Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well, Fozzie wanted to make one and I have been working on one in my head for a while. Check it out and see what you think.

Ore Strategic Industrial bonuses:
5% reduction in module heat damage amount taken per level

Industrial Subsystems

Proletariat Industrial - Exhumation Matrix
3 Highslots
5% bonus to Strip Miner and Ice Harvester range per level
6% reduction in Strip Miner and Ice Harvester duration per level

Proletariat Industrial - Covert Configuration
3 Highslots
7.5% bonus to Mining yield per level
5% reduction in Gas Cloud Harvesting duration per level
Role Bonus:
100% bonus to Mining and Gas Cloud Harvesting yield
100% reduction in Cloaking Devices CPU requirement
50% reduction to ship cargo capacity
• Can fit Covert Ops Cloaking Device and Covert Cynosural Field Generator
• Cloak reactivation delay reduced to 5 seconds

Proletariat Industrial - Salvage rescue systems
5 Highslots
5% reduction in Salvager duration per level

Proletariat Industrial - Foreman Processor
3 Highslots + 1 Medslot
2% bonus to Mining Foreman Links effectiveness per level
Role Bonus:
• Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously

Cargo Subsystems

Proletariat Cargo - Ore Transports
1 Medslot + 2 Lowslot
Cargo Capacity 550 + Ore Capacity 40,000
10% bonus to ship ore hold capacity per level

Proletariat Cargo - Planetary Resources Transports
1 Medslot + 2 Lowslot
Cargo Capacity 550 + Planetary Commodity Capacity 40,000
10% bonus to ship planetary commodity hold capacity per level

Proletariat Cargo - Ship Transports
1 Medslot + 2 Lowslot
Cargo Capacity 550 + Ship Maintenance Bay Capacity 1,000,000

Proletariat Cargo - Danger zone transports
4 Medslot + 2 Lowslot
Cargo Capacity 5000 + Fleet Hangar Capacity 45,000
5% bonus to fleet hangar capacity per level
4% bonus to all shield resistances per level

Propulsion Subsystems

Proletariat Propulsion - Cargo Storage Optimization
2 Lowslot
2% bonus to ship cargo capacity per level
Role Bonus:
25% reduction to ship max velocity

Proletariat Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst
1 Medslot + 1 Lowslot
10% bonus to afterburner speed per level

Proletariat Propulsion - Chassis Optimization
2 Lowslot
5% bonus to max velocity per level

Proletariat Propulsion - Interdiction Nullifier
5% increased agility per level
Role Bonus:
Immunity to non-targeted interdiction

Engineering Subsystems

Proletariat Engineering - Superior heat injection
3 Lowslots
17.5% bonus to the benefits of overheating Afterburners, Microwarpdrives, Local Repair Modules and Resistance Modules per level

Proletariat Engineering - Supplemental Coolant Injector
3 Lowslots
5% Reduction in the amount of heat damage absorbed by modules per level

Proletariat Engineering- Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
3 Lowslots
5% reduction in capacitor recharge rate per level

Proletariat Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir
3 Lowslots
5% bonus to capacitor capacity per level

Electronic Subsystems

Proletariat Electronic - Tractor Efficiency Crystals
3 Highslots
5% reduction in Tractor Beam duration per level
60% bonus to Tractor Beam range and velocity per level

Proletariat Electronic - Tactical Surveys
1 Highslot 1 Medslot
100% bonus to Survey Scanner range per level

Proletariat Electronic - Minimalist Sensor Radiant
1 Lowslot
5% reduction in signature radius per level

Proletariat Electronic - Emergent Locus
1 Highslot + 2 Medslot
10% increase to scan strength of probes per level
Role Bonus:
+10 bonus to Relic and Data Analyzer virus strength

So every time I kill a miner I also get the satisfaction of knowing I took away some SP from him as well, sweet.

How many strip miners this ship could have ? By reading the 5 subsystem category I see 4 highslot, isn't that a little too much with the +40k ore hold ? it's seem better than any exhumer at first sight, and that's without the other things like better agility and overheat bonus for tank, but I see that this configuration would give 1 or 2 midslot only, so no big shield tank possible.
One other thing though is I see too many lowslot for the "ore miner" configuration, something like 6 here allow for both yield and tank.

Seems very cool for the rest, I would fly in this ship all day long.

So you want to obsolete all T1 and T2 industrials, mining barges, Exhumers and the Noctis with a single hull. Can't see it happening.

Not supported.

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Which is the main problem with the subsystem model.

Maybe a option would be to reduce the total number of low slot given in any configuration by 2 or 3, we can easily have too many of them in a bunch of configuration, reduce the ore hold to 25k + bonus per skill, and limit the number of strip miners to 2 or 3.
For the rest I can't really tell, maybe 1 or 2 midslot added for the active shield one and propulsion bonused one ?

So, the way to make such a ship workable is to limit the subsystem types a bit.

Anything which needs or uses highs goes in the role system.
Engineering specs and electronics determine entirely the number of mids
Utility and propulsion give lows.

Now you can have a noctis like configuration without the large number of highs this yields unbalancing any mining subsystem.
Your cargo configurations don't get excessive lows through an electronics system.
Etc.

In any single area, the subsystem bonus and slots should not exceed about 90% of the ability of any of the ships it is competing with, due to now being forced into doing at least 2 things at once for it's value. Super mackinaw would need to have similar but slightly lower yield to a mackinaw, and some other thing that a mackinaw lacks to make it a valid choice. Ditto a noctis-like configuration, or a DST configuration or a whatever configuration.

full support, +1

that is as long as the materials cost for the hull and subsystems combined are are proportional to the price of strategic cruisers, and then a shitload more. the cost just one of these should get blops teams creaming themselves for hotdrop o'clock.

and an idea for fun: cannot join fleets, rambo mining only.

Can end up as a lovely 6 link booster, with armor + shield resists, all the mining links and maybe the info link with lock range.....

+1.