EVE General Discussion

Do you realise that those of us who live in wormholes tend to do most of our ratting or gas huffing next door in our 'static'?

Due to the nature of how sites in wormholes spawn, a 'typical' wormhole dunking session goes something like this:

1: Notice that your static has closed, hopefully with you on the 'home' side. Usually, this is seen first in the Probe Scanner window or it's the result of deliberate 'rage rolling'.
1a: Mash D-Scan.
2: Get a scanning ship, check against Corp Bookmarks which sites are already known, scan down all new sites and Corp BM them.
2a: Mash D-Scan.
3: Enter your J-Space static, check for number of anomalies and signatures. Then check for active POS towers and any ships in space.
3a: Mash D-Scan.
4: SCAN ALL THE THINGS! In some holes, this could mean 30+ signatures to scan down, in others it's only a couple. Make Bookmarks of everything. Check any further WH connections and where they lead to. If you're in a Swiss Cheese hole with a dozen connecting wormholes, this increases the risk your fleet will get dunked.
4a: Mash D-Scan.
5: Decide if this connection is 'worth' running. If so, continue this list. If there's too much risk (half a dozen active towers, a dozen battleships on scan, etc, etc), get your Higgs Rigged battleships out again and prepare to roll the hole, return to 1 above.
5a: Mash D-Scan.
6: Get your corpmates/alts together and decide what order to do the sites in the static. Usually I warp to every Gas site I want to run at the start to spawn the sleepers, knock over all the combat sites then return to kill Gas sleepers. Once that's all done, looted and salvaged, it's into the Ventures.
6a: Mash D-Scan.
7: Once the static is depleted of sites to run, return to the home hole to drop off loot, salvage & gas. The loot buyer calculates and makes all payouts. We get the Higgs Rigged Battleships out, rinse and repeat and pray you got the math right and didn't get stuck on the wrong side of a collapsed hole (which WILL happen occasionally, regardless how careful you are).
7a: Mash D-Scan.

On a 'good' night, me and some corpmates might roll our J-Space static five or more times.

So, if you think all I have to do is: log in, scan a site, make ISK, then you'd be wrong. For every hour of actual 'isk printing', there's 15-20 minutes of general faffing around.

edit: just quietly, it's not that difficult or expensive to set yourself up in a wormhole with a few friends. finding a suitable hole to move into is the biggest hurdle.

I never said it was a 'bad idea', just that it was unlikely to ever happen and, quite simply, the lack of said fourth highslot in no way diminishes the Prospect's performance doing what it's designed to do.

You carry on like the Prospect is unforgivably broken, when it's clearly nothing of the sort. It's a capable vessel that can safely get into and out of hostile space with far more ease than any other mining platform.

How is this thread 8 pages lon-..........I mean, good job, GD



Mobile Depots. Live by em, hopefully don't die by em. You might as well be saying it needs extra low slots so it can fit more stabs and mining upgrades (it doesn't), or it needs extra midslots so it can fit more tank to survive belt rats (it doesn't), or it needs a drone bay so that it can put up some kind of a fight (it doesn't).

Personally, I'm a huge fan of the mining frigates and use the Prospect the most (although the Endurance is starting to take up equal time). I still undock a Venture for a daytrip every now and then, just for nostalgia

A logical reason was given: It's unbalanced in favour of the Prospect and against those who may hunt you.

There's always choices and trade-offs to be made.

This ^

I have carefully read the OP and thought about it.

Everything is wrong.