Idiotic mechanics but as I understand is perfectly legal. I think either the orca should inherit agression or not being able to scoop the ships but I think it might not be trivial to solve since the agression flag probably belongs to the player and not the ship.

If you can scoop drones while they're under fire, why not normal ships?

What kept you from shooting the Orca?

The aggression-free orca can just bail into highsec as well.

I've run into this stunt a couple of times recently. In fact, the only lowsec fights I've had in the past two months have resulted in orca scoops and people running for highsec. I just laugh at the risk-averse "tough guys" and go on about my business.

as far as i know there are two ways do deal with this:

1. force the Orca away by shooting it first - i know, the problem is the time it takes...
2. bumping an Ocra is not that hard

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The aggression-free orca can just bail into highsec as well.

I've run into this stunt a couple of times recently. In fact, the only lowsec fights I've had in the past two months have resulted in orca scoops and people running for highsec. I just laugh at the risk-averse "tough guys" and go on about my business.

Orca camping isn't an attempt at PVP or a search for a gf, its income.

Yeah its a BS tactic, but hey nothing you can do about it except whine to CCP (which usually works quite well looking at previous nerfs). The other option is just to avoid amamake...

or you could learn how to deal with it, but you wont

Does the orca need a ship bay? We already have carriers for that. Simpler fix : remove orca ship bay (and corp hangar tbh)

have been running into pirats doing this laterly and tho luckly they always seems to have too many ships to trow into the orcas. last time they had 7 or 8 t3s and only 2 orcas. obvious solution is to point everything and then hotdrop everything, either with titan bridge or supercaps to kill any stragglers off before it can deagress and jump out :P killing 1-2 t3s tops(the unlucky few that doesnt get room)
tho thats pretty much the bruteforce way of doing it, and pretty annoying.

besides that you gotto bait them off orcas, seen vindicators mwd bumping the orca off the gate thus forcing it to jump before it got out of gate jump range, also pretty annoying and most t3s will simply start deagressing when you do that.

you cant really treathen the orcas to jump out too ealie unless you use titan bridge and jump in 50 drakes or something, since fighterbombers wont hit it well. nor does fighters do enough alpha to volly it.

last option which only work in some scenarios is baiting the t3 off the gates, but normally they are really really risk adverse and refuses to move off the orca.

obvious solution to this is to increase the orca sig radious so we can 1 volly it with supercaps fighterbombers.

You think that getting enough tornados to suicide gank a 300k ehp orca in highsec is a fair thing to make people to do kill you?

sry but that needs to be fix you should not bealbe to dock a ship in a orca under fire if they are lock and have been shoting. just like you cant dock for minute if you were on station.

It a smooth trick yes but a cheap one.

You think that getting enough tornados to suicide gank a 300k ehp orca in highsec is a fair thing to make people to do kill you?

Believe

With enough Alpha Machs and a bridge, you can get that orca before it jumps.

simples