Kharamete
Feral Solutions Inc
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Posted - 2013.06.25 11:09:00 -
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Rhavas wrote:
This. Spin a story about the Gallente and Minmatar selling the hull production rights to ORE because it's too expensive / not worth it for them to keep up with manufacturing so many variations and so sold the rights to ORE. *Poof* all fair, and no art changes need to be made, just change the description text to "sold in YC 11X to ORE, who modified the design to be a specialist in whatever".
+1 this.
Unlike the other minor factions, you at CCP already have a fairly heavy reliance on ORE for the industrial ships; what with the Orca and the Rorqual, and all the mining barges, exhumers and the venture. It fits well into a pattern that CCP already employs for these kinds of things.
So, in the current narrative of 'empires losing control', ORE bought the rights from the current manufacturers to manufacture the 'left over' haulers because of reasons, and then specialised the designs. Maybe, since everyone used the Mk V Iteron, the other haulsers were just lossmakers. We all know what corporations think of losses.  That would remove the inquity because the design changes would require Ore Industrial skill rather than racial hauler skills.
You could give the Hoarder a sig radius and align bonus. Iteron Mk II a warp core stab bonus. Iteron Mk III an ore hold. And Iteron Mk IV a speed bonus for fitting a cloak, like the Black Ops has.
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Kharamete
Feral Solutions Inc
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Posted - 2013.06.25 14:55:00 -
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LIYNX wrote:
I also agree that this would be the most reasonable thing to do. It nicely removes the racial inequality and provides some depth to the range of haulers. you could adjust and rename the ORE frigate skill to apply to the new ORE haulers as well as the venture, which would give more meaning to actually training that skill.
You already have the "Ore Industrial" skill in-game. It's a requirement to fly the Orca. That's its only use at the moment, apart from flying the Primae, but the Primae sucks anyway. So, there would be no need to introduce a new 'Interbus Industrial' skillbook for instance as was suggested upthread. :)
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