Player Features and Ideas Discussion

have you ever played the game? know what you are talking about..boosting modules don't work when cloaked.

you're an idiot

The rorq was balanced with use inside forcefields as a given.

Obviously it will require big changes if they remove that, as it otherwise won't have this foundation for use any longer.

The suggestion the Rorqual can be used in a practical manner so far outside of it's intended design is moot; noone in their right mind would attempt it.

It would seriously make ratting in carriers look clever by comparison.

I think this would be something different, and here is why:
That attacker strategy is improbable for the target. You don't go for this ship like that unless you know you can pop it before reinforcements show.

The moment a scout determined a capital ship like the rorqual was a potential target, a hot drop would be arranged just for it.
Even if scouts are in use defensively 1 system out in every direction, then they will simply use the fastest cyno ship capable of reaching the target.

Under ideal conditions reshipping in a mining op would take at least a minute. Realistically it would take two before sufficient forces were in a posture and prepared.

The Rorqual's cost of use is implied to include having a POS in the system you are mining in.

What you see in game and what CCP intended often aren't the same thing. They clearly envisioned the Rorqual sitting deployed in a belt, tractoring cans and crunching ore directly from the hulks. Otherwise, the cap tractor beam makes no sense.

The upcoming exhumer changes and the associated dev comments clearly indicate that the hulk was ALWAYS meant for operations with orca/rorq support in spaces where security could be gained by force. They were SUPPOSED to be fragile, in exchange for their high yield. What did lots of players do with the Hulk? put it in a highsec belt with no defensive mods and cry when it got ganked. That was well outside the indicated intent, and CCP is now rebalancing the ships so that highsec miners looking to avoid ganks will have to give up yield in favor of security.

well, if it has to move outside the shields, they will need to do something about the cap stability. it currently is not cap stable running its one cap shield booster for an entire industrial cycle, since they did not come out with a t2 industrial core, or halve the cycle time like they did for the siege and triage modules, its still stuck in place for nearly a full 11 min. and 11 min is plenty long enough for a titan DD drop to instapop a rorqual. and at the current 5.5-6.5 bil isk value, this is well in the risk vs killboard stats of risking a titan on field.

Quick heads up, Rorqual is a boosting ship.

99% reduction in CPU need for Warfare Link modules


Capital Industrial Ships skill bonuses:
10% bonus to effectiveness of mining foreman warfare links per level when in deployed mode
(Has to be in siege to get the bonus)

If they wanna make indy shps follow separate rules, fine by me.

Quick heads up. The sentence quoted by Nikk, implied just that.

May I suggest better sentence structure in future, that way we'd all understand you better.

I know for a fact your alliance use to warp your rorqual to belts.



But +1 for ships that are in poses not being able to run modules.

So basically: "I want only gatecamps and blobs to have links"

Off grid (but not inside pos) boosting is not risk free. Ive killed linkboats before, and lost linkboats before.