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Bubba Hightower
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-12-04 15:04:11 UTC
The jettisoning of goods is obvious as a new feature, but are freighters now also able to access fleet hangars like on say a carrier or orca?
Dusty Meg
Echelon Research
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2012-12-04 15:07:31 UTC
They have always been able to, Aslong as both pilots were in the same corp you used to be able to do it, now probally aslong as the settings are correct you will be able to do it

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Kynlea
Serotonin Inc.
#3 - 2012-12-04 16:59:18 UTC
Dusty Meg wrote:
They have always been able to, Aslong as both pilots were in the same corp you used to be able to do it, now probally aslong as the settings are correct you will be able to do it


I never tried before, but I was under the assumption that freighters could only take from POS. Was this a bug associated with POS and Orca Corp hangar sharing code?
Eternus3
Gods Holy Light Bringing You're Penance
#4 - 2012-12-05 07:36:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Eternus3
Bubba Hightower wrote:
The jettisoning of goods is obvious as a new feature, but are freighters now also able to access fleet hangars like on say a carrier or orca?



If thats true cool, but still whats the point, your better off having a miner or the orca boosts then having a freighter sit in the belt all day and its not like u can swap the ship to orca maint bay with a miner, it wont fit so this is pretty much useless




After the mack buff for hold i think the orca ore bay needs a buff and maybe compression line x1.... freighter was and still is a dumb idea for a belt xD
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2012-12-05 08:26:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Freighter pilots can:
* Jettison (create jetcan).
* Take from a jetcan.
* Add to a jetcan.
* Freely access fleet hangar set to corp access, when in same corp.
* Freely access fleet hangar set to fleet access, when in same fleet.
* Jettison freight (uncompressed) containers.
* Scoop freight (uncompressed) containers.
* Freely access freight (uncompressed) containers in space.

It appears anyone in fleet can use a fitting service.
Bubba Hightower
Doomheim
#6 - 2012-12-05 15:20:53 UTC
Eternus3 wrote:
Bubba Hightower wrote:
The jettisoning of goods is obvious as a new feature, but are freighters now also able to access fleet hangars like on say a carrier or orca?



If thats true cool, but still whats the point, your better off having a miner or the orca boosts then having a freighter sit in the belt all day and its not like u can swap the ship to orca maint bay with a miner, it wont fit so this is pretty much useless




After the mack buff for hold i think the orca ore bay needs a buff and maybe compression line x1.... freighter was and still is a dumb idea for a belt xD


I do agree that the Orca cargo hold needs to be updated in accordance to the huge barge/exhumer buffs. Makes me wonder why the Orca wasn't given a pass when the mining ships were updated. I say give the Orca an ore hold that matches the concept of the ship itself, which is a minimalist "straight rail" design to which a bunch of storage space is attached to on the sides (plus the fact that the Mack, with no obvious dedicated storage on it holds only 15k m3 less than the Orca in its ore hold). Or hell give me a Tech 2 Orca, would be nice to have some more progression post Industrial Command Ships V (and no not the Rorqual, which needs its own adjustment and the fact that it isn't even viable to keep in belt due to siege mode making it the biggest gank bait ever).

Also, thank you Tau for giving that detailed rundown.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#7 - 2012-12-05 19:03:34 UTC
Bubba Hightower wrote:
I do agree that the Orca cargo hold needs to be updated in accordance to the huge barge/exhumer buffs. Makes me wonder why the Orca wasn't given a pass when the mining ships were updated.

When ore bays were introduced, I think the Orca got a cargohold reduction, just like the mining ships did.

If anything, I'd like to see an increase in the Orca's ship maintenance array to 800k (4 Hulks). I'd also like to see the Orca get one more high-slot and mid-slot, since a tractor beam and scanner really should be standard equipment.

The Rorqual similarly could use some love, with its tiny fleet hangar that is smaller than an Orca.

Bubba Hightower wrote:
Also, thank you Tau for giving that detailed rundown.

I was curious myself Big smile

I still didn't check every possible freighter or Orca & freighter interaction, but I thought I covered the most common ones.
Dave Stark
#8 - 2012-12-05 19:22:05 UTC
why didn't the orca get changed along with the exhumers? because the exhumer changes failed horribly and the orca will probably get changed when the exhumers actually get fixed properly.