Ann'Dra Padecain wrote:I think align-time is equal or closely related to the time to reach max velocity.
Since you warp at 75% of max velocity this would mean that align-time is the most important factor to determine if the cloak & MWD trick can work at all. I.e. one MWD-cycle may not be enough to reach warp-speed.
The formula for
acceleration (and deceleration) is in part affected by
mass multiplied by
inertia, or simply ship
agility for short (practically inertia reductions and agility bonuses are interchangeable as they have the same effect and the game often refers to ship agility as an inertia reduction).
Ann'Dra is right that reducing inertia or improving a ship's agility, will not only affect align time in general, but all aspects of it, including both turning speed and pure acceleration/deceleration as well.
Zoltan Irvam wrote:And I'm still searching for a working Orca fit which can do it.
I haven't done it, but I don't doubt people who say it's possible, since we got many modules, rigs and implants by which we can
reduce inertia or increase the
effectiveness of the MWD burst. Those two aspects will be key to making the Orca do the MWD + cloak trick. Below are a few things that do this, on top of my head.
- Inertia stabilizers in the low (increases acceleration due to lower inertia).
- A navy cloaking device (increases the effective thrust of the MWD due to lower speed penalty).
- Low Friction Nozzle Joints rigs (increase acceleration due to lower inertia).
- Eifyr and Co. 'Rogue' Evasive Maneuvering EM-70X implants (increases acceleration due to increased ship agility).
- Zor's Custom Navigation Hyper-Link (slot 8) and Eifyr and Co. 'Rogue' Acceleration Control AC-60X implants (increases the effective thrust of the MWD).
- For non-Orca fits, there's also the option to use deadspace MWDs with better thrust bonuses, but that's not available for the Orca due to powergrid restraints.
- The Higgs rig also lowers inertia to counter the mass increase giving the ship better align times ... but when you combine the Higgs rig with other inertia modifiers it quickly diminishes and ends up increasing your align time after a few stacked modules (two serpentis inertia stabs or two normal + one low friction nozzle joints rig).
If I'm missing a potential modifier, feel free to correct me :)
Since I haven't done this for the Orca specifically (just some of the Deep Space Transports) I don't know exactly how far you need to push it. But I'll make an educated guess that simply using stabilizers (even shadow serpentis ones) and a navy cloak isn't going to cut it. My educated guess is that you'll need to add rigs and/or implants as well to reach the breaking point. Where that is, I'm not sure, maybe around 20s align time or slightly higher if you use multiple implants boosting the effectiveness of the MWD burst.
Either way you'll lose at least a hundred thousand ehp (more if you were using transversal rigs) making you a little more vulnerable in those instances where you cannot use the MWD + cloak trick to stop yourself from being locked (like undocking from a station). I suppose you could reduce that risk by having the appropriate insta-undock bookmarks at any and all stations you visit or resort to only docking at Citadels where you can safely align while being tethered etc.