In the choice between "keep drone bonus" and "keep jump range", we landed marginally on the side of the former. We're very prepared to revisit that, we just didn't feel we'd had enough input on the matter one way or the other to sway the decision.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Capital Industrial Ships skill bonuses:

• -5% reduction in fuel consumption for industrial cores per level
• 10% bonus to effectiveness of mining foreman warfare links per level when in deployed mode
• 50% bonus to the range of Capital Shield Transporters per level.
• 20% bonus to drone damage and hitpoints per level.
• 50% Bonus per level to Mining drone Yield when in deployed mode.

Role Bonuses:

• 900% bonus to the range of survey scanners
• 200% bonus to the range of cargo scanners
• 100% Bonus to Mining drone velocity

Can fit Clone Vat Bay
Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously
5 LY Base jump range (10 LY)

Industrial Mode:

• Reduce to 30 or 60 second cycles.
• Potentially give it a resistance bonus to the ship's shield (15-20%?)

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

If only someone had looked at zkillboard and seen how many rorqual killmails there were.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

This is all you need it to do to make it a somewhat better ship:





With all level 5 and 3 mining drone rigs (2 Tech II), you would yield about 1500/minute, about a hulk with T1 strips and boosts.
it would suffer due to the drones having to travel, thus not actually equaling a hulk in practice.

What?

So you nerf the Rorqual jump range, you give his unique compression ability to POS modules, and now that this ship is left nearly-useless, you tell me that there are no short-term plans to bring it back to life?

Really sad
Thanks for the update anyway.

Edit: I'm aware that giving him something amazing like a forcefield generator or something would be a huge time-sink, but surely there could have been plans to buff it somehow. Make it viable in some area.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

Update on the Rorqual metrics front, now that I've found time to poke at it: it looks like it's definitely being used as a mining support ship substantially more than it is as a PvP ship (somewhat unsurprisingly). I'm not sure what (if anything) we will do in the short term; the ship's clearly in a wonky state, but we don't have the balance bandwidth to look at it right now.

-Revisit the changes to jump bridges to enable casual use without allowing groups to travel multiple regions. Example: increasing fuel cost by a very large percentage, making it literally impossible for a full fleet to use jump bridges without serious logistics.

We nerfed eve logistics because moving stuff is bad for eve!

I realize im bit late with this as rhea is allready knocking on the door. But i havent played too much lately due work stuff and havent used capitals for while.
However let me still state my opinion about this past logistic nerf patch. Why it was needed to nerf ability to move ships and modules from system A to system B?
Lets take example here. If id wanted to move in null past phoebe it would take me 11 carrier jumps to get to location where it used to take 3 carrier jumps pre phoebe.
Also i would need to do atleast 5 carrier jumps trough hostile null which im not doing. Not to mention i would have to do atleast 3 there and back trips because i have alot modules and ships to move. Thats 33 carrier jumps instead of 9 jumps. And i havent even yet talked about fatigue.
So it simply means forget null and stay in lowsec and do not use capitals anymore.

What can i say makes me wanna unsub. Because im bored in lowsec, cant move to null cause its made impossible. Even relocating to another lowsec system is nighmare nowdays. Not much left for me to do...

I guess thats why Jumpfreighters and Rorquals received a boost if i'm not mistaken.

For anything else: there is something called teamplay...not you need to move thing from A to B, but your Alliance.