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I love this change, the booster pilot will actually have to play the game to some extent.

couple of things.

1. What is the bandwith of the ‘Excavator’ Mining Superdrones ? I assume 25mbits?

2. Does the panic button make the rorqual invulnerable too?

3. I don't really understand the need to freeze the mining ships, surely they warp out quickly enough to make it a moot point? Unless of course you are not watching intel/local etc. If someone warps into your mining fleet in a belt you must be doing something wrong right?

The problem with the changes is that it only helps large corporations as they will have the resources and combat pilots to help a besieged Rorqual. Most large corporations also have large regions of space that they control and should have ample warning to get their operations to safety. Smaller corporations that have Rorquals in places like Syndicate are screwed. Basicically CCP is charging ahead regardless of smaller organizations just as long as they please the Sov corps.

So will smaller corps get refunds on their Rorquals and skill points. I can hit the "panic " button all I want in syndicate but no helps coming.

Hold up guys...you hear that? It's the sound of a thousand Russian renters stripping entire regions clean in a day.

This is the way i thought mining worked when i got my first Orca. When we got hotdropped i learned you did not have to boost on grid. Now things are going back to the way i thought they were when i trained for capital industry. Thank you CCP for getting the Orcas and Rorquals out of the POS. Now i might actually need to use my cap industry ships, instead of bumming boosts out of a POS.

About the cyno. If the PANIC module stops miners from lighting cyno it should stop EVERYONE from lighting a cyno. A Rorqual fleet should not have to watch 100 capitals/cov ops jump in while their friends can't. How would the mining fleet keep a cyno up after that? It does not take long for a few supers to destroy everything on grid. Cyno lighting should be equal for both parties, not one sided.

Thanks
-Lord Bistro Ullr

Are you guys going to allow the Rorqual in HighSec?
There's a drastic difference between a drone Orca mining yield being the equivalent of an exhumer and a drone Rorqual mining yield being the equivalent of 5 exhumers.

** Yes, mining in NS/LS is higher risk so should = higher reward. But looking over the numbers, an Orca = 1 exhumer yield vs a Rorqual = 5 exhumer yield is a pretty large gap!

Cap ships can already jump though some WH, and are still unable to enter HS.

What's the point on using a Rorqual then if a Orca has better boosts and cheaper? I would like to see it be able to come to high sec because without having a large defence fleet to back it up you would have to be crazy to use this on grid in null.

Boosters are part of the active fleet. Instead of 1 person benefiting a whole system, now you have an opportunity to provide *active* gameplay for CASMA with multiple people filling that role for each mining operation in progress. Seems like a much better role for an actual EVE player to fill vs. someone who logs on in the morning and sits AFK all day...

So, If I mine the best null ice, I can basically make 1.7B per hour with just Rorqual

All these changes really aren't any different than what you said a few months ago. Why the long wait to get a dev blog out?

Anyway, I wasn't really impressed then and not now either. The jump changes and orca buffs are nice but, maybe I'm missing something but the Rorq is still pretty boring to fly and doesn't support a dedicated pilot to use. Most people will still use Alts due to the cost and literal boring gameplay. While the drone bonus is nice, it still just sitting there doing little (Yes, I get that mining isn't exciting already).

As far as the core, if you are set on five minutes of immobility, then at least reduce the timer to 3-4min on a tech 2 variant. I doubt anyone is going to use it much because it's an easy kill.

You should be able to cyno under the effect of panic. Hot drop fleets are common, and defending against one should be common also. If you mine seven systems away from friendly fleets, they'll never make it to you to defend in time but a hostile fleet could jump on you immediately.


Overall, I guess I was hoping for more but this is about what I expected, changes to existing items and bonuses but not much else. Not interested in mining anymore honestly and this doesn't nothing for me.