate anyway because more squishy target.

FT Diomedes, you are out of touch with the current game as it plays out in high sec. Mining ops with more than 2 or 3 ships are rare in high sec and have been for many years so what does this have to do with the OP.


Maria you rate a quote here because.
Mining solo in high sec can and often is far more profitable than mining in a group. Mining in fleet makes you many times more likely to rate a visit from pirates and gank squads because you present more targets all in the same area. The increased ship losses this represents can quickly eliminate any additional profit you may have.

A. Protection, at least in high sec is one of the great lies that has been told and re-told so many times that it is now believed to be the truth. Miners and industrial players in high sec are two of the very few places left in the game where standings really matter. The rules of aggression in high sec and the standings penalties associated with breaking them make this whole concept of flying in a fleet for protection laughable at best. Change the rules of aggression and allow corp mates and or fleet mates to freely attack anyone that is attacking a fleet / corp member with out incurring penalties to their standings and then there would be a valid reason for this argument.

While I agree with the less boring aspect of playing this game as group you really need to come to grips with what that means. Myself and corp mates can all go out solo and do our own thing and STILL have a good time talking on our TS and by text using the in-game chat windows. On the other hand some of the most boring times I have ever had in EvE where when I was flying as part of a large fleet.

target breaker wont do you no good if afk...

Because I would like to use more useful mods in the game instead of stuff in the game like Defender Missiles that never get used. As an example, a catalyst with a sebo will take roughly 1.3 seconds to lock a barge, that same catalyst locking a freighter is well under 1 second. So then you factor in cycle time on the gun of 2.52 seconds. This means in the worst case scenario, you would be looking at disrupting half a cycle every time that it takes effect, however if the ganker reacts quick enough he could remain virtually unaffected depending on when his lock gets broken in regards to his cycle time. So for this mod to work it would have to work against very few numbers, which would then be a massive boost to lowsec mining because someone could simply bring out a skiff and if they miss dcscan, they can simply align out and activate this mod and wait for it to work.

The OP would be better off finding a better form of security that is much more guaranteed to work that already exists in the game.

Sooo...because they fly alone making themselves a much easier target....they should be compensated for that decision?