Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Honestly, I'd rather Skiff drone damage bonus was fixed at 10% per ship skill level like every other ship in EvE instead of just handing out a maxed 50% to every joker who steps into the cockpit.

My only problem is it would be a real hassle to get that last 10%. For the most part I havent trained exhumers V on any of my accounts because its not worth the 3+ weeks of training (it doesn't bramch of to anyother specializations and the rewards are small for the sjips I fly. If it were 5% per level and the other 25% managed to get finagled in somehow I wouldn't mind as much.

Flip the issue over, instead.

Create a type of hardpoint for the exhumer oriented mining lasers, just like exists for turrets and launchers.

Then, you can add in utility slots, and make the mining craft much more interesting.

So you basically reduced Procurer's bonus from 200% to 150% ??? WHY?

EDIT: It would be good to increase bonus to mining time at least to 3 %, and reduce a bit ice mining time role bonus to compensate.

If you have Mining Barge 5, the procurer can mine more effectively than it can today, thanks to the -2% cycle reduction per level bonus added to the ship.

Well, assuming fozzie's little chart is correct it will go up. The yield will drop per cycle but the cycles will be shorter.

I dunno...

Current Procurer has a +200% bonus giving it 3 effective strip miners, correct?

New Procurer will have a 2% cycle time bonus per level and a +150% yield role bonus.
1 +1.5 = 2.5 / 0.9 = 2.778 effective strips. Seems to me that yield is getting nerfed by about 7.5% It might have been compensated when they intended to give it an extra low for another MLU for about a 1% increase in yield when fitted for it, but I'm not seeing it for now.

Also looks like Ice was nerfed by going from 33% ice harvester cycle time to 36% (1 * 0.4 * 0.9).

Perhaps later I'll go over all the other ships too to ensure it's all fine and dandy.

Edit: and by later, it would appear I intended to say as soon as I finished making this post. Find the results here.

Please tell me if there's anything wrong in my spreadsheet. I'm afraid to say I'm too lazy to implement too much function -- such as for implants -- due to laziness, but this gives a baseline and any implant effects would apply to both before and after equally for no net change. Hell, to even add any skills but barges/exhumers was kinda pointless, but who cares. I did it anyways.

Looks fine. I compared the yield per minute summer/current using my sheet and percentages match.
You can use a copy of my yield calculator sheet to get yield/min with implant and fleet boost bonuses.

Agreed with this.

I believe the hulk is supposed to be better at larger group operations, and worse at small and solo group.
I feel an experienced player should automatically disregard the hulk as an option unless they expected to be playing in a group environment with support.

Otherwise, noone needs to use the other exhumers, since it is always somehow practical to just use a hulk instead.

Convenient? Possibly.
Certainly more simple.

But then, for miners able to stagger the outputs of the lasers, this was never really an issue.