Ships & Modules

With the new increase of the importance of mining i would like to see the following be implemented.

Ore Capital Mining Barge (OCMB)

Meet the Orca Refitted to provided the optimum Mining potential for large assisted mining operations.

8 high slots
3 mid slots
2 low slots

Due to its massive modifications this massive mining barge is able to fit up to 8 strip miner II but is unable to receive bonuses from Orca support due to its capital systems being unable to integrate into others.

Its cargo hold is reduced to 0 and it is only provided with the Orca's 50,000m3 ore hold.

unable to fit gang-link modals or receive benefits from them

Shields and armor should be minimal as this ship is meant to have a large body of support but a large hull structure is expected it is a capital ship.

Receives benefits from Mining Foreman and Mining Director

Skill Requirements

Mining 5
Mining Drones 4
Drones 5
Drone Interfacing 5
Mining Barge 5
Exumer 5
Capital Ships 3
Industrial Command ships 3
Advanced Spaceship Command 4
Ore Industrial 4
Mining Upgrades 5

Optional

Capital Strip miner I's no crystals but bulk mining capabilities. More then Strip miner I's combined but less then Strip miner II's with t2 Crystals.

Allow it to have a larger drone bay capable of carrying and operating flights of 10-15 mining drones and mining drones only.

Do to structural instabilities is unable to travel through wormholes though it can be built in them but must be left behind once the corp moves on.


Why?
Without drone mats being available for large productions null sec miners needed to step it up. ORE came up with the go big or go home response of the (OCMB)

Comments: Please

Er...

Anyway, just no.

Why stop at 2.5 times the yield of a Hulk? Why not just go full out and say, "Here's a ship that costs five billion to make, but it mines as many as a HUNDRED Hulks"?

Also


Not every 2 cycles since quote above: doesn't benefit from any sort of booster

Then hauler: Orca= over 130k M3 of ore you can stock in all cargos available in this ship is not enough?
If you can't do this you're doing it wrong.

Better see the hulk receive better fittings, better base ehp amount and another strip hard point to make yeld significantly different from it's base model and worthy enough to take the risk of mining with one.

You can EvEn put Iterons in ship bay fitted for cargo, tell one of your miners to fill them, stock. Increasing your overall cargo ability up to about 200 000 M3

Just give the Hulk some powergrid to run one of those new ancillary shield boosters and we're done with it.

You should throw in a 5-min align time, unaffected by Jump Drive Operation, and make it warpable on overview and show up on the galaxy map.

Didn't read all of your version of it because it's dumb, but the idea of a mining dreadnought may be okay. Give it 10 minute siege mode, and a lot of yield. The siege mode is critical for balancing it; otherwise it's just a big hulk rather than a juicy target. A problem, however, is huge blob alliances deployed them in cynojammed systems with capital support (should not exist but that's for a different through), or in deadend pockets behind several raepcaged, scouted gates, docking them up or jumping them out before hostiles can arrive.

Funny how people keep thinking that making ships that mine more will, over time, make you more isk. it won't, All it'll do is make mineral prices plummet and hurt newbie miners.

"Rage and fake arguments" like the fact that active tanks simply do not work against alpha strikes, or in fights that are over in just a few seconds?

Er, no ... overhaul industry (mining, research, manufacturing, the works) and THEN introduce new stuff. That and capital boats just shouldn't be very "hands on" in general. They should be mostly relegated to force projection and structure popping/repping, for the sake of keeping the game as a whole fun. We don't want to continue the trend of "Supercaps Online."