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Maykid Achilles
No-Mercy
Shadow Ultimatum
#1 - 2015-11-01 20:24:09 UTC
Hello Ladies and Gentleman,

Quick question for you all, I'm getting into combat sites and I'm wondering what are some good cheap ships to start combat sites with that can self repair but do a good job clearing 5/10s - 9/10s DED sites in low, null and wh systems. If you could post a couple good ship options and fittings preferably scanning with the combat site ship would be awesome. Myou skills are good with drones, missiles and a little bit of guns.

Thanks in advance

Maykid
Anize Oramara
WarpTooZero
#2 - 2015-11-01 21:25:39 UTC
Stratios on the lower end of the combat sites, Tengu on some of the higher end ones.

A guide (Google Doc) to Hi-Sec blitzing and breaking the 200mill ISK/H barrier v1.2.3
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#3 - 2015-11-01 22:34:37 UTC
The problem that I run into with the Tengu is the limited cargo space. If I carry a mobile depot and subsystem to change between a combat and travel fit I have very little room left for missiles + loot. Anyone else have that problem or a work-around?
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#4 - 2015-11-02 04:16:22 UTC
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
The problem that I run into with the Tengu is the limited cargo space. If I carry a mobile depot and subsystem to change between a combat and travel fit I have very little room left for missiles + loot. Anyone else have that problem or a work-around?



Stage a bunch of missiles in the area in which you explore. That's the trade off for being able to carry a travel fit. For a solo player, that is probably your best solution. If you have an alt, bringing along a Blockade Runner full of missiles can extend your efforts quite a bit. This is also very handy for carrying your loot.

Since I have lots of alts, my solution was to use an alt in a scanning Loki to find the sites. Then, I would light a Covert Cyno in the system and jump my Black Ops ships in to run the sites. My Widows could run most Blood Raider or Serpentis sites without too much difficulty. For the hardest ones, I could refit my Loki to a passive shield tank (e.g. the final room of the Blood Raider 10/10). That way I could explore hostile space and never have to take a gate unless I wanted to do so. Occasionally I had to refuel, but this was relatively easy to do with NPC stations around.

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.

Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#5 - 2015-11-02 04:41:20 UTC
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
The problem that I run into with the Tengu is the limited cargo space. If I carry a mobile depot and subsystem to change between a combat and travel fit I have very little room left for missiles + loot. Anyone else have that problem or a work-around?






Staging missiles works. I have caches all over BR and Serpentis space. There's also something to be said for using a Legion, though the limited damage types can hurt you in some instances. As the tradeoff there, the Legion actually has less room for loot, but at least you won't run out of ammo.

Stratios has plenty of cargo space and can run at least some 5-6/10s but not much beyond that. Ishtar... well, his days are pretty much over now as the king here. Was nice while it lasted I suppose. No cargo issue there though.