EVE New Citizens Q&A

I believe access to your hangars is based on who is in fleet with you (or your corp)


If the ships are assembled they MUST be carried in the maintenance bay. if they are packaged they may be put in cargo bay. To carry blue ships, have them contract them to you and then you contract them back when you get to dessy

Only fitting service is available automatically for all fleet members.

- To allow non-corp members to access Ship Maintenance Bay you need to configure ship.
- To allow non-corp members to access Corporate Hangar you need to configure ship.

Configuring Orca is simple:
When in space right click your ship and choose "Configure Ship" from menu. Tick the "Allow fleet member usage" option and close window.

Note: this has to be done after everytime you undock or jump to other system.

My other chr is an orca pilot. you can only put industrial ships into the ship hold, but you can put packaged ships of any kind into the corp hangar and carry them around.

Also, (im about 85% sure it still works) the corporate hangar bay is great for lugging around expensive stuff that you might otherwise get suicide ganked over. or at least no one's ever shot my orca when carrying around expensive stuff kept in the corp hangars.

You can also put rookie ships, frigates, assault ships, stealth bombers, interceptors, cruisers, heavy assault ships, recons, logistics, strategic cruisers, battle-cruisers and ORE industrial ships into the Ship Maintenance Bay of an Orca. I routinely travel with a Basilisk, Tengu and a handful of frigates (Incursion detail: Basilisk for fleet, Tengu for off-grid-booster, frigates for exploration while waiting for the Incursion fleet to form up).

As for the corp hangars, they are only accessible to alliance members if you tick the "Allow fleet member usage" box in "Configure Ship", and the fleet members have corp roles to access that hangar in their own corp. There's some hand-wavy stuff in there, but generally it works well enough that alliance-members can run mining ops together. Out-of-alliance members are out of luck: they can dump ore into a corporate hangar but they can't haul.

The Orca pilot always has full access to every corporate hangar while they are piloting the ship. I haven't tested access to corporate hangars of an Orca while the pilot is e.g. in CQ or has boarded a different ship.

From memory, corp members will always have access to the corp hangars and SMB regardless of being in fleet or not.

Thanks for the replies so far. So to recap for the situation I'm interested in. I could use the Orca in the way I want if the Orca pilot joins the fleet and reconfigures the Ship Maintenance Bay to allow fleet members to use.

However, someone has said that such fleet members could only use it if they have the relevant role assigned to allow access to their corp hangers. That seems a bit daft. Can anyone confirm this? That would not work in RvB as most members have no roles assigned to facilitate freedom of movement within corps.

The question still stands, can an Orca pilot simple dump assembled ships in space for anyone to board?

AFAIK, some pirates use Orcas for gate camps in just this sort of way.

They get an out of corp Orca pilot to fly into high sec, then sit on a gate. The pirates fly into the system in some kind of cheap expendable ship or even their pods and warp to the Orca. Then, they access the Orca hangar, get into an assembled, fitted tech 2 ship, (maybe even refitting or selecting a ship type) undock and engage their target, dump the lewt into the Orca's cargo hold, then redock in the Orca's bay.

The pilots that engaged their target get a Global Criminal countdown timer, which means they can't dock or jump for the period of the countdown. However, the 'neutral' Orca pilot has no GCC timer, so they CAN dock or jump (with the expensive ships in it's hold) immediately.

As a previous poster stated, I suppose you COULD jettison a packaged ship into space that just about anyone could board. You wouldn't need an Orca to do this, any industrial hauler would do. I'm not sure if this is your intent, or whether you are thinking more along the lines of the 'docking and reshipping' situation I described above.

I wasn't aware that you could jettison a package ship and then board it, is this true? I thought it just ended up in a can which could then be scooped to another cargo hold but not piloted.

Whatever - my concern is with jettisoning fitted and rigged ships.

I think J'Poll meant that you can't dock with your ship into an orca... I guess... I hope...

Confirmed.

If you jettison a packed ships from your cargohold, it assembles and will be in space as a boardable ship.

You can't launch ships from your ship maintenance bay as an Orca pilot, others may access (depending on roles - in/out of corp, etc.)

When they changed it? For some reason I can't put my Harbinger in there because I have small secure container in cargohold. So, for me it still works like it used to.