Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello EVE Forums

I have been playing as a nomadic explorer scanning down different sites and roaming many jumps in any direction to find new sites. Now the logistics of doing this has become very tiresome, imagine having a good Cov-ops scanning frigate like a Buzzard and then running the sites with a good Battlecruiser OR mining ship. It means you have to go back and forth to change between the two ships the result is you are spending more time on logistics than scanning and running sites.

So my suggestion for consideration is an ORE designed ship that could possibly have;
Cargo Bay of 3,000 m3
Ore Bay of 20,000 m3
Ship Maintanance Bay of 300,000 m3 (no 3rd party able to refit at hanger)

No Drone bay
No Hardpoints or Missile bays

2 High slot
1 Low slot
2 Mid slots
1 Rigg slot

I would like to see the battlecruiser attached underneath the new ship and carried by it not inside it!!

Possibly it could be anchorable like a secure container and if so hackable by a new mechanic. If that happens only the owner could refit his ship at the maintanance hanger.

Perhaps the battlecruiser choice could be limited to Tier1, 2, or 3.

The ship would not be a salvager or a replacement for team work. It should not be able to carry a mining barge and battlecruiser at the same time.

If the owner chooses mining, then a new rig would reduce the cargobay to 200,000 m3 and the Ore bay up to 130,000 m3, this would allow for retriever or Mackinaw.

Would a covert cloak bonus be good for class 1 and 2 solo wormhole adventurers? A new rig could be made.

Obviously theres going to be new skills and industries of this and perhaps it could make ORE Industrial Skill More usefull.

My resons are purly to help take the forward and back flying out of exploration created by having to changing ships. Please be as harsh, realistic or excited as you want about this idea sa you like im not trying to make EVE . Add your suggestions and alterations.

I believe you have just "reinvented" the Orca.

Also... Battlecruisers generally use about 270k m3 in ship maintenance bays. A retriever (mid-sized barge) uses 150k m3. You still won't have enough room for both (hint: look at T3s)