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What to do with an Orca?
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Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-10-21 17:26:31 UTC
My second toon is soon to be the proud owner of an orca but i only trained for it "because i can". Now that i'm close to having one i'm kind of undecided what to do with it. I am not a member of a large corp and only semi-interested in mining ops. so what are my options?

I should buy an Ishtar.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2011-10-21 17:36:46 UTC
The other main use of them is as a mobile base, especially for exploring. You can toss a variety of T2/3 frigs and cruisers in the maint bay of the Orca and just live out of that, since there's plenty of room for all the modules and ammo you need and the maint bay allows for refitting your ships in space. This also works quite well in C2+ wormholes, you just need to add a cloak to the Orca.
Gavin DeVries
JDI Industries
#3 - 2011-10-21 18:12:19 UTC
There's also the mini-freighter, the anti-gank transport, and the rigged-ship moving platform uses.

The Orca has the base 30,000 m3 cargo hold that gets bigger with both your ship skill and cargo expansions modules and the 40,000 m3 corporate hangar that stays the same size no matter what skills or modules you have. If going for max size, you get something around 130,000 m3 of total cargo space if you go for maximum expansion and take the skill all the way to 5.

To protect yourself from ganking (as much as possible, anyway), ignore the cargo hold and only use the corporate hangar. The contents cannot be scanned (so scouts won't know exactly what you're carrying) and won't drop if the ship is destroyed (so no profit motive). For maximum protection, start with an ancillary current router rig and fit a battleship microwarp drive (100 MN) in a mid slot. Use your other two rig slots and the remaining mid slots for tank, either resistance or shield buffer. Fit a Damage Control II and a Reinforced Bulkhead II. There's nothing you can do to stop people from killing you just because they want to, but it will make it difficult and discourage the casual foes.

Since the ship maintenance bay can hold rigged ships, it's one of the few ways to move ships around in high security space other than making courier contracts, flying them singly, or repackaging them and thus losing the rigs.

PVP is a question with no single right answer, but a lot of wrong ones.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#4 - 2011-10-21 18:36:19 UTC
all this sounds quite nice but does it get more $$ than sitting in a noctis cleaning up after my main (who is shredding lvl4s in a faction BS)?

I should buy an Ishtar.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#5 - 2011-10-21 18:50:10 UTC
Daniel Plain wrote:
all this sounds quite nice but does it get more $$ than sitting in a noctis cleaning up after my main (who is shredding lvl4s in a faction BS)?


No, it doesn't. The Noctis and Orca have COMPLETELY different roles.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#6 - 2011-10-21 18:57:21 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Daniel Plain wrote:
all this sounds quite nice but does it get more $$ than sitting in a noctis cleaning up after my main (who is shredding lvl4s in a faction BS)?


No, it doesn't. The Noctis and Orca have COMPLETELY different roles.


i do realize they have different roles obviously, but I thought you could make decent money in both of them. obvously, you can still sit in a mining op with the orcy but i was hoping there were other reasonably profitable occupations.

anyway, thanks a lot for the answers.

I should buy an Ishtar.