Orca was probably always just a mining support vessel. However the cargo scanner was coded in a way to scan cargo (go figure) and not corporate hangars. This made corporate hangars unscannable. Also, probably the loot calculation code only considered cargohold. So there was no loot either from these hangars. The above made the Orca ungankable in highsec. It was way too big for anyone to gank it for fun, and there was no profit on it. This is going to be fixed.
Now what? Of course if you just haul something small that no one cares about, you can just use a nano-fitted frigate. No one will bother to catch you. But what if you haul 5-10B regularly? I mean what if you can't expect to just vanish in the crowd because you have a hauling service that others (including pirates) can employ, watch when their cargo arrives and figure out your name. You can of course switch alts and hide, but security through obscurity is probably not good enough.
Your low/nullsec hauling experience doesn't work in highsec. You can't neut-scout gatecamps because there is no need to scout Niarja or Uedama to know it's camped. If you only haul when they are not, you must be online 23/7 to find a window. No, you need to get into these system despite you know they are camped and that the guys are possibly after you personally. Same for gate-crash, the No1 tip to anyone to survive a gatecamp. If you gatecrash when you jump into a highsec gatecamp, you just jump-in and gatecrash all day which is probably funny, but barely productive.
Cloaky hauler (or frigate) isn't the answer because the traffic is so large that you'll be often decloaked. Also, good campers will have over-sensor booster ships to tackle you in 1 sec. Cloak is still useful as it increases the cost of the gank, but it's not a lifesaver.
With large cargo I cannot help. You just have to split it up between multiple Orcas (transport orcas has 1.5x more EHP than freighters, if you used to haul it in Orca, keep doing it). But BPOs, implants, skillbooks can be hauled safely. Below I post the solution, the ultimate shiny-hauler of post-Orca world in various versions from lazy to efforted:
The harder version?
More Tengus! Identical transport Tengus, each carrying a double-wrapped can and this time equipped with large energy transfers. 1 has cargo, others have 1 trit. No possible way to figure out which is which. You must damage 790K to figure out? Tengu lottery. Bonus: only one has to be fleet booster, the others can be piloted by random missioning Tengu pilots you can buy by the dozen on the Bazaar.
Can they be killed? Sure. But they are hard enough to kill, and with double-wrapping having enough risk of being empty that uninstalling the game seems a better idea than collecting the fleet, risking that a few guys mess it up and there is no kill or that ship is empty.
Wednesday morning report: 183.8B (6.6+2.0 spent on main accounts, 7.1 spent on Logi/Carrier, 3.8 on Ragnarok, 3.3+2.0 on Rorqual, 3.4 on Nyx, 3.4 on Dread, 37.4 sent as gift)
Now what? Of course if you just haul something small that no one cares about, you can just use a nano-fitted frigate. No one will bother to catch you. But what if you haul 5-10B regularly? I mean what if you can't expect to just vanish in the crowd because you have a hauling service that others (including pirates) can employ, watch when their cargo arrives and figure out your name. You can of course switch alts and hide, but security through obscurity is probably not good enough.
Your low/nullsec hauling experience doesn't work in highsec. You can't neut-scout gatecamps because there is no need to scout Niarja or Uedama to know it's camped. If you only haul when they are not, you must be online 23/7 to find a window. No, you need to get into these system despite you know they are camped and that the guys are possibly after you personally. Same for gate-crash, the No1 tip to anyone to survive a gatecamp. If you gatecrash when you jump into a highsec gatecamp, you just jump-in and gatecrash all day which is probably funny, but barely productive.
Cloaky hauler (or frigate) isn't the answer because the traffic is so large that you'll be often decloaked. Also, good campers will have over-sensor booster ships to tackle you in 1 sec. Cloak is still useful as it increases the cost of the gank, but it's not a lifesaver.
With large cargo I cannot help. You just have to split it up between multiple Orcas (transport orcas has 1.5x more EHP than freighters, if you used to haul it in Orca, keep doing it). But BPOs, implants, skillbooks can be hauled safely. Below I post the solution, the ultimate shiny-hauler of post-Orca world in various versions from lazy to efforted:
The harder version?
More Tengus! Identical transport Tengus, each carrying a double-wrapped can and this time equipped with large energy transfers. 1 has cargo, others have 1 trit. No possible way to figure out which is which. You must damage 790K to figure out? Tengu lottery. Bonus: only one has to be fleet booster, the others can be piloted by random missioning Tengu pilots you can buy by the dozen on the Bazaar.
Can they be killed? Sure. But they are hard enough to kill, and with double-wrapping having enough risk of being empty that uninstalling the game seems a better idea than collecting the fleet, risking that a few guys mess it up and there is no kill or that ship is empty.
Wednesday morning report: 183.8B (6.6+2.0 spent on main accounts, 7.1 spent on Logi/Carrier, 3.8 on Ragnarok, 3.3+2.0 on Rorqual, 3.4 on Nyx, 3.4 on Dread, 37.4 sent as gift)
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