Missions & Complexes

The anomaly buff has, effectively, made every single hub+ nullsec site a potential "30M+ ticker", in other words a 100M+ / hour isk printer. This potential which was thus far almost exclusively reserved for pirate BS and thanatos (and supercarriers) will now, with the added drone damage mod, be available for sentry carriers of all types.

The way to run any nullsec sites in a carrier, in the future will be this:

depending on carrier:
1) fit 2-3 omnidirectional tracking links
2) fit 2-3 sensor boosters

regardless of carrier:
3) fit 5 drone control units
4) fit 4-5 drone damage augmentors (I won't use the extrinsic name since it's plain odd)
5) find a balance between CCC rigs (mixed use carrier), sentry rigs and drone range rigs. CCC's work fine, others are merely fine tuning it.

Every sentry type except for gardes will be hitting 100km optimal with the setup. With the sensor boosters, 2 of them scanres scripted, you'll have pirate BS equivalent lock times. Your damage projection to 100km will be - depending on drone damage modifier (10-15% currently), drone type and carrier setup - 1100 - 1600dps.

A realistic estimate is 1300dps to 100km from a cookie cutter sentry carrier. By warping to any anom at 100k and by having the scanres from sensor boosting, you'll be hitting frigates with 0 transversal (split sentry groups for efficiency) and most likely killing all incoming rats while at low transversal regardless of which site you run.

The sheer efficiency involved in this will boost all nullsec anomalies to very lucrative levels of income, which will allow better splits in contested systems. I'm looking forward to this as personally I think it's good to have one of the best player level solo isk printers in nullsec :)

Side note: Dominix navy issue is looking to replace marauders and pirate BS in applied DPS for L4 / anomaly running. Good times for gallente <3



The safety involved will as well be better, since you'll kill pretty much everything before it gets to the ranges where you need to use your active tank. Together with 100km warp in, this will allow you easy exit via emergency jump: you won't need to wait for your fighters to return, and you'll have plenty of cap to jump out from not needing tank. You won't be bothered with scram frigs since they will be dead on approach.

time to get drone interfacing to 5

... ok

If your only concern is isk ticks, every % stacks up and makes a ton of difference in the higher end of DPS. Also, 1 capital repper is enough to tank the carrier as far as PVE is concerned on this 100km fit - as long as you have enough dps to kill the rats before they start scoring any significant hits. The rest of lows are best used for utility like signal amplifier and inertia stabs.

This is what makes the nullsec isk printer better for eve than incursions.

What do I miss here? Drone damage Low-slot module?

Can someone show me the source of this?

Urp-splosion tyme naow?

OP severelly underestimates power of stacking penalities.

Currently its possible to gain 1,196 modifier to sentry damage with 2*Large sentry damage augmentor I.
With drone damage mods it will be possible to gain something like 1,4 modifier with one t2 rig and 3-4 damage mods.
20% more damage is significant, but its nowhere near 1600 dps projected by OP for the best case scenario.

In EVEHQ I get 1875 DPS with Firbolgs (5 DCUs, Gal Carrier V)

Use painters and run forsaken hubs (no frigs)

I dont think sentry carriers will beat that anytime soon

In terms of overall isk made that might affect the economy:

The number of carriers doing this compared to the number of pimped boats running missions in highsec is..

A number not worth even spitting at.

Get real (in Eve).