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Why high sec Exploration rewards are that horrible?

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Eram Fidard
Doomheim
#121 - 2013-12-07 16:15:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Eram Fidard
Cygnet Lythanea wrote:

Hmm... let me try something... I see an unknown in system and reach ALL THE WAY OVER to my covert ops cloak hotkey, and push it. Then align to a safe spot (you may have heard of these) and warp to it. While cloaked. Makes it hard for the infy to 'land on you' unless you have some astonishingly bad luck. Because it's gonna take him a second to scan down either your ship or the site you're in.



Because optimal ratting setups have covops cloaks.

Rats never target you.

Three interceptors would never jump into system at the same time and shotgun the three hubs.

and

It takes more than a half second to click the arrow next to the words "forsaken hub"


Your posting makes me think you've never actually played out in null. Either that or your idea of optimal ratting is 50m/hour in which case go to hi-sec you will make more for less risk

Honestly, who the hell fits a covops cloak to make isk?

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Cygnet Lythanea
World Welfare Works Association
#122 - 2013-12-07 17:34:45 UTC
Eram Fidard wrote:

Because optimal ratting setups have covops cloaks.


Or scan probes, either. Some of us are smart enough not to sit there with an arrow over our heads that says 'warp to dumbass'.


Eram Fidard wrote:
Three interceptors would never jump into system at the same time and shotgun the three hubs.


No, they most assuredly will. They're also gonna check the belts and probably the Pocos and planets. That's why you fit accordingly. Also. Best loot is in the ones you have to scan down, and there's fewer asshats.

Eram Fidard wrote:
Either that or your idea of optimal ratting is 50m/hour in which case go to hi-sec you will make more for less risk

Honestly, who the hell fits a covops cloak to make isk?



Well, two points here:I make more than 50m an hour in highsec masturbating in station, and way more in low and null actually doing something. Two, Back in my day, Junior, we didn't have 'warp to 0', we had a bunch of bookmarks that hopefully got us through the day alive. We assumed that at any moment a veritable rainbow of hostile assholes would jump in, and fitted accordingly.

You might think my fit suboptimal but it does do what I want it to, which is let me enjoy pretty much any region of space I particularly want to go to. Sometimes I want PvP. Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I like to lounge around in belts in highsec, or play the market. or **** around with POS someplace.

Further, I might point out that a covert ops fit can make you a whole lot of isk if, for example, you decided to run high value, low cargo space goods from, say, B4 to empire space. The resale value of barge bpos can be fairly lucrative on occasion, as an example.