Ships & Modules

Who do you think gathers the material to build all your combat ships?

IF it was because of Goons, then the prices would have come back close to what they were.

DRONE ALLOYS were eliminated, they provided a very large supply of Low End Minerals.

Now that they are gone, Mining lowend ore is as profitable as many high-ends.

In nerfing Nullsec, CCP in-inadvertently nerfed it again.

#1 Where did I even remotely indicate I was responding to you?
#2 For most people bigger = more slots = more pretty lights = more things in high slots making pretty lights = more mining lasers for mining ships. The number of people who would, strictly for an extreme example, want a ship with the HP, cargo, fitting capacity, and slot layout of a frigate but the size of a dreadnought is astonishingly small, and the numbers don't go up appreciably as the size goes down.

But hey, way to go there on the whole taking a tongue-in-cheek response out of context and ignoring the rest in order to try to invalidate a perfectly constructive post on providing a "bigger mining ship" that would actually fit within the current EVE lineup. Um, how did it go? Oh, yes.



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On a more constructive note, how about this for a "larger" mining ship?

Name : Kraken
Class : ORE Battleship

Shield HP : 7500
Armor HP : 5000
Hull HP : 8500

High Slots : 8
Mid Slots : 6
Low Slots : 4
Turret Hardpoints : 4
Launcher Hardpoints : 4

Powergrid : 1000mw
CPU : 700tf

Drone Bay : 150m3
Bandwidth : 50m3

Maximum Target Range : 50km
Max Locked Targets : 5
Scan Resolution : 90mm
Magnetometric Sensor Strength : 18

Mass : 105m kg
Packaged Volume : 55km3
Volume : 575km3
Signature radius : 500m
Inertia Modifier : .15
Velocity : 70m/s
Warp Speed : 2.7 AU/s
Cargo Capaciity : 400m3
Ore Hold : 4000m3

Role bonuses : 100% increase in the yield and 25% increase in the range of mining lasers.
ORE Battleship bonuses. 2.5%/level reduction in heavy, heavy assault, and rapid light launcher cycle time and 5%/level increase in drone damage, HP, and mining yield.

Somewhat more EHP than a skiff, an offensive punch, it's big, it's fat, and it's slow. It's a civilian battleship, if you don't consider the terms to be mutually contradictory. The rorqual sets a precedent for the drone bonus. The mining laser bonus should let them effectively field 8 lasers with 4 turrets at a range, with T2 miners, comparable to strip miners thereby reducing any strains that the shorter-ranged turret-based mining lasers might impose. The launcher bonuses and hardpoints are in place because it's more practical, and interesting, than trying to work the ship around 8 turrent hardpoints while the rorqual sets a precedent for the drone bonuses. The low bonuses, half that of comparable bonuses on "real" combat ships, should also accurately reflect the ship's civilian origins while still making it useful. The large amount of hull HP reflects its OREgins, so to speak, while the slot layout ought to give it reasonable options for mining yield, tanking, and so on.

Just a thought. /shrugs. Edit: Lowered grid because I can't really see 1k base being used short of buffer tanking and more would probably be wasted.

Features and Ideas discussion had an idea for a Mining Field Command Ship to be added, that could probably work seeing as the Orca is basically a Mining Fleet Command Ship.

It's purpose would be to sit inside the belt and mine as well as provide on-grid boosts to the mining fleet. Allowing the Orca to haul ore and without losing all the fleet bonuses should off-grid boosting be removed (and even if it isn't it would allow the Orca to dock without losing all bonuses).

Stat-wise it probably should mine less or equal to a Procurer, have Orca-like EHP as well as cost in addition to a medium ore-bay (definitely less than a Retriever). A large drone-bay, allowing mining, ECM and combat drones of various sizes would likely also work well.

Basically a large ship to ensure the Laser Optimisation Link (or in dangerous space one of the shield links) is always on-grid as well as providing it's own mining capabilities (without competing with barges) and plenty of drones to quickly kill rats, help with mining or even jam hostile players.