From being born into my first itchy clone, to being where I am today as taken almost 3 years of On/Off playing.
It as always been a goal of mine to reach the dizzy heights of RORQUAL pilot, and I am getting closer each day. With almost 7 Billion Isk to earn before I get there seems like a mountain to climb.
I do use the ORCA to mine with 5 Class II Mining Drones. It takes a good Movies worth of Mining to achieve a almost full ship load (Using several bays to store it in).
Thing is @Developers I am running low on Movies and would greatly appreciate the capability of introducing, Miningās missing link from ORCA to RORQUAL, The Excavator Drone. The ORCA does have 50 Mbit/sec bandwidth and would be able to operate a minimum of 2 Excavators.
This would allow me to switch from Movies to TV Series to fill the ORCA, thus allowing for a greater industrial ORCA revolution in the mining industry which I do believe what it was designed for.
āThe Orca was developed as a joint venture between Outer Ring Excavations and Deep Core Mining Inc as a vessel to help meet the demands of New Edenās industry and provide a flexible platform from which mining operations can be more easily managed.ā
āThe Orca uses much of the technology developed by ORE for the Rorqual and integrated with the latest advancements from Deep Core Mining research division has developed a vessel which offers a diverse role to all sizes of operations and needs.ā
Hereās to āA New āEdenā Hopeā (Star wars reference)
Hereās why this wonāt work, first, it makes you a juicy target, 2 excavators would be 2.5 times the cost of the Orca making your dones a prime targets, code and others looking for easy points for their kill board would have a field day, so mining drone II are sufficient enough, they mine plenty, stop thinking about an orca as mining barge, itās not, itās a command ship with drones, luckily CCP gives it mining bonuses, we should be happy.
"The Orca was developed as a joint venture between Outer Ring Excavations and Deep Core Mining Inc as a vessel to help meet the demands of New Edenās industry and provide a flexible platform from which mining operations can be more easily managed.
The Orca uses much of the technology developed by ORE for the Rorqual and integrated with the latest advancements from Deep Core Mining research division has developed a vessel which offers a diverse role to all sizes of operations and needs."
Except the ability to fly excavatorsā¦ Their words not mine.
Canāt fit a pulse activated nexus invulnerability core
Doesnāt suffer a 5x penalty to entosing (not that anyone would)
Doesnāt receive any bonus to cargo scanners
Itās no surprise either. Because itās an Orca, not a Rorqual.
If you want to use excavators, go to low/null and use a Rorqual.
It shouldnāt be easier to earn ISK while AFK from what is designed as an active form of play. Thatās exactly what excavators for an Orca would provide.
I donāt see much issue here orcas donāt get an industrial core and if you say cost one could argue 5 excavators are about 2.5 times the cost of a rorqual hull.As for āsafetyā in hs ppl will just suicide gank your drones if they want to annoy you or suicide onto your ship if they want to make some money.
Iād much rather see the Orca be able to field 1-2 more Ice Harvesting Drones (reducing the ice harvesting droneās bandwidth requirement based on ship skill) than use a single excavator.
I have been seeing this more and more as of late. I like my mining and the time it gives me to examine the market & contracts, but the multi client botting is out of hand.
and would be able to operate a minimum of 2 Excavators.
(Star wars reference)
