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Helison
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Posted - 2007.08.10 10:15:00 -
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I think with the current stats the Rorqual will be used 5-10% for mining and 90-95% for hauling other stuff. And only a very small percentage of mining ops will probably be supported by a Rorqual. If this is ok for you: make it so.
I personally would split the cargo bay in two parts, the bigger one only be available for ore (uncompressed and compressed). On the other side, I would give the rorqual 3 strip-miner slots, so that he can also participate with mining (as it needs already the mining barge skill). Then it would really be a capital mining ship and not only sort of a better carrier.
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Helison
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Posted - 2007.08.11 12:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Max Tesla
Originally by: Nostromar
Originally by: Max Tesla
Only 5 drones?
So the corps get everything and one man armies like me get nothing, yet again.
Its a capital ship....you'd need at least one other person as a cyno generator anyway.
That is ridiculous, you should be able to mine with the ship and since you can dock you can mine in 1 system and when you feel like moving you can always send a hello to a friend or you can have an alt to create a jump point etc
There are people that play eve that like to play alone and don’t want to be in some corp
Yeah, CCP designed this ship only for mining ops for small gangs (4-8ppl) and even there you will face several problems as small gangs will NOT have the ability to defend the Rorqual if a medium force of enemies shows up.
It will work for large mining ops (specially the gang bonus), but you will have to use other ways of transporting the ore (carriers, indys, freighter...).
It will not work at all for solo mining and very bad for gangs below 4 persons.
But the "best" way of using a Rorqual will be to use it for tranporting stuff. You have more than the double capacity than a normal carrier and you donŠt have to have all the special skills.
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Helison
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Posted - 2007.08.15 13:04:00 -
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Currently on Sisi you need about 15-16k m3 Ore for one compress-run. I think this is a bit high in comparison with the cargosize of the rorqual (you wonŠt use 3 cargo-expander if you really use it in a belt) and in comparison with the size of roids.
I personally think that it would be best, if it needs about 5000m3 Ore for compressing one run. The the time to compress one jet-conti is still ok (4-5min) and you wonŠt have as much excess-material when finishing a mining-op.
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