...It doesn't sound like you guys have thought this through.

no drones?
oh right, the blog tells me i can switch out and tailor my fit ....that'll work. let's just fit guns and plink at the things preventing me from cloaking up...while orbiting an object that's a pvper's wetdream. what? 60 seconds to online? brilliant.
oh yes, and since low sec now spawns soldier rats (tag4sec) more often than faction spawns a prospect has a chance to get pointed with no hope of getting away without using 2 small turrets AFTER a waiting time of a mobile depot onlining. brilliant!
oh wait, this will usher in the fabled era of escort careers! Someone to tag along and protect the hordes of prospects. *rollseyes*
What possessed you folks to nerf drones? no wait, don't answer that.

uhm...and what happened to the splash screen of the 3 mining laser "venture"?

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TL;DR - just keep the 10m3 drone bay of the venture, on the prospect, FFS.

If my maths are close, maxed out, this thing will pull about a fifth the yield of a 1.5 week old toon in a barge.

yes. the H/j are paying 1.5x veld, give or take.

So income per time mining H/J in this vs veld in barge = 0.2 x 1.5 = 30%.

So, I can max this out, take it out to low, find H/J cluster to mine... and make 1/3rd the profit of mining veld in high?

(ignoring travel time... ignoring risk... ignoring the what adding Mex to Arc will do to Mex price...)

Yep, we're sure to see fleets of these ninja mining low sec. Becuase we all know the goal of miners is to minimize profits in exchange for higher risk.

They said the new prospect should be able to shield tank null rats, using an afterburner if I'm not mistaken.
Forget the killing, just grab those rocks, and high tail it out of there!

All that matters for this thread is that we are not worried that the Prospect will become a balance issue in FW.

I'm eager to try this ship since I really like the concept of ninja-mining, but I have to agree with others that it doesn't fit any real role other then being fun

Changing the ABC asteroids won't do much since a lot of people in null corps are already sitting on it. They just need to mine them in safe systems with the mining barges that have better yield.

The same for carebears concerned with isk/hr ratio, it's faster and safer to just mine another ore in High Sec. Those can always have a cyno alt in deep nullsec to bring a Prospect fleet through, but I wonder if it will be more profitable then just sitting the same persons in barges in highsec.

In my opinion, to make them really interesting, they should have access to something other ships don't. Just like exploration: make hidden gravimetric sites with really exclusive ores, one prospect scans it and bring others in with a cyno, and everyone has a relatively safe place to mine with a profit that you can't match out of it.

And I'd also love to see it with an extra utility slot and a gas mining bonus for solo gas mining in WHs.

Does that truly surprise you?

Think about it.

They've been trying to force the noob players and the players who DON'T want to PvP out of the relative safety of High Sec without a means of fighting back against gankers.

Now they take a small ship that could escape due to its strong warp, remove that strength, remove its ONLY means to fight back (the drone bay), then give it a cloak and say it can now 'ninja-mine'.

Let's forget that installing the warp stabilizers they say you should basically ruins the targetting range it would need to mine AND the very act of mining will reveal it to every player who wants to kill it.

Well, actually yes it does surprise me.

I thought CCP cared more about their PAYING customers rather then well established griefers with several alts. The prospect is a big lie and when "the noobs" figure that out CCP will loose income. i. e. IRL income.

Then can you explain why they have made it so hard for new players to actually play without being jumped and ganked?

I have no idea, either, but i can tell you that's happening.

Recently, the 'Lan Club' at the college I study at decided to check out if EvE online was a viable game to play or even establish a corp in (to represent the college).

I was the ONLY player in the club already playing EvE at the start of the test.

27 players opened trial accounts and played the ENTIRE time the accounts were open.

NONE of them subscribed, even though the college was offering to pay for the subscriptions.

I am now the only player in the Lan Club playing EvE.

I have put several ideas in the forums in attempts to reverse the trend.

Each time, those ideas are jumped on and flamed to ashes. I have never seen a single CCP rep post about any of the ideas, but I have noted the posters who flame the ideas post massively in threads discussing PvP and ganking.

I don't think it is coincidence.

think about it.

what demographic plays on line games most? 12-16 year old males

is that demographic mature? do I really have to answer?

What does that demographic mostly desire? hack-n-slash, the bloodier-the better

Does that demographic care about anything else? only when forced to by game mechanics.

what does catering to that demographic and its desires give you? an immature, hack-n-slash, shoot'em up.

are there any other games out there catering to this? ***glare***

so, how can you best cater to this? become the most immature, bloodiest, hack-n-slash around.

so the lack of a drone bay forces a team of prospects to shut down operations in low sec just because some **** in a bomber enters system...