Phoenix Jones
Isogen 5
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Posted - 2014.10.30 22:26:50 -
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I see the rise of the moon mining Rorqual. Person finds an active pos moon mining array in a pos that is working, anchors nearby (say anywhere between 150 to 250km away from the pos), activates modules, 1 to 2 hours later, The Rorqual Pilot gain 2 days worth of moongoop. Moon goes into temporary shock, and any moon mining array that was on it stops mining and can't continue to mine till 2 days pass.
Moonshock. The moons resources have been irradiated and extracted. Moon recovery in progress. A countdown starts. Once over, the moon can be mined again.
The Rorqual can only extract out of moons currently being mined (have to have an active pos, and moon miner array going (either you or someone).
The Rorqual will not be attacked automatically by pos guns (can warp to, around, and away from pos's without the automatic targetting systems firing upon it (same as the Siphon Unit).
Industrial Core. The industrial core takes approximately 1 to 3 minutes to activate. Once activated, the Rorqual pilot is removed from local, and can activate a cloaking device while in this mode. The core will begin extracting moon minerals from the moon till either the cycle is complete, or the Rorqual is destroyed. There is a fuel cost to activate the industrial core (comparable to approximately 2 days worth of Fuel for a medium pos give or take).
The Industrial Core can only be activated on a target moon.
Upgrade to Ore Belts. Some Ore Belt anomalies now contain micro moons. Dead parts of planetoids that cannot be mined with a regular barge, but can be with a Rorqual. Rorqual targets it in the same fashion as a moon listed above. After 2 hours, the micro moon will be destroyed, and all of its contents deposited into the Rorqual.
Micromoons can only spawn in Ore Belts and Sigs in .4 space and below.
There you go. You give players a method of active moon mining, theft, knocking out resources, etc etc, through use of the Rorqual. This doesn't speed up moon mining as the moon goes into shock, and can't produce any more goop till the time has expired (so no backend mass moon mining via Rorqual).
Its a ridiculous plan but that ship needs to do something significant.
Yaay!!!!
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