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We have that, with the Orca(50% range) to the Rorqual(50% range, with another 100% or 200% range on the Industrial Core)

I think the issue here is you're equating the Porpoise to the BC slot when the Orca serves more closely to that boosting slot in the mining progression chain with the Porpoise filling the role more closely aligned to the Command Destroyer in terms of being the lowest tier on the chain.

There's nothing that says that the Porpoise needs to fit the role of a "Mining BC" just because of its size.

You're still equating size with boosting performance.

Mining ships are not combat ships and don't need to be balanced along the same lines. If you feel that the range bonus is more valuable than the mining amount bonus then you've already got that option in the form of a Combat BC. If you just want both then CCP have made their value judgement on that combination of bonuses pretty clear with how they distributed them between the Porpoise, Orca, and Rorqual.

Actually they do need balancing along the same lines as combat ships. Just instead of DPS bonuses they get mining/hauling bonuses. But otherwise they should be balanced along the same lines as combat ships.

The fact that they haven't been till now is why we have such a cultural bias treating miners as second class citizens of EVE, because CCP themselves have been treating them as second class citizens and not allowing them to actually fit their ships with any variety. Compare the number of slots, PG & CPU to an equivalent size/cost Combat ship. If the answer is not 'Basically the same' then there is an issue, and Industrialists will continue to get mistreated.

And yes, giving them the same means people will come up with some combat uses for them, And? Why is this a bad thing if someone decided that a proper fittable freighter made a great pipe bombing ship. Who cares, it's out in space at risk doing stuff.

So yes it should have the range bonus.
And it should have the same fitting options.

So give the range bonus to mining bursts only.

*Edit*
Actually I take that back. lol. That's a really bad idea. They need the other bursts as well. I don't think that giving them the ability to work an entire belt will break the game.

This is a hilarious and not all that inappropriate idea.

It would give it a unique role that would go well with the t2 mining frigs for "blops ninja mining" fleets.

I support giving the porpoise covops cloaking, and perhaps a role bonus that made its boosts more effective on expedition frigs. it would give the ship a use byond "That thing you get when you can't get an Orca" without removing its progression based utility.

You could use it with a blops BS and some expedition frigs to give people interesting options.

Mining hulls are not treated the same as a target.

They are not combat ships. They are targets of opportunity. Their entire job is to create objective context for combat ships by being the primary source of minerals that the economy needs.

They do not, nor should they obey the same balancing metrics as combat ships because they have a completely separate design intent.

Also keep in mind CCP hasn't stated exactly what the new drilling platform structures actually DO, and the only image we have of one is anchored IN a belt. If drilling platforms are actually capable of drilling a belt from a fixed position, perhaps requiring a player to occupy and run it like structure weapons, it drastically changes the overall employment and intent of mining ships and possibly the overall utility of mining boosts.

We could very well be on our way to an EVE where mining with a spaceship is one of two options for resource gathering, the other being hauling industrials to deploy, anchor, and unanchor tankier fixed platforms for the length of an op.

1.just got off singularity and the fleet hanger for the porpoise is only 2k m3 not what you posted did you change that and not tell us
2. not sure if needs to be here or on burst but why are the mining burst creating a weapons timer you will not be able to dock and get back to the fleet in time to give boosts again is this planed for or mistake

The design intent is quite clear. Mining ships are bonused primarily for mining. That is their function. The fact that more rewarding ore is found in lower security space makes it pretty clear that the entire point of mining as a spaceship activity exists, primarily, to provide long term objective context for fighting.

You know, because you need those minerals to replace ships, and because the primary value of everything in the game revolves around mineral value, making mining ships the underpin of the entire entropy-based economic model.

Yes, mining ships are designed as targets for combat ships because of their intrinsic value as economic engines. This is why they aren't as good at combat as... ships designed for combat. Just like logi ships shouldn't be great at combat, or hacking ships, etc.

Different ships have different roles and different jobs, and thus different places in the implied overall metagame. The job of a mining ship is to present a target by being forced to remain visible and immobile for long stretches of time, and it is rewarded for this role by being extremely efficient at generating value for itself while doing so.

I'm not arguing they should be useless, or untankable, but the current list of changes makes sense. Mining ships are roughly able to fit enough DPS alongside mining gear to engage at -1 on their threat/size scale, with the smallest ships being primarily bonused for not fighting at all (and in stead being agile, warp stabbed, and cloak tanked)

I sm hoping they meant 20,000 m3. <.<

I think with the command bursts being the only way to get boosts its pretty important to have smaller cheaper boosting ships.

Where before you could get a small boost just by having the skill on the FC, now you have to fit a module, so having dedicated cheap platforms for those modules is pretty important even if they don't offer the same range of utility as their larger brethren.