Originally by: CCP Greyscale

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Originally by: Zilabeth Vomarr

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I usually carry my salvage ship (hurricane) around in the Orca, which is our squadron's mobile base of operations. I hope the Noctis will be more BC sized and still fit in an Orca for transport to mission sites.

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Confirming this, forgot this wasn't in the fitting info. It's BC-like in many respects (including volume), but it's treated as an Industrial by the code, same as the Primae (overview group, acceleration gate restrictions etc).

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Originally by: CCP Greyscale

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On the subject of midslots and drone bays:

We talked about this internally just now, and for now we're going to stick with the current stats. We fully agree that a third mid and some drones would make the ship much more useful, but that's not the same thing as more balanced. In particular, as soon as we start giving it non-comedy offensive capabilities, the task of balancing the ship becomes a lot more involved, and one of the things that's enabled such a quick turnaround on the Noctis is that it really doesn't have any serious combat potential so we can stat it up much more quickly.

All in all, we think the ship as it stands now already justifies itself, and trying to make ships more awesome than they really need to be has historically been a source of considerable imbalance. We'd rather not take that risk again in this case

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