Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With the immunity for recon ships to D-scan to be implemented in the next expansion there is another type of ship that needs to be included to that, the Prospect Mining frigate. I I read in on a thread (can't find it currently) that suggestions were being taken for bringing high sec miners in to low and null. The environment of EVE makes that transition problematic with pilots hunting everything that flies everywhere that is not high sec. This is part of the game. But with Recon ships being removed from D-scans, this should be extended to include the Prospect, It is designed and allowed to equip the Covert Ops Cloaking Device II. It's meant to be hidey. This makes a great deal of sense. The hunters would have to do a little more work for their meals? Seems fair to me. As a high sec Miner I'd like to try my hand in some low sec forays but I'd rather not have to be as twitchy as a meth-head to do it and not get podded.

Ships with covert ops cloaks are already immune to dscan while cloaked. No further changes are needed.

You are not getting a damn covert cloaking, nullified, invisible to d-scan, 80AU/sec instawarping, uber-bonused to all things mining ship with bomb bays and siege mods and 1400mm arties with 400% drone damage to fighter bombers and 2000% resists with cynoless jumpdrives and local invisibility and pet CONCORD with deployable structures that fit in the cargo bay that deploy into 1.0 highsec space.

The Venture and the Prospect are both good ships with no changes needed. Learn to use them appropriately.

I could not have asked for a better rendition. Absolutely perfect.

I don't think the Prospect needs the d-scan immunity. All it will do is bring less skilled pilots closer to the more skilled ones, without improving what the more skilled pilots can do with a Prospect.

I see this a lot but noone yet questions if it is a move to make "hunting" move towards combat probes.

As for why combat recons got it I think that will be a complete mystery for everyone for a long time.

With max skills and two Mining Laser Upgrades... it takes a little over 14 minutes for a Prospect to be completely full.

And with a range of 12km on your lasers, you can easily cloak up if you detect anyone on D-scan... or if someone has just landed on grid (your cloak will work as long as you are more than 2km from an object and have not been target locked).


The D-Scan immunity for Combat Recons is supposed to add more "uncertainty" to hunting and choosing engagements... to make things more "unpredictable."

Well I have to say that I'm surprised anyone actually read my post. Thank you. I just wanted to put my two cents in. I am no expert on high risk mining, far from it, but I'd like to try. There's no point hording isk without doing something with it. Fly safe gents.