Did these ships got released before gas was a thing and noone took a second look or is there some kind of actual reason?
P.S. What is the best place to drop these noob questions in?
P.P.S. Why there are no drones for gas harvesting?
Edit: I am talking about ORE industrials: Porpoise, Orca, Rorqual
Edit2: What a pity that Gnosis supersedes Porpoise, Orca and even Rorqual with 2-8 ships on grid
Looks like all of the ORE mining ships have gas-harvesting bonuses, aside from the Endurance. The Endurance on the other hand is pretty strong for ice mining.
This subforum (new citizens Q&A) is a good place for those.
So thereâs some variance between different types of mining, and it isnât all the exact same gameplay with a different colour and name.
Gas harvesting also doesnât have any low slots to improve yield, while ore mining doesnât have rigs for additional yield.
Yea, those are for mining support. Their boosts also benefit gas cycle time so even if there are no gas drones itâs not a bad idea at all to bring a Porpoise to a gas huffing fleet to greatly improve the harvesting speed of the entire fleet.
In my mind all of the non-combat ships like haulers, miners, salvagers and mining command ships are industrial ships. After all all ORE ships and non-ORE haulers are ships that fit in the industrial ship maintenance bay of the Rorqual or can take the industrial jump bridge of the Rorqual.
The thing that mostly sets apart the Porpoise, Orca and Rorqual from the other industrials is that theyâre industrial command ships, brought for their mining boosts and supportive qualities for the mining fleet.
However you call them, these command ships can bring strong mining boosts and extra storage to a gas huffing fleet and will be beneficial to the fleet even if they cannot harvest gas themselves.
Alternatively look for a Gnosis. Iâve heard they can bring boosts and a rack full of gas scoops. The main downside is the lack of cargo space then.
With that logic, Command Ships are the only vessels that are in fact Ships in the game, as most other categories arenât called Ship.
Semantics aside, the Gnosis doesnât supersede the Porpoise in general, only in a very specific niche:
cargo space is meaningless for you
you have between 2 and 8 ships on grid
Generally while mining you are limited by cargo space. That Gnosis isnât going to be able to hold the gas you huff. You might want to jetcan mine and bring a hauler along to carry the gas out if youâre using a Gnosis, because of the severe lack of cargo space, but if you do, why not boost with a Porpoise instead so you can put the last character in another Venture for more yield?
Also if you have enough ships in the fleet the higher boosts of the Porpoise exceed the Gnosis. The Orca already exceeds the Gnosisâ self-yield with better fleet boosts at 4 miners.
what a pity you come here to discuss about semantics, and repeat the same thing without paying attention to what other experienced players answered.
Porpoise/Rorq etc are command ships, boosting ships rather than pure mining ships, even if they can mine a bit.
It is like talking about some boosting ships in pvp fleets and regreting that they do not have good bonuses to damage dealt by all types of weapons. No they donât, but they provide good boosts, thatâs what they are made for.
Are you saying that boosting ships do not have superior fire power to their lower class counterparts? It would be nice if ORE boosting ships had at least same as Ventureâs scouping capacity
Mining command ships are not a âhigher classâ mining vessel than Ventures. Itâs a different class ship, a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. Ventures are mining ships, a Porpoise is not. Itâs a mining command ship.