Player Features and Ideas Discussion

FUBAR that is all

More and more people are asking for Cloaked mining. Even me as an industrialist thinks this is a horrible idea.

The gas miner idea has my support. We have no dedicated gas miner at all right now and a T3 gas miner makes sense as that activity is big in WH space. Yes to the 5 hard turrets for the T2 gas harvester as that is the max allowable at the moment.. also since barges and particularly exhumers have a bonus to their specialzation, a gas mining boost makes sense for that ship.

The ship should not be allowed to fit strip miners at all. The hulk needs to remain THE preferred ore mining vessel.. though I admit the hulk needs a little bump in survivability given it's cost and status as the premere mining ship. - still, the mackinaw needs more love than the hulk. It's tanking ability is nearly non-existent.

We do not need something with more strip miners - or more ore yield. I would welcome a T3 gas mining addition to to my fleet.

if it fits strip miners it only needs to fit 2 max.

You'd be surpsized how idiotical some people are with escorts on minign ops verses a force recon.

I like this idea as well.

Actually, CCP has already implemented a gas harvesting offensive subsystem for the Tengu. Its called the "Magnetic Infusion Basin". It gives the Tengu 5 turret slots for 5 t2 gas harvesters and with the nullifier on it, it makes the perfect gas harvesting ship.

Although I'm not really to sure why it gives you hybrid turret bonuses. If someone can explain to me why that is then I would greatly appreciated it.

LOL at the idea for a covert ops mining ship ( like the OP said in his first post ).

I can already imagine seeing 2, 3 maybe 4 blue lasers, seemingly coming out of nowhere :P

I do agree as the Tech 3 line of ships are supposed to be a swiss army knife of Eve and adding a Tech 3 hull will go against that. So adding the Tech 3 sub system would still keep things in line with the theme of the tech 3 ship.

When a person sees a Tangue on scan they won't know it is a hauler tangue till they get up close to see its swollen belly. This also could be an option for those Hulk Pilot who have been complaining about not enough tank on their hulks.

My generic reply, time and time again. Full planned and a non artist rendition for T3 industrial. Want to read the fine print, will have to get the image file. Is a massive poster sized image. (Makes a nice poster too). Work by me, if you use any idea or part, please just reference accordingly, thank you

https://vapor65.deviantart.com/#/d359crp

Copy paste from an achive thread for the rundown:

Essentially the rundown.

Electronics:

Ion Phase invertor: 20% gas harvester yield, 10% bonus
Reinforced Auger assembly: 3% ice harvester duration bonus
Emergent locus analyser: No changes from current
Stereoscopic composition array: 20% mercoxit cloud reduction, 20% yield bonus non strip miners, 10% range bonus all harvesters

Defensive:

High output shield emitters: 7.5% booster effectiveness per level
Foreman operations system: 5% bonus per level, 99% ganglink reduction for cpu
Independent bulkhead framework: 5% bonus to damage control effectiveness
Cargohold optimization network: +2000m3 ore bay per level

Engineering:

Power core isolation unit: +1 warp core stab
Power transformer substations: 5% capacitor regen
Twinned Antimatter reactor: 5% powergrid
High Imedance capacitors: 5% Capacitor amount

Offensive (industrial):

Signal Neutralizer array: CPU cloak reduction, and 10% harvester range bonus
Mass Extraction Centrifuge: 3% harvester duration reduction and can fit strip miners
Drone Interface uplink: 10% bonus to drone damage and mining drone yields, 7.5% to drone hp
Supplimental Processors: 35% duration penalty to ice, 5% yield to mining and gas, 10% ice bonus range

Propulsion:
Interdiction Nullifier: Same old
Vectored Thrusters: 5% sig reduction
Quad Fusion Boosters: 5% agility
Propulsion Realocation: +2000m3 ore bay

That was just the basic sum of it. I also give a description to explain the whys of the different subsystem bonus. Also, the pictures have the fittings that they offer in a general sense, as would need to do hard number crunching I don't care about. Now, I am not a miner, but I worked with a bunch and knew how there is no industry ship really for doing industrial work. Did it to make something different and complete for the contests. I am not much of an artist, so went for info instead. Believe was the largest submission for it as well.

Spent weeks test planning, etc to make sure there were no busted combinations I could think of and to be certain they would offer function without overpowering the current T2 versions. Essentially, if ccp makes more scannable industry sites, these ships would allow proper roaming industry fleets capable of surviving and moving around pirate space. The only two parts really specialized are the gas harvester module, and the ore bays. Outside of the orca's ore bays, there is no ships that specialize for this.