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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2014.07.19 02:11:00 -
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The Rorqual was conceived and designed by Outer Ring Excavations in response to a growing need for capital industry platforms with the ability to support and sustain large-scale mining operations in uninhabited areas of space. The concept of uninhabited space is outdated at best. Uninhabitable space is far more common. Something like this might make it a viable concept of a Rorqual in belt.
Looking at the Rorqual and it could use +225 cpu,+1High slot, 2 Turret hard-points , +2 low slots, -1000s from Capacitor Recharge, add 2.75 ly to Jump Range, 25% Reduction in Fuel use. Remove the "Industry only" tag from its Ship Maintenance Bay. Increase Building Material Requirements by 20%, Hit points by 15% reduce Signature radius by 5% Add 100 m3 to drone capacity
20% reduction on cost of and cycle time of activation of Industrial core per level.
5% bonus to Capital Turret Damage per level
10% bonus to mining foreman links when Industrial core is active
50% bonus to range to capital Remote shield transporter per level
5000m to drone control range per level
20% to drone hit points and damage per level
Role Bonus
*Can Fit Covert Cynosural Field Generator and covert Jump Portal Generator
*Can Fit Jump Portal Generator and Clone Vat Bay
*Can Use 3 Warfare link modules simultaneously
+2 warp core strength
100% bonus to overheating Resistance Modules and Local and Remote Repair Modules
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2014.07.19 20:26:00 -
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1,180,000 metric tons does not just instant warp. Even being 200km off of a belt is not a great idea which i believe is the idea of having a capital tractor beam. So no, I haven't seen anything yet that makes me trade my Orca for a Rorqual. The math isn't there for me. |
Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2014.07.20 16:47:00 -
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Some how, I doubt CCP'S answer will be making the Rorqual a botting monster. It is amusing that the idea of "how can we make the Rorqual relevant in eve" keeps turning to "how can we make Rorqual's explode". If making loss mails is the main goal then CCP can adjust the Insurance payout to 150%. Then, YAY, the Rorqual is totally fixed now. All battle Rorquals warp to zero at the belts. |
Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2014.07.20 19:01:00 -
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Paynus Maiassus wrote:Thus, what currently stands for acceptable risk vs. reward is the miner risking his assets to get ISK by subjecting them to the threat of PvP and the PvPer accepting no risk by being the party that chooses to engage or not. Therefore, an acceptable situation for the Rorqual to function in a belt would be to effectively make the Rorqual unkillable in a belt and to boot give it the ability to offer substantial protection and multiplication of combat power to the mining vessels it supports. My idea that gives a potential expression of such a result is here. I have noticed a number of the more recent posters on this thread posting ideas as if they hadn't read my idea. I know it's a bit long. Please read.
The issue I see with your concept is that the more drastic the change idea the less likely it is and the more likely it turns into a bad genie wish. Your idea could be condensed down from TL/DR, to a few adjustments or reworks of role bonuses. Less is more. Take a good look at the hows/ why of the tiercide changes or the Kronus ship changes. it could be more like this;
ECM AOE GOD MODE BUBBLE!!!---> 50% RANGE BONUS TO ECM BURST, PER LEVEL ECM STRENGTH PER LEVEL.
SMARTBOMB GOD MODE---> 100% DAMAGE BONUS PER LEVEL, 100% RATE OF FIRE PER LEVEL , -50 % OPTIMAL RANGE PER LEVEL. |
Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2014.07.21 03:57:00 -
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Lose the siege mode if you want Rorquals to be used in belts. No-one is ever going to siege a Rorq in a belt, ever.
The siege/ Industrial core module is a large part of the problem. The 10% bonus to mining foreman links should be unlinked from having the industrial core active. With the compression array it will never be used, reprocess the Industrial core.
If it was a fleet wide super booster granting additional drone dps bonuses, resist boosts, and Rep boosting it might be a useful Rorqual siege module. |
Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
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Posted - 2014.07.30 20:44:00 -
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Random idea that kicks the Rorqual refit into the Pos code rework.
The Rorqual has a 1,150 CPU AND 381,250 GRID before adjustments for modules. Well below a the fitting ability of a small tower. Allow the Rorqual to stand in as a anchored and onlined control tower while sieged. This grants it the ability to deploy Pos and online pos modules within 2500 meters of its location. There would be the default ban on deploying deployable structures within radius of stations and gates but would allow deploying modules within belts. Even if it was deployed as a small death star tower, we all know how OP these are without active gunners and pos defense AI is less than effective. |
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