Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So for the last couple months I've been harvesting gas on my main. It's pretty profitable, and it requires next to no effort or attention. Hell I'm doing it right now while I type this. One sec, need to tab back in to shift my load around.

Cool, now. We have currently six dedicated ORE belt mining ships, T1 and T2. We have two dedicated mining caps (Actually, I don't think the Orca counts as a cap, but close enough). We have a slew of frigates and cruisers that get bonuses to mining. We even have one exhumer that has bonuses for ice mining.

And, recently, you released the Noctis for salvaging.

You keep releasing great ships for things that people find tedious and time consuming, but you leave us gas harvesters in the clouds (Heh).

My proposal, and bear with me here because it's late, is to give either some of the existing ships (Like, say the old tier one battlecruisers, the Ferox for instance) some passive gas harvesting bonuses. Maybe 20% yield, 50% range, -30% cycle.

OR, do like you did with the Noctis, and make a brand new ship from the ground up dedicated solely for the purpose of gas harvesting.

I'm just playing around here with stats, but you can adjust them for balance's sake.

ORE Industrial Bonus:

15% increase in harvester yield per level

10% increase in harvester range per level

15% decrease in harvester cycle length every other level (15%/30%/45% at 1/3/5, respectively)

Ability to fit +1 harvester every other level, (1/3/5), to a maximum of 8 with Gas Cloud Harvesting at 5

Of course, it'd need a large cargohold, or a dedicated gas cargohold that has bonuses similar to the Primae (For PI) or Rorqual (For ore/compressed ore).

I don't expect anyone important to respond to this, it's tired and I'm feeling creative, but I hope somewhere a fellow cloud chaser will see this and bump it so CCP sees it and gives it some thought.

Thanks CCP, I love this game and with some improvements, it'd be even better (For me at least)

-C

This is why we have rigs,modules,implants in the game.


Hell, while were at it , lets go ahead and make a hacking ship, or dedicated science vessel that can explore strange new worlds, seek out.........

I kind of agree with infra52x on this one. Gas Cloud Harvesting is a sub specialty of mining, does it really need a dedicated ship? I did it in WH with an unrigged Omen. Harvesters in high, cargo expanders in low. Very cheap and can be brought in and out packaged.

If we have specific ships for EVERY job in EVE it takes out some of the ingenuity of the game. I doubt there is much variation on how a Noctis is fitted through out the Universe.

Honestly as I gas mine in wspace I tend to use a BS or BC for this.

LOL don't suggest a gas mining vessel when you apparently no nothing about gas mining

Oh, I didn't know about the alchemist implants. Those are actually pretty nice, the 5% reduction to cycle time especially, however that's only two seconds shaved off the cycle time of T2 Harvesters.

The Mining Foreman Link you mentioned is pretty nice too, but good luck fitting that on a harvester-fit Ferox. or even any battleship. Not everyone harvests with an Orca or Rorqual in fleet, you know?

Sure, go ahead and retool the Noctis, or build a third variant of the Primae/Noctis hull that is specialized in gas harvesting.

To the people who are trolling, I really don't know why you guys are trolling me, sure I don't know everything there is to know about the game, but that doesn't give you a free pass to be d-bags about it. Or maybe it does, there must be some official edict somewhere on the Internet.

I'll check /v/.

So CCP, any chance you could take a look-see at this and tell me what you think?

Thanks.

One can argue the T2 harvester is sort of that, since it's got almost literally twice the efficiency. But yeah I know what you mean.

True.

[Ferox, learn-to-use-eft]
Co-Processor II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II

Large Shield Extender II
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
'Dactyl' Type-E Asteroid Analyzer

Gas Cloud Harvester II
Gas Cloud Harvester II
Gas Cloud Harvester II
Gas Cloud Harvester II
Gas Cloud Harvester II
Gas Cloud Harvester II
Mining Foreman Link - Laser Optimization II

Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I


Hornet EC-300 x5

And that's without implant.

How about we just change the Noctis to get bonuses for archaeology, hacking, and gas harvesting in addition to salvaging. Sure, it might become overpowered, prices might soar, but it would eliminate the need for adding yet more ships to the game. Personally, I think the game is starting to have too many ships, but that is just personal opinion.

Also, it would need a way to fit Gas Harvesters without needing Turret Hardpoints. For example:

-1 Turret Hardpoint Requirement for Gas Harvesters (or something like that).

TL:DR I just don't see the point in making a seperate ship for each mini-profession.