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Belt ratting chains?
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Tetsuya Tsyung
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-10-29 08:12:53 UTC
Read alot about chaining when belt ratting to increase chances of faction/officer spawns, but I have been told by corp that this no longer applies?

Havnt been able to find anything on google or anywhere confirming this, so anyone in the know able to confirm this at all?

Many thanks
TriadSte
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-10-29 08:34:51 UTC
Thats incorrect, in order to get a chance of a faction spawn you have to kill everything because this resets the spawns and this is where the faction one may spawn.

Chaining is done when isk farming. The idea is to get to a point where the 3 mil bounty BS spawn only do this for an entire belt then farm it.

You need to be in NPC space to get officer spawns. Officers are super rare.
nahjustwarpin
SUPER DUPER SPACE TRUCKS
#3 - 2012-10-29 13:28:34 UTC  |  Edited by: nahjustwarpin
TriadSte wrote:
Thats incorrect, in order to get a chance of a faction spawn you have to kill everything because this resets the spawns and this is where the faction one may spawn.

Chaining is done when isk farming. The idea is to get to a point where the 3 mil bounty BS spawn only do this for an entire belt then farm it.

You need to be in NPC space to get officer spawns. Officers are super rare.


officer spawns are in sov space aswell
Raziel Walker
NPC Tax Evasion Corp
#4 - 2012-10-29 15:51:39 UTC
If I am happy with the value of the rats in belt I will kill the BS and leave the frig/destroyer/cruiser alive and the killed rats will respawn in a short period.

If unhappy with the spawn value I kill all the rats at the belt and next time they spawn they will generally be of higher value or even with luck a faction spawn.

Last week it was working as always.
Robert Warner
Back Door Burglars
#5 - 2012-10-30 20:45:13 UTC
Most of the information given above is somewhat misleading which isn't hugely surprising considering the complexity of null sec spawns.

If you 'chain' belts you'll still get faction spawns but preclude officer spawns since these are a special spawn that must appear whole or not at all.

You do not need to be in NPC space for an officer spawn. Some people believe they are more common in NPC space but with so little data available due to the rarity of such spawns it's all heresay.

As for haulers, I don't have a clue. Perhaps someone else can attempt that one.
Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#6 - 2012-10-31 18:14:39 UTC
I do this in hi sec so I am assuming that game mechanics are more less the same, I pick a system and go round and round killing all rats and it take a while but I get a guristas harvester which carries minerals and from time to time (rarer) a dread guristas spawn that drops a BPC and tags and guristas ammo, hi sec's version of officer spawn, so round and round you go, it takes up to 2 hrs or more and sometimes never, but I'll tell you something that seems to be overlooked, as a miner I spend plenty of time in belts and have notice that on some days rats are numerous and on other days not a stinking rat for up to an hour, so if I am getting rat spawns often sometimes one after the other I head back to get my ratting ship and go chaining. How's that for a tip from a miner.
forestwho
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-10-31 20:16:45 UTC
nahjustwarpin wrote:
TriadSte wrote:
Thats incorrect, in order to get a chance of a faction spawn you have to kill everything because this resets the spawns and this is where the faction one may spawn.

Chaining is done when isk farming. The idea is to get to a point where the 3 mil bounty BS spawn only do this for an entire belt then farm it.

You need to be in NPC space to get officer spawns. Officers are super rare.


officer spawns are in sov space aswell


in & above -0.86 true sec
nahjustwarpin
SUPER DUPER SPACE TRUCKS
#8 - 2012-10-31 21:44:05 UTC  |  Edited by: nahjustwarpin
forestwho wrote:
nahjustwarpin wrote:
TriadSte wrote:
Thats incorrect, in order to get a chance of a faction spawn you have to kill everything because this resets the spawns and this is where the faction one may spawn.

Chaining is done when isk farming. The idea is to get to a point where the 3 mil bounty BS spawn only do this for an entire belt then farm it.

You need to be in NPC space to get officer spawns. Officers are super rare.


officer spawns are in sov space aswell


in & above -0.86 true sec


no, lowest sec status i saw officer was -0.802 ( W-4FA9 )
Zetaomega333
High Flyers
#9 - 2012-11-02 03:24:50 UTC
You cant chain anymore as the BS values have changed and are now random.