Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

Don't chain.

After the BS size kill, ram the wreck and right when you hit it, disconnect your modem. Then wait 2 minutes, relog and loot the wreck. Never fails.

Why not?



Wish the trolls would hang themselves instead of filling this thread full of bs.

Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

Why not?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today...

Are you serious?

Each spawn has a % chance of being faction or officer. Chaining doesn't cause new spawns.

this.

Also, log on straight after DT and roam every belt in every system that you can... don't waste time, that faction/officer spawn will be SOMEWHERE, you just gotta find it. Also, you do know that officers only appear in certain regions, right?

Each spawn has a % chance of being faction or officer. Chaining doesn't cause new spawns.

Why not?

Wish the trolls would hang themselves instead of filling this thread full of bs.

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

I like to wear my Helmet of Glorious BS when I try to get officer drops.
Adds a +50% chance to find officer drops from high sec rats
Asteroids have a 70% chance to explode when depleted causing the rest of the belt to turn into officer mods.

Item description: Equip this item if you hate having to actually work for your isk.

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

You are a liar!

I tried this and it didn't work at all!

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

I get officer drops every other kill and the best way to do it is to wait until you're about to kill the officer then press ALT+F4. If it doesnt work then you just need to do it again and guaranteed officer drop.

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

the way i used to do it was... wake up right around downtime.. then log in an alt in a fast warp inty... and literally when the server came up go from system to system scouring for officer rats...

at some point you will run into one and at that point all you have to do is bring in the big ship and kill it...

Escalations are what you want when running anoms (sanctums will murder shield gank machs, no clue about havens, just do forsaken hubs)

Faction rats do spawn in anoms.
They usually drop tags and ammo and that's about it.

And you've never had the officer rat warp out on you?

Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

though tbh the last time i did get an officer rat was before they boosted officers to make them harder to kill... so now you will probs need a few alts in big ships to get it done...

Why not?



Wish the trolls would hang themselves instead of filling this thread full of bs.

Yeah, as I said earlier in the thread it took a while to take down the last officer spawn I had. It was a Thon, and we had to use 3 Tengus on it, one of which was HAM fit.

Most of the people hunting officer spawns aren't ratting. They are bouncing from belt to belt in something relatively fast with a cyno so they can drop carriers on it.

Also the spawnrate is increased the better the truesec is. So there you go.

I haven't seen an officer spawn since I first started playing, although I haven't actually done any ratting (except for horrid sec grinds) for about 2 years.

If you aren't belt bouncing and doing it fast in good truesec you are very unlikely to. If you want to see one ask Boat for his technique, that's how he used to fund himself.

Not that I'm advocating talking to boat.

Why not?



Wish the trolls would hang themselves instead of filling this thread full of bs.

Rat in a NPC home region - e.g. if you are looking for a Sansha officer rat in Stain, not Providence or Catch.

Allegedly there also is a higher chance to encounter an officer near his home station (all officers are mission agents for their respective faction).

And remember that you probably won't be able to solo an officer.

edit: bah, BrutalButFair made the same post 10 minutes ago

Most of the people hunting officer spawns aren't ratting. They are bouncing from belt to belt in something relatively fast with a cyno so they can drop carriers on it.

Also the spawnrate is increased the better the truesec is. So there you go.

An ISD once mentioned that the number of belts in the system is a factor, the more the higher the chance for spawning...

Last I heard chaining no longer works, as CCP changed the spawn mechanics. You no longer get a spawn of the same type.

And the ISD knows this how?
I really wouldn't consider that information any more reliable than any other random EVE player.

Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

In 7 years I have had one officer spawn and all I got were tags

Will someone tell me all the ways to increase my chances of getting some kind of faction or officer drop ratting in belts?

I have literally ratted for 12 hours straight today with dual ratting 1000dps machs tearing thru the belts and the best I've found was two hauler drops. I used the chaining method too. I was in a -.9 nullsec space too.


There have got to be other ways to gain a better chance of getting an officer drop. I use to rat extremely often in the past and I still have never seen a single faction or officer drop in a belt ever in my life.

Also note I'm the ONLY person in the system this whole 12 hour period.

Also has anyone ever seen a faction or officer drop in a sanctum or haven?

Each spawn has a % chance of being faction or officer. Chaining doesn't cause new spawns.

Thats because killing defenseless miners and frieghters dont produce officer drops.

Yes it does. In fact, it's far more likely to get one that way than trawling through belts.

I am not 100% certain how it works but what I have herd is since it percentager based that the more people you have ratting in the region the better your chance of getting a drop.

What ships can solo an officer spawn?

Vindi?

Right lines but as it is chance based the more rats killed will just increase the chances of an officer. Not to do with the amount of people per say just the amount of kills.

More kills = more chances but I think sometimes it is just pure luck.

Had one chap who had been ratting all day, I'd just logged in and flew to a random belt and suprise suprise first belt first rat was an officer. Result! The other chap wasn't too pleased I can tell you.

Farming 6's in gurista space will net you more than officer drops ever will.

To be honest I'm unsure I tried with a pimped Tengu and I think I would have managed but it would have taken me around 20mins to kill him, I jumped my carrier on him and he died fairly quickly, something that does 1000dps or over I'd imagine

Your Tengu was HM fit I take it?