Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have an idea for a Capital Mining Barge. it can use its single capital strip miner on a single asteroid at a time getting high yield.

step 1: activate the capital strip miner and starts consuming fuel / cooling agent (possibly a new type of fuel block or a common moon goo).
step 2: a ten min cycle of the capital strip miner fills the (first cargo hold) mining bay or a majority depending on the skill level. the pilot then has to move the raw ore into the ships main ore cargo hold. If the second cycle completes and there is not enough room in the mining bay the cycle does not get collected.
step 3: can only off load to an orca, roqual or freighter when in siege mode.


there are a couple of key factors that keep this ship from being over used by players to make too much money.

one factor is that it would be very expensive to construct making it very risky to do anything solo.

another factor is that it would also draw more attention from PVPers to go after the miners. with the high cost high venerability only well protected systems would even think to use one to mine with.

there is also a factor of complex fuel blocks. it would make a higher demand for common moons to be mined increasing infrastructure in 0.0 space and low sec, meaning more POS's start poping up and more targets to be hit by the PVPers.


Rough estimate of the stats

Construction cost: 5 billion isk
Fuel consumption: CCP should be the one to calculate that one, but make a high amount of common moon goo needed.
Strip miner Yield per 10 min cycle: 100,000m3
1 High slots for the capital strip miner
0 Med slots
0 Low slots


there should be a hand full of skills that take a long time to train. that change the amount a fuel consumption mining yield.

all in all i think this would be a fair ship to add to the eve universe. only the Wealthy players that have multiple accounts(good for CCP) and corporations that pool there money to get one and try to protect it would use them. I believe it would help the eve economy in a positive way.

If you Would like to see CCP make this ship please show them by clicking "like" and tell a corp mate about this.

CCP's already stated that they won't introduce mining ships with a better yield than the hulk. Dream on

a Capital Mining Barge No
but Mining size BS with Drone Bonuses will be nice

like this maybe

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=98273&p=4

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You just described a mining Rokh. With 8 mining lasers, 3 laser upgrades, mining drone rigs, and T2 everything, it gets better than 60% of a max-yield hulk. That's apples-to-apples with maxed implants and orca boosts.

Hulk EHP: less than 10k. To significantly raise it, you have to sacrifice yield.
Mining Rokh EHP: 45k with no tank. 65k with a modest CPU implant an some hardeners.

I can get 105k EHP on the Rokh for a 10% drop in yield, by giving up the third laser upgrade.

Figure, using estimates based on: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Advanced_mining

Published stats, using Omber as the reference ore:

Rokh hourly output: 84,000 units of Omber

Covetor hourly output: 101,880 units of Omber

Hulk hourly output: 181,920 units of Omber

Boosted Hulk hourly output: 234,720 units of Omber

Turtle output would be, (in Omber), 156,000 an hour.
For reference, this means IF you have:
Mining Drone Operations at 5
Drone Interfacing at 5
Mining Drone Ship at 5
AND the ship within 1Km of the asteroid
(That could kill the mining rate for people who forget to park on top of the roid....)

did you have a worst idea?

what about your pod in a scaphandre with a minning gun?

This thread is over, everyone go home.

Nothing to see here.

its awesome how not a single person suggested a change. maybe increase the mining yield change the cost perhaps? no every post was the same thing, saying that this idea exactly how it is sucks. how about some constructive thinking please?

Well your an idiot you forgot about that some capital ships can use a stargate? Dug you have. from the sounds of it this thing is smaller then a jump freighter.
ship fuel type: obvious suggestion but you nick pick and rage over such a crazy idea. Maybe another fuel type but we all know ore industrial ship rorq uses lovely Isotopes. there we figured it out. hell get rid of the seige mode thingy and change the slots around some. 5 High slots(3 turret hard points), 5 mid slots, and 4 low slots. 3 possible rigs increase the calibration what a hulk has. increase the drone bay from 50 to 100. and give it slightly base resists and hp by 10% bit the resists would only max out at 50 if it takes it above that.
The overview thingy...yeah need to kill that idea. not good gives them carebears in 0.0 a juicy target to shot at.
As for the yield. well make it comparable to the Hulk Yield amount. yes there it is Mr Obvious and let it go anywhere in the eve universe.

Maybe next time you will think something constructive then being a douch......troll