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Bowhead Idea
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Sakaras Lane
Unknown-Entity
Naga Please.
#1 - 2016-11-28 01:59:29 UTC
Bowhead – ORE ships are designed for deep space tactical deployment I feel that the Bowhead is missing this aspect of ORE ships. I feel that one change would make the bowhead extremely useful and used more outside of simple high security ship movement. This change would allow groups to use bowheads to skirmish project into regions as well as helping wormholers to better day trip.

- New mid or high slot only bowhead “Tactical Nanite Dispersion Array” Must be loaded with nanite, burns 10 nanite per 1 minute cycle deploying a repair ring similar the Austrhuse but with no safety tether. While activated the Bowhead cannot warp, align and will remain on gird if logged while module is running, Tactical Nanite Dispersion Array cannot be used inside a pos force field.
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#2 - 2016-11-28 02:28:29 UTC
The bowhead is a freighter, not a mobile base. What you want is an orca.

Use an orca with remote reps or use the orcas bay to refit to local reps when you need repairs.

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Sakaras Lane
Unknown-Entity
Naga Please.
#3 - 2016-11-28 05:02:55 UTC
What I want is to give some use to a ship that hauls fitted ships and I want it to be able to repair hull armor and overheat just like a mini citadel
Cade Windstalker
#4 - 2016-11-28 16:34:43 UTC
Sakaras Lane wrote:
What I want is to give some use to a ship that hauls fitted ships and I want it to be able to repair hull armor and overheat just like a mini citadel


So, what you want is a Carrier.

The Bowhead doesn't need a new use, it's fine as-is. The reason it's an ORE ship instead of something else is because ORE more or less fits the role of the Bowhead, and adding a useful freighter like that to one of the other existing faction freighter skills would imbalance the return value of training that skill.
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#5 - 2016-11-28 18:08:40 UTC
Sakaras Lane wrote:
What I want is to give some use to a ship that hauls fitted ships and I want it to be able to repair hull armor and overheat just like a mini citadel


Why does it have to be a bowhead that does this? why cant you use the exsiting ships that can do this already?

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Zan Shiro
Doomheim
#6 - 2016-11-28 22:13:37 UTC
Daichi Yamato wrote:
Sakaras Lane wrote:
What I want is to give some use to a ship that hauls fitted ships and I want it to be able to repair hull armor and overheat just like a mini citadel


Why does it have to be a bowhead that does this? why cant you use the exsiting ships that can do this already?



I'd guess they don't want to train the mining director/foreman skills. I'd have some empathy but...I just did this on another char to have 2 chars that can fly my orca. On a remap that sucks for leadership. ran off decent enough. And the punchline....I haven't mined in years. Its a nice hauler imo. can do other things if needed as well.


OP as you said this hauls fitted ships. that's its task. Orca is a operations support ship. It got some nice buffs and in a pinch can put out some drone damage now. MWD trick and 1 warp speed rig....she can move decent too (for the brick of a ship she is). Something to consider.