Missions & Complexes

My ultimate ratting dream is to tri-box three Tengus with a carrier hugging a POS assigning fighters to them in Serpentis nullsec; -0.8 to -1.0 truesec.

Currently my three future-Tengus are in drakes, and I'm in the process of setting up ISboxer to box them, No fighters. I have some questions; first, for the drakes:

1) they all have T2 missiles with lvl 4 skills, decent drone skills, and a T2 tank. With three of them, what type of anomaly should I be running for max isk/hr?
2) What drones should I be using? I was going to go with hobgoblin II's. Have them all assist my primary character and set them on frigates.
3) Are three drakes capable of running escalations? How difficult, which ones?

And for the Tengus, if I've got fighters.
4) Should I be using some sort of RR set up?
5) What kind of dps could 3 tengus with 15 fighters do?
6) Should one Tengu be using precision missiles to burn down the small stuff, or will fighters be better at that?
7) Heavy Missile Launchers or Heavy Assault missile launchers?
8) Should I be blitzing sanctums with them, or running something else?
9) Would they be able to handle any escalation that gets thrown up, including The Maze?

And the big question:
10) Is this set up overkill for high end ratting (Sanctums, 10/10 Plex's), and how much isk/hr can this make (assuming undisturbed)?

Be sure to come back and tell us how it goes, I have a hard time imagining running 2 tengu's at once, 3 at the same time sounds like a chore that requires a lot of upkeep. But be sure to come back to tell us how it is, I am curious.

Beyond that I wish I had something to actually to attribute concerning your questions. But if you find it too hard to keep up with 3 Tengus to control, you have a decent chunk of skills for a Nighthawk, which you can setup for more of a AFK friendly setup while you control the 1-2 other Tengu's more.

2x Rigor II, 1x Flare II. Fury can easily kill T2 npc frigates at that point.

Fighters are approximately 100 dps per fighter, so 15 fighters would be 1500 added dps (strictly an EFT number).

Thanatos gets a bonus to fighter damage, but I recall hearing that this does not transfer when the fighters are assigned. Unconfirmed though.

yes, it's overkill for ratting sanctums. assume 20m+ a tick and a serious hatred for the world after constantly tabbing between accounts.

You are ccp marketingteam's wetdream of a customer.

Also 3 fitted tengu's+ carrier+ 4 GTCS equals howmuch ticks to pay for all that? Sounds like work to me, not fun.

ISboxer has been stated to be allowed by CCP.


1. I would run forsaken hubs/forlorn hubs due to the extreme lack of frigates. no frigates means no time wasted shooting them down.
2. hobgoblin 2's or hornet 2's
3. 3 drakes can run most sites, but I would avoid the ones that you have to take down the stations at the end.
4. don't bother with RR, a mere t2 medium shield booster, 1 kin and 1 therm hardener are enough to tank any anomaly as long as you keep moving (aka, orbit a can or ship or whatever you prefer)
5. each tengu should be doing a minimum of 600 dps, just use scourge fury (i don't like using HAM's, though some people prefer that...) Mine with maxed skills would be spitting out 672 using just t2 BCU's, and as long as you have some rigor rigs on them you can pop frigates pretty quick
6. don't bother with precision, just keep fury in, sic fighters on battleships, missiles on cruisers, and work your way through
7. I would stick with heavy - HAM works, but it works best if you are solo and burn down the long range orbiters first, in a group you waste too much time getting into range.
8. again, I would run forsaken hubs/forlorn hubs to the lack of frigates
9. 3 tengu's is enough to do any anomaly, but be aware that for escalations fighters can't go through gates.
10. I was hitting 20mil isk/tick with 1 decent tengu, 1 poorly skilled tengu, and 10 fighters assigned. This usually dropped down to about 15mil isk/tick once I fleeted up with a few friends in drakes, etc. but I have since stopped doing this because I can hit 10mil isk/tick with alot less effort running 3 sentry/sniper domi's, and running domi's in groups made some annoying hotdroppers look elsewhere for their pickings. 4 domi's with a RR chain and just assigning sentries (assuming maxed skills) and 1 of them with an aggro gun would be an easy way to make 10mil isk/tick without using ISboxer though.

-Arazel

No, ISBoxer duplicates your actions across multiple clients, but you are still manually controlling those clients.