Bantai One
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Posted - 2010.05.24 15:07:00 -
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Edited by: Bantai One on 24/05/2010 15:10:52
 Originally by: Joe SMASH
Moving drugs/boosters/contraband/naughty stuff... Can the NPC police scan Orca's corp hold? If not, are Orcas the best/safest way to move naughty bits around Empire?
First thing, my corp specifically queried the GM's on transporting boosters through hi sec in a Orca's corporate hold. We were told point blank that it would be considered an exploit. If you look at other known problems that were considered exploits, you can get banned for them even though the general player base knew about them. One day CCP will look at it, and ban a ton of people who were doing it in the past.
As to profitability, there is some profit. Question is, is it worth the pain. Do a scan of drug labs sold in Jita. ItÆs a non stop streak as all kinds of people get into it. The mistake most of them make is that they assume booster production is like setting up a bpc copying biz or a T2 invention biz. Both of those two businesses can be done solo with a couple alts.
Booster production is far more of a pain. To get decent quantities of gas, you have to ninja into some major alliances space. Even then, each unit of gas is 10m3. Each single standard booster requires roughly 23 units of gas. ThatÆs 230m3 for one booster. Now imagine the joy of trying to smuggle 10,000 m3 of gas past bubble camp after bubble camp. You can always try to buy you gas in Jita, but the volumes for sale are pitifully small and very expensive. You can also find some gas in low sec, but the sites hold a fraction of what the null sec ones do. For that, you get to sit there for over half an hour constantly warping and cloaking as it seems every pirate these days has a cov ops probing alt.
To be producing at a significant enough volume, you end up back in those same alliance null sec regions running all over trying to find the combat ladar sites where the bpcs drop the good improved and strong versions. Make sure you have a TV in the room to compensate for all the time youÆll get camped.
Next is the risk to your POS setup. Unlike bpc copying and T2 invention, gas reacting has to be done in a .3 or lower system. Plan on forking out the isk for a large tower with tons of defense, as a lot of people know that seeing a biochem reactor on D-scan equals juicy target.
Then there is the joy of transporting boosters. Its totally random on getting caught. Insta warping cloaking ships of ubberness still get caught. You get caught with one booster, not a big deal. Get caught carrying your big batch to market and the fines and standings hits really add up. DonÆt forget your friendly neighborhood insta locking pirate gate camps on the way to hi sec.
Basically it all adds up to CCP hates people that like to play solo, unless that is your willing to fork over enough for like triple boxing 3 different accounts. If you want to do booster production, you have to have a corp that is dedicated to it, and works in tandem. ThatÆs pretty hard to find as you can make good isk doing T2 or T3 production with out near the hassle. Pretty soon, youÆll be able to add PI to that also
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