Player Features and Ideas Discussion

And what if your next mission is Recon or some thing silly that's mostly just running around for 10-15 minutes. Did your agent give you a mission 5 jumps away? You can get ticks like this, but not often in Highsec missions, and it would rarely average out as high as you seem to think. I've done it a couple of times, but it's a rare event.

Serpentis recon 1 loads ~12mil in 10 minutes if you chill out and shoot the battleships. Which I do.

If the mission is particularly crap, I will reject it, which appears to influence the agent into not giving it to you very much too.

reject the terrible missions - you get a free reject every 4 hours, and if you are playing shorter sessions, then you can reject a higher proportion, and you can occasionally eat the penalty if its a run of terrible missions.

dominix L4 - blood

[high]
5x 350mm railgun II (caldari navy antimatter charge L)
1x drone link aug II

[mid]
2x omni tracking link II
2x tracking comp II. For other races, 2x sebo, or 2x mag eccm II, for generic missions 1x sebo, 1x tracking comp II.
1x medium electrochemical capacitor booster (cap 800)

[low]
1x large armor rep II
2x em hardener II - For other races rat specific
2x thermic hardener II - For other races rat specific
2x drone damage augmenter II

[rigs]
1 x large hybrid burst aerator
1 x large hybrid collision accelerator
empty rig slot (no calibration)

[drones]
5x garde II
5x curator II
5x hobgob II
(spare space - mine has a flight of hammers rarely used).

998 dps @ 27km, garde IIs
735 dps @ 75km (navy iridium L, curator IIs) - (bear in mind - does theory damage on all targets at this range).

typical tank ~450 rat specific - little higher on bloods

1x 5% cap regen implant
1x 5% armor rep amount implant
1x 5% turret tracking implant.

I also have a shield navy domi that shoots ~1200 dps at 45km - but haven't carted that over to amarr space - didn't think it would deal with em damage too well.

Not to mention it's a Dominix, which means drones, which are extreemly unreliable as a weapon system in PVE now due to the occasional case of insane munchies the rats get. This is why I fly a Kronos now, because the Dominix got to be too much of a hassle to use.

That setup is pretty much what I used minus the sentries and I went for CCC rigs to be able to be more stable with the rep, and I got very similar DPS out of it. I didn't make anything approaching an average of 70 million an hour though. When Retribution went live, my ISK dropped through the floor, it took me almost a month to save up for the Kronos---according to your numbers, I should have been able to do it that first Weekend with ease.

I would not consider myself to be average, though I rarely attempt to min/max for ISK. When I do, I can pull down about 50/mill in an hour, assuming I spend time stageing ammo, and it's not a pace I can sustain. Eventually either turned down mission timers, drone/ammo replacement, or other factors like some guy from TEARS coming through to take my mission objectives will take that peak rate and more than halve it for a 2 or 3 hour game session.

aggro is much rarer on sentries, and since sentries are instant on - you blap the frigates when you arrive at the pocket. it is usual for me to not bay the sentries for the entire pocket, beyond perhaps a switch to gardes if I'm getting too close for the racial sentries. Missions respond a lot to you managing tracking, ewar and triggers with who you shoot, both in terms of completion and whether or not your tank will be stretched - I play to keep the dps minimised on my weak tank a lot.



sentries are instant on - if you were using heavies, your effective dps is ruined by travel time, likewise you'll let everything fly 10km closer whilst your heavies fly to them, which negatively influences your railgun tracking. I found them seductive when I first started because they are one of the lowest skilled weapons that will crack an npc battleship tank, but they were always a dead end due to long periods at 0 dps.

cap stable is also a dead end, if I'm making 10mil isk more an hour than you, then I can pay to replace the dominix in 13 - 14 hours and not be behind, and realistically even thinly tanked mission boats have survivals of hundreds of hours or never die.



A single iteron IV load will cart a month of ammo + some spare drones.

already said, ur LP's do not transfer into isk directly and instantly. everytime someone tries to factor it into their isk/hour, they try to attribute an isk value to each LP and then convert their LP/hour into isk/hour...even tho it takes time to acquire enough LP's to buy items and then more time to sell the items. And then it may not always be sold for a decent price.

and of course ppl try to convert loot into isk/hour as well. even tho they don't sell it at estimated price they quote.

if u have several alts doing it it can yeah.