Missions & Complexes

Alright, so all of you optimization warriors that just love to get the best results/hour of any activity, let me show you by far the quickest and most efficient way to farm these sites. Using this tactic you can cut your time in the site from 9 minutes, down to 90 seconds!

First of all you guys are gonna go to Jita and buy yourselves a battleship. It doesn't really matter which as long as it's got 8 highslots, a dronebay, and at least 5 mids.

Next you're gonna buy some important stuff. You're gonna need 3 cap batteries, a kinetic or thermal hardener, and a 100mn AB. Last but not least, you're going to buy 8 large graviton smartbombs. Those are the most important. Now you guys probably think I'm crazy. Not so.

All of the ships in the shipyard and research facility orbit you at 5-6km. Now, what that means, is if you give them 30 seconds to settle around you, using 2 or 3 pulses of your smartbombs you can kill every, single, one. The only problem is you have to have decent smartbombs.

On what smartbombs to get, kinetic is their primary weakness so you're going to want to buy gravitons. Also, 5km on the t1 just won't cut it. You'll be slowboating around trying to catch them all and then warping away and back as you wait to regain capacitor. Good news though, if you don't have the skills for t2 large smartbombs there are handy dandy faction variations available in the larger trade hubs. These actually get MORE range than t2, giving another useful 250meters. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a good improvement. They also consume much less capacitor incase you think it's a good idea to waste cap by starting a rave party.

All you have to do in site, is burn towards the can a little bit until you're near the middle of their group. Stop, and wait for them to all notice you and swarm you. Once they're all close, pulse your smartbombs a couple times and there will be a bunch of floating wrecks around you :) Just make sure that, if you're doing it in highsec, there's nobody nearby.

On the off chance you managed to screw up this very simple process, just use the drones on your ship and nuke the survivors as they cower from your mighty smartbombs.

A sample fit might go like this

[Rokh]

x8 smartbombs (T2 or even better faction gravitons remember)

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3x cap batteries
1x kin hardener
1x therm hardener
1x 100mn AB

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Who cares what goes in the lows, maybe cap recharge if you really feel like it but as long as you only pulse your SBs when every ship is within range they should all go down before cap becomes a problem.

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Maybe hyperspatial rigs for optimal farming speed


And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the best and fastest way to run the new Shipyard and Research Facilities.

First time I jumped in had the exact same thought.

Just don't do this is highsec (or do if you want to dontate some free faction smartbombs to me).

Nice, find a nice quite area and this would be pretty baller. I'd get concorded because someone would jump in, so I'll stick to a trio of gilas but this could be fun in some of the surrounding lowsec areas.

Gravitons are best because they do the most damage, and they're also a **** ton cheaper. Currently they're only about 60m/pop in Jita sell orders for the caldari navy and dread gurista ones.

What I see the most effective way of doing it is in lowsec like you described, and fit all lows with warp core stabs because you don't actually have to lock anything if you do it right. As long as there's no more than 3 other people in local you should be okay, even if you get dropped by a cloaky tackle stratios you can warp off.

They're quite literally everywhere, just make sure you have beacons checkmarked on your overview and they spawn in all space. The only one really worth running though is the serpentis shipyard and research facility, unless you have a specific mission saying you need to run another one.

The best way is to go to a crowded area in highsec, and grab the points and loot while others do the work.

I have a different method for high sec sites that doesn't need you to change the safety :)

1. Get yourself your favourite Battlecruiser or Battleship - I chose the Myrmidon, stick on a MJD.
2. Warp to site
3. Drag central group away from the citadel by moving away from the warp-in point at 90 degrees (up or down)
4. Kill the frigates first (try not to use drones just yet as they will aggro the other groups)
5. If you clear the frigates quickly enough you should be able to target the remaining cruisers and battlecruisers from the group
6. Start killing the remaining ships from the group and keep an eye on your distance from the loot can
7. Use your afterburner if necessary to make sure you are approximately 100km off the loot can
8. Once all the ships from central group are dead MJD to the can :)
9. If you like you can drop sentries now and blitz the rest of the ships whilst collecting your reward

It looks like for last day or two people started to ignore these
They open the can and leave. And the can still sits there.....

Just what exactly can be looted anyway?
I did those things twice and both times got some basically worthless serpentis microchips (first time 4, second time only 2 to add some insult).

I had the +2% armor repair implant drop for me yesterday. :)