EVE General Discussion

1 - You can't bump someone away from their drones. They will follow, and won't lose control unless the ship warps.
2 - Only the faction ice drones are that valuable, otherwise they're supposedly pretty cheap. (Everyone mixes up the rorqual drones, like they don't bother to read patch notes)
3 - Orca mining speed hardly matters when you can fill 250k+m3 without moving and way less clicks than a mackinaw.

In short, get over it or do something about it. CCP wanted the boosting ships to become more involved with mining. And the risk vs reward is definitely there, these orcas wouldn't be in belt otherwise.

We are talking about AFK mining and not yield if you are at the keyboard. The Orca will be able to mine a lot longer do to the insane Ore hold alone so it will get much more ISK per required click. Also the Hulk will outperform your procurer for non-AFK mining, so it looks you are the one "losing lots of ISK" in here in every possible scenario.

Wait! People who sub get more than freeloaders???


Not right!

Is ISK per click a relevant metric now?

For AFK mining which is what talk about yes

Actually I was talking about paying attention to your distance to the roid not telling you to pay attention as an insult. As for your dig, I have an Orca mate and have had one since 2011, I went out and tested it, see earlier where I said my mining drone skills were sub optimal, the comment is more to focus on the AFK nature of this approach that people will moan about, if you go AFK and leave it to it then your yield will suffer, you should be operating your Orca to move close to the roids being mined which is why I made that point. I am going to sort out T2 drones and have some fun.

Orca's are interesting and I think that they are set up about right, people are moaning about them because they are an effort to kill, but they should be.

Can you link the post in this thread where someone is moaning about that or are you projecting again. For the record, I use an Orca as well and it just got extremely more useful for the stuff I use it for (not mining)

Yeah you have a point, I thought it would be that by implication but I could be wrong, let us see if it turns into as people will say it is not fair as I cannot gank them or kill them when people drop to NPC corps to avoid war decs.

Still if you run them AFK they are not that efficient, if it does allow you to run them AFK, I am testing on a roid which will be the last of its type in the belt, I am interested to see if they switch, that should be something that CCP apply to them to block AFK play. And that is the case, Fiery Kernite, after it was mined out they did nothing..., so good. Even better they only mine repeatedly on the roid targeted, so what the hell is the issue about AFK mining?

EDIT: As I had not really used mining drones to any degree that was something new to me in terms of the drone behaviour. So really when people complain about AFK Orca's they are talking our of their rear end, they are what I call limited attention mining ships like all mining ships and all this hot air about AFK mining is just stupid...