Substantia Nigra
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Posted - 2011.05.31 22:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Arazel Chainfire
... problem is that they take forever (30-40 minutes per site, not counting looting).
Expectations are everything :-)
I am very happy that I have managed to bring my (C4) site completion times **down** to 30 - 40 minutes. After being able to blitz C3s, one after another, in rapid succession it was a bit traumatic to find myself taking over an hour, or just plain not being able to complete the various C4 combat sites.
Slowly, and with some guidance from forum-dwellers (yourself included, thanks), I've improved my ships and methods and now the easier anoms take 20 minutes or so and the tougher anoms / sigs 30 - 40. Hopefully further effort will bring down those times some more, but I'm pretty happy now at just being able to complete them all. I will be very interested with your efforts Arazel, as I had virtually struck C5s off my list ... thinking that I'd not be able to muster the necessary resources solo. But if you manage to cope with them using a three-ship effort, then it's not entirely out of my reach. Please do try keep us up-to-date with your efforts and successes.
Our home-system C4 efforts employ a two-ship 'solo' (two alts, dual boxing) DPS team with fleet bonus support (shields resists and booster, sig reduction, targeting time reduction) from the POS. Our best successes so far have been with a rattlesnake (semi-passive buffer shield tank, CN cruise missiles and various T2 drones) and a tengu (active shield tank, 5 x T2 HMLs). We tend not to RR, although I have been fitting the snake for shield or energy transfer while I've been trialling the tengu. Doubtlessly the tengu is quickly dead if it gets scrammed and BS neuted (does ok with cruiser / frig cap drainers), so we generally approach the tougher spawns by kiting (even the safeguards will only move to approx 200km from the main sleeper object ... but they move pretty darn fast for BSs).
Each of these ships has no trouble solo tanking any of the C4 spawns, except the 4 x sleepless safeguard spawn ... providing they've still got some cap to work with. The snake can tank the 4 safeguards for quite a long time but they gradually wear away her big buffer. I've only been flying the tengu for a short while so haven't tried her on that spawn, but suspect she will tank them fine ... with shield levels oscillating wildly as the damage is boosted away again.
The snake is able to kill a safeguard solo, but it takes forever and can cost quite a few drones if I'm unlucky. I donĘt yet know whether the tengu can solo kill a safeguard ... perhaps not.
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