True Sight
Deep Freeze Industries
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Posted - 2014.10.13 19:02:00 -
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[quote=CCP Greyscale]We didn't think it was sensible to let it keep its drone bonus and have a 10LY range, and at the end of the day the bonus won out. The ship needs a large rework anyway, and we'll revisit all this when that happens :)
Why did a unused bonus win out over a useful ship benefit?
This seems to fall under the same sort of category as your statement in the OP about logistics balance being where it needs to be as the game is today.
Old Days:
 Provides a slightly better mining bonus than an Orca
 Could compress Ores for better logistics (and uniquely so)
Has a good jump range, tied with it's Ore Bay allowed it to do more logistics than a JF (cargo specific)
 Would never be seen in a belt, drone bonus is effectively useless (pretty, but useless)
Currently (TQ)
Provides a slightly better mining bonus than an Orca
Useless for compression in most cases
Has a good jump range, tied with it's Ore Bay allowed it to do more logistics than a JF (cargo specific)
Would never be seen in a belt, drone bonus is effectively useless (pretty, but useless)
Proposed
Provides a slightly better mining bonus than an Orca
Useless for compression in most cases
Ore Bay is useless due to limited jump range which is dwarfed by the JF
Would never be seen in a belt, drone bonus is effectively useless (pretty, but useless)
I know you say you plan to revisit the Rorqual, which is needed and fair enough, but could you at least leave the poor thing with some sort of remotely viable use until you do? Just like you are not destroying null logistics capabilities until you work on null industry?
I like my Rorqual's drone bonus, but I have never actually used it, and I don't believe most people have. If you give me the option of the drone bonus or 10ly Jump Range, I'll take the jump range for 100 please bob.
If you want to later revisit the Rorqual for the much needed love you agree it needs, then go ahead and reduce it's jump range, hell, even give the drone bonus back if you like, but please, don't just ruin this ship now with a "'we'll make it worth more than scrap later" promise. |