Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Last night while gas harvesting I began to think about how Gas Harvesters don't have a ship to call their own. While the Venture is good it doesn't make any use of the Gas harvesting skill and the only reason to Level Gas Harvesting past 2 is to use Gas Harvester II.

For those that don't know. The Gas Harvesting skill increases the amount of Harvesters you can have on your ship up to a max of five.
This is Nice and all but no one is going to run out in say a Cruiser to use more harvesters. Currently there isn't a Ship that would make use of all five and Beat the Venture in Yield.


So my suggestion is to add Dedicated gas harvesting ships.

Now there's a few Ideas I had. 1 being a Gas Harvesting Frigate and the other a Mining Barge.

(Don't Ask for names Cause I'm horrrrrrrrrible at coming up with stuff like that.)

Much like the Venture only specialized for Gas Harvesting.

Requirements:


III Gas Harvesting
I Mining Frigate

3 High (With 3 Turret Hard Points)
3 Med
1 Low

Shields: 500
Armor: 250
Hull: 100
Ore Hold: 5000

Role Bonus:

100% to Gas Harvesting
May Only Equip Gas Harvesters

Mining Frigate Bonus:

5% Reduction in Gas cloud harvesting duration per Level.

Like I said Just like the Venture only Specialized for gas.


My other idea revolved around Mining Barges.


Requirements:


V Gas Harvesting
I Mining Barge


5 High (With 5 Turret Hard Points)
1 Med
2 Low

Shields: 2400
Armor: 1800
Hull: 2300
Ore Hold: 8000

Role Bonus:

200% Yield to Gas Harvesters
May Only Equip Gas Harvesters

Mining Barge:

10% Reduction in Gas cloud harvesting duration per Level.


These two ships would be like the others The Mining Frigate easy to get out with but is destroyed easily. The Barge Slow but able to take a little of a beating.


Other Ideas:

Gas Harvesting Upgrade I

Reduces Harvesting duration at cost of CPU Usage

Cycle Time Bonus 5%
CPU Penalty 10%

Gas Harvesting Upgrade II

Cycle Time Bonus 9%
CPU Penalty 12.5%

Gas Harvesting Rig

400 Calibration Cost

50% Yield to Gas Harvesters


Again these are Idea's They don't seem to Overpowered to me but then again they just might be.

You are asking for a ship that would beat the current best gas miner by 2.5 times and you also want rigs that make gas mining 50% better per rig etc...

How about you people stop making buff me threads.

True statements. I made this thread cause its redundant to give us a skill that lets us use 5 Harvesters and you'll only ever use 2.

This much is true, the supply spikes and prices fall, isk/hour would still rise up, I guess haulers would have the work/hour then, to get the gas out of the WH.