Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have been considering what might be interesting in a small portable POS, for solo or small groups.

I am thinking the real solution here is to make the Orca pick up two special abilities.

1 Anchor function.
This would take your existing Orca, with the basic stats as is unchanged, and anchor it to a single spot.
The point of this is to stabilize the ship, and keep it online.
(You can eject from the vessel, bookmark it's location, and use it as a portable base of operations.)

Possible Upgrade: Dev balance as to whether you can activate and leave modules running for boost functions, it might be worth while.

2 Obscurement field
Don't park on grid with anything else, or this becomes worthless.
The Orca has no sensor presence when anchored, and cannot be scanned down at all while anchored. Since the flying pinata has no direct defense, being unable to locate it will probably be the only way it survives long term.

Possible Upgrade: Dev balance as to whether a no scan field extends from the Orca, and how far. Possibly only affects fleet members to the owner and the owner themselves, while in close proximity to the Orca.

Edit: I emphasized the aspects that were possible upgrades to the idea as being separate from the idea itself.

As a vehicle with either trivial or zero combat presence, can you explain why you would say no here?

I would strongly suggest you read this more carefully.

The two functions you described were strictly dev option as possible upgrades to the idea, not core to the idea itself.

The base idea does not include those.

OP just wants a hidden base to play with in hostile territory, end of story. There is absolutely no other reason whatsoever to anchor a 600m ship in space, instead of a 60m small POS tower that, while paper thin as such things go, has superior defensibility in every way.

The joke is that serious hunters will eventually find your Orca and destroy it along with everything inside it, and you will be out 600m just like that.(Protip: CCP is not going to give you an invisible base.) A small POS gives you the opportunity to evac your **** before it goes down, meaning you're out only the tower, a couple hardeners, and the few days of fuel you'd been feeding it.

If it's invisible, then it's never on grid to anyone.

If it's unscannable, then they'll just D-scan it, and start shotgunning around for it until they find it. This is time consuming but incredibly simple if you have three people and can do some basic math.

Regardless, CCP is not going to give you an invisible base, and someone who wants it will find it eventually.

Yes. And if you have an active account in the orca and it is cloaked at a SS, it will tie up an account. This is fair given that it is an unscannable mobile base.

What you are asking for is a cloaky POS that can be deployed/undeployed at will.

You yourself admitted that this is never something you would do with your main account. If your main account is already out and interacting with stuff, then I don't see any loss. Furthermore, anything else you're going to use that alt account for isn't going to involve interaction with others.

Why would you assume this?

You DO know this ship is primarily intended to work with miners, and that miners interact on a given level, regardless of account descriptions of main or alt.
They mine.

And my main account is actually the one qualified to run the Orca. My alt account supports the main in other circumstances, but here the roles are reversed when not duplicated.

Assumptions are opinions, too often presented like facts.

I respect your opinion, but let's not pretend you speak for anyone but yourself.

30 seconds out of cloak is all a competent scanner needs to nail your Orca. Especially if people keep warping over to it all the time.