As the title indicates, this would be the concept for creating the least functional ship from a conceptual standpoint: a ship for alpha players that requires omega skill to use, since all its bonuses are for ice, and that’s an omega skill. It’s like being sold a gun but not being able to use its bullets. An alpha player can’t benefit from this ship, and an omega player would be more inclined towards an Exumer or the Endurance frigate. For this ship to make any sense, it would need an ice laser system, somewhat inefficient, but usable without the omega skill; then the ship would have some purpose.
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It’s not an Alpha ship. It is currently mislabeled in the ship tree. Alphas can’t mine ice, so this ship is useless to them…
It already has that. It can only fit ice mining lasers. It can’t fit ice mining strip miners.
They are never going to let Alphas mine ice, not matter how inefficiently….
No one cares about Alphas. If you want more, you can pay for the game.
Oh, you know, there’s only the whole part where a mining destroyer takes less skill to pilot than either of the T2 hulls you listed there. Omegas don’t come with all skills fully trained, and this ship makes a nice option where you want more maneuverability than a barge but don’t have the skills for an Expedition Frigate.
If it weren’t for the fact that it’s limited edition, you probably would see it used over the endurance because the yields are similar, but the efficiency is much higher.
As is, it’s a bit of a novelty, just like most limited edition ships, and I don’t see why that isn’t basically fine.