Good day.
I want to write about what hurt.
I’m a miner, but I can’t fully realize my potential, because of the changes and policies that you’ve been running in the game for quite a long time.
So. It has been my dream for over 5 years to learn, buy or build and use the largest mining ship in the game - the Rorqual.
I’m a miner and basically my gameplay is finding ore, mining it and selling it. To begin with, all ore mining ships are only available to omega clones. There are dozens and even more ships for pirates, fighters and explorers that are available to alpha clones. And only one, the worst, which is available to miners - Ventura.
All other ships require an omega subscription and specific skills.
Miner ships are more difficult to train. Ore in high defense systems is very cheap and it takes 5-8 hours of digging to mine 100 million.
So let’s compare the nice cruiser Drake and the drilling barge Procurer (Skills you need to know to control the ship. Not counting the skills you need to have to use the equipment):
- Drake - Four Tier 3 skills, one Tier 2 skill, and one Tier 1 skill.
- Prorurer - One fifth-level skill, four fourth-level skills, three second-level skills, and two first-level skills.
Drake: So all alpha pilots can fly on Drake in a week, maximum two. All beginners can learn.
Procurer: Only omega pilots are on the barge, in addition, some skills can be taught only with an omega subscription, the training time is 2 months.
For second-tier drillships, the gap is even greater.
All drilling equipment is ineffective without buffs. They can be provided by an Orca or a Porpoise. Both ships are once again for omega pilots.
To learn an Orca ship you need 4-5 months to learn skills, three billion isk to buy a ship and learn basic skills.
To raise the buffs to a good level, another two billion claims and 3-4 months of training.
Before, the ship was good, but you cut down the mining drones and now the Orca with the drones can’t mine ore at all.
So, it takes 2-3 years to earn money for an Orca ship for buffs and another one that will mine ore. Because mining ore without these ships is very difficult and long, and if you collect it, you need two omegas to continue being a miner.
An Orca ship that will cost miners 3-5 billion and half a year of training is not self-sufficient at all. He can’t even defend himself against 12-16 pirates on a Thrasher ship, which can be learned in 2-4 days. And the Orca will be destroyed in high defense systems. Players who do that not needed to study for more than half a year or have 5-6 billion for a ship.
Now we come to the Rorqual ship.
You will need a year of training to start using it.
It costs about 5-6 billion and about 2 billion modules for it.
Drones will cost you one and a half billion. It is only for Omega pilots. If you have the patience to spend a year collecting money for it by digging ore, learning skills, collecting drones, then you still won’t be able to fly it…
Because it only flies in systems 0.4 and below.
He’s very slow, he can’t defend himself, his mining drones are also slashed and mining less ore than before. It has no drilling lasers.
And if you somehow passed all the stages, built a ship, learned all the skills, found modules and went to dig for ore, you will die in 2-3 hours. Maximum for the next day. it’s 100%
There are very few mining ships themselves
Three ships of the first level, three of the second.
Two ships with buffs and compression and a rorqual.
Triglav still has no mining ships. I asked if there were any plans at all more than two years ago, I was told that it is not my business and I cannot talk about such things. So I don’t know if they will or not.
But!!! The game increasingly descends into a banal shooting game.
There will be no space exploration, no miners, soon it will just be a pvp game and that’s it. Understand this problem and start dealing with miners, their ships. Help me and I will help you. It is not possible to play like this. I can’t fly on the ship I saved up for and dreamed about.
The new event that is going on now gives the possibility of a drop at the level of 90%.
No one will be happy to drop from a cheap ship. But everyone will kill miners because they have expensive ships. You made an unbalanced event that encourages you to kill miners.
I am waiting for your (CPP) adequate and meaningful answer. I took my time and wrote you a lot of information, don’t be lazy and give me more than 3 sentences.