Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm going to be honest i haven't talked this out much before hand.


With the prospect we can now bridge a mining fleet out to a field in ls or null sec opening up a new form of mining. the problem is the only options you have to get the ore back is to bridge the prospects to and from the belts or use a BR. do to the low cargo of a BR the amount you need per prospect makes it more profitable just to put that man power into HS hulks. Using the prospects to go back and forth is to slow as they need to wait out the fatigue again making that man power better spent mining in HS as that is simply more isk/hr particularly when you start to factor in the iso and ozone cost for either option. however an ore transport ship with as little as 30km3 ore hold would make these fleets viable.

basically i'm just sad that a more exciting option to mining is just not a good investment back on time spent. My corp still does it to break up the monotony but i think a ship like this would get more board miners out of HS even if its only for a few hrs

tl;dr
Problem: when the prospect came out it inadvertently teased at a new form of game-play and while it is fun it is not profitable because not all the tools are there.

Solution: add in a Bridgeable ore hauler to make blops mining profitable.

30k Covops hauler would be very overpowered because it has many uses other than hauling ore for a blops mining OP.


I don't mine so I don't pretend to have a solution.

I misread the ore hold bit.

With that in mind it could revitalise more than just blops mining, it could help mining in low sec as well. Not a bad idea.

I don't think it really needs much more to be useful maybe a tractor bonus (keeping prospects far apart is a good idea with these ops for cloaky reasons)

Would a balance caveat of a marked increase to mass be agreeable? I can see this idea and its looking like fleshed out it be nicet. Just needs some kind of "downside". So mass to make the blop work the bridge harder moving that mass seems reasonable to me. Would fall in line with them being bigger to carry more.

Fair enough. I wasn't looking for oversized plated down brick tank of doom armour bs mass. Just a little to cover the added size and maybe some, but not too much, logistics headaches. You know, create the chance for oh crap miscalculated fuel, rush to get some and hope no roams swings by stuff. Kind of like when a carrier pilot didn't bring enough fuel. Makes the night fun for all sides sometimes. And not have it SSDD moving x ships, know the fuel needed since old hat, yawn, bridge up jump jump jump.

With this stuff going to empire and currently living their sure as hell don't want massive headaches becoming massive price spikes lol.

I would support this idea, its not like the other threads asking for haulers that do everything but specialized bays on a blockade runner, even as simple as an ore bay would be diverse, role specific and of course content and economic benefits accompany them as well.

My only question, and pardon me as i did just wake up and may have missed something is how to implement this idea. Would it be another ship entirely? Or perhaps just a slot that you fill with a certain module or subsystem that removes standard cargo in place of specialized cargo? And if option 2 how many specialized bays should be permitted?

Another primae hull! \o/

Role bonus to jump fatigue for back and forths?

Isn't it the Miasmos that has the Ore Bay in the T1 Haulers?

Thus making this new ship logically a T2 version of the Miasmos?

I think you should be able to conduct covert ops mining operations in a large scale like you imagine.