Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Quarry is an Expedition Frigate specialized in mining mercoxit. Unlike its brothers, the Prospect and the Endurance, it receives no bonus to cloaking. Instead, it gains immunity to non-targeted interdiction, allowing it to dodge the gate camps of null-security space but putting a limit to its usefulness in other areas of space. It also lacks the Expedition Frigate skill bonus to general mining yield of the Prospect, instead opting for a larger boost to mercoxit mining yield.

With this bonus, the Quarry becomes slightly more effective at mining mercoxit than a Procurer or Retriever, but less so than any exhumer. Additionally, its ore hold is smaller than even the Venture. At 4,000m3 it is able to hold 100 units of mercoxit, or just over 3.5 million worth of ore at current Jita prices; somewhat less than a full load of arkonor in a Prospect (10,000m3).

Quarry
High Slots - 3 (2 turret hardpoints)
Medium Slots - 4
Low Slots - 3

Expedition Frigate skill bonus (per level):
7.5% bonus to mercoxit mining yield
5% bonus to ship agility

Mining Frigate skill bonus (per level):
5% bonus to mining yield
5% increase in warp speed

Role Bonus:
100% bonus to mining yield
Immune to non-targeted interdiction

Well the same point there is fpr an ice-mining frigate. Giving "low" SP and low efficiency alternatives, to give a coherent game progression to new players wanting to look at null-sec mining. Because, let's be realist, until JF get nerfed again, it's more interesting to mine high-end ores, export them to Jita, buy low-end ores and import them tou the NullSec you live in.

the prospect already fills this role just fine same with dodging gate camps this ship is redundant

you cant compare apples with oranges and besides you got 2 mining frigites and soon a third will be added, they can do every mining job good enough.

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also there isn't a mining barge nor exhumer that is specialized in mercoxit mining as far as i am aware give me a good reason why the mining frigites must be an exception?

The Venture is T1, expendable and with low performance. Cheap crap.
The Prospect is covert ops with bonuses to gas harvesting, but with a horrible layout. Expensive crap.
The Endurance is entirely specialized for ice mining. Possible crap.

What I'm suggesting is a different beast entirely.


There was. It was called the Skiff.


Are you afraid that a mining frigate is going to upset the PvP balance of the game?

The intent is that the ship be used to ninja mine mercoxit in null-sec.

Without a covert ops cloak, one could say it's even inferior to the Prospect outside of null-sec. And I have doubts that a covert ops is going to get caught by just a few bubbles, mining frigate or not. What you see as risk reduction isn't really there. It gives up that bit of safety provided by a covert ops cloak, and is easier to catch manually than an interceptor.

You do understand I was speaking rhetorically, right?

how am i comparing an inti to a covert ops?


also you seem to think merx is something other than ore when it is not its just ore the yield bonus of the prospect covers it

your idea is in just about every way redundant


there is already an ore mining frigate that can avoid gate camps in fact the prospect can avoid gate camps much better than your idea


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also you seem to use the fact that there used to be a ship the specialized in merx mining as justification for why a new one needs to be added. you ever think there may be a reason why you need to talk about the skiffs bonus in the past tens

having another mining frig is just too much atm. maybe later down the line when ccp fix caps get the Citadels released