Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Wait, these faction mods already exist and no one uses them.

Eve-Central shows only 6 ORE modules on the market and they're in lowsec for 400m each. That isn't going to help your role bonuses much.

I'm not sure this new battleship is required especially if it has increased yield when mining.

As far as a fleet defence ship for mining fleets I don't think this part of your argument holds water either. Defence for mining fleets in nullsec could probably be achieved by deploying other existing and probably smaller hulled ships with better results.

As far as defence for mining fleets in high sec systems is concerned the proposed ships would not be able to stop or hinder suicide ganks. Mining barges & exhumers can be fitted with sufficient tank to prevent or reduce the likelihood of suicide ganks along with not being afk and using your brain. Unfortunately I estimate at least eighty percent of pilots in mining vessels think a shield recharger or a small shield booster constitutes a viable tank. Obviously this is an incorrect assumption but don't let me stop you doing the same .

So if it does everything worse than Exhumers, what is the point of it?

Mining ships don't need versatility or bite.

I think an ORE T3 would be better than an ORE Battleship.

Reconfigurable ship capable of doing any of the harvesting possible in Eve as well as functioning as a mini-Rorq.

They'd need to come up with vastly different Subsystems though, make them all Exploration/Industry focused, keeping the Covert Ops and Interdiction Nullification options for obvious reasons (like ORE Sov being out in 0.0 and mostly home to PvPer which could be equated to pirates in the eyes of ORE).

After all, they've got a job to do, they need to be able to perform that job in an extremely hostile environment. What better way to explore and harvest in a hostile environment than to have the option to sneak around and evade "pirate" interdiction.

Personally, I think the highest yield mining ship should require support in everything but mining and movement, not just hauling. Give it base ehp and fitting that the ship can fit a good buffer, but horrible cap and shield recharge rates so that it cant fit any real local tank. Remove the drone bay. Now your best mining comes from a fleet with logi and dps support; this puts us one step closer to being able to fight off gankers.

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as an added bonus, we get to see idiots flying these things without proper support

The plural of bonus is bonuses, not boni.

Now I've got that out of my system (sorry, I just couldn't help it), I'd personally like to see more variety in mining ships. A BS class ship would be good.

How about a rig to allow BC's to mount stripminers and increase hold space? They can mount a warfare link too to assist with mining if an orca etc isn't available for support?

How about I give it:
Shield/Armor/Structure
4000/4000/4000


A dilemma I am having is whether or not to give it PG/CPU/Capacitor equal to that of a BS and replace the role bonuses. Also, is the drone bay too big or too small?