Put one drone on each rock and you can mine for quite a while, WAY longer than the original design.
Good point.
However, if youâre doing that, you also have to account for the fact that rats will target drones, even in highsec. If you ignore the rats, youâre setting yourself up for loss, just as you are if youâre not managing your drones for rocks.
There is no if, this is how it is done, by 1000s of players. This is one of the âreasonsâ they made asteroids smaller, to counter this sort of thing.
Giving the Orca mining buffs was a huge mistake, should have left it a command ship.
The OP would make it even worse.
Yeah, Iâm definitely not for the suggestions of the op.
I get that people mine by setting each drone to a different rock, but those rocks are usually pretty small. At best, they can only be semi-afk.
I could see lowering the mining capability of orcas, but that wonât have as major an impact as some might think. Itâs still more profitable to run one orca boosting multiple barges.
With the mwd trick and fleet warp, only the most lazy miners will be caught easily.
When the Orca (and Rorq) was not really viable as a mining ship, players saw the Hulk has the top end mining ship to aspire too.
Hulks were everywhere and PUG fleets were commonplace with 1 or more Orcas for buffs and hauling.
It was fun, there were some accounting issues and trust issues but it worked well and players made isk.
Once they gave Orca mining, miners saw Orca as the end game ship. Because of itâs size and ore hold It doesnât require a fleet, it is a solo ship.
Then, because of abuses with off grid buffs, they nerfed the Orca buffs to be on grid only; which while fixing abuses was also a hammer approach because the Orca could no longer be both buff and hauler for the fleet.
It changed everything, Fleet mining became a thing of the past.
A lot of the resource distribution issues were created by enabling solo, semi afk and bot mining with those changes. Mistakes, fixing past mistakes.
Interesting. So back then someone would skill into an orca for buffs and just go pickup cans?
I donât really see it changing my playstyle much. I get more from my barges than I do the drones anyway. Hauling back to station might make me miss a cycle here and there, but itâs doable.
Canât keep a determined solo player down. Weâll find a way.
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