Righto, I think there need to be more hive dropped equipment...
I'm no miner, so I'll leave the mining beam drops to someone else who has fiddled with mining stats more... but I'm thinking some crappy ones dropped by Dentek/Arty and Orun/Kannik collectors, some pretty nice ones from Transport bots (maybe they could have the ore-specific beams), and some pretty goddamn good ones from Hive Queens... On to the rest of the equipment...

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Powercells:

Hive Light Powercell
Capacity: 200
Charge Rate: 30/s
Mass: 10kg
Drops off of Observer bots (5%)

Hive Heavy Powercell
Capacity: 600
Charge Rate: 40/s
Mass: 150kg
Drops off of Orne Guardians (10%)

Hive Transport Powercell
Capacity: 250
Charge Rate: 48/s
Mass: 400kg
Drops off of Axia (10%) and T-38 (20%) Transports

Hive Transport Powercell Mk II
Capacity: 200
Charge Rate: 50/s
Mass: 600kg
Drops off of T-11 (10%) and Orion (20%) Transports

Hive Transport Cell Mk III
Capacity: 150
Charge Rate: 50/s
Mass: 500kg
Drops off of Aerna (10%) and Milanar (20%) Transports

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Guns:

Turreted Hive Ion Blaster
(All stats same as Hive Ion Blaster)
Targetting: Excellent
Drops off of Axia Transports (5%)

Hive Ion Blaster Mk II
Damage: 400
Velocity: 180 m/s
Energy: 8.5/blast
Delay: 0.14s
Mass: 200 kg
Grid: 8
Targeting: Okay
Drops off of T-11 transports (15%)

Whatever, I'm tired, I'll add more late... feel free to add your own...

+1 for the concept. A bit more cells than seem reasonable though.

I'd like to see say 1 in 100 hive transports actually carrying a load of hive posi's or hive fast charge or so forth. I don't think this would be excessive since they don't have huge holds.

For whoever (if anyone) recommends mining beams, I would suggest slower than the HE and producing negligible heat to reflect hive mining (and the time it takes to fill a collector) as an option.

/me is not a techy numbers person.

More guns:

Hive Phase Blaster
Damage: 470
Energy/blast: 7.0
Velocity: 170 m/s
Delay: 0.2 s
Mass: 200 kg
Grid: 4
Targetting: Okay
Drops off of TyCorps (duh) 5%

Hive Neutron Blaster
Damage: 700
Energy/blast: 12.5
Velocity: 195 m/s
Delay: 0.16 s
Mass: 500 kg
Grid: 8
Targeting: Good
Drops off of Prosus Assaults (10%, Denteks drop N2s) and Devus Guardians (20%)

More to come, feel free to contribute your own ideas...

Edit: Fluffy, I cut the queen cell. That one seemed a bit excessive...

Hold on, I'll build a Hive Gauss for Levi's.

EDIT: Ok, heres the current plans -

Hive Gauss Turret
Damage: 2500
Energy/Blast: 70
Velocity: 205
Delay: 0.4 sec
Mass: 2000kg
Targeting: Very Good
Port: Turret

I don't know if this is any good, if someone wouldn't mind looking it over.

Hive Mineral Scanner
Everything is the same but it's yellow instead of green!
Drops from observers. You know you want it.

Hive Gauss Turret
Damage: 2500
Energy/Blast: 70
Velocity: 205
Delay: 0.4 sec
Mass: 2000kg
Targeting: Very Good
Port: Turret
Aye, that's pretty good. May I add: "Drops from Levis (350% - more than one)"

Hive Fletchette Cannon Mk II
Damage: 300
Velocity: 215 m/s
Energy: 7.0/blast
Delay: 0.075 s
Mass: 700 kg
Grid: 8
Targeting: Little
Drops off of Aputech-17s (5%)

Hive Fletchette Cannon
Damage: 225
Velocity: 195 m/s
Energy: 6.5/blast
Delay: 0.088 s
Mass: 650 kg
Grid: 4
Targeting: Little
Drops off of Aputech-5s (5%) This is essentially a -/-/-/-/- fletchette cannon 1 that newbies can use...

I'd want a hive mineral scanner!!

Actually, I wonder if it couldn't be a drop rate based off of how many turrets are taken with the levi?

Wait I just had a great idea.

Hive Minor Gatling Turret
Damage: 450
Velocity: 185
Energy: 14 per shot
Delay: 0.15
Grid: 10
Mass: 2100
Targeting: Excellent
Bot Drop: Orun Guardian (5%)
Arklan Guardian (15%)

Sort of better than the normal AGT, but lesser compared to the Queen Gat.

Hive Gauss Cannon
Damage: 1500
Velocity: 195
Energy: 55
Delay: 0.40
Grid: 8
Mass: 1350
Targeting: Very Good
Bot Drop: Fernus Guardians (10%)

Improved variation on the Gauss III for bots. More mass, more damage.

Edit: More mass for gauss, more energy required.

Pretty good, but I have a few criticisms:

I'd decrease the drop rate of the gatling turrets from Orne Guardians to 5% and say that Arklans have a 15% drop...

The Gauss Cannon looks a little overpowered, be careful about your DPE/DPS when coming up with weapons. Your current stats give it 4286 DPS and 60 DPE which is frankly ridiculous for a Gauss. Lean the advantage more towards velocity, burst damage or some other stat. I might suggest something a bit more like this:

Hive Gauss Cannon
Damage: 1500
Velocity: 195
Energy: 40
Delay: 0.45
Grid: 6
Mass: 1250
Targeting: Very Good
Bot Drop: Fennus Guardians (5%)

No one else has done mining beams, so I'll have a go.

The collector beams are slower than the HE, but generate even less heat. This reflects how long it takes collectors to fill up with ore and that they don't heat roids. Range is a further than the HE beam because bots don't hug roids.

Hive Mining Beam
Port: Small
Range: 75m
Rate: 0.1
Heat: 0.01
Rate/Heat: 10
Mass: 500kg
Bot drop: Collectors (20%)

Hive Transport Mining Beam
Do transports mine? ShankTank suggested they do...

Queen beams have the longest range. Besides the longer range, these match the HD beams. If you wanted, these could add some efficiency for Xith, since that's the ore queens like.

Hive Queen Mining Beam
Port: Large
Range: 200m
Rate: 2.8
Heat: 0.75
Rate/Heat: 3.73
Mass: 500kg
Bot drop: Queens (5%)

K, I'll get right on it.