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Capital Hull Sized Mining Barge
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TheLegion
Black Hole Drifters
Drifters.
#1 - 2013-01-11 05:55:52 UTC
First off, I can't really stand mining, but was wondering why the game never implemented a capital hull sized mining barge. That either used capital sized strip miners, or something to that effect. Is it because belts would be farmed more easily or something else?

Just was bored and figured I'd toss it out there. Personally I think it would be kind of cool to see a massive capital beamin it's way through veldspar, etc. :)
Veronica Kerrigan
Surgically Constructed L Feminist
#2 - 2013-01-11 05:58:40 UTC
I believe ideas about what kind of ships should be made should be in Features and Ideas subsection. I would be fine with a capital mining barge under the following condition: 10 minute siege cycle that gives no more than 175-200% yield of a hulk, but outside of siege it would be nearabouts useless.
Lovely Dumplings
My Little Pony Appreciation Corporation
#3 - 2013-01-11 06:04:41 UTC
I always thought it'd be cool to see a cap mining ship that literally "ate" the 'roids. Engulf the 'roid in a massive front bay, "siege" for a time, then bang, you get the whole yield.

www.minerbumping.com
Navarre Blackmoor
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-01-11 06:12:33 UTC
Oh god. Enormous mining spaceship. YES.


Afterall. Flying big things is why we play, right?
GreenSeed
#5 - 2013-01-11 06:14:13 UTC  |  Edited by: GreenSeed
so long as it can cloak, align in under 5 secs, and fits inside a small POS people will use it, otherwise no one ever will.


joking aside, i like the idea of a heavy duty mining platform that can only fly in null. one of the problems of null/low extraction is that yields are as crap as they are in high, the only advantage is having a roq giving bonuses. yet, i think the real reason mining sucks in null is because of refining yields, and the low yield of low ends, and outposts that suck for pretty much everything but spinning your ship.


i can live with the low yields, since we can hit that spodumain rock forever and it wont die. but whats the point of getting mins if anything smaller than a super is better manufactured in high sec?
W3370Pi4
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-01-11 06:19:25 UTC
lol IT will never happen
Hannah Flex
#7 - 2013-01-11 06:21:37 UTC
Because 99% afk/botted strip mining/resource gathering isnt already a thing?
TheLegion
Black Hole Drifters
Drifters.
#8 - 2013-01-11 06:21:59 UTC
It might and probably will never happen, but it would make nullsec mining more tempting if they were able to drop their big shiny on it I would imagine.

Maybe it's the little carebear heart inside of me that just simply would love to see it lol. There is capital versions of all types of ships, besides the mining barge.
Henry Haphorn
Killer Yankee
#9 - 2013-01-11 06:24:21 UTC
Um. No. And I'm an industrialist.

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TheLegion
Black Hole Drifters
Drifters.
#10 - 2013-01-11 06:30:23 UTC
but are you an industrialist in nullsec?
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#11 - 2013-01-11 06:33:50 UTC
TheLegion wrote:
but are you an industrialist in nullsec?

The more you minerals you mine the less they are worth. Hence no capital mining lasers.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#12 - 2013-01-11 06:50:07 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
TheLegion wrote:
but are you an industrialist in nullsec?

The more you minerals you mine the less they are worth. Hence no capital mining lasers.


Though, if it were Null only and CCP fixed the Hidden Belt's mineral proportions, it would make Null mining worth more than HS mining again*. (Oh, how the HS Miners would Howl.)


*Null mining would likely not increase much in ISK/hr, ofc. HS Mining (and all Hulk mining) would simply plummet depending on adoption levels.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#13 - 2013-01-11 07:19:25 UTC
You just want that ship, from that Star Trek movie, that big one........ OK I was drunk out of my gourd when I saw it.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#14 - 2013-01-11 07:20:05 UTC
TheLegion wrote:
First off, I can't really stand mining, but was wondering why the game never implemented a capital hull sized mining barge. That either used capital sized strip miners, or something to that effect. Is it because belts would be farmed more easily or something else?

Just was bored and figured I'd toss it out there. Personally I think it would be kind of cool to see a massive capital beamin it's way through veldspar, etc. :)


If you get that then industrialists should get a captial ship. basically it would be a floating POS with manu and sci slots.

Or we could put it all together and I can live my world destroyer fantasies by having a super capital mining vessel that you can manufacture off. In goes roids, out goes flotillas of rifters. Bonus points if you can make them pre fitted - ready for pilots to take up and fly into the enemy blob.
Daimon Kaiera
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#15 - 2013-01-11 07:21:00 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
TheLegion wrote:
but are you an industrialist in nullsec?

The more you minerals you mine the less they are worth. Hence no capital mining lasers.


Unless you horde them all and they become worth the same or more because they're "rarer." (Even though they'll respawn in a day.)

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Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-01-11 07:24:29 UTC
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#17 - 2013-01-11 07:24:50 UTC
Needs Capital Mining Lasers.

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Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#18 - 2013-01-11 07:30:16 UTC
Chribba wrote:
Needs Capital Mining Lasers.


Most excellent. Veldspar will be eliminated in no time with a concerted effort!
Lovely Dumplings
My Little Pony Appreciation Corporation
#19 - 2013-01-11 07:53:15 UTC
Super spikinator wrote:
TheLegion wrote:
First off, I can't really stand mining, but was wondering why the game never implemented a capital hull sized mining barge. That either used capital sized strip miners, or something to that effect. Is it because belts would be farmed more easily or something else?

Just was bored and figured I'd toss it out there. Personally I think it would be kind of cool to see a massive capital beamin it's way through veldspar, etc. :)


If you get that then industrialists should get a captial ship. basically it would be a floating POS with manu and sci slots.

Or we could put it all together and I can live my world destroyer fantasies by having a super capital mining vessel that you can manufacture off. In goes roids, out goes flotillas of rifters. Bonus points if you can make them pre fitted - ready for pilots to take up and fly into the enemy blob.


That's actually a really cool idea. Big floating assembly line. Siege it out to build, maybe toss in a cloak mount and goovats for clones....

www.minerbumping.com
GreenSeed
#20 - 2013-01-11 08:00:22 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
TheLegion wrote:
but are you an industrialist in nullsec?

The more you minerals you mine the less they are worth. Hence no capital mining lasers.


Though, if it were Null only and CCP fixed the Hidden Belt's mineral proportions, it would make Null mining worth more than HS mining again*. (Oh, how the HS Miners would Howl.)


*Null mining would likely not increase much in ISK/hr, ofc. HS Mining (and all Hulk mining) would simply plummet depending on adoption levels.



this.

who cares if mineral prices crash. if null can bulk mine, it will remain profitable, while HS gets nerfed indirectly. also bulk mining means less mining, not more.

high sec miners wont complain, and in fact they might actually support the idea of a capital miner, until they find trit at 2 - 3isk. by then it will be already too late.
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