Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello folks,

This topic is about the ORE frigate coming out this winter. While its concept art can be seen in the Ship Balancing Summer Update blog and some speculation has already started, time has come to talk about it in details.

Designed as an entry mining ship, it will replace the old 4 mining frigates in the Industry Career Path (the Tormentor, Bantam, Navitas and Burst). Compared to them, it has a much improved mining output, capacitor reliance and mobility, while having a decent 5000m3 ore hold. Its purpose is to be a fast hull capable of mining in hostile space (even if the current value of high-sec ores defeats this quite a bit, but that's another problem). It also serves as a gas harvester, a profession that was lacking love until now. With its +2 warp core strength bonus, it should stand a fair chance of doing its job in low-security space without being instantly tackled and killed.

It also comes with a brand new skill, mining frigate, rank 2. Further down the drain we will change mining barge skill requirements to need mining frigate at 4, but not for winter - we'll most likely do that at the same time as the Destroyer and Battlecruiser skill changes to minimize training issues and complications. Again, since its the entry ship for mining, expect the market price to be low.


Mining frigate skill bonuses:
+5% to mining yield per level
5% to gas harvesting duration reduction per level
Role bonuses:
+100% to mining yield
+100% to gas harvesting yield
+ 2 warp core stabilizer bonus
Slot layout: 3 H, 3 M, 1 L, 2 turrets
Fittings: 45 PWG, 240 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 225 / 175 / 200
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 250 / 125s / 2
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 335 / 3.6 / 1200000 / 4.04s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 10 / 10
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 15km / 750 / 5
Sensor strength: 4 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 40
Cargo capacity: 50
Ore hold: 5000


Constructive comments are welcome

Just add one more turret, come one, do it. Then we can have a dedicated gas mining ship.

Is the 25% bonus at skill V enough to overcome having only 3 turrets??

EDIT: Nevermind, hadnt noticed the role bonuses

5 Harvesters, +2 Warp Str, and a nice ore hold (which I assume will handle gas).... Plus small and nimble.... Gotta love that new frigate

Gets owned by gas cloud damage, GFGF

A couple of questions, Ytterbium:
- Does the 2 turrets become the equivalent of 5?
- Have you play tested with it and determined that it can actually survive gas cloud harvesting?

-Liang

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What are the skill requirements to get into it? Can you fly or afford one first day of eve like the previous mining frigates, or are miners first having to use non-dedicated ships to mine first/PvE to get income. I guess another question that comes from that is what ship (if not this one) is now given out during the mining tutorials.

Deep down inside I already knew :(

Shouldn't the gas harvesting yield bonus be a time bonus?


edit for clarity:

gas is 10 m3

yield per cycle is 10 m3 (doubled)

adding 25% will result in no extra gas since in rounds down.

Bonus should be a reduction on cycle time (like ice miners)