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Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.04.27 21:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Mihail d'Amour
Instead of a press, use a very inefficient on-board refinery.
3-4 bil ORE Mothership. Onboard refinary equal to a normal (not intensive) POS one, uses a jump drive, leadership bonus to mining, very few other capacities.
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Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.04.27 21:26:00 -
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Not so. A POS with a normal refining array is cheaper. A POS with a intensive refining array is more efficient. What the ORE Mothership is...is mobile.
Tradeoffs. That sort of strategic tradeoff is GOOD :)
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Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.04.28 12:53:00 -
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POS
- Has multiple other possible industrial uses
- Protects ships
- Can mount BIG guns
- Is cheaper and harder to lose
It's really not one-sided.
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Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.04.28 22:08:00 -
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Cyberus,
The problem with making them use gates is they'll simple be too vulnrable and slow to be of any use. And a mining capital wouldn't be tolerated in highsec Empires anyway. They can charge (charters) for POS. No equivalent way to charge for the capital, so they're not abot to let it in.
And if you're mining veldspar in Empire, you'll usually have a station in-system and not need it ANYWAY.
"The Human eye is a marvelous device, with a very little effort it can overlook all but the most glaring injustice" - Quellchrist Falconer |
Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.05.02 22:31:00 -
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It is something to help you mine, and it hardly takes a big alliance to afford 3-4 bil.
"But it has jumpdrives, it'll only wotk in low sec"
Yes, that's part of the POINT.
"The Human eye is a marvelous device, with a very little effort it can overlook all but the most glaring injustice" - Quellchrist Falconer |
Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.05.09 20:55:00 -
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Cyberus,
The only use for a ship without a jump drive is to the ISK farmers. Making it a jump drive ship drastically reduces its vulrability and makes it useless to the farmers.
It makes every sense to have a mining capital. Jump drive, toughness, cost, onboard refinery...
A capital. NO onboard mining, because of the blatent abuseability of this.
This ship would be of great help to all the serious mining corps without helping the farmers. Which are the two important points.
"The Human eye is a marvelous device, with a very little effort it can overlook all but the most glaring injustice" - Quellchrist Falconer |
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