tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post9086524332885318738..comments2024-01-11T16:57:33.222-08:00Comments on EVE-fail: Topics in 0.0 ninja: Exploration in hostile sov space for the chronically risk-averseParasojahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-58086026137264576682012-12-07T09:36:28.237-08:002012-12-07T09:36:28.237-08:00Mag sites are typically worth 50 to 100 million, b...Mag sites are typically worth 50 to 100 million, but they can be run in a few minutes and are very plentiful. I've found that the majority of 8/10 plexes (which are the most common) drop nothing nowadays. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-76528867504620353312012-12-06T17:34:43.138-08:002012-12-06T17:34:43.138-08:00I would probably go with the drake personally, sin...I would probably go with the drake personally, since it's disposable.<br /><br />Hadn't heard anything about mag sites being worth something now. Back when I was doing exploration an exceptionally good one could be worth like 150m, which is well less than a halfway decent drop from anything else.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-25102394406768341132012-12-06T08:16:07.170-08:002012-12-06T08:16:07.170-08:00I've played around with EFT some and I still h...I've played around with EFT some and I still haven't come up with a decent DPS solution. Obviously the ship needs to have a decent tank and I want to be able to fit a prototype cloak, a salvager and an analyzer (I know you recommend a codebreaker but I think in the past year exploration sites have changed. At this point mag sites seem to be some of the most profitable finds out there.) Any suggestions? <br /><br />One idea is to only run mag sites since that would greatly reduce the tank I need, but that feels so unsatisfying. I could also only run complexes which would kill the need for a salvager and analyzer but that would really cut into my profit margins since mag sites can produce some nice quick isk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-84241480571694432402012-12-06T06:11:49.479-08:002012-12-06T06:11:49.479-08:00I'm thinking of dual boxing Tengus and just ac...I'm thinking of dual boxing Tengus and just accepting that the second one won't be able to fit a covert ops cloak. I'll use the stealthy Tengu for scouting to make sure I don't run into any gate camps. For Tengu #2 I'll just fit a prototype cloak, if I need to hide I'll run to a safe spot and cloak up. For a cheaper version I could just have my alt fly a DPS drake instead. I'm waiting for EFT to be updated so I can properly try out these different fits. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-25630222961345050222012-12-05T16:02:12.637-08:002012-12-05T16:02:12.637-08:00Well, you could dual box tengus, but you can only ...Well, you could dual box tengus, but you can only get about 560 dps out of a pair of them and they would probably run out of ammo a lot faster.<br /><br />When they were asking for input about the changes I whined that they were killing my pet playstyle. They weren't interested.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-2390626310818651802012-12-05T15:48:53.912-08:002012-12-05T15:48:53.912-08:00Any thoughts on how you could do this now that the...Any thoughts on how you could do this now that the AI changes in Retribution have made glass cannon stealth bombers non-viable?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-56234059510615983292012-08-31T12:21:04.723-07:002012-08-31T12:21:04.723-07:00Small correction: Scamming is the best isk in the ...Small correction: Scamming is the best isk in the game, but it takes real life social skills instead of EVE skills to pull off. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-53450309400940604492012-03-04T13:56:05.172-08:002012-03-04T13:56:05.172-08:00Not just at downtime. The details are deep magic, ...Not just at downtime. The details are deep magic, but in general terms finishing a site will cause it to respawn in the same region.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-61354199474367332872012-03-04T13:04:12.940-08:002012-03-04T13:04:12.940-08:00Thanks.
Also, how often do sites spawn? Are they ...Thanks.<br /><br />Also, how often do sites spawn? Are they seeded only after DT, or they refresh all the time?IOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-53769757639302547572012-03-04T10:28:00.662-08:002012-03-04T10:28:00.662-08:00Definitely. I used to do them (except 7/10, which ...Definitely. I used to do them (except 7/10, which didn't exist yet) in an ishtar with about 800 tank. It got a little threshed in the last room of the 8/10, but should be fine if you're careful with the frigates. Might be advisable to plink a couple of them and/or BCs with senries to reduce incoming DPS.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-64614324860870969942012-03-04T05:13:43.119-08:002012-03-04T05:13:43.119-08:00How much tank do you think is needed to tank all t...How much tank do you think is needed to tank all those complexes? Would Ishtar with 1,000 dps tank be enough?IOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-81084829581606250872012-02-29T18:32:08.232-08:002012-02-29T18:32:08.232-08:00I found the one-mabe-valuable-mag-or-radar site th...I found the one-mabe-valuable-mag-or-radar site that I referred to earlier in the comments. It's a mag site called murky ruins, and it sounds like something you don't want to mess with. http://www.eve-search.com/thread/1442852Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-73780762488365484922012-01-02T02:53:53.783-08:002012-01-02T02:53:53.783-08:00Fake edit: 'guristas military complex' is ...Fake edit: 'guristas military complex' is the one which is questionable. 'guristas military operations complex' is definitely worth doing.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-17456872229780085772012-01-02T02:50:33.693-08:002012-01-02T02:50:33.693-08:00Guristas base. Probably guristas fortress. Militar...Guristas base. Probably guristas fortress. Military complex is questionable. All radar and magnetometric sites*. All gravimetric sites. All ladar sites except for ladar hacking sites.