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C4 Life?

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Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#21 - 2012-11-11 19:54:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Rroff
To a degree yes - tho a 30man active corp in a C4 is wasting their time when they could be pulling in far more in a C5/6. C2/3 is better for a casual corp with mixed skills tho than a C4/3 as when activity is light then they don't have the potential to run local sites so easily - theres going to be some crossover tho. i.e. if they are very active in running their static then a C4/3 could make more sense.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-11-11 20:36:24 UTC
Rroff wrote:
To a degree yes - tho a 30man active corp in a C4 is wasting their time when they could be pulling in far more in a C5/6. C2/3 is better for a casual corp with mixed skills tho than a C4/3 as when activity is light then they don't have the potential to run local sites so easily - theres going to be some crossover tho. i.e. if they are very active in running their static then a C4/3 could make more sense.


True, Although as many have stated, it can be very difficult to find an available C2. Especially a C2/C3.

And an active corp could be making more in a C5/6 if they are a corp of vets with cap pilots. Granted I've never flown in a C5+ but it seems the money is better IF you can do the cap escalations.
Sir Prometeus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#23 - 2012-11-12 13:33:00 UTC
My corp is looking for a new home. Ideally we want a C4->C3, but I have found a C4->C4 with extremely good PI and the cataclysmic effect (ideal for spider tanking)

At the moment, we are few players but good skilled. The only problem is reseting wormholes to arrive at k-space or getting a C3 (the best thing we can farm at the moment)

So our chances are: keep looking for a C4/3, or stay in our C4/4 and do the industrial stuff. What is your advice? (at the moment we can't fly tech III, but we are close though)
YuuKnow
The Scope
#24 - 2012-11-13 00:02:16 UTC
Sir Prometeus wrote:
My corp is looking for a new home. Ideally we want a C4->C3, but I have found a C4->C4 with extremely good PI and the cataclysmic effect (ideal for spider tanking)

At the moment, we are few players but good skilled. The only problem is reseting wormholes to arrive at k-space or getting a C3 (the best thing we can farm at the moment)

So our chances are: keep looking for a C4/3, or stay in our C4/4 and do the industrial stuff. What is your advice? (at the moment we can't fly tech III, but we are close though)


I don't have any experience with a C4 to C4, but in a C3 to low sec even then the logistics is challenging. You're going to have a heck of a time getting anything into or out of the hole in a timely manner.

yk
Sir Prometeus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#25 - 2012-11-14 08:31:29 UTC
YuuKnow wrote:
Sir Prometeus wrote:
My corp is looking for a new home. Ideally we want a C4->C3, but I have found a C4->C4 with extremely good PI and the cataclysmic effect (ideal for spider tanking)

At the moment, we are few players but good skilled. The only problem is reseting wormholes to arrive at k-space or getting a C3 (the best thing we can farm at the moment)

So our chances are: keep looking for a C4/3, or stay in our C4/4 and do the industrial stuff. What is your advice? (at the moment we can't fly tech III, but we are close though)


I don't have any experience with a C4 to C4, but in a C3 to low sec even then the logistics is challenging. You're going to have a heck of a time getting anything into or out of the hole in a timely manner.

yk



Thanks, in the end I sold my wormhole. We'll use that money to buy a C4->C3

I know about the logistics. We have mounted and de-mounted our POS in C2 through a lowsec (fortunately, the second time was a LS beside a High Sec system, and it took us the whole afternoon, even considering the POS was medium)
Terrorfrodo
Interbus Universal
#26 - 2012-11-14 10:34:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Terrorfrodo
I did C4 anomalies for a while, dualboxing with a Paladin and a Guardian, both t2-fitted. Could clear the sites in 16-20 minutes. So it was quite decent ISK, but barely better than what I pull solo in a C3 with cheaper ships. It was also a lot riskier; one mistake and you lose a ship to the sleepers.

But the worst thing about C4 sites really is the awfully long range those damned sleepers keep from you.

Although someone mentioned Russians roaming the C4s all day, I guess C4s are still the most quiet systems because relatively few people live in systems with static C4. That and the fact that there are not wandering holes and no k-space connections should be perfect for quiet farming. Even if you don't want to run the C4 combat sites and use your static for that, living in a C4 has the advantage that your resident ladar and grav sites are of higher quality than in C2s.

What ultimately discouraged me to ever set up shop in a C4 was the very lack of traffic... after all, no traffic means no pvp.

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Sir Prometeus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#27 - 2012-11-14 16:11:28 UTC
Terrorfrodo wrote:
I did C4 anomalies for a while, dualboxing with a Paladin and a Guardian, both t2-fitted. Could clear the sites in 16-20 minutes. So it was quite decent ISK, but barely better than what I pull solo in a C3 with cheaper ships. It was also a lot riskier; one mistake and you lose a ship to the sleepers.

But the worst thing about C4 sites really is the awfully long range those damned sleepers keep from you.

Although someone mentioned Russians roaming the C4s all day, I guess C4s are still the most quiet systems because relatively few people live in systems with static C4. That and the fact that there are not wandering holes and no k-space connections should be perfect for quiet farming. Even if you don't want to run the C4 combat sites and use your static for that, living in a C4 has the advantage that your resident ladar and grav sites are of higher quality than in C2s.

What ultimately discouraged me to ever set up shop in a C4 was the very lack of traffic... after all, no traffic means no pvp.


In terms of PVP, probably we are going to keep our exits to k-space
NG4ge
Space Dormouse
Happy Turbo Friends
#28 - 2012-11-22 07:49:11 UTC
We live in a C4 with a Static C3 and are really enjoying it.

Our main source of income is the C3 static, we tend to take RR Tengu's into the sites and split the loot on a nifty spreadsheet.

