I’ve had sansha dreads drop on me in paragon soul while moon mining. That was not a fun experience.
Second time in same area I was in a rorqual for the first time and killed the sucker. Bounty was decent, but the loot was junk.
cant use rorqs in HS, and these guys are talking about moons in a 0.5 system
they’re also talking about dreads dropping on moons, which doesnt happen in highsec.
Yea, that was because one reader wasn’t aware the topic was about HS.
Nobody would complain if 45 Orcas were mining LS or NS moons semi-AFK. On the contrary, many would rejoice.
Only HS AFK Orca mining is an issue.
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Please explain to me why dreads are not allowed in HS?
Is somebody is crazy enough to suicide gank with a dread, why not?
Capital ships are impossible to illegally kill due to their massive amount of health.
Having capital ships in HS protected by CONCORD would be unbalanced as nobody could reasonably kill them.
Also CCP wants players to progress out of HS if they want to fly the big toys.
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capital ships used to be able to be in highsec. As Gerard said, due to balance.
Although, many cap ships have been nerfed a lot over the years, and I do not agree with it being a balance issue. They are Capital ships. Military assets of the highest order. You don’t see canoes blowing up carriers irl, why should that be an issue in eve?
subcaps are a lot easier and cheaper to skill into. They should not be able to compete with capital ships. Empires have titans in highsec, it’s just players that can’t.
Well, most players. Chribbas’ Veldnaught still exists i’m pretty sure.
Keep it a simple fix.
Remove Orca bonus for drones, Orcas are for boosting / hauling.
Bring 0.3 and 0.4 rats up to high sec
0.3 rats would replace 0.5 and 0.6 rats , ( fun for active players , bad for bots/afks )
0.4 rats replace those in 0.7 and 0.8 ( 0.9 and 1.0 would remain rat free )
Just these 2 simple changes should have a noticeable impact - very quickly.
Slightly stronger rats won’t impact a HS Orca I fear, unless you’re thinking of capital or diamond rats.
Rats rarely pose a threat to my two mining ships in NS and I’m not even multiboxing a fleet of Orcas yet.
Maybe if the spawning of beltrats would be tied to the power of the ships in the belt, it could adress the issue. We have such mechanics with FOBs for example, so programming it is possible.
This would mean, if there are only a few Ventures in the belt, very weak NPC rats spawn. If there are Barges and Exhumers, more and stronger ones could spawn. Not particulary threatening, but strong enough to not get ignored for long, at some point they will chew through the shields.
Orcas would of course add a much higher “score” to the NPC trigger algorithm, especially multiple of them. Which means, massmultiboxed Orcas can’t be controlled semi-afk any more, they need strong tanks and probaby remote-repairs and combat drones to fight back the NPC spawns that would otherwise overwhelm them one by one.
See no problem here with that as it’s working by design!
What moons in high sec are worth moon mining lol. And even if dreads can’t spawn who is protecting them from the several npc battelships that will be spawning in while they mine ? Can’t be there drones there busy mining (very slowly at that)
War deck the holding company and blow up the structure then lol
I did I just do r have all high sec systems memorised in my brain now does it really make sense to agk mine in an orca in the first place because the m3 per hour drones get is pitifully low.
Holding company and the structure were not a problem for the original poster. And it does nothing to solve that problem.
I don’t know about normal mining efficiency in an Orca vs, let’s say, a Retriever or such. But an AFK Orca mining efficiency is 100%.
You say you read the original post, but you don’t seem to understand what was said in it.
i and my brother both would love this idea…
we dont play afk…he runs 20 orcas, i run 1…any 1 of them has 1 million ehp and 1200 dps with core on.
Mining amount per drone unbuffed.
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So goodnight to those lowsec rats
Re; keep it a simple fix
That’s the mining amount for the harvester aka rorq exclusive drone an orca can’t use one of those. The best an orca can use is a t2 which gives 25m3 per 60s cycle
T2 mining drone = 25m3 per 60 seconds
25 x 5 =125 125m3 per minute
Venture mining laser t2 = 56.4m3 per 15 seconds
56.4 x 4 (cycles per minute) = 225.6
225.6 x 2 (mining lasers) =451.2
451.2 / 125 =3.61
1 venture = 3.6 afk orcas.
Ya idk if this is an issue.