EVE General Discussion

Citadel Mining Nukes

time to retire the roqual.

Just give it a native warp core strength of +4 and bubble immunity which wouldn't be totally out of line given the bonus the Venture receives.

It simply needs to be much harder to kill, and then it makes a lot more sense on the battlefield.

Rorqual Siege Mode: it creates a low-grade jump portal through which ore can be launched through. Because it is a low-grade jump portal, it is not safe for organic or processed material (i.e. people, ships, modules, etc., tend to get their molecular structure "re-aligned" during transit.) Fuel costs are very low for this ore only portal.

Ore ejected from the exit point of the "ore portal" undergoes "loot spew". Thus, a mobile structure and PoS module that is a combination of "ore cyno," tractor beam, and cargo hold would be needed to "catch" the ore.


There you go. No more screwing around with magic compression. Instead we continue to use magic teleportation which is central to EVE and scifi in general. Because, let's be honest here, Nightcrawler is waaaaay cooler than Ant-Man.

This is just a reposting of my ideas:
Quality of Life Wishlist for the Rorqual:
1. Lower the cycle time on Capital Tractor beams to that of a noctis small tractor beam's. Its doing the same thing for up to 255 miners. The Tractor beams need to be faster to pull cans in. The cycle time of the tractor beams is a hudge part of this.

2. Double the tractor speed of capital beams. I need to be able to pull in 20+ cans every 200 seconds. Right now that's not possible.

3. When sieged in a belt, Tractor cycle time is cut by 95%. Tractor speed is increased 1000%. Lets give some more incentive to be in the belt people.

4. The Rorqual needs to be more agile for someone to use it in a belt. It needs to align in 10 seconds or less.

5. The Rorqual needs to warp atleast as fast as the Orcha.

6. The ore bay needs to be double the size. Right now the Orcha comes to close to putting it to shame.

7. More sieged factory slots! This will make ice compression go faster!!! The ship requires 10, so give me 10 :)

8. Remove the ship maintenance bay requirement. Its archaic. As a industry character I spend more time helping corp mates with this ship hauling things from high sec to null, most are really bumed when I have to re-packaged rigged ships to get them out.

9. Unsiged the rorqual needs to have the same buff as the orca

10. The rorqual can run mining boosts while warping to the belt and back to the PoS.

11. Lower the siege time of the rorqual to that of the maraders (60 seconds) to make escape a realistic possibility. Cut heavy water fuel use accordingly, or even lower it since ice is not exactly cheap these days.


The most archaic thing on the ship is the ship maintenance bay restriction. It just flat out needs to go away. The orcha can haul rigged ships, why can't the rorqual??? Industry pilots spend alot of time doing stuff for other people, including hauling there stuff. It needs to be able to haul corp mates ships to, even battleships.


Summary: The rorqual is a very special ship and it deserves different views when it comes to balancing. Its non combat role should allow it to do things other ships can't.

Really out there ideas:
1. Industry Titan: Give it the boosting qualities of the rorqual, siege and all, but add a couple of things:
-Make it be able to grab any can within its jump range by creating a space time continum around it, the can instantly apears in front of the Industry Titan. i.e System Wide tractoring.
-Every 10 minutes, the industry titan can instant heal to full any industry ship within the same system with a directed beam of energy so powerful it can to bring a industry ship back from the brink of death. The beam hits with such ferocity the industry ship in the process is flung helplessly in the opisite direction at 27,000 metters a second. (efectivley a get out of jail free card every 10 minutes for industry ships). Efectively this is the opisie of what the doomsday device does, its used to save, not destroy. Restrict it to mining barges/exumers.
-Ability to summon industry ships to it. This allows the miners to easily go where the rorqual goes. For balance maybe even restrict it to just mining barges and exumers.
-rorqual can refine ore.
-Dedicated structure cargo hold so it can always carry around a small pos to boost/work from
-Ability to "summon" miners through the space time continuum to the rorqual would be cool.

why not make a capital Micro Jump drive unit that only the rorq can use.

make the capital version jump you 200km.

THe plan for the Rorqual is awaiting Goon approval. CCP's first iteration didn't serve their purpose. Since the Goons are so industrialy centered they have a large stake in this.

In my personal opinion, I think that the Rorqual got the Ore hold that the Orca should have got.

Loot spew??? Damn, that'd be worth implementing for the name alone.

Turn the Rorqual into a mobile POS, with shields and all, where you can anchor defenses around it like a POS. Of course, would have to be much easier to kill than an actual POS, like with no reinforcement or anything like that, but still would be kind of neat to have the ability to have a mobile POS that can be "anchored" in belts or wherever.