Player Features and Ideas Discussion

why would i? currently a bonused mining ship can reach every asteroid in a high sec belt from the warp in point.

if you have a tractor beam, you don't need the range link.

you don't gimp an orca in any way by fitting a tractor beam.

Since the pleas for making it worth a damn have been drowned in the flood of saliva over the shiny new turd that is 'revised' mining, I have a suggestion:

Add a crystal based overview script so that if one loads VELDSPAR! crystals, all other roid types are automatically unticked (one can have a mining preset to add them back). Seems unnecessary to have to either do it manually or have an OV preset for each type.

Just a small user-centric carrot to facilitate crystal use.

Plz have person that designed the venture look do makeover on all the other mining vessels.

Again another stupid change that makes lives of passive and lazy players in nullsec easier. One more change that allows them to do things easily, without any effort. And for small ship solo in nullsec... again one more step to make it even less possible. So many ships can be bait now, nobody even has to try hard to make a bait ship.

Please, refrain from all changes that make farmers and industrialists invulnerable to anything but gangs. Also, change NPC aggression so that they would only aggress people who aggress them. Now when NPCs actually guard the guy who is farming them from PVP hunter... that makes any sense?

So you want your targets to be easier to kill? If a fully trained pvp pilots jumps in barge he shouldn't have any combat capabilities? You want to remove risk on the side of the attacker?

Sounds more like to me that you are unwilling to adapt your current tactics against your targets.

Ok I was saying that a Covert Op's Venture would be great for the ultimate Ninja mining letting you get in to areas that on combat Covert OP's ship could go just think you get a fleet to black OP's drop in and take as much ore before the 0.0 group knows your there then when the scout send out the waning you jump out with your Booty.

Now on the Procurer/Skiff everyone is talking about a Drone combat bonus I have look several times at booth descriptions and can't find anything talking about it. So where is it listed?

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I think the problem with hulks (aside from obviously small ore bay) is the travel time. So despite higher yield, the average yield is drastically decreased by travel time for a solo miner. So your proposed changes will only strengthen corporations and alliances in mining ops, but all the solo lonely miners out there will take a hit. A bit like increasing taxes on the poor and giving more tax returns to the uber wealthy.

So instead of nearing Retrievers and Mackinaws a bit and increasing yield on Hulks (which isnt gonna make them more attractive for those lonely miners), you should consider a different approach. To make Hulk a viable choice for solo miners, you'd need to introduce a mobile reprocessing structure. Probably with 2 bays, one as ore input the other for mineral output, which you would collect with a cargo ship later on. (Probably would suggest same mineral hold as Kryos with maxed out skill).

This solution wouldnt make mining uber easy and more afky... cause it would require the miner to dumb his ore hold regurarly. I for one would love running a Hulk with this structure.

check the stats, its a new role bonus 50% bonus to damage and hitpoints

Here is a thought.

Give the Proc/Skiff a utility high. Keep the limit of only one mining module, but a utility high for a cloak, tractor beam, remote repper... whatever the case may be.

If the Proc/Skiff is to be the non pacifist choice in exhumers, let's have some fun with it.

Not entirely true... back in the deep dark days (actually, only about a year and a half ago, before my little one hatched) I would often mine solo in deep null with a hulk, while my alt flew a BC with a harvester optimization link and provided rat cover. Every two hours or so, I'd switch the alt to an iteron v to haul back to tower/station, then go back to the BC. Similar story when I lived in a class 3... BC for protection (and a finger busily on d-scan), then flipping to a hauler as needed.