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(proposal) Drone minning ship
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Caldruis Asher
Andorhall Enterprises
#1 - 2011-11-12 02:53:45 UTC
Minning drones remember does never used the either but the concept of a drone minning ship still really haunts me id love to see a true drone minning ship/support vessel something that'll mine less than the hulk but me more versatile and can protect other ships in a minning fleet

two ideas come to mind
1) either make a new hull with stats etcs
2) a tech two version of the orca with focus on this
drone bay from 75m^3 to 250M^3
Bandwith to 125
fixed 200% bonus to drone range
reatin most of orca bonuses
add 1 low slot 1 med slot 1 high slot
Industrial command ship bonus
10% to drone dmg and minning amount
5% to warfarelink
Industrial drone ship skill
2 additiona minning drones per lvl
5%-7.5% to shield resitance per lvl
it'll tank like hulk and protect it 's fleet in null sec still be capable of mining but it'll definetly mine less than hulk being tech 2 cap it'll be in less circulation by adding the specific rule of 2 minning drones per lvl avoid it form becoming a sub/carrier or offensive ship but still


Endovior
PFU Consortium
#2 - 2011-11-12 03:59:53 UTC
I had a longer post, but was ganked, so a briefer summary.

Mining is boring, mining drones are a comparatively useless and boring bit of that bit of boring, and using mining drones is unwise unless you're mining in safe enough space that you don't need protection... in which case, you're doing something too boring to be worth bothering about.

Right now, mining drones are exclusively for that one Incursion that calls for you to mine in-battle, and needed nowhere else at all ever. That's not actually a bad thing.
Revolution Rising
Last-Light Holdings
#3 - 2011-11-12 08:19:46 UTC
Botters would love this, no longer having to recycle mining lazors, grand idea.

No.

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Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2011-11-12 10:58:33 UTC
Fill a nyx with T2 mining drones.

there's your drone miner.
Princess Cellestia
Friendship is Podding
#5 - 2011-11-12 16:35:28 UTC
Mining drones are garbage, any miner who puts a mining drone in his ship deserves to die and have his clone reset to alpha and THEN get podded. Combat drones are the only drones that should ever be in a mining ship, especially if you're in null or lowsec. Besides a t2 mining drones hold can only carry a single unit of anything larger than hemo. So unless you gave drones a 100 m3 cargo hold, ******* useless. Miners, learn to fit a tank, train warrior 2s, and shut the **** up.
Caldruis Asher
Andorhall Enterprises
#6 - 2011-11-17 04:22:03 UTC
of course im bored why the heck would i waste time in the forums btw the day i can fly a nyx in high sec then i'll get one
Velicitia
XS Tech
#7 - 2011-11-17 16:18:52 UTC
if you want a drone mining ship, fit up a Domi.

done.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Esunisen
Les Tueurs de Killer
#8 - 2011-11-22 10:45:17 UTC
Oh yes, a Carrier Orca deplying 20 automatic Hulks !!!

Erm, too big troll ?
Cygnet Lythanea
World Welfare Works Association
#9 - 2011-11-23 11:54:25 UTC
It's always lovely to see how any interesting idea brings the trolls out.

Personally, I think the idea as a certain amount of merit and represents a logical evolution in the same way that a current barge represents the logical evolution of the mining laser.

Besides, think of it as just one more new type of ship you can gank without any effort or skill to inflate your egos.

I think we can all agree that a greater variety of ships in game, even if it's as targets, is a good thing.