EVE General Discussion

I have often thought about getting an orca. But for my solo way of playing I'm not to sure what I could use it for. I see the orca as the lead mining director in mining ops. Or as transport ships. But how can a solo player use this ship to make money?

You answered your own question there.

I regularly use an Orca as a solo player. Can't beat it as a 'carry all' for moving your stuff around empire. Especially useful for carrying fitted ships, though not big enough for bs.

As for making money in it, not really. Unless you have several accounts and run your own multi-toon mining ops.

^^ …and as a result, you can see quite a lot of them trucking around from one incursion to the next, with people carrying their T3/logi/whatever combo in the hold so they can be prepared for whatever is needed in the next location. The Orca might not generate income directly, but it enables income generation that would otherwise be a fair bit less reliable.

If you mine jet cans a lot it will mean that the Orca will be able to ship them all at once, you can also move around a large amount of Ore at once too if you want to sell it in another region for bigger profits, it's like a freighter for miners in some ways but with less cargo space and more gadgets.

Even if you're going it solo a lot, it'll make you much more useful in mining ops too.

^^ This is the best use for an orca solo. I'll jump my transport alt into the orca when I want to move billion in the nice little corp hangers, 40km3 of space gives you lots of options for lots of expensive goodies that nobody will know you are hauling.

Also orca is great for managing PI factories, especially if you have multiple PI pilots all in the same solo corp. You can then fill the corp bay and the cargo bay with your materials and truck the orca to the plants while your PI pilot stays in a frig and transfer back and forth via the corp bay. No need to waste sp on hauling skills for your PI pilots now and you will have more than enough space to keep your factories filled with materials.

I really wish there was a high-sec ship that could carry a rigged BS, Noctis, T2/T3 cruiser and a few frigs or so - a complete missioning set of ships.

It's dumb how a freighter can't do that - my Charon's cargo bay is big enough to fly a Raven in there without even touching the sides, yet i need shrinkwrap to do that?!?.

Sometimes I wonder if CCP understands the meaning of "really freakin' BIG!" (Yes, I've heard of Titans, but they won't let carebears fly them)

Erm, guess you didn't get the shrinkwrap reference then? Why should I need to use another character and a courier contract to park a ship in a hangar?

Orca is pretty usable for moving around anything smaller than a BS. Also it can be fitted to make quick jumps in about 15-20 seconds, which is lightning fast compared to moving a freighter.

Mining drones and huge 0.0 asteroids + a few hours afk = great profit.

You'll need to be in a large alliance though then you're perfectly safe and anyone who says otherwise is an epeen driven nerd defending his imaginary rep of 'fearless nullsec warrior' who will stop at nothing to convince you he lives 'on the edge'.