Rethie
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.02.12 01:08:00 -
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Copied from another post - Feat & Ideas
Just an idea, being the monolith that it is and a mobile base, my sugggestion is it should have sentry drones. That would compliment it for base of operations.
increase the bay and bandwidth to position a batch of 5 of them to guard and defend both yourself and the rest of gang in a belt.
Originally by: Azul Scribebeing an alt of a great orca pilot, i would love to see this on an orca.
but the orca, to me, is more like an oil tanker--ment to haul a whole lot of stuff, for market purposes, in high seck, or 'safe space'.. which never needs more than light drones to take care of stuff (since the orca passive tanks 90 DPS anyway).
it would be like putting heavy artillery on an oil tanker.. it just.. donest make sense.
so, in short.. no.
Ok I understand you point as using it as a tanker/ mini freighter, but if using it in it's gang setup, to bonus a mining gang and then using a hauler gang member (noob or low skilled alt) to haul to NPC local station then the sentry idea is a valid point for protecting the team you work with against roaming gangs (in theory).
If a orca pilot is boosting a team of retriever noobs and hulks in a belt, we theorise the orca is reasonably safe, but the rest of the gang taking advantage of being in that boosted gang are still wide open for the roaming cat teams, the sentrys set to guard would increase their survivability. Since sentrys have a great optimal and no need to necessarily cross from one side of belt to the other like smalls/meds. Btw I am not using the orca as above, just looked at it and wondered whether it was viable idea.
and by procurment specialist
I don't see why the orca having a 125m/3 drone bay is a problem. it isn't drone bonused and tanks terrible. it is also roughly 12x the price of a domi if you were going to try this. (50 for domi vs 600m for orca your region may vary) Gives the option of having sentry drones out to shoot stuff as soon as you lock it (bad locking time too) instead of flying drones out to kill it.
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