It’s more just a meme (96% of the Eve player base are sociopathic, no-life, basement dwelling males), but if you are in the 4% of sociopathic, no-life, basement dwelling females (assuming only 2 genders), then my apology.
Yea, just seems a weird one tbh. On a scale from capsule to titan, in terms of ease to kill, the orca sits closer to the titan than it does a capsule.
Looking at the last 2000 kills:
Characteristic | Value |
---|---|
Mean damage taken | 112,717 |
Mean total damage based on flat 60% resists | 281,793 |
Obviously a flat resist profile isn’t perfect, but as a first approximation, the average Orca seems to be at about 300K EHP.
That is probably part of the reason that most of them are killed outside highsec (though highsec still sees far more than 10% of losses). Orca kills by security region:
Region of space | Kills | % of kills |
---|---|---|
JSpace | 133 | 6.7 |
Nullsec | 479 | 23.9 |
Lowsec | 561 | 28.1 |
Highsec | 826 | 41.3 |
Given the impression at least, that the Orca is a highsec ship; and is used extensively in highsec, it’s surprising (at least to me, but critics will criticize so good luck to them), that 60% of Orca losses are from areas of space where they are used less.
Of the highsec losses, ganks only make up about 7% of all Orca losses (7.4%); and the mean number of gankers to achieve a kill is 27 gank ships.
It seems NPCs are the biggest killers of Orcas in highsec. Of the 826:
Cause | Kills |
---|---|
Gank | 147 |
War | 141 |
NPC, Killright, Suspect, CONCORD | 538 |
Most of the NPC related losses don’t appear to be trigs either (though that’s just a look by eye), which is strange. There’s enough EHP in an Orca that even if you were pointed by normal rats (which doesn’t happen in highsec), you’d be able to refit stabs and moonwalk out of there. I don’t know if that suggests a lot of people are just going AFK when using their Orca, but just seems strange.
In any case, from the most recent 2000 losses, the Orca is a pretty strong ship (and that is fine. It should stay that way in my view).
Yep. No one is forcing anyone. I’m happy chatting as I am; and it’s on topic.