I like the fact that I can use two Ogre II’s with the Mackinaw but I think it should be beefed up.
The drone bay should be capable carrying at least four large drones or Sentries. The barge would lose a strip mining slot and would have a 12,500 m3 ore bay.
It would gain mid and low slot along with a rig slot.
The cost of the Combat Mining Barge would be expensive and cost around 300,000,000 ISK just for the hull.
Or maybe convert the Hulk into the same Combat Mining Barge since it has become very unpopular.
As stated before, This ship essentially already exists: Its called a Skiff:
For Reference:
Mining Barge: (Per Level)
5% Bonus to Ship Shield HItpoints
2% Reduction in Strip Miner and Ice Harvester Duration
Exhumers: (Per Level)
4% Bonus to All Shield Resistances
2% Reduction in Strip Miner and Ice Harvester Duration
Role Bonus:
50% Bonus to Drone Damage and Hitpoints
Skiff can do this, and with the drone bonus, they are “beefed up”. Check
you can run 2 heavy/sentries but they are buffed by the role bonus by 50% so 3 effective. For reference, Skiffs can push 200DPS without a damage module fairly easily. So in effect: Check
Skiff Ore Hold: 15,000m3 … so more than Check
T2 ships have 2 rig slots, thats how it is. Skiff has 5 mids in addition 2 TWO shield bonuses (Can get EHP over 100,000 EHP on a T2 fit). Check
300mil is about the cost of a Skiff … check
Coveter / Hulk: Mining Yield (Use in Fleets with boosts and haulers)
Retriever / Mackinaw Ore Hold (good for solo)
Procurer / Skiff Combat/Defense Capabilities (use if danger is a muck)