Stormin
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
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Posted - 2016.05.20 14:06:28 -
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Pinkylein wrote:Ok but still ... i don't see the point. Loot fairy rools on CHA/SMA/PHA and all other arrays in a POS were sometimes reasons enough to evict a POS. You still hope for the best drop. You still don't know whats inside ... so you are going in by hoping there is a lot to get.
What is the difference with a citadel? You still don't know whats inside. So even knowing 100% will get dropped. A POS with 4 marauders inside still give you probably more then a citadel with 4 epithals and 200M ISK full of PI.
The point is you dont hunt the citadel for some guy and his alts running a PI. You go after the well established, known to have a ton of iskies and ships docked up citadel.
For example, you're flying through WH space looking for something to shoot and you jump into a system with a citadel. You take a look at the corp and find they have 25 members. You could at least assume each member has around 1bil in assets. Fitted ships in addition to blue loot and salvage. Its very possibly they have even more in total as a corp but for this example lets say it tallys up to 25bil. Not only that but the citadel is going vulnerable in 3 days.
You keep an eye on the citadel for the next day, looks like they are somewhat active. Mostly small gang cruiser fleets and running there sites. You haven't seen more than 6 on at a time. You have two days left to prepare, let your null-sec alliance know you've found a potential 25 bil target that about 15 people should be able to pop no problem. One more day to let your corp/alliance prepare, you scan them in and there you have it. Each member if your fleet is making 1.6 bil for 30 minutes dps on a citadel + the added bonus of possible PVP against the residents. If they call for help you get an escalation, but since you're in a nullsec alliance you can always bring more numbers than the WH corps ever will be able to. You get a great bit of content and a guaranteed payout, literally 100% of whatever that corp has will be yours when you pop the citadel.
You might be thinking well 25bil isn't worth the time. The realisty is corps have much more than that in assets in their home system, and larger corps living in c5-6 with capitals now docked up will have even more value. If a Nullsec corp can have the chance at a guaranteed 500bil, 750bil, 1tril + drop why the hell wouldn't they take it?
The random loot drops from a POS get rid of the certainty, there isn't as much draw to spend the time scouting and invading a WH corps space when you could get nothing out of it. A citadel changes this, anyone who wants to blow it up knows 100% they get literally everything you have, thats the problem. |