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To answer your question - standard ratting is nearly identical in isk/hour across all regions. Drone rats are a little bit easier to kill i find because they dont do ewar. loot is not that big of a deal.

But, you dont want to go to drone regions.

Drone regions are terrible for 3 reasons:

1) No good exploration sites. Other sites have DED complexes, chances for deadspace loot. Drone regions only have drone-specific exploration sites that drop tech 2 salvage - which is worthless after certain patches. Until this is looked at, exploration will remain sub-par to other regions.

2) No PvP. Density of players is so low that there is virtually nothing to do. Blame XDeath and Goons - they cleansed the drone regions back in 2009 or 2010, I cant remember when exactly, but i was in that war on the ORC/Ethereal Dawn side, since then the entire area has become a deadzone. Before, drone regions were occupied by a dozen smaller alliances, and there was action. Now, all station systems are empty. There a few ratting carriers here and there, maybe 2-3 systems are occupied, and technetium moons are all farmed, but, its all dead otherwise. Talk about killing a community.... pricks.

3) Logistics. Drone regions are like the arctic, hard to move into and out of, very long supply chains. With no proper jump bridge network to speak of, you are better off living elsewhere.

I recommend you move to provi, or fountain. always good mix of action and PvE there. Dont join drone regions, its all renters and a path to stagnation and decay. your grind will make some dude rich from taxes, and ultimately goons, but you wont get any enjoyment from it.

Sansha is also very good, the faction points from LP and certain other things sell very well on the markets. Not the easiest rats to kill, but not the worst either. Move to sansha space, less hassle then sov-owned areas.

EDIT - if you want to try drone regions, grab a small POS, set it up somewhere deep, around 2G-, F9-, is all empty 10 jumps in all directions, and try it. No need to join corp, no need to pay taxes, just to try go and rat there for a week see how you like it.

Another specificity of drone region is that you usualy can't linger on the gates for long, as more often than in other regions, there are drones NPC there..

Aren't there drone officers like every other section of null?

It was an accident. One of our allies went there looking for kills & the alliance that lived there at the time collapsed over it.

Says he wants to join a nullsec corp ...
... actually only cares about isk/hr.

Would not recommend recruiting him.

Peoples perspectives are always interesting and varied.
Have lived all throughout the drone regions over the years I can tell you that yes it is as profitable as other regions and possibly even more so simply because it is so spread out that one has less interruptions when mining or running sites. Although there are not the large variety of combat sites as in other regions the two main combat sites appear frequently. faction drones drop T2 salvage and escalations can be quite profitable. I got bored of my high-sec business last month and joined a corp in the drone regions for a couple of weeks. In a three day period I killed two officer spawns worth multiple billions. Yes one has to go a little further for pvp but the drone regions definitely have their perks.

Why not? There's plenty of renter corps/alliances out there who would be happy to have players like this.