Fred Undead
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Posted - 2016.10.10 17:59:01 -
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One question re: Engineering Complexes - Will the Rorqual be made as an exception to the "Capital ships can only dock in XL Complexes" rule?
As it stands right now, if I live in a C3 or C4 Wormhole that rarely or never gets a reasonably safe, capital sized hole, and I want my corporation to have access to a Rorqual in our system, I will need both a Fortizar and an Azbel. I will need the Azbel both to build the Rorqual and support enough manufacturing to keep up with a new and improved Rorq boosted fleet. However, I will not be able to dock said Rorqual into that Azbel after it is launched....... Which requires I spend more than double the money and make another risky Orca trip just to have a Fortizar to dock the Rorqual, or commit a pilot to man it 24/7 Titan style. Even if I HAD the Fortizar to dock the Rorqual with, if I ever decide that it should self-haul for the fleet (Inefficient as that may be), any ore that Rorq brings back would have to be shuttled from the Fortizar to the Azbel to reprocess and manufacture.
This stands out to me because it seems not in line with the spirit of what Engineering Complexes are intended to allow, which is an affordable, convenient place for industrialists to make a base of operations. Requiring a second, equally large, twice-as-expensive structure intended for defense rather than industry just to house the literal heart of my industrial operation seems somewhat odd. This could be overcome with something as simple as a Service Module that allows the docking of exactly 1 Rorqual in L Engineering Complexes. I'd happily pay the per-hour fuel cost to run a service module but only require the one structure, until the Rorqual has allowed me to acquire a Fortizar and/or Sotiyo. Even cooler, if you install this hypothetical module, it should be something visible from space which will make that Azbel a much juicier target, encouraging it's owners to buy or build bigger, meaner structures anyway. Plenty of risk for the reward of a Rorqual that is dockable in an Azbel.
TL;DR - Requiring an XL Engineering Complex or L Citadel to dock a Rorqual makes Industry life very challenging and un-intuitive for many Wormhole dwellers who plan to bring in a Rorq.
Otherwise, RAA is foaming at the mouth for the changes in Ascension! Thank y'all! |