Missions & Complexes

Archon with a few drone control units and sentries might clear it faster.

Triage shouldn't be needed as you already have good tank and in triage mode you can't control drones. (worried? go dualrep)

Dreadnaughts won't do anything here.

You should use whichever supercarrier is the most expensive.
That way you'll provide the best tears when you lose it.

(don't rat in a capital...)

Hm...

Looks like people have different opinion about using carriers for ratting:

• A great way to make ISK is to do level 5s in your carrier.
• 4. A carrier can do level 5 missions like a hot knife through butter.

Since carriers have a bonus to fighter drones I suppose that I can take them as transport ship with jump drive, logistic abilities and a fleet of frigs. right?

True, but Archon IS being used in PVE. Just need to be aware of props and cons.

It is also used for triage (resist bonus and cap bonus) - source

But what about cyno and scram, I think I read somewhere that jump drive gets affected by warp scrambler. But I am not sure. Can Archon jump to cyno while under scram?

Ratting in a carrier is something you can do, but you shouldn't do it. It's just so slow and takes forever to align out.

If you insist on it though, here are some tips:
Fit a heavy neut or two, so you can atleast attempt to cap out the people who will eventually tackle you (sooner or later)
Use T2 sentries instead of Fighters. Fighters are best at hitting BS+ targets
Don't worry too much about tanking the rats, a single repper plus EANM has over 1k omni tank. Make sure you're agile enough to escape from players

Carrier lvl5s are grossly outdated. We used to do gateless lvl5s in carriers, but these are the early days. Nowadays, all agent locations, even for obscure corps like Khanid navy, are permacamped.

That said, carrier ratting is still the norm for sov null sanctum farming, deep within the blue ass of sov null where you don't see hostiles for months on end. Not sure about your serp null. Safety can vary a lot. You live there, you know best.

1750 dps thanny will chew rats faster than any pimp BS. Thanny is better than archon due to higher dps, but archon will still get the job done. Tank shouldn't be a problem on any carrier.

Any sentry carrier will clear sites very quickly.. gone are the days of a thany with its fighter bonuses being the best. Just fit at least 3 drone damage mods, 2 omni's 2 drone links for range and the rest dcu's, warp in at range and melt stuff.. if local has reds or neuts.. scoop and allign and use normal drones if brave or just warp away.... I used to use a chimera to do this in null.. works like a charm. OH, and a sebo is a also good to have. Chimera with invuln, em ward, shield boost amp and cap rep can tank just about anything.

EDIT --- just fyi.. sentries have no travel time.. so will clear sites faster than fighters..

lol this whole thread.

isn't that what worm hole'rs do??

escalations and all.

do give **** advice when that's exactly what people do in wormholes as well.

I got answers to all 3 questions. Thanx to everybody. I do understand much more about carriers role now. Great.

When training of car is over I'll simply count dps (with my skills and imps) of car and rattlesnake and make a choice. That simple. I'll also take in account that carrier can be hidden under cloak and, when work done, can grab the whole stock of gas and deliver to our station in one jump. This is one more advantage of the carrier in gas mining op where I have to clear the site from the rats.

As for the protection of my car, well, there's always minimum 20 pilots from my corp in 3 jumps + my pvp-alt. Not to mention alliance guys everywhere. Many will be only too happy if I get ganked =)