Tex Steele
Department of Defence
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.06.25 17:00:00 -
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I cannot see how this constitutes any kind of good news. The Hulk is the only capable mining ship we have. Even if they raise the mining output levels on other platforms, they still do not have 3 turrets for strip miners. This is good for entry level people who can only fly frigates, but for those of us dedicated miners (who by the way, support he backbone of industry in New Eden) who spent the time and effort to train for the Hulk, we need some serious help.
Consider this: In the real world, in a business or a government, if massive investment ships were being taken down by solo pirates, either the ships would get better at defense or the government would step in - Notice the various governments who have started taking on the Somali Pirates lately?
So, Since CCP, the government of EVE is determined to make this a PvP - Ganking Oriented game, or to cause everyone to have to join Massive alliances in order to be in massive fleets to even be able to play the game, we can obviously expect little from them to support the solo miners and industrialists out here who simply enjoy playing the game without fear of being ganked every 5 minutes by some noob in a crap-fit cheap ship.
The Hulk needs better passive defense or "tank". Maybe the ability to evade warp disruption in order to attempt escape from a solo ganker, or survive an alpha strike first shot from a solo ganker. Let's get real - any miner who continues mining after a FLEET of ganking ships shows up in their system on d-scan isn't doing it right, and will learn the hard way. So, just a little help on this, please. Currently,the cargo bay on a hulk will either just barely or NOT hold the output from 2 cycles of the mining lasers. This is pretty ridiculous - the ore-bay should be about twice that size at a minimum. This allows the miner to focus on getting the hauler in place or move the Orca and still mine without having to drop cans while ore is being hauled away. NOT big steps, just some common sense improvements to a great ship.
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