# Incoming Changes to the Orca

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/incoming-changes-to-the-orca/298741>\
**Category:** Mining & Extraction\
**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/incoming-changes-to-the-orca/298741 "2021-03-05T02:07:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/incoming-changes-to-the-orca/298741/581 "2021-03-22T16:27:40Z")

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> [@Anderson\_Geten](#):
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> and intentionally bad.

Barges each have their clear strengths and weaknesses. If you want to call that ‘_intentionally bad_’, go ahead. I prefer to call it '_intentionally well balanced to allow optimisation choices’_.

> [@Anderson\_Geten](#):
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> many gankers don’t want a target that requires as much investment to kill as the target does. (Note that not all gankers share that twisted mentality, some actually do it for the lolz)

Obviously a lot of people only gank when it’s profitable. In a game that’s all about profits, from industry, hauling, trading, exploration, missions… why would profitable _ganking_ be a twisted mentality?

> [@Anderson\_Geten](#):
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> You can multibox with many activities. It’s not an issue per se. And if multiboxing reduces the income of the competitors, then it also reduces the income of the multiboxer, meaning the gain from the activity is less than linear even though the activity in itself requires linear inputs. Which is a form of balancing already present.

I agree that profits for multiboxers going down is indeed a form of balancing. However, if ‘multiboxing profits’ is the main driving factor to balance profits for an activity, it means that by the time multiboxers may consider the activity not worth their time anymore, the solo player, who’s time is paying significantly less, has already considered the activity to be worthless for a long time. And that’s a shame, why should certain activities only be worth doing for multiboxers?

I’m not against multiboxing, but I do think that any activity that is as easily multiboxed as Orcas in a belt with large volumes (such as ice) should be adjusted.

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