Maria Senseye
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.09 12:01:59 -
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It's a game and it should be played as a game not like 2nd life for some of you. Indeed ... the Rorqual received some massive bonuses on mining drones, but that wasn't its scope after all! Somebody from CCP did a mistake, a huge one!
Rorqual description is:
Quote:The Rorqual was conceived and designed by Outer Ring Excavations in response to a growing need for capital industry platforms with the ability to support and sustain large-scale mining operations in uninhabited areas of space.
To that end, the Rorqual's primary strength lies in its ability to grind raw ores into particles of smaller size than possible before, while still maintaining their distinctive molecular structure. This means the vessel is able to carry vast amounts of ore in compressed form.
Additionally, the Rorqual is able to fit a capital tractor beam unit, capable of pulling in cargo containers from far greater distances and at far greater speeds than smaller beams can. It also possesses a sizeable drone bay, jump drive capability and the capacity to fit a clone vat bay. This combination of elements makes the Rorqual the ideal nexus to build deep space mining operations around.
Due to its specialization towards industrial operations, its ship maintenance bay is able to accommodate only industrial ships, mining barges and their tech 2 variants.
So ... this ship should not mine by it's own, panic module was invented for a reason ... I would love to see large mining fleets (barges) with huge boosts provided by ongrid rorquals, that is the objective of this ship! To provide assistance (panic module), mining boosts (better than current ones) and ore storage/compression ... like an Orca in hisec. CCP took a step further like they always do and provide huge mining capabilities to lone rorquals, didn't worked that way ... nullsec alliances simply mine with these capital ships and they're hundreds of them! The effect ? Big hit into economy prices and ships.
Rorquals have the new PANIC module which renders an entire mining fleet invulnerable for several minutes, enough for the alliance buddies to bridge in and sustain alliance mining operations. This ship drones didn't helped real miners, it just forced ratters to go mining cause it's simple and more profitable than killing NPC's!
CCPlease do something to encourage player interraction at any level, mining is the core of EVE - it should be treated accordingly! Miners should have a boost, a real boost ... not like this stupid thing! Encourage fleets and player-to-player interraction!
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