Taggs Corhan
Crimson Phalanx
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Posted - 2013.06.22 23:08:00 -
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There is tremendous opportunity being missed here.
First, there is no reason to shadow a fleet in anything but a cloaky hauler. One cloaky hauler can carry enough supplies to resupply a 150 ship null sec fleet between engagements.
The opportunity being missed here, is the opportunity to give industrial ships an actual ROLE in the game beyond 'moving goods'
Look at modern fleets, they are shadowed and followed by fuel tankers, cargo-frigates etc, all to keep them supplied on their campaigns.
Its been well established, repeatedly, that the choice of tanky but mid cargo vs slow, big cargo and paper tank, is entirely in favor of the latter in highsec. No one, absolutely no one, wants to make multiple trips to do the same job.
Rather than have all ships be materiel movers, why not give industrialists a role in the overreaching aspect of eve? Want a reason to take a hauler into low/null that isn't a cloaky hauler? Give it the ability to repair modules from heat damage, give it the tank to survive a passing glance or even focused glance by combattants while its on the field with the rest of its gang.
You can make the minmitar/Caldari 'Gang support' wreath and badger with module repair and capability to carry some ammo etc. Doesn't have to have a huge cargo bay either, just 3k or so.
Amarr/Gallente 'gang support' iteron and sigil, capable of restocking drone bays, and repairing drones, again with small cargo holds for general resupply. These would have a large drone bay, but no bandwidth/capability to launch.
Amarr/Caldari/Minmitar/Galente - Materiel mover. Large cargo holds, 40km3 with no capability for expansion, capable of moving fully fit/rigged ships. As a sacrafice, they would not be able to fit secure cans at all.
Amarr/Caldari/Minmitar/Galente - Cargo hauler. Same as your current no-tank, max capacity haulers, only maybe a bit larger.
Amarr/Caldari/Minmitar/Galente - Smuggler Hauler. No matter how 'good' each race may claim to be, they all have use for black ops, or moving someting that one of the other empires views as illegal, or as high value to steal/commondeer. These haulers would have 10k-ish m3 cargo holds fast align time, almost no tank, and a bonus to cargo scanner scan-time duration (scanners targetting it take longer to scan, give the same results) This has the added bonus of making rigs that reduce that scan time more attractive.
This means only one gallente hull is unused, and amarr and caldari need two new hulls. An altered sigil and bestower, and a bustard reskin with an altered (more antinnaes? A bulet may have your name on it, but shrapnel is addressed 'to whom it may concern'.
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