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The only group that has killed ratting carriers in their space in past 5 months is us (Bombers Bar). So I know them very well, and they are the most organized group when it comes to protecting their ratters.

I would have no problem if it was the BPO in ORE space, that is fine.

What I am saying is it looks like there will be NO BPO's only BPC's from the ORE LP store.

It's not greedy, it's just good organisation and cooperation. I'm not going to let my multi billion ISK ship die to honor the illusion of a fair fight when there's 10 dudes standing by to jump in and save my ass, and give them something to shoot at in the process. No-one would, including you.

That said, plenty of Rorquals will die in Delve due to utter stupidity and miscommunication. Hunting Rorquals in Delve is going to be like playing on hard difficulty, absolutely. Plenty of other places with easier kills to score. But that's not to say that it's impossible.

Have you ever checked how many carriers you (Goonswarm Federation) have lost since you moved in Delve? I did. 10. 4 of them died to us (Bombers Bar) in two separate occasions. And all those carriers that were killed didn't have or light a cyno. Imagine giving them a PANIC button. Entire 10 minutes to burn a cyno or a support fleet to the system. Meanwhile there has been at least one or two occasions per month where you smartbombed entire ganking fleets to nonexistence. Other people seems to have given up coming to your space. Given the enormous PvE activity in your space I would say statistically this is already about %100 safe PvE capability. If you lose one carrier a month you will lose Rorquals at an even slower rate. Perhaps once every 6 months? That's not plenty.

PvE in this game is about risk/reward. You are supposed to be taking more risk when you are moving your PvE activity from more secure to less secure space, whilst increasing the reward to be worth it. And the gankers are supposed to be the biggest risk you take, and hotdrop groups are supposed to be the epitome of this risk for their ability to infiltrate behind enemy lines and snatch a kill before help arrives.

You talk about how your ship costs multi billions but you ignore the reward side of it. You are getting 300m/hr mining machines. They make up their cost in 10 hours of activity. A ratting carrier might be 20 hours. Given these rates a healthy risk/reward balance I think is around losing a ship every 70-100 hours of ratting. Given the risk you are supposed to take, 1/10th of your earnings is a fair amount to lose to the risk factors.

Now being from a highly organized alliance I think you are under this illusion that you are somehow entitled to above-described approximately %100 safe ratting statistics just because you are organized, but you are not. Organization should at best improve your statistics greatly. Say maybe a death 150 or 200 hours of PvE. Given hundreds of carrier accounts ratting in Delve and NPC killing stats we see on Dotlan every day, it is safe to say that the stats are nowhere even closely near this balance. And for Rorquals it is even going to be less risk and more reward.

The whole PvE-ganking mechanics of nullsec should be designed with the above mentioned balance factors in mind and tuned until the desired statistics (mine was an example, there can be more talk on these numbers) are reached. The fine tuning might include rethinking local, mobile cyno inhibs, PANIC buttons, and other factors, and definitely increasing reward in less secure space (for which the Rorq changes are appropriate) as well. This is not because I am a ganker and I want more targets. This is because a proper risk/reward balance makes a more meaningful game for all of us. For example, you will now have a huge competitive advantage vs. unorganized, small group Rorquals/miners. You should have some due to your organization needing to be rewarded, but not this much.

PS: I won't even get into the discussion regarding a fair fights. I'm sure you are not new to Eve.

EDIT: I just realized you can actually filter zkill to see carrier kills per corp so I checked again. The actual number is 11 since they established in Delve (August). Still very low.

They look like they lost more ratter ISK to NPCs than gankers.

I'm not really sure what to think of these changes.
All of the follwing only if my math is correct:
You can get up to 1,78million m3 per hour and rorqual (assuming perfect skills and no drone travel time).
Even with travel time, can easily get more than a million m3 per hour.
This means, a single player in a single ship can mine his own supercapital in under a day.

This is just madness and has the potential to crash the whole market! Imagine those null miners with 20+ accounts at once in combination with the new engineering complexes - they can easily outproduce the whole highsec with just a bit of coordination and turn the import market into an export market. Mineral prices probably will fall into the abyss.

In the current state, it really looks way tol overpowered to me.
With just a few accounts and rorquals you can build your own citadel empire in a few weeks...

It would be nice if you gave them some kind of achilles heel like not being able to pull in their drones while they are invuln.

I'm pretty sure the Achilles heel of the Rorqual is "being a mining ship".

Sry for double post

That's certainly more in line with an escape mechanism concept, but I'm not sure about the "unable to move" part, IDK... Rorqual already takes forever to align – but then again, if the idea is teleporting instantly instead of a "forced warp", it would be fair. About the Rorqual being unable to cloak, it would be totally fair.

In that scenario, gankers/whalers would always bring combat probes (as they actually already do), and they'd just wait for the Rorqual to "teleport" somewhere, scan it down and warp in for the kill. In the meantime, the Rorqual pilot is hammering warp key, spamming friendly channels and praying for his beloved ship. You'd have to take into account the time it takes for a Rorqual to align, warp, the time it takes for a combat probe to lock it and the gankers to arrive or at least point it. Anyway, sounds like fun for both sides.