EVE General Discussion

Effective Sec Status Repair in Highsec

I enjoy blowing up defenseless miners. A lot.
Nothing beats blasting a 200M+ Exhumer into scrap, while losing almost nothing in return thanks to T1-Insurance.
At night, I touch myself while I think of miners slaving for hours to buy a new Hulk, and the fun I'll have tracking them down with locator agents and blowing it up again the next day.

Anyway, going to share with the ganking community the fastest way, anywhere, to keep your sec status sparkling while you tear ice-mining Mackinaws and Hulks to pieces.

After all, not all suicide-warfare experts are outlaws with perfect -10 status, jetting around in shuttles and pods in hisec.

As I handle a lot of trade in hi-sec, I prefer to keep my security rating above -2.0. So every gank requires a bit of repair work to avoid outlaw status, and I don't have time to go out to null sec to rat. But you don't need to - Empire is faster!

A successful gank in 0.5 space will usually set you back -0.3 security points.
This goes up in higher-sec space. (IE, in 0.7, its closer to -0.5 points)
Ratting a 'pirate faction' Battleship earns between +0.02-0.025 points, every 15 minutes. This means you will have to destroy a NPC battleship, every 15 minutes for 3-4 hours to earn back the penalty for a single gank. TOO LONG - but there are ways to speed this up quite a bit.

Myself, I can usually erase the penalty for a successful Hulk gank in less than an hour. (IE, +0.3-0.4 points of security status in one hour - in hisec space)

CHANGING SYSTEMS
The 15 minute timer is specific to the system you are in. If you kill rats in two different systems, your security status increases twice as fast. Three different systems? Three times as fast, and so on.

Its well known that you can earn sec status quickly by ratting in 0.0 (where the large NPC battleships roam in the asteroid fields). The bonus per battleship is the same, a player intent on ratting for security status can jump between multiple systems and get a sec bonus each time - limited only by jumping to new systems, gatecamps and the time it takes to find a suitable belt rat.

This is also possible in high-sec, via LVL 4 missions. If you run two Level 4 missions, side by side, in two systems you achieve the same effect (without wasting time hunting for rats in asteroid belts.) Of course, not all rats grant security bonuses: AVOID faction kill missions, drone missions, EOM missions.

CHANGING RACIAL RATS
Another multiplier: Killing two rats (in the same system) of two different factions grants you an additional timer, multiplying your gains as well.
IE, if you kill a Gurista, an Angel, and a Serpentis NPC within the same system, in 15 minutes, you will get THREE security increases every 15 minutes.

This actually is an advantage for hi-sec ratting, as NPC belt rats are distributed geographically - you won't find multiple races of NPCs in belts within one system.

SO, what does it mean?

My preferred method of 'speed status repair' involves:

Setting up (between my main and alt) 4 separate Level 4 missions, in two adjacent systems.

After clearing the frigates and cruisers, you can move between these systems 'harvesting' the Battleships at a rate of about 4 every 15 minutes, increasing my security status by 0.08 - 0.1 point each 15 minutes - or 0.3-0.4 an hour.

I like the 'The Blockade' (lots of Serp. high value BS, no gates) in two different systems, and 'Angel Extravaganza' or 'Pirate Invasion' (lots of Angel BS, few gates) in the same two systems. Recon (1/3) is pretty sweet too, but don't go through the gate, or the mission will complete - allow it to restock at down time.

AVOID: Faction kill missions, Drones, EOM, Worlds Collide (doesn't give bonus for some reason)

With multiple LVL 4 agents, turning down inappropriate missions, and intelligent farming (allowing the mission to reset at DT - for an entire week - rather than turning it in) - its surprisingly easy to set things up this way.

In 15 minutes:
Kill Serp BS, warp to Angel Mission.
Kill Angel BS, warp to gate, jump to next system, warp to 2nd Serp mission.
Kill Serp BS, warp to 2nd Angel Mission.
Kill Angel BS, warp to gate, return to first system. Rinse repeat, with +0.1 sec status, each repetition.

Don't have access to LVL 4 missions? Find a friend and get the bookmarks (which will be good for several days if nobody ends the mission)
OR scan down mission runners and shoot THEIR rats. You don't even have to kill them, just target paint them for a second at let the MR do the work.

Sad, 'running' missions for any reason, but I'm looking to get maximum ganking/hour.

TLDR:
Ratting speed increases when you:
A) Change systems
B) Kill different 'races' of NPCs

You can erase a suicide gank penalty, in hi-sec, in a single hour.

Oh, I know that this information is out there. Not claiming to know something others don't.

But with the Ice Interdiction underway, and high-sec warfare nerfed - figured it would be good to inform people who weren't already in the know about how to fix their sex status - if they are that way inclined. Suicide ganking whines are at a fever pitch, and I want to get more potential wannabe gankers into the game - blasting Exhumers more efficiently than ever.

Switching systems for a multiplier is common knowledge, but I am constantly surprised by how many people don't know about the 'racial' rat multiplier as well. Lots of people think they have to jump way out to the boonies to fix their status. They don't, quicker to stay in Empire if you can use LVL 4 agents.

Further, using missions in this way means the rats are in predictable locations.

Jump into each in succession, clear out the frigs and BCs, then harvest the Battleships one cycle at a time.
Invite friends to come with you, the bonuses scale. A gang can repair just as easily as an individual. You don't even all have to be there at the same time, just share the bookmarks for an entire week.

Lastly, bounty income for those living on a shoestring....!

We used similiar trick in lowsec when some of the members got accidentally -9.7 sec status in 10 sec.

We were doing some gate camping and those unlucky members warped to mission and killed rat after every sec status tic.

It was not as efficient but they fixed their sec status in a week while they were mostly doing pvp.

You need to get out more

Yet more reason why CCP needs to remove inusrance payouts from criminal activity and add fines instead.

I fully support this cause.

This is certainly exciting news for the mining community. Sometimes I wonder why we bother.

This thread needs some Tippia to point out how easy miners have it compared to the arduous day to day routine of the oppressed suicide ganker.

Good idea.

Added. Please avail yourself of this post.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=29117

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edit: I forgot to thank you for the list of what everyone already knows. It must have taken forever to type. You're a pip.