Phoenix Jones
POS Party
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Posted - 2014.06.30 16:57:00 -
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On the Orca:
1) The ore bay should be higher than it is. 800,000 is alot, especially when considering Compressed Ore (the Orca would turn into the best Ore hauler in Eve Bar None). Not necessarily a bad thing, but you have to consider the new Ore Haulers that exist and the uselessness they would come to. 200 to 300,000 would be a bit more sane.
2) Why not just allow the Orca to compress Ore and Ice? Yes it takes the job away from the Rorqual. I'm fine with that. (see below).
On the Rorqual:
Note: this is completely made up fictional crap, but lets make the Rorqual Something insane.
1) It should just be able to convert itself into a mobile starbase that can be anchored anywhere (near belts, away from belts, near planets, away from planets, basically anywhere). Throw out the anchoring, the compression, etc. It transforms and turns into a POS, equipped with shields, based on the amount of stront in the ship.
So basically it turns into a deployable MANNED POS with benefits (Yes the Rorqual Pilot MUST be present while the ship is in normal ship mode OR deployed mode). The person goes offline/crashes, shields go down in 10 minutes, ship stays in space another 5 before logging out. Ample time to blap it.
a) It has its own built in Cyno Inhibitor, Cyno Jammer (Jams Both Normal Cyno), increased sensor strength (to resist 1 shot easy probing). And also has its own Mobile Scan Inhibitor. All built in. So with the Rorqual in Deployed mode, all these effects activate. Note that the Inhibitor on the Rorqual has a much MUCH higher Sensor Strength.
b) It has the Limited ability to bridge ships and now jump Covert Cyno's (can jump a normal cyno, or a covert cyno).
c) The ships it can bridge, 1) Orca, 2) Barges (t1 and t2), Mining Frigates (Prospect and Venture), Miasmos.
d) It takes 2 minutes to go into deployed mode, and another 3 minutes for its shields to go up (basically it has a vulnerable area).
e) POS modules CANNOT be equipped/anchored inside the rorqual shields.
f) the rorqual's shields is physically VERY small (smaller than a small pos small).
The main question would be, why all the effects.
A ship like this would basically be oneshot by anybody with a cyno capital on standby, so it needs a little defense.
This removes the issue of a cloaky hot dropping an entire black ops fleet 3 inches from the ship (can easily drop in other area's of the system and warp to, just removes that issue).
This gives a route for mining ships to mine other area's of null and to have a support vessel prepared for ferrying ores back to more central places. In otherwords, it removes the POS issue from Lowsec/Nullsec and leaves the pos more for wormhole space.
This is a ridiculous example for a Rorqual though.
Stabbers are totally broken
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15116553
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