Ships & Modules

Think we will ever see them? The current Barges/Exhumers are all technically Cruiser or Medium-sized. Since once you get into a Hulk or a Mackinaw you're pretty much done as far as training for pure mining ships go, having Large-sized Barges/Exhumers would not only be pretty cool, but would allow you to advance further as a miner.

Imagine a big fat Hulk-looking ship roughly 1km long.

Awesomesauce.

I would love larger ORE ships. Mining is all I care to do in EVE so yeah...more ships to train for would be wonderful :)

Come on, we don't have enough mining ships to choose from...there has to be a way to release more variety of ships for us miners without it destroying mineral prices.

I'm not seeing a problem here. Even me, a miner, would like lower prices. I mean why the **** are tier 1 bs's still 80m even months after the stupid goons are done with their stupid ****.

As a miner myself I think this is a bad idea...

I am ashamed to say that miners in general whined and whinged their way to the current changes instead of adapting and overcoming with the tools available.

The 6 (8 if you wanna include the Orca & the Rorqual) mining ships we have now are sufficiently different to promote the use of different classes and may even encourage some miners to branch out and move around a bit, instead of the usual "I want MAX yeild and MAX cargo, and MAX tank" argument.

Do you know who were the ones causing EHP buff for barges/exhumers? Yes, you kids.

Suicide ganking isn't supposed to be profession like it used to be before 1.2 patch.

It's still possible to gank barges/exhumers. You just need moar deeps.

Digg, whatcha need is Incursion mining - maybe devs can do for miners what they did for lvl 4 farmers :). Travel the galaxy , new system every week , mine precious (maybe comet ) ore , hire logistic ships for reps and combat ships for protection, and hauler ships for the ore - oh the carebearness of it all...

I just want MAX size....

I like the idea of ORE fleets with more balance... it seems to me that ORE should have a bigger line of ships, the issue is what do they do and why are they in existence.

Low sec to me seems an obvious place to put the purpose but not sure what it would be... some kind of stealth miner, or a WH probe miner, or a gas harvester, or ore/ice support mining vessel, a Miner-mother ship, etc... IDK personally what would be a good idea here specifically but I could see it...

I wouldn't mind the idea of a low sec T2 version of the orca, give it jump engines like a jump freighter, nerf it's cargo down to something say to support 4 Skiff or 2 Mack/Hulks in crystals and gear needed (specifically modules for mining, say swapping of ore to ice strips, replacement drones, etc... bascially it's a small stock of on-grid supplies for the fleet to operate for extended time in low w/o needing to dock... Give it a huge Ore bay because it's purpose is basically, to collect up all the ore and the ships docking in it can't dock with ore in it... so perhaps 140km3 (4x macks, that is 2x loads per held), and enough jump fuel to cover and in and out jump.

It basically jumps in to a space (so I guess you need a ORE cyno ship (hey another idea... something ORE might develope on there own, specifically for covertly searching for grav sites, and then lighting a cyno, but not like a covert ops but specifically to getting at the ore)... and this ship then jumps in, its pilots take the ships out (prob Skiffs) and start in on things, dump the ore into the bay, wrap up the op and dock and the ship jumps back out... could be very interesting.

Another might be a ORE "carrier" using Miner Drones as the means to miner - making a ORE "fighter" sized Mining Drone, it could make for an interesting tree to use carrier/capital skills for mining, making the end-game perhaps as a Miner Capital(ist...lol) with a bigger version of the ship above but again these ships will not add anything like the exhumers do in ore harvesting they just allow for support of them in ways we don't have atm... but can do with other ship... for example you can fit out a carrier with miner IIs, and hold ships and jump and all.. but your doing something like a BS-miner... it's not designed it's ad-hoc... ORE prob could/should/would have build ships of there own specific needs in mind.... rather than use other navies hulls... so maybe, could be interesting if CCP did some more ships of that type... def would make the skill tree flower.

Not true at all, you should read all the posts before posting not just the OP... ORE def could make many more types of ship... the factions navies full of ships that ORE would prob design a ORE version of, CCP just hasn't put them in... read my post on just one idea...