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Hey everyone.

SISI is now updated with the new Prospect expedition frigate that was announced in this dev blog.

We're seeding the ship and the skill required to fly it (Expedition Frigates) on the market so you can give it a try!

The changes to low-sec mining anomalies that were also announced in that dev blog are also in this SISI build, however the changes to the mineral composition of high-end ores will be coming in Crius instead of Kronos and therefore is not in this build.

This thread will be the place to post feedback from your testing of the Prospect and/or the lowsec mining sites.

Thanks!

Should Industry V be a prereq for Expedition Frigates (as it currently is on SISI)? Mining IV (or V) seems a more natural choice, as it affects mining rather than build-time. Astrogeology III or IV, perhaps.

How about using Cloaking 4 as a prereq? (It's essentially one anyway, for covops cloaks; similar to TWR for dreads.)

That change is now scheduled for Crius, with the rest of the industry changes.

So you mean that a T2 ship under gang links and with a full implant set, would actually be able to speed tank the upper class that costs three times less than the prospect itself ?

How is that surprising?

The CPU on the Prospect is kinda low, but I sort of t2'd all the things :3

seems well designed in most aspects.

however.

it has no defence (where NPCs are conserned)

give it back its drone bay and bandwipth. allow it to use 1 or 2 light drones (unbonused)

Wrong tool for the job. What you want is a Thrasher, and you fit a web. If you insist on a Catalyst, then you bring two; one with a web, one with a scram. In either case, a web is more helpful to you than a tracking computer.

Unless you're discussing some kind of suicide gank nonsense; in which case this dies as easily as anything else.

I've been looking at the Prospect stats. Here is some feedback
- Volume 50.000 m3. Shouldn't that be 29.500 m3 same as venture
- Drone capacity/bandwidth 0 m3 / 0 mbit/sec. Should be at least 10 m3/ 10 mbit/sec (venture) to give it some defensive weapons capabilties, because with 2 mining lasers and a cloak as high you don't have any (sacrificing 50% mining capacity is likely a too high price)
- Prospect isn't in ISIS, would have expected it under ORE, above Venture

BTW the Mordu's Legion ships aren't in ISIS as well

Also, there is no listing for it's "packed" size. When I went on Sisi and checked out one I bought there, the size was 50,000m3 even in packed mode.

Inventing for the Prospect requires Gallentean Starship Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing the Prospects requires Gallentean Starship Engineering and Plasma Physics (in addition to other skills). To me the Plasma Physics requirement looks wrong; normally the additional invention science skills match those for manufacturing, the Prospect doesn't have anything like blasters or plasma missiles justify the need for it for manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering is "used in all Starship research as well as hull and armor repair systems" which would make it very logical to include it as a requirement for manufacturing a ship like the Prospect.

Is the Plasma Physiscs requirement an error or intentional?