High-Sec Rorquals?

Is there any reason these shouldn’t be able to operate in high-security space? I’m sure someone will chime-in with “because Porpoise/Orca” or “because null-sec” - but beyond that, the rationale behind this is…?

After all, it’s not like high-sec is the end-all/be-all of mining regions… And we already have tons of multi-boxing/botting fleets in high-sec.

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Chesterton’s Fence.

I’m sure there are (or were at one time) valid reasons why Rorquals are presently not allowed in hisec. I’m not interested enough to postulate what those reasons are or were, and whether they may or may not still be valid. But I start from the assumption that things are the way they are for reasons other than random game design.

If you’re interested enough, begin by considering what reasons might exist to ban Rorquals from hisec. If you can’t come up with any reasons at all, then you likely don’t understand the problem well enough to propose a change (because there must be or have been a reason, otherwise it would not presently be so).

If you can come up with reasons, then argue against those reasons. If your arguments are sound, perhaps a change may be considered.

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Because it would be impossible to gank and/or bump. There shouldn’t be any ships allowed in high sec that can’t be killed. That would only encourage even more botting…

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Someone could enter into your moon mining OP in a Rorqual, suck up all the ore and, if they are in an NPC corp, there’s not a damn thing you could do about it…

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And since it has millions of HP and couldn’t be ganked, it would become the new de-facto ship for hauling to Jita at absolutely zero risk, albeit very slow.

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Not to mention you would end up mining yourself (and everyone else) out of a job. The unkillable Rorqs would be sucking up ore belts and ice anoms 24/7 in perfect safety, dumping all those materials on the market, and tanking the price for everyone, including themselves.

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because caps don’t belong in hisec.

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its funny how people come on idea forum only to parrot the status quo like “capitals dont belong in high sec”

But im like says who

So you want dreads, titans, supers in hisec? Ships that majority or hisec cant destroy?

I’m all for making the entire game null sec, allowing every ship type everywhere, and let the chips fall where they may. But that’s just me…

Navy Issue Orca

Blueprints vs Ore LP Store (1 copy runs)

The Orca isn’t manufactured by a military corp. Wouldn’t make any sense to have a Navy version of it…

There could be a reason as EdenCon use the Orca as a hauler.

There aren’t any Navy versions of Edencom ships either…

More room for improvement then :slight_smile:

The Majority of hs could destroy these ships if they were allowed in hs…

The issue would be the capital rigs and fittings that should not be allowed while in HS so the rorq would not be able to fit rigs and only use Large Shield or Damage + Bulkheads for proterction.

This would lower the HP

Also the drones only being T2 or ‘Augmented’ so bonus would not seem as great at it might seem.

Oh no I’m not in favor of the idea at all. The comment i replied to was just off base as to why it’s a problem

The Orca being a capital ship in highsec is a exemption not the norm.

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