Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I do. 'Doomsday'-scale mining laser. When you absolutely positively have to mine that asteroid in one fell swoop.

You pick a target, fire up the laser, big flash of light... asteroid is gone, all the ore from it is in your hold, you can't jump for 10 minutes and can't mine another asteroid for 60 minutes.

At least it would be a way to get rid of those gigantic Spodumain asteroids...

YEA WE NEED THE EXACT SAME THING!

BUT BETTER

That paint job better be made with pure platinum, as the projected cost for a T2 orca would be around 3.7bill with current prices.

We can't even use the clone bay on a Rorqual, so adding one to a T2 Orca wouldn't change anything.

Honestly, I'd prefer that the Rorqual gets an overhaul before they make a T2 Orca, especially if force fields are going the way of the dodo.

Industrial command ship. Sounds like it oversees something to do with industry, so the head of a mining fleet makes sense. That being the case I fail to see why it needs a large cargohold; it isn't a hauler. Reduce that - or remove it.

Keep the corporate hangars. As a support vessel it ought to have modules and charges for the fleet, and separate compartments allows proper management of fleet resources.

If the hulk is now a pure fleet ship - which I think it is - then four of those will overwhelm the orca's current ore hold in next to no time. I say 4 as I can't see the point of an orca for anything less. Increase the size of the ore hold so it can handle 4 x hulks output from 1/2 hour's mining. What's that? 200k? 300k? Someone do the maths.

Fleet defence. The maintenance bay is a bit dismal. Increase its size to allow the four hulk pilots to switch into their combat vessels, should they come under attack. While I'm not sure about BS-size craft, certainly I think the bay ought to take BC-size craft. Limiting the hangar to industrials is wrong for this, as the combat ships would have nowhere to go when the mining ships are boarded.

Drones? Remove them. An orca is not designed to be alone, without cover of any type. The barges provide the defence from rats, and the combat ships in the maintenance hangar from more interesting threats. Also, a command ship doesn't sound like a vessel that gets dirty its hands from mining.

Tank. Structure is the orca's tank, so the 2 low-slots ought to suffice. DCU 2 will give it an effective HP of over 125k, increasing to over 160k with a T2 bulkhead. That ought to last while the miners are jumping into their Tengus. With that in mind, the mid-slots seem a bit redundant. Unless it fits struct repairers for afterwards? Hmmm...

Just my tuppence-worth.