There is a lot more scanning in a C4 but we have ways of doing the C4 sites pretty easily....it is a shame there is no small capital escelation...I think of C4's as the less loved middle child of the family...rarely noticed.

We also get a bit of pew in the form of ratters in the C3's and the odd lowsec roam here or there. I would say it's worth living in a C4 but the size of your corp should determine which static you chose to live in...

just my opinion :)
Trinkets friend
Sudden Buggery
Sending Thots And Players
#29 - 2012-11-22 13:18:03 UTC
BUGRY lurked in a C4 Black hole for nigh on 12 months. We chose the C2 static for the pew, of which there was plenty. Plus plenty of tardPOSes and suchlike for me to work the TF Effect upon and get uber rich.

The C4/Blackhole was good. We would run 3-4 DPS battleships with MWD and 2 logi alts. You'd close the 100km to the sleepers in a minute and then vape them. We would average 40-60M ISK per hour. 80-100 with RR Domis.

The Black hole effect was also luls. Warriors were hopeless, which was fun when people would try PVPing with them and would land no damage. The extra align time was an absolute whore, though, for Orcas and caps (we built two; they got sold, stlen, sold, sold back to a member again). Ammo choie and fits had to change; we would roll no gyros and all TE's on canes and clones, and laugh hilariously at Cynabals who tried tackling us.

However, C4's are mostly uninhabited because the sites absolutely require teamwork or multi-boxing, and if you aren't multiboxing or pimping Tengus then the ISK/hr suffers. We would get better from C1's because the blue poo isn't worth much more than C3's and the wreck density isn't huge enough to make nanoribbon drops as lucrative.

Would I move back in? Probably.

C2 exits are for people who love to PVP. But these days, its a waste of time because most people are giant bears and watch too many tutorials and only bear it up weekly with all the salt pentagrams in place.

C3 exits are, as said, for bears. But I would also argue, having lived in all types of C3's, that the proper way to treat the C4/C3 is as a variety box of chocolates. One day, you go roaming in lowsec. The next day, you go annoy some bears in nullsec. Or repair the sec status you blew ganking idiots the day before. On another day, you do your hisec logistics.

C4/C4's are for hardcore antisocial neckbeards or people who like living in the wilderness eating backpackers. You are only going to encounter other C4s, at least half of which are empty. Then those may go up or down the spectrum, and your logistics chain will be only long enough to let your backpacker **** slave out of the basement. Then you eat her and howl at the moon.

C4/C5's are for people who can't figure out how to move into a C5.

C4/C1's are for perverted colorblind masochists who typed the J# wrong into wormnav and thought they were moving in to a giant sissy cloaca AKA C5/C1 or C6/C1, then only realised their mistake halfway through putting up the POS. Then they deluded themselves thinking only noobs live in C1's and there will be easy pickings...but to get any PVP you have to be like a pederast and stick a small sausage in a small hole a couple of dozen times to respawn it, and you just feel depressed afterwards and neck yourself.

And there you have it, C4 space explained.
Amsterdam Conversations
Doomheim
#30 - 2012-11-26 17:12:54 UTC
I imagine living in a C4 is a nuisance. Rather hard to scan sites and randomness of empire exits (X877 statics, I'm talking to you) are annoying.

We used a C2 with C4 static for quite a while and it was enjoyable, but a lot of people are looking for ganks in that class. Last time we just put a small tower up in a C4/C4... If you do it on alts only and get enough fuel and ammo for weeks or even months, it's awesome.

C4 sites can be run triple boxing cheap tengus for about 4 sites an hour (or quad with noctis), it's easy to do and gives you a stable 400m/h until you run out of sites. Doing it with two people is a rather enjoyable carebearing experience, imo. Only 200m/h per player that way, which is still better than most of PVE activities and it's very unlikely to get killed due to two people spamming d-scan.
Khadrea Shakor
Shakor Freight and Mining Service
#31 - 2012-11-27 13:27:02 UTC
Trinkets friend wrote:

C4/C4's are for hardcore antisocial neckbeards or people who like living in the wilderness eating backpackers. You are only going to encounter other C4s, at least half of which are empty. Then those may go up or down the spectrum, and your logistics chain will be only long enough to let your backpacker **** slave out of the basement. Then you eat her and howl at the moon.


Now I am intrigued!
Xen Solarus
Furious Destruction and Salvage
#32 - 2012-12-02 02:22:03 UTC
Personally i find that C4 tends to be the hunting grounds of the higher classes. Often unoccupied, they act as connecting systems used to farm sites and look for fleet combat. Most of the larger corps/alliances can handle living in the higher classes, and supporting large capital fleets to defend their space, so smaller corps looking to live in C4s run the risk of being attacked by a much larger force, potentially way larger than which they can handle.

Of course, these guys need a good reason to want to bash your POS in a C4, such as lots of SMAs potentially full of lots of tasty ships. Or perhaps they don't like you for some reason. Shocked Either way, i'd say that class 4 wormholes are pretty dangerous for small corporations that aren't willing and able to fight to defend their space.

Post with your main, like a BOSS!

And no, i don't live in highsec.  As if that would make your opinion any less wrong.  

Gal'o Sengen
Doomheim
#33 - 2012-12-02 05:53:54 UTC
Xen Solarus wrote:
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C4 is generally safer if you make an effort to make it not worth evicting you. I mean, who honestly wants to bash a Large PoS without Capitals (especially a Dickstar)? The only reason to do it is if you're made someone very angry or the profit earned isn't outweighed by just going back to your own C5/6 and doing anoms.

Or i suppose, if they want the Hole, but in that case they're more likely to go for a C3.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#34 - 2012-12-03 13:43:19 UTC
Trinkets friend wrote:
Informative stuff


Confirming backpackers are the tastiest kind of packer.
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