2025/6/27 -- releasing mining ships with upgraded capabilites

[Shailerie]

ISD SlartibartFast suggested me to post in here:

It would be nice to see some new designs in the mining ship category in the same way as recent new designs on freighters came out like the Avalanche (more slots for weapons etc..) to broaden the capabilities of mining ships.

[Syzygium]

And I wish for good weather and free beer.

Can you be a bit more specific? Like, bringing up actually some ideas?

• What exactly should those ships do differently than existing ships?
• How would they fit in th existing meta of mining ships? Will they be better? Will they require more skills? Will they be more expensive?

[Uriel_the_Flame]

@Syzygium

Will they be better? Will they require more skills? Will they be more expensive?

Maybe they will require good space weather effect and free beer for the crew to operate.

[Spacetramp_Drago]

They need to be fully automated and run by AI.

Mining lasers get the rock then it’s automatically processed and compressed on board.

Automation moves on in the real world, why not the online one too?

We as pilots just need to move the ship to the belts and let it do its job

[Uriel_the_Flame]

@Spacetramp_Drago

fully automated

MTU Request

Why not cut to the end of the chain of requests of “give an inch and they'll take a mile” and ask for the full feature set: MTUs should grab the loot first then also salvage the wrecks automatically and once done should teleport themselves to Jita 4-4 and sell the loot then teleport back but not to where they were but instead right into my ship’s cargo hold no matter where I am at the moment. Others already answered your current stage of request: MTUs are balanced, if you…

Just replace MTU and Salvage with Mining ship and ore.

[Spacetramp_Drago]

[Ruri]

Finally get a T2 Porpoise and Orca. or Skip to a T3 version when you can fit modules to make the ship better at certain things. Like drop the mining ability of the ship all together and give it better hauling potential with bigger ore bay so it acts more as a freighter with the ability to compress.

I dont mind the idea of a MTU that can also salvage but that would benefit mission runners more then miners. I might see like 5-6 rats, pretty sure mission runners get a few more then that.

[REEDER_GHOST]

A new mining ship for alpha accounts would be helpful. As the price of Plex goes up the venture doesn’t cut it anymore. Alpha accounts need something better.

[Uriel_the_Flame]

@REEDER_GHOST

As the price of Plex goes up the venture doesn’t cut it anymore.

And once all Alphas can mine more the supply increases thus ore prices go down resulting in having to grind as much if not more for PLEX.

[REEDER_GHOST]

I’ve been playing on and off since 2010 or something like that. Ore prices don’t really change much. I was playing when people preferred to work together and today we have every pirate and Indy player mining with 20+ account each. Prices are about the same for ore.

Tbh I can’t see a new alpha oriented mining ship Changing things more than the venture did or multi boxing.

[March_rabbit]

@REEDER_GHOST

As the price of Plex goes up the venture doesn’t cut it anymore. Alpha accounts need something better.

What Alpha account needs PLEX for? The whole idea of Alpha is that one does not need to farm enough ISK to buy PLEX each month.

[REEDER_GHOST]

@March_rabbit

What Alpha account needs PLEX

A lot of them. Some people can’t pay RL money for omega and some people don’t want to. Most Alpha accounts farm this or that to plex to omega. It’s not some strange concept and its not a small percent of alpha account.

@March_rabbit

The whole idea of Alpha is that one does not need to farm enough ISK to buy PLEX each month.

idk man that is just blatantly wrong i’m 99.99% sure you knew it was wrong as you typed it.