Rena'Thras
Military Gamers
The Methodical Alliance
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Posted - 2014.05.22 08:20:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:Fleet hangar isn't the purpose of those ships. It's just a cool ability they have.
They way to bring them on-grid is to disallow off-grid boosts. 95% of what rorquals are used for and 70% of what orcas are used for is boosting. After this change, orcas will go up to 90% boosting, as the DSTs will be replacing them as a hauler for the most part.
Eh, not exactly.
Consider a small mining party, say 5 miners and an Orca. In this party, they get boosts (Orca) + hauling (Orca) + 5 miners.
Now, if you add a DST in for the hauling part of the Orca, you change the group:
Boosts (Orca) + hauling (DST) + 4 miners OR
Hauling (DST) + 5 miners.
So they won't replace Orcas unless you have very large mining fleets in very dangerous space.
Why do I say this? Unless you're in very dangerous space, you'd still use the Orca since 1 less pilot hauling means 1 more pilot mining, which increases mining yield for the fleet. In very dangerous space, you're less concerned about yield and more concerned about the resources and survival of the fleet. In that case, your miners will be in Procurers/Skiffs, your Orca will be in a POS.
And even in such cases, you still might use an Orca or, alternatively, have the miners drop off their own cargo (Procurers have a 1,200 m3 ore bay + 350 cargo bay, after all) since, again, the concern is more about safety and harvesting needed materials rather than volume.
The only time the DSTs will outst the Orcas is in larger fleets.
Suppose you had a fleet of 20-40 miners in medium danger areas. NOW you will want to employ your Orca in the POS for boosts and have about 3-7 DST pilots (depends on size of fleet and how fast those DST holds are filling) with the rest being miners.
That is, situations where you might have more than one Orca CURRENTLY and you're just swapping the EXTRA Orcas for DSTs.
I'm not sure this is actually a problem, per se, as it presents viable choices and options.
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Though I do agree, the cargo hold should be bumped up to 10k or so. It should, at the least, be able to deploy POS structures. |