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Why are Logistics and Industrial ships called that?
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Joanna RB
JoJo Industries n Shipbreakers
#1 - 2013-11-16 12:27:12 UTC
Logistics is the transport and storage of goods. What do the ships called 'logistics ships' do that in any way can classify them as 'logistics' ships? Surely if any ship should be called logistics, it would be the ships known as industrials.

Which brings us nicely to industrials. Industry is the *production* of goods, not the transportation. So who decided to call them industrials?

Now all we need is to go the full circle - introduce a shipclass dedicated to mobile manufacturing, give it manufacturing slots, a huge mineral bay, an 'office' bay for bpos, and a cargobay for finished products. And call the ship a 'Remote Repair Ship'.
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-11-16 12:28:28 UTC
Joanna RB wrote:
And call the ship a 'Remote Repair Ship'.


Posting in a stealth "nerf shield tanking" thread.


Alternatively, OP, you could get lost and stop encouraging them to change everything to stupid names. We only just avoided "Spaceship Piloting".

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Jessica Alp
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2013-11-16 12:35:41 UTC
While the name might not be chosen perfectly, one could argue that it is because they "transport" shield / capacitor / armor ^^
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#4 - 2013-11-16 12:35:54 UTC
I refuse to accept remote reps from logi boats until this issue is addressed.

Oh god.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-11-16 12:43:30 UTC
Very early in the EVE development there were actually plans for mobile manufacturing onboard industrial ships, hence the name.
Donbe Scurred
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-11-16 15:15:00 UTC
Your definition of logistics is oversimplified, try looking it up and understanding what it actually entails and you will realize it is a perfectly valid name. Roll
handige harrie
Vereenigde Handels Compagnie
#7 - 2013-11-16 15:21:19 UTC  |  Edited by: handige harrie
I was dumb, so Instead of asking stupid questions I checked google, wikipedia came up as top link and they had a satisfying answer;

"Logistics is the management of the flow of resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet some requirements, for example, of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics can include physical items, such as food, materials, equipment, liquids, and staff, as well as abstract items, such as time, information, particles, and energy."

Emphasis is mine.

So logistics are the perfect name for the shiptype.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#8 - 2013-11-16 15:28:07 UTC
Joanna RB wrote:
Logistics is the transport and storage of goods. What do the ships called 'logistics ships' do that in any way can classify them as 'logistics' ships? Surely if any ship should be called logistics, it would be the ships known as industrials.

Which brings us nicely to industrials. Industry is the *production* of goods, not the transportation. So who decided to call them industrials?

Now all we need is to go the full circle - introduce a shipclass dedicated to mobile manufacturing, give it manufacturing slots, a huge mineral bay, an 'office' bay for bpos, and a cargobay for finished products. And call the ship a 'Remote Repair Ship'.


Industrial Transportation Ships, then. M'kayyyyy ?

I guess industrial trucks are not used to haul goods around our highways ? That's exactly where your non-logic leads.

And your idiotic mobile manufacturing ship is just that...idiotic. To work it must be undocked 24/7. Yeah right.

Jeebus, is this the way GD is gonna go all weekend ?

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#9 - 2013-11-16 15:47:43 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Joanna RB wrote:
Logistics is the transport and storage of goods. What do the ships called 'logistics ships' do that in any way can classify them as 'logistics' ships? Surely if any ship should be called logistics, it would be the ships known as industrials.

Which brings us nicely to industrials. Industry is the *production* of goods, not the transportation. So who decided to call them industrials?

Now all we need is to go the full circle - introduce a shipclass dedicated to mobile manufacturing, give it manufacturing slots, a huge mineral bay, an 'office' bay for bpos, and a cargobay for finished products. And call the ship a 'Remote Repair Ship'.


Industrial Transportation Ships, then. M'kayyyyy ?

I guess industrial trucks are not used to haul goods around our highways ? That's exactly where your non-logic leads.

And your idiotic mobile manufacturing ship is just that...idiotic. To work it must be undocked 24/7. Yeah right.

Jeebus, is this the way GD is gonna go all weekend ?


Lighten up, Francis.

Mobile Manufacturing Ship = idiotic? Okay...... tell that to wh dwellers, or nullsec invasion corps. To a bigger-than-you-would-expect bit of the population, that kind of ship would be a godsend.

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

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