Destriouth Hollow wrote:I am pretty certain, the mining yield of the rorqual is not the problem here.
And you will need some more nerfs if you want to balance it by that ^^
The problem isnt that a 10bil ship nets you 200mil an hour.
Supercarriers can do something similar already.
Incursions also can give you similar income.
The problem is, that compared to the other high-end isk/hour incomes in eve, rorqual mining can be done semi afk and multiboxed. Nullsec roids are big enough so they dont need to switch asteroids a lot. And aside from that, nothing prevents anyone from using 20 rorqs at the same time., in secured nullsec space with defense fleet ready.
That and ppl can do rorqual mining while they do other stuff, like pvping, pveing etc
I am 99% sure the afk and multiboxable nature of rorqual mining is the problem here.
A working fix would be, having to unload the mining drones each time they come back or something similar.
That would be the much smarter way to do it, in my opinion.
Or maybe only allow a single sieged rorqual on grid.
Currently rorqual mining has the following 3 characteristics:
1. multiboxable
2. safe in huge pvp-alliances
3. income greater than any other activity, that has 1. and 2. fullfilled
One of these 3 needs to change. safety will be hard to touch. Income would have to be nerfed into the ground for all regular users aswell. So 1. is the way to go! nerf multiboxing rorquals.
So you want to nerf rourqual multiboxavle? You know what miners will do?
1- Sell the rourquals
2-Buy a super
3-Rat in the umbrella of the multilateral protection of a big alliance
Everything in PVE eve is done semi-afaik you know why? Because it sucks , just look the last time CCP did a pass on PVE in EVE was when?If you dont have a healthy population of PVers you wont have as much PVP content and that is a fact.I dont see this change doing anything good to the game and i think there is bigger problems eve need's to tackle first and foremost like Null sov ,moonmining,citadels,PVE in general .
And buy the way everyone said when the new bonus of the rourqual were proposed that the panic module would create battle rourquals just go and check the discussions from that time , everyone liked to see rourquals in belts you know mining not hugging a pos field and taking the bonus to mining and dont giving nothing back will just put rourquals again mining at the belt with hulks , who in there rigth mids (besides goons) will put more than 1 rourqual at a belt?