Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OK, so I see a lot of complaining about how mining sucks, how miners dont make the income they should, blah blah blah, everyone agrees mining is somewhat broken, especially with the influx of material from the drone regions.

How about a tech 3 exhumer (an idea i haven't seen presents)

Subsystems specifically particular mineral types, customizable cargo holds, yield amount, defensive capabilities, scan bonuses. and so forth. Allow a next generation mining vessel to spice up mining life. Include the removal of drone poo being replaced with iskies, and we got a 2 step attack on balancing mining.

Nova fox, Feel free to bash it, i liked your drawings

Well, it was original until some one else thought of it before me

I was thinking of a thukker off spec ship and concluded a gas harvester like ship since I delgated the thukkers having salvaging as a full profession. Its a tech 1 ship though :(

Overall in theory the tech 3 ship should be 'flexible' thus never outperform the hulk overall if both tried to gear after the same resource. This could be a bit difficult to balance out considering you need at least 5 subsystems and enough varation to not feel 'cheapened' experince with tech 3 ships. This also leaves some unkonwns as you said there is no dedicated ship for gas mining.'

Overall I rather see tech 3 frigates first still.

I did however designed a tech 3 explroation ship doesnt harvest gas or minerals just data.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=25149#post25149 heres the post its a bit out of date I think though and need to revise it a bit more.