Player Features and Ideas Discussion

iteron should keep highest cargo space because of those of us who trained gallente indy to 5 to fly iteron5

Nice changes - you nailed it.

If you extended that reasoning across every aspect of EVE, we would have total stagnation - nothing would ever change.

No

It also needs a change. And in my opinion a change to a cargo bay that can not be affected by cargo expanders and max 25k at Gallente Industral V is plenty enough for those who took it that high. Especially if it is balanced around being cheap to build.

Totally wrong actually. As pointed out elsewhere the rigs / expanders in the lows combined with high skills will net you a massive boost in your cargo hold. This is most important in the Itty for PI, because that extra cargo space will allow you to carry a pair of Command Centers.

It won't give you the bang for the buck that hanging them on your old ships gave, but it's plenty of reason for them to avoid a refund.

Mostly I really like it.

My only issue is the Iteron IV having the ore bay with the ability to haul all types?

I'd suggest splitting it down a bit, giving the iteron IV the storage bay for one type, and moving the other 2 types to other races.

So some sort of tanker looking thing for hauling gas.

As for the ice, could make a flying heatsink thing for each race, with 'x' amount of storage, but with some sort of storage bonus if moving their racially specific ice?

I've been wishing for a reconfigurable Tech-3 Industrial for a long time.....

ORE Reconfigurable Industrial Ship
Required Skills:

• ORE Reconfiguration Specialization
• ORE Industrial V
• Advanced Spaceship Command III

Subsystems:

• ORE Engineering Systems
• ORE Propulsion Systems
• ORE Industrial Specialization Systems
• ORE Cargo Specialization Systems
• ORE Command Specialization Systems

Engineering Subsystem options would include subsystem modules that vary between CPU and POWER GRID, or standard CARGO BAY and STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY, or a subsystem module for COVERT RECONFIGURATION.

Propulsion Subsystem options would include modules for HIGHER NORMAL VELOCITY, GREATER AGILITY, FASTER WARP SPEED, INTERDICTION NULLIFICATION, or JUMP DRIVE.

Industrial Subsystem options would include subsystem modules for supporting ASTEROID MINING, GAS CLOUD HARVESTING, ICE MINING, SALVAGING, or CLONING (possible DUST 514 tie-in)

Cargo Subsystem options would include EXPANDED CARGO BAY, ORE & ICE BAY, PI & Command Center BAY, POS MODULES & TOWER BAY, CORPORATE HANGER BAY.

Command Subsystem options would include subsystem modules to support fitting various mining gang-links with additional bonuses, or perhaps ship-based bonuses similar to mining gang-links but would increase with each additional Tech-3 ship in the fleet -- more ships working together, the bigger the bonuses.


The visual model for the ship could look like various configurations between an Orca and an Iteron with different cargo bay arrangements along a central fuselage structure.

Just my 2-isk, food for thought.

Not sure if it's been answered yet, but are there plans to let one of the special bay iterons haul moon goo?

(sry for the bad english also sry if i write like a noob XD)

i see the Problem in the to many iteros and the missing role for a 3. hauler also the missing ship on 2 factions

so why dont give this 3.hauler in the game? for the start take one of the hulls paint and call it different and the graficers put the hull or changes later in the gme.

Switch one iteron to ore (the 4?) give it a other Cockpit and paint it yellow XD
and sry but put one iteron out of the game
Switch the ships how has owned to this one that match the stats mostly

and now do some fancy stuff with the 3.haulers
why dont build a mini orca only für t1 and ore?

faction haulers:
small shiphangar max for a cruiser but only t1 ships
you can also only equip t1 ships on it
not that big cargohold but as a special: not to scann (for those who dont have a cloaky to carry expensive stuff)
moderate fleethold
dronebay

ore hauler:
shiphangarsize for exhumers/barges
can equip Sub capital ore ships
nice orehold
fleethold big enough for a full hulk fit also with t1 Strip or cloaky?
drone bay

and on top some realy fancy role Bonus to the ships
good aktiv tank and resi Bonus?
maybe can go in warp also with a t1 cloaky but than the cloak goes off?
per Level Little warpspeed and align bonus so he can ran away t1 frigs?
for the ore: can equip a command module, tractor Bonus, shield/Amor logi Bonus maybe can equip in larger range (for the miner crystals)

it is about bring some movement in this class to the game and solve the "to many iteron" Problem or also dont realy have i great idea for those.
if there are no 3.role now you can point on, put it later in. meanwhile build the 3.hulls and Change the one moved to ore.
and for a while sit out the Players hatestorm to steal there iterons XD

What I would love is to have 1 of these 3 options:

1- a ship specially designed for transporting minerals or
2- have a special mineral bay inside the freighters or
3- have some kind of cargo container designed for freighters that would be used exclusively for hauling more minerals.

So example:

Mineral cargo expanded (50% bonus in capacity)

Container Vol: 450 000 m3
Mineral Capacity Vol: 675 000 m3


So basically the Idea is for the player to have the choice to either go for full expanded mineral capacity or half/half.

Trading is a known and supported profession in eve but for a mineral traders the profession is heavily disadvantaged specially if you trade in hi-sectors and there's a couple of reasons for that:

1-A freighter class ship is supper slow even if you have all the skills completed and you're manually flying your ship.
2-Multiple stations to stop and the distances can be very far...30 jumps and more sometimes.
3-Hi-sector minerals value is very low...specially titanium and pyrite and to compensate for this you need to sell bigger quantitys


Thank you for reading :)