
Tobin Shalim
Vulcan Foundry A.X.I.S
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Posted - 2008.10.23 15:49:00 -
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As someone that has mostly taken the mining/production path in the game, I can say a "whohoo" for this ship, as it's something that I've been wanting to see for awhile now. However I can also see that there should be a few things tweaked with this puppy as well:
- Slots: you say it has less speed and less agility than a battleship, but it has far fewer slots and drone bandwidth capacity than even a cruiser. Slot count and bandwidth should be changed to be more in-line with a ship that size. With the slot limitations, we are barely effective as a mining Command Ship as we can't even fit all the mining links plus maintain tractor beams for the cans that we'll have to grab.
- Ore compression: with such a small cargohold you really can't hold that much ore, especially when you rank it up with an Iteron V5 with T2 expanded cargoholds on it. You can potentially reach up to a jetcan worth of space, if not more (number crunching with rigs show up to 45k). Without being able to run ore compression, you're really not getting much more cargo space for ore than a much cheaper ship to fit+skill+buy.
- Cargo space: as sorta stated for Ore compression, it's not a lot of cargo space that we get overall, since this is designed to be a mini freighter and all. You get a decent mining op going on with enough people, this thing will be filled in minutes. You can get the same amount of hauling capacity with a few people running Iteron V5's at a much cheaper cost than this one ship. A larger size in lieu of ore compression would be a lot better for those of us running the ship.
- Strip Miners: this mostly as an aside option...allow us to be able to fit strip miners, even if it's just the regular ones and not the Modulated's. Goes very well with the extra slots added in.
Now in fairness, I'm making these suggestions without actually haven flown one yet on SiSi, so I can't provide a fair and balanced perspective on it. Look forward to flying one soon though  -----
Originally by: Haakkon I feel a great deal of patriotism at being a part of Goonswarm. We've accomplished great things... we're just mainly jerks about it
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