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New Bigger Freighter Ship

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Hezron Iserles
Star Task Force Innovations
#1 - 2013-09-22 04:26:00 UTC
I would really like and find useful if CCP would bring a new freighter ship bigger and more capable than the Charon, one that would have at least three times the cargo capacity because I for example cannot find enough time ship enough minerals to produce all of the ships I would like to, so it feels as if I have reached a certain limit as to the development of tier one ship production. I for instance make every t1 fighter drone, Caracals, Thorax, Vexors, Ruptures, Nagas and Talos, and it takes so much time to transport the minerals just from Jita to a nearby two jump facility, its just not that fun, and I would like to make Ferox, Cyclones, Hurricaines, Myrmidons and eventually many others, but I probably couldn't because of the time to transport the materials and the ships. I personally wouldn't mind paying say 5 billion for a ship that would have like 3 times the cargo capacity of a charon, and wouldn't mind spending a month or two training for it.

So I know that probably it has been already suggested and that CCP has already considered this a few times, but I just wanted to give my humble opinion on this. Thanks.
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
#2 - 2013-09-22 05:59:46 UTC
The only solution I could imagine is some kind of ORE freighter with a special mineral bay. Also, It will most likely be profitable to gank, if someone can be bothered to loot.


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Caleb Seremshur
Commando Guri
Guristas Pirates
#3 - 2013-09-22 08:47:14 UTC
May I make the crazy proposal of trying to play cooperatively with other people to increase the amount you haul?
Lina Theist
Rosendal Research and Development
#4 - 2013-09-22 08:52:14 UTC
Or if isk and training isn't an issue, get an alt.
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#5 - 2013-09-22 09:31:21 UTC
Place buy orders for your minerals at your manufacturing base.

No more hauling. Of course you will have to pay little more to persuade people not to just sell in Jita.

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Azrael Dinn
Imperial Mechanics
#6 - 2013-09-22 11:15:03 UTC
I don't mind a bigger and better freighter but it still wont solve the issue of hauling. It takes time... lots of it and it's booring and not realy profitable in general.

i would like to see something that would make hauling faster and less time consuming.

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Xander Det89
T.R.I.A.D
Ushra'Khan
#7 - 2013-09-22 18:02:55 UTC
You know there's a good reason that a max skilled Charon is just short of 1mil m3 and that there are no ways of boosting it?

Hint: size of a packaged capital ship is 1mil m3.
Meyr
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
OnlyFleets.
#8 - 2013-09-22 18:29:12 UTC
What Xander said.

Also, do a quick search for 'mineral compression'.
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#9 - 2013-09-22 20:30:21 UTC
Meyr wrote:
What Xander said.

Also, do a quick search for 'mineral compression'.


Do an additional search for 'freight service.'
Zaxix
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-09-23 04:19:30 UTC
If it carried 3 times as much, it'd be at least 3 times as big, which would be one big, materials intensive, long build time ship. By the time you paid for it, you could have run thousands of Red Frog contracts, made your profit, and reinvested.

but if it's going to be done, I say Titan-sized freighter FTW

Bokononist

 

Gypsio III
Questionable Ethics.
Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
#11 - 2013-09-23 07:48:30 UTC
Don't haul the minerals then. Build and sell in situ instead. You're just contributing to Jita congestion and the death of smaller markets, further forcing everyone to go to Jita.
Siobhan MacLeary
Doomheim
#12 - 2013-09-23 07:55:18 UTC
You could always take some of your profits and use it to hire space truckers like Red Frog, or recruit your own cadre of hauler mooks.

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