Missions & Complexes

Every now and again when I look on the front page of evekill I see kms like these:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=21174641

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=21139720

Usually faction battleships, navy and pirate, usually located in nullsec regions with sansha/bloodraider rats, and they all are armor tanked smartbombing fit, usually the people flying with them in ratting sites are on their lossmails because their smartbombs hit them before they were caught and killed.

What is the story behind this, is this some super efficient way of rating by just smart bombing? I have never heard of this before.

My guess would be that's it's an easier way to program a bot, not havng to handle the targeting part. But then FoF missiles can do that too.
Could be they are bubble smartbombing bses gone for a lil ratting after the camp too.
All in All, I dont know but these are my guesses

definitely based on knowing exactly where the spawns are, as otherwise you would always have some rats want to orbit from far away.

This is not the ratting you are looking for... You want to use your carrier to rat... The smartbomb is lie...

Oh and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRoTF06GWSk

Why rat in a carrier when you could rat in a smartbomb nyx?
Gate Havens are a breeze in that thing.

Yes really efficient especially when ratting the ones that orbit close. You hit everything in range at the same time for full damage(minus resists)

Perfect for mutliboxing and rat farming. Just send in a salvager every now and then and its just raining isk.

BTW the second one is better set up then the first. First is using way to many high end gear for it to be cost effective considering you do occasionally lose one.

Very interetsing thread cheers OP.

I can't help but notice we are looking at killmails of fallen smart bombing battleships. With the new warp mechanics there is a clear disadvantage when sitting close to the warp in range of hostile ships. Especially without a MJD.

For those who are doing this, is the isk made worth losing a few of these ships every so often? I need numbers :-P

Never used smart bombs, but I always imagined they would damage the wrecks, since they are vulnerable to normal weaponry.

So here's the deal.

300m/hr in isk, 175m hr in loot. Investment is 5b isk and 5 accounts. You can do 4 accounts if you give up the salvage, or recruit a b'slave to do it for you.

If you're currently multiboxing, and have the PC that can handle 4/5 clients, then you should consider sbomb ratting. You'll recoup your investment in a week. You'll triple your income thereafter.

If you've never multibox'ed, then this is not the thing for you. It's really not a good place to 'start' multiboxing as a beginner.

There are some downsides.
1: The startup investment
2: Disconnects = Death, including the pod. It's just that simple.
3: You're in the structure, so insta warp-out is not an option. It takes about 30 seconds to get clear and get into warp. This means AWOX = death. Neuts with half a brain and good dir scanning skills= death. Ratting in busy systems with lots of neut traffic = death. Basically, "DON'T GET CAUGHT".
4: To add the salvager, you really need to learn to economize your clicks and give eve the full measure of your attention. You can't phone-in 5 accounts.
5: While you don't 'need' isboxer to do this, I recommend that you get it, or an equivalent program to manage your client windows. Seriously, it makes this so much easier when you can see everything.

If you can get access to a true -1 system, there's an extra haven. You can do one haven every ~4 minutes, which ups the income to 450m/hr + 250m loot/salvage.