Science & Industry

A fore note:

1) Should this be in the ship channel? Probably. But I'm sure it would get trolled to death instantly so I'm dropping this post in with the science and industry guys as the root of this idea is to aid industry. Dev's will decide.
2) No, I do not need one of these ships floating around my head to suck up all the noxious gas that is emanating from my mouth. Nothing wrong with spit-balling.

So, we mine - we get mining barges/exhumers. We do PI, we get the Primae. We salvage, we get the Noctis, etc.

Is there any reason we don't have an ORE ship dedicated to gas cloud harvesting? Or is this something that might be on the cards? I ask because I live in a WH and have always discarded Ladar sites as a scanning nuisance. Well, now I want to get into T3 production - so I need these clouds.

Obviously we can get by with BC's and BS's, the same way we did with destroyers/BC's for salvaging for so long. But wouldn't it be nice to have a dedicated ship to fill that hole in the industrial equipment market?

A modified mining barge that can support five turrets? A revamped Noctis (cargo hold could be made just about large enough as it is - just tweak the bonuses and hard-points to suit). A new ship entirely?

Edit: I have checked Google and EvE-Search for a similar topic, btw. Came out fruitless.

I used a Myrmidon with the Mining Foreman Link booster. Just fleet with an alt or someone else in the WH for the bonus.

I have a Hurricane at the moment which I will fit up. Glad I chose that ship then

Like the idea of EWAR and WS. Don't like it when people are mean to me and I haven't got the means to fight back, lol

a gas mining ship would be a great addition to the indy fleet of eve. for my money it has to be a brand new hull, partly because i dont think anything that would be considerd has already been spoken for IMO but mostly because i like shiney new toys =)

[Maller, Gas Miner]

5x Gas Cloud Harvester II
Prototype Cloaking Device I

Co-Processor II
5x Expanded Cargohold II

3x Medium Cargohold Optimization I


1435 M^3 and 3 free mid slots..go nuts.

The reason for a new ship is to get some sort of bonus or utility out of it that other ships do not currently provide. Being able to attach a mindlink (like BC's) for mining cycle reduction, or a built in reduction plus a large cargo bay would be ideal. Using BC's right now is just proving the OP's original point, which I think is a good one.

I'd also support random gas clouds from exploration to be added as well with this new ship

Note: there are mining missions that this ship would be useful for as well.

I use an Exequor with expanders I can get almost 3 k hold. You will only get 4 harvesters on it but it does the job pretty well.

Yup, I am aware. And I don't use Primae for my PI either for the reason you stated. But that's not the point. The fact of the matter is there is a ship dedicated to PI. Whether it's good at it or not is 'meh'. However, I'm confident that a gas-harvesting ship would NOT be awful. It would have to be better than any of the current 'bastard-ised' ships people currently use.

Here's something T'amber Anomandari Demaleon cooked up, and something along these lines could fit the bill nicely (but obviously each race would have their own varient - unless it was a ship produced by ORE, of course)

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s260/MrOosterman/eve%20ships/ferox_industrialresponseunit.jpg

What do you think for a bit of fun:

Battlecruiser Skill Level: 20% bonus to cargohold capacity per level*
Gas Cloud Harvesting: 5% bonus to Gas Harvester cycle time and 7.5% bonus to Gas Harvester amount per level

*depending on initial size of cargohold, which will obviously have to be different to the standard anyways.

ok loving the paint job =)

but i think if a ship along thease lines was ever to fly it would be a new ORE design and as already pointed out would have small or no room for defence

most boring ships to fly
1. freighter
2. gas harvester ship