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Ginger555
Treasures Collectors Solar Citizens
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Posted - 2012.07.05 02:25:00 -
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In the same way that each races carrier has a bigger super variant I think that the Rorqual is missing its super version.
Here is the idea ( yes we have lots of time to come up with ideas while cracking ICE )
Name : Manatee Type of Sea lion that actually mines / burrows into the bottom of river beds to get some of its food
What does it do over that of the Rorqual ?
- Larger ORE Hold - For storage of mined and compressed material only
- Larger Ship Maintenance Bay - For storage of barges, exhumers and industrials only
- Larger Fuel Bay - For storage of Oxygen Isotopes, Heavy Water and Strontium Clathrates only
- Clone Vats - Remove this ability from Rorqual and put on the Manatee
- Jump Bridge - In the same way as a Black Ops bridge only moves a subset of ships between two black ops the Manatee bridge can only jump barges, exhumers and industrials between two Manatees
- Refining - Compression of Ore and ICE in the same way as the Rorqual but a low efficiency refining ability
- Booster - The same gang assist boost levels as the Orca when not converted and the same as the Rorqual when converted
- Shield Deployment - The ability to deploy a small POS like bubble shield that only barges, exhumers and industrials can use this shield disrupts warp bubbles so the miners need to fly to the edge of it to warp away, it also stops the Manatee moving , powered using strontium clathrates from the fuel bay
- Remote Rep - The same ability and bonuses as the Rorq to repair shields however this can not be done inside the deployed shield
- Shoot Back - some sort of ability to shoot when deployed to defend what miners are inside the shield even the ability for miners to get out of their ships and use the gun like a POS gunner.
Why have this ship ?
- Primary to create a super ORE variant of the missing capital ship.
- Give miners and industrialists, both new and veterans, something higher to aim for.
- Try to encourage larger ships to be taken into asteroid belts , plexes and ICE fields as currently Rorquals simply just sit behind a POS shield
- Give PvP pilots something big to shoot at so it is worth getting a gang together to hunt miners
- Reduce the panic jumping of all miners back to a station or POS when a neutral / red enters the system, this should keep more miners in the field during an attack and creates a new PvP dynamic should the miners be able to get out of their ships and into a POS like gun.
Thanks to Corp Mates for adding to the Ideas |
Thor66777
Derp Herders Li3 Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.05 02:35:00 -
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Wouldn't the Rorqual be the super variant of the Orca? |
Ginger555
Treasures Collectors Solar Citizens
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Posted - 2012.07.05 05:44:00 -
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Thor66777 wrote:Wouldn't the Rorqual be the super variant of the Orca?
Good point ... but see Orca as big industrial as it can not jump on its own and can go through gates. |
Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
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Posted - 2012.07.05 06:04:00 -
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The Orca sits in the same position as the freighters, they are the 7-Up of capital ships... they are the "Un-Capitals". So it lacks a jump drive and does not require capital ships to pilot but yet is still called a capital ship for some reason. |
leviticus ander
CATO.nss
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Posted - 2012.07.05 07:45:00 -
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Viktor Fyretracker wrote:The Orca sits in the same position as the freighters, they are the 7-Up of capital ships... they are the "Un-Capitals". So it lacks a jump drive and does not require capital ships to pilot but yet is still called a capital ship for some reason. what about jump freighers? they have a jump drive, but don't need the capital skill either. they are known as capitals because they require capital components to build. |
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