Rorquals are industrial capital ships, incredibly rare with minimal uses for combatGÇömeaning they are rarely ever vulnerable.

So I'm just throwing an idea out there to see where people stand on it.

No doubt many of us have read the article about the Rorqual sabotage.

I'm basing what I'm about to propose off the following quote from the article:



After having played this game for nearly four years, that struck me as a little antithetical to what this game is about, or perhaps it is just me. It just seems to me that if losing a ship really only happens from gross negligence or extremely elaborate plots like the one highlighted above, it might be good to talk about alternatives (educate me if I'm completely misunderstanding how often Rorqs actually get downed).

So I'm tossing out the following idea, and I encourage you to amend it and flesh it out in whatever direction would make the game better:

Whenever a POS is put into reinforced mode, it jettisons all currently free floating ships that are within the bubble. Ships cannot enter the bubble while it is in reinforced mode.

Wormholers would never have a chance after a tower was reffed

After having played this game for nearly four years, that struck me as a little antithetical to what this game is about

How so? They'd have access once the timer expires.

Rorquals are dying at a rate of 20-30 per month. I wouldn't call that a problem considering their role. Camp low sec jump routes systems without stations and you'll find one to kill in a lot less than 9 months.

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Wormholers would never have a chance after a tower was reffed


How so? They'd have access once the timer expires.


They'd be sitting ducks outside the tower and be unable to reship. In mass evictions the first move is to RF all towers.

Yeah, saw similar figures from the killboard linked above just now. I don't think they were that high, but still at a rate that is far more frequent than I was originally thinking.



What if it were amended so that access was granted but original reinforce timer booted all free floating ships?

... you never put it in a belt, because that would be silly.

This idea is soo farr gone it isn't even stupid anymore, if you're after pos loot/caps, kill the damn stick.

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This post is epic, I thought of this while reading it.

... Whenever a POS is put into reinforced mode, it jettisons all currently free floating ships that are within the bubble. Ships cannot enter the bubble while it is in reinforced mode.

They are planning to make POS replacements that don't have shields. Only an "attach" option that works like docking.

I think that people would just stop flying Rorquals under those conditions and have a proposal of how to get them into belts even with the current mechanics.

P.S. That article ... it seems like fan fiction or something. EVE can't really be that over the top and steeped in excitement, can it?

...Don't you think the rumored AoE links would handily do that for you?

Wormholers would never have a chance after a tower was reffed. bad idea.

As to the Rorqual. It's primary purpose is to support mining operations with bonuses and mobile compression. only a few are brave/crazy enough to have them in the open, and given their cost and lack of defensive power that is justifiable.

Here's a question, why do mining links project outside of POS force fields yet combat links do not?

(silence..sound of crickets...)

Second question, we seem to always hear about cries of making combat links only work 'on grid' with a pvp fleet. I am sure you also support the selfsame change to mining links, and that mining command ships should also be 'on grid' with mining fleets to work?

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Here's a question, why do mining links project outside of POS force fields yet combat links do not?

(silence..sound of crickets...)

Its always a ship that has kind of languished as its got the bonuses for tractor beams, but then you never put it in a belt, because that would be silly.

Its got the gang link bonuses, but it kind of also needs to be inside a force field, which is why we gave the mining links the exception when we removed all gang links from force fields.

Considering that Eve is a Sandbox game, can you claim that your assumption on what the game is about is the correct one?

It seems to me as if Rorquals are getting downed quite regularly (https://zkillboard.com/ship/28352/losses/) and the article just tried to make the achievement (he had to maintain his cover for many months which I think should count as an achievement itself) look bigger.

... Second question, we seem to always hear about cries of making combat links only work 'on grid' with a pvp fleet. I am sure you also support the selfsame change to mining links, and that mining command ships should also be 'on grid' with mining fleets to work?

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So I'm just throwing an idea out there to see where people stand on it.

No doubt many of us have read the article about the Rorqual sabotage.

I'm basing what I'm about to propose off the following quote from the article:



After having played this game for nearly four years, that struck me as a little antithetical to what this game is about, or perhaps it is just me. It just seems to me that if losing a ship really only happens from gross negligence or extremely elaborate plots like the one highlighted above, it might be good to talk about alternatives (educate me if I'm completely misunderstanding how often Rorqs actually get downed).

So I'm tossing out the following idea, and I encourage you to amend it and flesh it out in whatever direction would make the game better:

Whenever a POS is put into reinforced mode, it jettisons all currently free floating ships that are within the bubble. Ships cannot enter the bubble while it is in reinforced mode.

I do; with my design plan.

After having played this game for nearly four years, that struck me as a little antithetical to what this game is about, or perhaps it is just me. It just seems to me that if losing a ship really only happens from gross negligence or extremely elaborate plots like the one highlighted above, it might be good to talk about alternatives (educate me if I'm completely misunderstanding how often Rorqs actually get downed).

So I'm tossing out the following idea, and I encourage you to amend it and flesh it out in whatever direction would make the game better:

Whenever a POS is put into reinforced mode, it jettisons all currently free floating ships that are within the bubble. Ships cannot enter the bubble while it is in reinforced mode.

Wormholers would never have a chance after a tower was reffed. bad idea.

As to the Rorqual. It's primary purpose is to support mining operations with bonuses and mobile compression. only a few are brave/crazy enough to have them in the open, and given their cost and lack of defensive power that is justifiable.[

True, few risk a Rorqual out in the open, but someone that I know from a previous alliance told me some corp (I think they're a part of Brave Newbies or some such) took 10 Rorquals and did a gate camp with them using sentry drones. Funniest damn thing I heard in a long time.