Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2008.10.27 08:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Imaos
Originally by: CaptianBlack
is it April already !!!... no ore compression !!!..
so the orca is an empire carrier, that can't do much.. = a bigger hauler than we already have..
and so many people were looking foward to this ship, o'well.. back to dropping a pos & using a freighter to haul my ore out of system
Has someone tried to fill a freighter from the orca via ship maintenance bay?
Imaos
Yes, it of course doesn't work. Freighters can only load/unload within 45km of an online POS or near an outpost /outpost upgrade egg.
Originally by: CCP t0rfifrans
CCP is a greedy money chewing monster
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Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2008.10.30 11:39:00 -
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Edited by: Lord Fitz on 30/10/2008 11:44:18
Originally by: Krylon Rhae
Fitz... have you tried to load into an unmanned freighter parked at a POS? Just curious if you could do that instead of moving ore from the orca to a hanger then into the freighter later when its manned.
You can't load stuff into a freighter without actively piloting the freighter in question. When at a POS you could transfer cargo from a piloted Orca to a Piloted Freighter directly, or you could transfer from a piloted Orca to a corp hangar array, then later transfer to a freighter.
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Why 'of course'? Would be nice if the orca would allow to load an freighter.
Well the Orca is not new functionality, it behaves the same way as carrier corp hangars or the Rorqual corp hangar, thus since neither of those can load freighters away from a control tower, the Orca can not either.
Originally by: Grentana
Mining Barge 5 (and prereqs Mining IV and Astrogeology III) do not make sense. You are not actively mining with Orca. You are overseeing a mining operation and hauling. You are not operating a mining barge. Mining Director makes sense since you are overseeing a mining op and need the skill for the gang links anyway. Industrial, yeah it is a hauler.
Doesn't make sense because the skill is named mining barge ? It makes just as much sense as it does for the rorqual. All is needed is a renaming of the mining barge skill to 'ORE ships' and you're done. The fact that it's an ORE ship does mean that it should require the only generic ORE ships skill there is.
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It really needs 5 high slots. 3 mining links, tractor and salvager. Without salvager it does directly replace the hauler. Like most I have a tractor and salvager on hauler for mining ops to loot and salvage rats. Orca will not be fully functional without 5 high slots.
4 maybe. 5 definitely not. You don't need a salvager, and you don't really need one of the mining links, so 3 is ok. You could even get away with 1 mining link, 1 tractor, 1 salvager. Or any combination. Making it a complete non-issue to fit with everything you could possibly want would make it 'unique' in Eve. It's not supposed to be a salvaging ship. If you want that functionality you have to drop something else.
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With the above it is worth the 400misk. Otherwise, not really.
And yet it's going to sell for 600-800m initially, and I doubt you will ever pick one up for 400m unless the price of minerals drops drastically.
Originally by: CCP t0rfifrans
CCP is a greedy money chewing monster
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