So here's a question I've been pondering for a while. Now that my alt can fly a cloaky scanning frigate what skills do I train from here? I need to get my astrometrics skills up to lvl IV, but after that he'll be where I want him. Should I try turning him into a research alt? I don't know a lot about research other than that you can take Tech I blueprints and turn them into Tech II blueprints with datacores. Any other suggestions for how to make him earn some isk?
Quick Q: Has anyone heard about or participated in any of the Sanshas incursion events? Any fun? I'm wondering if this is going to be an interesting aspect of gameplay with the next expansion or if it's just going to be another grind.
PI can make good isk, as can the Market. Probing out complexes and running them can be good for ISK too. I make about 150M ISK net profit on my POSes per week. Although, I would probably be happier if I never started mining moon minerals, and doing reactions. L4 missions are always good for ISK as well.
Pardon my ignorance, but what're FW missions?
Are there any real effective detterrents for suicide ganking when you can't fly a freighter? In my trading quest so far I've found more than a few lucrative runs but a great many of them require hauling 50-100+ mil of cargo to make any real profits... in a paper thin iteron, no thanks.
freighter's still die. So don't think you are totally safe. The safest is probably a nano prowler with a cloak - everywhere. 5000m3
Don't auto-pilot and you'll escape all but the best organized suicide gank teams, who probably won't find 100M of cargo worth it. Flying outside of primetime will also reduce your risk dramatically.
If you aren't carrying at least 1B ISK worth of cargo, chances are that you are pretty safe in High Sec in a freighter. It takes quite a few gank fit BSes to take you down before Concord bails you out, so unless you are carrying very expensive cargo I wouldn't worry about it flying a Freighter. (I have been autopiloting a Freighter to and from Jita for over a year now, I just only do it when I have <400M worth of cargo).Die, yes. But with ~180k EHP on a freighter it'd take a pretty significant effort (I'm guessing probably a dozen or more BS's) to take you down, so you'd have to be carrying some extremely high value cargo to be worth it. With the iteron I'm using now having ~3k EHP it'll only take a stern look from a couple of cruisers or a BC to ruin your day.
With the iteron I'm using now having ~3k EHP it'll only take a stern look from a couple of cruisers or a BC to ruin your day.
Seriously, I wouldn't worry much about suicide ganking. I've been locked by battleships a number of times in high-sec, and they've never managed to finish locking me before I warped away.
oh they finished. You just didn't finish your counterlock.
We had pilots suicide ganking haulers in 2 ruptures. It does not take 2 BS to ganks a hauler.
Well, like I said, it took two battleships to destroy a Iteron Mark V the last time I saw one blow up. The first, a Maelstrom, unloaded its artillery and a second, an Apocalypse I think, had to finish it off. The battleships both popped not long after, it was all over pretty quickly.
In anycase, like I also said, it's not about effective HP. It doesn't matter what it takes to suicide gank you, there will always be people capable of doing it. It's all about not being a target, so the capable people leave you alone.
Then I would've gotten blown up. These were unboosted battleships, I'm pretty sure I could lock them faster than they could lock me. Most suicide gank gangs are pretty amaturish.
ive suicide ganked an itty 5 with a rupture before....
Scan res on indie ships are horrible. They may have looked you over and not deemed it worth to attack.
Industrials and battleships have about the same scan resolution but battleships have about twice the signature.
How do you know that they were trying to lock you? If you are saying that you have auto-lock on, and it started to lock onto the BSes, it means that they already had you locked. The Autolock doesn't start until after you have been locked. You have no way of knowing whether they were trying to lock you and weren't successful unless they told you.