Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We already have a T1 industrial specialised in transporting other types of goods.

Ammo - Hoarder (Minmatarr)
PI Goods - Epithal (Gallente)
Ore / Ice - Miasmos (Gallente)
Minerals - Kryos (Gallente)
Ice Products - ???

In the era of upwell, the citadel/refinery where ore is reprocessed is rarely the place where the products are sold or used.
For established players, all types of refined products can be moved easily in a Freighter or JF, as can everything else.
For newer players, Minerals can be transported in a Kryos. However, there's no corresponding ship for Ice Products.

Ore typically refines to less than a 10th of its original volume, Ice to about half. More if you have decent refining skills.
Newer players are forced to choose between substandard reprocessing, transporting their fuel painfully slowly over multiple trips with a cargo expanded t1 industrial, or hiring someone with a larger ship.

I propose a new Caldari industrial ship to fill the role, as they are rather lacking for choice at the moment.
The name "Penguin" comes up whenever a new Caldari ship is in the works, but this time I feel it fits perfectly.
What better name for a ship that holds things that come from ice.

I've guessed at stats based on the other specialied transports and standard caldari ship traits.
The 2 high slots are non-negotiable though: it must be able to go "neut neut".

Penguin

Caldari Industrial bonuses (per skill level)
- 10% bonus to ship fuel hold capacity
- 5% bonus to ship max velocity

Role Bonus: 90% reduction to effective distance travelled for jump fatigue.

2 High Slots (1 Turret, 1 Launcher)
5 Mid Slots
3 Low Slots
3 Rig Slots

Cargo Hold: 500m3
Fuel Hold: 40000m3

Warp Speed: 3 AU/s
Mass: 12000 tons
Align Time: 16.5s (11.1s with max skills)

I chose to name it a "Fuel Hold", since all ice products are fuels, and "Ice Product Hold" doesn't really roll off the tongue.
If being able to transport Fuel Blocks as well would be make it OP, or it would be too confusing, by all means keep it as ice products.

Ice, like Ore can be compressed, increasing its value by about 10% and making it 10 times easier to transport. I haven't crunched the numbers recently but, when I was ice mining, you needed a POS and level 5 reprocessing skills to make refining profitable. Every ice system I've worked in had buy orders from aggregators at pretty good prices - it was rarely worthwhile to move the stuff myself.

On the mineral side ore compression is also the way to go for a new player - it's easier to transport than minerals and nullsec refineries get better yield.

By the time a player has the skills to refine profitably, they probably have the skills to fly a DST which is safer, faster (1 afterburner cycle will boost it into warp) and it holds more cargo.