Ships & Modules

Sounds like you know the answer already

Sounds like by not answering your question, yabba actually answered your question.

Yes but.. why would you?

I imagine you're referring to the link that reduces miner cycle times, but the miner range link can also provide some significant benefits. You have to move around less while mining in belts, you can start mining sooner in random belts, and it cuts down on the number of bookmarks you need to keep to mine out whole belts. The lower movement aspect in turn means you can more easily use your orca as a hauler instead of sacrificing a mining character to hauling the ore. That works by, ironically in light of how many praised the orca as eliminating this aspect of mining, going back to the old jet can mining method.


That, however, is mining ore. When mining ice range is completely irrelevent, just like miner capacitor usage under any circumstances but those of the most extreme idiocy such as retriever pilots trying to pulse their stupidly every 20 seconds or so.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to say that ease of play is better than survival, but when your best survival tactic is "run and hide" it seems to me that being able to start mining faster and mine with less hassle is equally worth living a bit longer during and potentially escaping a rousing match of surprise pirate butt sex. Less risk of losing a ship versus more money to spare when you do lose a ship. /shrugs.

It's convenient to use other types of links when you're using the orca as a mobile base of operations for other things. A lot of incursion runners have orca alts that double as makeshift OGBs when needed.

Could a small PvP gang use an ocra for combat support?

Wait, I think you mean Orca. Ocra is a fantastic vegetable, especially if it's fried or, even better, deep fried.