<br /><br />*There is one extremely obscure radar or magnetometric site which is a combat site with loot at the end like a DED complex. It contains a combination of pirate rats and rogue drones. I don't remember the name, I've never done it, and I don't think it appears on the wiki, but apparently the loot is decent.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-88416027573158487642012-01-02T02:19:02.922-08:002012-01-02T02:19:02.922-08:00Are there any you would avoid doing because they&#...Are there any you would avoid doing because they're worthless?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-57474950607076469012012-01-02T01:07:44.829-08:002012-01-02T01:07:44.829-08:00With the other fit and a damage dealer with more t...With the other fit and a damage dealer with more tank (and a carrier for two of the escalations) I could do all the sites except maze. And I'm pretty sure a tengu with a ridiculous deadspace fit could tank the maze, though though I've never tried it.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-30442774221949909532012-01-02T00:21:49.080-08:002012-01-02T00:21:49.080-08:00Which sites could and couldn't you do with you...Which sites could and couldn't you do with your worst tengu fit and torp raven? (Guristas)<br /><br />I've tried in vain to google this kind of thing before, but there's an extremely high noise to signal ratio, but I've read your blog for a while and you seem to have a lot of experience with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-59439473586583857692012-01-02T00:11:08.869-08:002012-01-02T00:11:08.869-08:00I don't have any data for that, but more than ...I don't have any data for that, but more than this. And definitely more than incursions.<br /><br />Even this method is better than incursions. With my own space I'd be using a torp raven or torp golem, which means doing the sites faster, and would be able to do several more difficult and more valuable sites as well.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-45819156619256880682012-01-01T22:29:47.126-08:002012-01-01T22:29:47.126-08:00Just out of interest, what would you say explorati...Just out of interest, what would you say exploration isk/hr is like w/ sov? (ie: proper ships and fits).<br /><br />Most people I ask say it's worse than incursions, but I'm interested on your opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-8005689312408314352011-12-28T23:39:52.490-08:002011-12-28T23:39:52.490-08:00Thanks for the response, makes sense.
Damn you ca...Thanks for the response, makes sense.<br /><br />Damn you caldari frig V, I want to try this now, knew I should have saved some of those refunded learning skill SP for situations where I am impatient =)Mdih Lihuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12300675932205916705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-5856564832161926002011-12-27T03:15:21.993-08:002011-12-27T03:15:21.993-08:00With two ballistic control systems, the dps increa...With two ballistic control systems, the dps increase from adding more damage mods is already falling off pretty quickly (the single t2 rig adds 52 dps), plus we're already very close to the limit on CPU and calibration points. With a 3% CPU implant you can switch the t2 calefaction catalyst for t1, then switch the cargo rig for a bay loading accelerator, but what you get out of it is an additional 8 dps. I figured the cargo space was more useful.<br /><br />Not, however, that there's aren't situations where you should use a different rig. In particular, if your missile range skills are less than perfect, you may have problems hitting ships which orbit at 52 km, so a missile range rig would be appropriate. With missile bombardment 4 and missile projection 4, a range rig will allow you to hit to the same range you could if they were both 5.<br /><br /><br />...I also just realized that the tengu was showing general defense. This has been changed to reflect gurstas-ish damage types.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-1259272408432866512011-12-27T02:13:46.455-08:002011-12-27T02:13:46.455-08:00Strangely enough I was googling trying to learn mo...Strangely enough I was googling trying to learn more on this very subject earlier today. Then your post pops up explaining exactly how you do it, very helpful thank you =D<br /><br />I was also considering dual Tengus, likely with remote rep, but it makes more sense to have each ship dedicated to the one task.<br /><br />Going to give this a shot as soon as I can actually fly a manticore on my main. Can I ask, why the cargo rig? I understand extra cargo is a bonus for carrying more ammo out into the wild..<br />I haven't EFTd it but is it not possible to get more dps out of using both rig slots towards that goal?<br /><br />Very interested to give this a try though, as it fits into my sporadic playtime (which incursions don't) and looks to pay a lot nicer than lvl4 or FW missions.Mdih Lihuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12300675932205916705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-63650141118806968372011-12-26T20:00:07.227-08:002011-12-26T20:00:07.227-08:00A second tengu would work, broadly speaking, but t...A second tengu would work, broadly speaking, but the cloaking subsystem really kills the dps; and if I were going to try and get a non-cov-ops ship through I would probably try for a torp raven with a standard cloak fit, on account of it's cheaper and does moar dps.<br /><br />(dps tengu does about 670 afaik)<br /><br />Hm. Though, you could fit standard cloak and nullifier, then use the cloak-mwd-warp trick that I keep hearing about.<br /><br />Another thought would be using a third character in a carrier to move a non-cov-ops cloak damage dealer past the pipes, then use the carrier as a base of operations. This way you could get more dps, do all the sites, and use the carrier to restock ammo and for tough escalations.Parasojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10037396025518894441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073943808360472163.post-77253500977322007062011-12-26T17:48:54.824-08:002011-12-26T17:48:54.824-08:00Would using 2 Tengus work if one was fit for gank?...Would using 2 Tengus work if one was fit for gank? I am not sure how far off the damage would be with a gank Tengu vs. a SB.KeroZelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14566725806973661734noreply@blogger.com