I’ll have to disagree with you on this point. He is not providing a good target to anyone who wants to nuke him. People don’t just go around killing 400k ehp orcas in high security space. It’s suicide.
Don’t believe it? Those orca pilots don’t even show up on zkill, never been involved in pvp.
On it being broken and or bad for the game. Do you think it is encourages other players to keep subbing when they see a guy with 20 orcas afk mining every roid in the anom? I guess your average guy mining in a single barge might feel like quitting. Especially since this guy with 20 orcas will have his buddies gank you.
Then the issue becomes something more like “Orcas shouldn’t be allowed to mine in high sec”, rather than “Orcas shouldn’t be mining vessels”.
Or perhaps, “Orcas should only be allowed a substantially reduced yield while in high sec, and be mostly a mining support vessel there. But when in low sec (or lower) they should have access to higher yield tools.”
That still begs the question though - you addressed one issue: that he isn’t a feasible gank target. You haven’t said why a guy paying for 20 accounts and 20 Orcas and the SP to skill into those should not be allowed to multi-box his account to do AFK mining in high sec.
I disagree again. For years Orcas were not mining vessels, they were support vessels. Then one day CCP went a bit crazy in buffing them and took it too far. Their intention was for it to be a top support vessel, but they went too far and gave it mining capabilities.
You think CCP was right to give a ‘support ship’ with a near 200k ore hold good mining capabilities? Does CCP have a good history of making wise design decisions? Look to the problems with nullsec, rorqs online and capital proliferation.
You can disagree all you like, but you still haven’t made a case for why someone who’s paying for 20 accounts and 20 Orcas and 20 pilots who can fly them shouldn’t be allowed to multi-box mine in high sec.
Would it somehow be better if 20 friends got together with 20 Orcas and decided to go mine an anomaly?
I never said he shouldn’t be able to multibox mine. The issue is he shouldn’t be able to AFK mine out entire anomalies totally afk and risk free. Why can he do this? Because a 400k ehp, 200k ore hold support ship being used as mining ship makes it possible.
It’s broken gameplay. And it’s damages perception of the game for new players.
It’s broken gameplay. And it’s damages perception of the game for new players.
I highly doubt it was CCP’s intention that players would be able to use the new orca to mine large amounts of isk completely risk free.
You don’t agree with that? Blackout was meant to add more risk to nullsec because too many players are farming masses of isk essentially risk free. That’s clearly not what CCP want.
Last time I respond to you. You’re just annoying and probably deliberately so. So please don’t consider my lack of response to you any further as meaning that I agree with anything you have to say.
CCP clearly don’t agree that people should be able to make large amounts of isk risk free, which is why they added blackout. Do you understand my point or must I explain it for you? 20 400k hp orcas afk mining in high-sec gives you a large amount of isk risk free. It’s basically the equivalent of botting because it delivers the same benefits while being technically legal because no program is used.
I guess EVE’s sub numbers are very healthy these days then since so many new players have clearly been encouraged by the current gameplay to stay subbed. Oh wait, EVE’s population has been in a downward trend for years now hasn’t it. I guess your ‘counterpoint’ that new players are being inspired to stay doesn’t hold much weight.
You can first explain how this is broken. And no, your hurt fee fees aren’t valid reason to call it broken.
You guess wrong and now you’re just talking about unrelated things to try and distract people from the point that you don’t know what you’re taking about lol.
Enjoy your hurt feelings. Maybe one day you’ll accept that people being better than you at a video game doesn’t mean something is broken.
Since you have no problem with multi-box mining, then Orcas still aren’t the issue.
I’m pretty sure that a support Orca, 18 tanked Skiffs and a freighter would be just as risk-free, just as ISK-rich, and would require only a fraction more attention than 20 Orcas.
It sounds like your issue is really with high-intensity mining in high sec, which is a somewhat different kettle of fish than Orca balancing.
Edit: I was wrong. Drones don’t need a lock on a roid beyond the initial ones and Orcas can’t fit mining lasers, which I didn’t know. Never looked at the hardpoints. A solo Orca should fit Links, which is what I did, so I never checked. A fleet of Orcas doesn’t need a fleet full of Links, though.
I was wrong about the ECM part, sorry.
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If he’s truly afk mining, then all you need is a couple of free alpha chars skilled for ecm until you can safely break his target lock. Then you simply start rotating through the characters jamming a few Orcas per character.
When he’s truly afk, he won’t notice and will find that he mined exactly nothing. It cost you nothing and you actually do something about it, instead of complaining to higher powers. Bumping of course also is an option. You only need to bump the ships out of mining range, which isn’t particularly hard. Their lasers shut off and when he’s afk, he won’t be mining anything.
Either way, you’d be channeling your energy into a better direction AND playing the game!
We used to call this content.
In case of Drones: No, because they’re moving out of your range pretty quickly and you can’t possibly web enough of them at once, while being close enough, to make this worthwhile.
Would require a ship big enough to encompass the whole roid plus the drones’ orbital range … or several destroyers, of course.
If he’s in a corp with a structure, can’t he be war-decced? That would be more fun than mining anyway.
Nothing wrong with what he’s doing as long as it’s not botting.
