EVE General Discussion

I find my Rorqual is quite vulnerable to a single carrier. At max skill, the Rorqual has the equivalent DPS of 10 drones, and it can only field two flights of heavy drones from its small drone bay, which isn't much threat to even a very small sub-cap gang, let alone a single carrier. The Rorqual as-is is really only adequate for dealing with belt rats.

and along the lines of all other T2 variants you'd lose a rig slot and in doing so lose cargo-hold space, currently with 2x T2 rig + 1 x T1 rig and max skills you get almost 101K m3 in there, by dropping the 3rd slot you effectively reduce the cargo-hold space by the amount it currently gains from the 3rd rig slot.

To be honest though, that would be way too OP for highsec in relation to it's t1 counterpart that it wouldn't be funny.

jmtc

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How about just make it so that the Rorqual doesn't have to be on-grid?

Removing OGB entirely is a bad idea anyway, and I doubt CCP has fully thought through the consequences of doing so.

A more acceptable nerf would be something along the lines of strongly increasing a ship's probing signature (probably by a combination of an increase in signature radius and decrease in sensor strength) while links are active, changing it so that ships simply have to be on-grid to broadcast targets instead of having to be able to lock them (kind of a dumb restriction to begin with), and disallow boosting within a certain range of POS shields. The last restriction would not apply to industrial links, however.

because it is pretty good at what it does a fully skilled orca already gives a good bonus , a rorqual would bring the boost over the top
combined with a large drone bay , a pretty good tank and a pretty good remote repping capability makes the rorqual just too good to be used as a high sec booster

nobody will risk using a 3 bil ship outside the pos bubble , once your rorqual is deployed for max bonus you are helpless for the next 5 minutes and not even mentioning align time
removing off grid boosters for mining aswell would be the end of the rorqual
so i m curious about how they going to solve this

Last thing we need in highsec is rorqual.

CCP gave newbies their shiny mining frig, and every newbie and his grandma is now stripping the belts. watch highsec mineral prices. Trit form 6 to 5, mex from 63 to 52, and i just don´t know why pye is still quite high. So please leave the rorq where it is.

trit isn't even remotely close to 5.

As the Rorqual is an immovable target when deployed, with no effective offense / defense unlike a sieged dread or triaged carrier, the high resists (and shield & cap bonuses I suggested) would hopefully give time for a response fleet to assemble, and encourage use of the Rorqual outside of POS force fields by discouraging less serious attackers.

I don't imagine there will be fleets of battle Rorquals on gird in deployed mode, as once their limited drones are depeleted, they are completely harmless. They don't even have comparable capacitor, or bonused amount shield transporters like a triage carrier. However, they may become bait ships, which I don't have a problem with.

If you had something else in mind, please enlighten me.

One more hi slot, more bonus to cargo per level, and a bit more CPU for large shield transporters.... and the Orca would be perfect where it is... HI SEC!. Rorquals also have that clone bay, You wouldn't want MORE little carebears flying around ? LOL.

The rorqual was semi recently buffed. The orca was created as a highsec capable version of the rorqual. The rorqual is not the t2 solution to the orca, the orca is the solution to the rorqual not being able to enter highsec.

You're welcome for clarifying your misunderstanding. /thread.