Science & Industry

Judging by your apparent knowledge of industry and pirate hulls, I think I might skip on your assessment.

As for OP, I definitely agree that the most logical choice would be to simply remove the immobility. As was said, no other boosting ship has this handicap, so why should the rorq?

It's just a ship name as an example. If mineral prices skyrocket in price, then so do ship prices. Stop reading everything for face value and just get the concept.

Pricetag on the Gila doesn't come from the minerals (in the order of 10M to build), but from the BPC (remaining 190M). So a tripled price on the minerals would bring it to 220M. Yawn.

Who says Rorquals won't be used as often?

The entire playstyle for the Rorqual will be different. The Rorqual will now heavily favour groups who have the necessary organisation to use them effectively.

In short, if you have a well organised mining team and the necessary support from your alliance, Rorqual mining will definitely be a big thing.

I agree they will be used less often. Even if the changes are "ideal" and rorqs are viable to use in belts, some players will still stop using rorqs. Some rorqs have always just been AFK in a POS all day long for larger mining groups to use. Some rorq pilots don't have any semblance of skills necessary to fly one where it may come under fire. Some people will just be afraid of losing one.

But I'd like to hope that for the people who do use rorqs wisely, they will be better off than they are now with it sitting behind a POS shield. Consider a solo miner with like 4-8 accounts. He probably has a rorq, 3-6 pilots in skiffs, and 0-1 pilots acting as a hauler. Suddenly his rorq: is in a belt providing boosts that are relatively better than what the average miner in null has since not everyone uses rorqs anymore, is in a belt getting its own yield of maybe 50m/hr with new super mining drones, is providing on-the-spot compression so that no hauler (or no warping in and out of the belt) is necessary anymore, is providing RR support so that hulks are a more attractive option instead of skiffs.

Sure, that rorq WILL die eventually. But after insurance, especially in a quiet area of null (which there are a lot of) or in an alliance where a fleet will happily form for some content that might save the rorq sometimes, it won't take very many hours of operation for that rorq to more than pay for itself. Anything after that point is gravy, more isk made than if the pilot had been using a BC or orca for boosts and not lost his booster... but missed out on the advantages the rorq has.

I does not matter how quiet a nulsec region is when thera holes allow for the projection of overwhelming force to anywhere in the game. Once VOLTA (and friends) knows that you are sieging an roqual in x system, they will check that system whenever they get a hole in your region, (or nearby). I've seen them burn 25 jumps to tackle and kill ratting carriers (who are not immobilized for 5 minutes)

Once your system has several rorqual losses on zkillboard (especially in quiet regions where there are not very many targets), even roaming gangs will farm your rorquals. Also elite pvpers will put cloaky alts in your system and drop bombers on your rorqual.

These complaints are growing rather insipid, now. Clearly you are not familiar with the things people will put themselves through in pursuit of more IPH. Furthermore, we're not talking about any change in the fundamental "annoyingness" of mining - just the yield.

Is this guy whining about Rorqual being bad or V0lta being too good? ;)

I call BS! A small corp doesn't mine enough to be replacing their rorqual all the time. Plus once the enemy figures out you are deploying them in system and can't defend, they will be there every day.

This change is a disaster for rorquals. This whole future of nothing is safe is bad. What made Eve great is somethings are sort of safe, and some are not.