Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.09.03 11:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Astria Tiphareth
You clearly missed the latest dev interview where they said that the next major patch around 2090, codenamed Midas, would be entirely devoted to industry and mining.
fixed.
We've been down that road before. What we got was T2 barges with only enough to tank a 0.4 rat spawn and not a great deal more once the essential stuff for mining is fitted. I'm not talking about mining upgrades etc, just the T2 lasers and a tank. If you can fit a respectable tank on it then you obviously have uber combat skills but the average industrialist doesn't train those until after the industrial skills. Now consider how many industrial skills there are just for mining/refining alone to get the best from a yield and you're looking at a three year wait before a miner can fit a tank worth shit.
Then we have the uber slow gank target although I believe they renamed it to the freighter to hide the obvious. This is a ship with "GANK ME" written all over it in big bold italic letters. It's huge, painfully slow, warps at walking speed and has all the agility of the average housebrick. It has no offensive capability and no defensive capability making it a magnet for every suicide ganker in the universe. This is a ship designed to move huge amounts and even a full cargo of the cheapest item (tritanium) 78 million units, means a 250+ million isk haul. What's the point in having a ship that size if you don't fill it up? You may as well use a Transport ship for smaller amounts. This is a ship that can't even fit a single shield booster for defence so, no matter how many escorts you have, it is called primary and if Concord can't save one, your escort has no chance, say bye bye to 500 million isk of corp funds after insurance payout, (including the cost of insurance that is), and whatever cargo you were carrying, so that's in excess of a billion isk your corp has just lost in total.
That brings me to Jump Freighters. Still big, still painfully slow and still all the agility of a housebrick and still no offence or defence but now with an added cyno beacon to notify everyone where it is.
Finally, there's the Rorqual. Big, painfully slow, no offensive capability except a few drones that can be popped by anyone with a couple of SP. At least it has some form of defence though, maybe CCP are actually learning something.
Yup, CCP really gave something to the industrialist... A huge target to paint on their backs.
Honestly, nobody in their right mind would build a ship to fly in a combat zone that has no way to defend itself. Why would the denizens of Eve build a ship large enough to carry everything they owned and not even had a shield booster fitted on it?
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