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stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.10 05:54:00 -
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A debate recently came up about whether high-sec level 4 missions paid too much compared to a certain PvE activity in null-sec. It's been "common" knowledge that level 4s can provide 100M+ isk per hour if you blitz for LP. However, the null-sec PvE in question generated liquid isk, whereas LP is problematic with the time it takes to convert the LP to isk. So I decided to run a bunch of "full clear" or "kill all" missions in a Vargur to see how much liquid isk high-sec level 4s can generate. The goal was to see how much "liquid" isk level 4s generated.
Here's the google docs spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvCLlTV8bSxNdGxsWTZLV3NHbzZKanVSUG1FRUxILXc&usp=drive_web#gid=0 You'll want to scroll down to the bottom to see the summary/results/per hour numbers. The Vargur fitting is in the spreadsheet on the "Ship Fitting" tab.
Results:
After 7 hours of missioning in a Vargur, I generated:
* 307M in isk
* 69M in salvage (@jita buy order)
* 152M in loot (per in-game estimate, Hek is closest hub)
* 22M in ammo costs
* 2M in misc expenses (repairs, lost drones, etc.)
For 505M isk in assets or ~71M isk in assets per hour (not including LP.)
* Liquid ISK 43.3M per hour
* Salvage ISK 9.8M per hour
* Loot ISK 21.5M per hour
* Ammo Costs -3M per hour
* Other Expenses -0.3M per hour
* Total Assets 71.3M per hour
With LP:
0 isk/lp: 72M/hour
800 isk/lp: 86M/hour
1,000 isk/lp: 90M/hour
2,000 isk/lp: 109M/hour
3,000 isk/lp: 127M/hour
Twenty-one missions were run with four declined.
Average mission time: 20m14s
Average travel time: 3m21s (16.6%)
Average time in mission: 16m16s (80.4%)
Average # of Jumps to missions: 0.52
Average distance traveled to/from mission: 55.33 AU
Caveats:
* 21 missions isn't a very large sample size.
* multiple missions were declined per four hour block (4 declines total)
* Missions were "full clear"/"kill all" where everything except for sentry guns and the occasional frigate were killed.
* Once all the NPCs in a pocket were dead, I left, leaving any remaining salvage and loot on the field.
Observations
I am quite surprised at how much income "clear all" (i.e. not blitzing) brought in. Loot could be especially variable, such as the three AE runs which provided anywhere from 6M to 30M in loot. Oddly enough, with a decent isk/LP conversion rate and/or with cherry-picking, "clear all" missions can generate 100M+/hour, so blitzing level 4s for income isn't necessarily necessary.
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Tauranon
Weeesearch
Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.02.10 06:23:00 -
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IMO those missions are a pretty decent "streak", during a period where I was full clearing and looting with an alt in a noctis, I'd have been overjoyed by that sequence.
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Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2014.02.10 14:12:00 -
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Very nice Stoicfaux. Of course someone will be along shortly to contest what you are saying lol.
But this is why there are high sec mission alts, and a smallish part of the reason why almost half of the 90k characters in SOV holding alliances aren't in null sec (of course there are other reason, like cyno alts and hauler alts etc). There is no need to be out there.
Anomalies are superior in almost every way to missions. Liquid isk, no need to dock and talk to an agent, no need to leave an upgraded system except for an escalation, chance of escalations and commander spawns (and even though it's rare, you can get good stuff out of a commander spawn), no need to change your fit or ammo because you always fight the same npcs. While there isn't much 'fun' to anoms, overall they are just much less tedious. And anomalies have the side effect of creating content for other players because it's a constant cat and mouse game.
But it's null sec, and if you have any sense you won't be in null doing anoms with +6 implants in your head, you won't be in bastion mode because of the 'ceptors (who come out of wormholes while laughing at your "intel channels") and so on. unless you are wardecced you wo't be docking/safeing up/preparing to fight in high sec like you have to do in null which bites even further into your isk/hr.
I don't think it's going to change any time soon and that's a pity as far as i'm concerned, but oh well. |
March rabbit
Federal Defense Union
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Posted - 2014.02.10 14:22:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:
Caveats:
* 21 missions isn't a very large sample size.
* multiple missions were declined per four hour block (4 declines total)
so you got 4 declines for 21 mission. Is there any prediction how long you could continue this chain until your agent will stop to talk to you? Or at the end your standings with agent became higher?
Another question: which security status of system you used for mission running? Am i right agent didn't give you missions into low-sec?
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stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.10 15:30:00 -
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March rabbit wrote:stoicfaux wrote:
Caveats:
* 21 missions isn't a very large sample size.
* multiple missions were declined per four hour block (4 declines total)
so you got 4 declines for 21 mission. Is there any prediction how long you could continue this chain until your agent will stop to talk to you? Or at the end your standings with agent became higher? Another question: which security status of system you used for mission running? Am i right agent didn't give you missions into low-sec?
25 missions were offered. 0.5 system. The declined ones were for low-sec (plus one of them was also 3 jumps away which isn't going to happen just on general principles.)
I've got a spreadsheet(tm) somewhere that looks at how often you can decline before losing the agent. There's a good bit of leeway. You can always hop on sisi and try things out.
Note to self: write a standings random walk simulator?
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hydraSlav
Synergy Evolved
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Posted - 2014.02.10 16:35:00 -
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I've got a question:
How do pirate or ORE missions in 0.0 compare to anomalies?
From your analysis, Highsec LVL4 vs Anomalies seems to be about equal. I've heard that 0.0 missions give out twice as much in LP/rewards.
Also, would you know how does this compare to C3 wormhole sites? |
Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2014.02.10 17:57:00 -
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hydraSlav wrote:I've got a question:
How do pirate or ORE missions in 0.0 compare to anomalies?
From your analysis, Highsec LVL4 vs Anomalies seems to be about equal. I've heard that 0.0 missions give out twice as much in LP/rewards.
Also, would you know how does this compare to C3 wormhole sites?
Pirate missions are found in NPC null and on paper offer much better rewards (on paper) than any other missions except lvl 5s (on paper). Pirate missions pay better and than anomalies and IMO. I've done missions in Stain, Delve and Venal. Not only do pirate missions pay out more LP, the pirate LP stores have amazing things in them. I sold Crystal implant sets from the guristas lp store for example, VERY good isk.
in practice (as opposed to on paper) pirate missions are still better than high sec lvl 4s but there are significant differences. Blitzing is more important in null missions because you don't want to be anywhere for too long, going through gates can be tough because of warp disrupt bubbles, getting out of station can be tough because of bubbles (these can be mitigated with scouting and the new mobile depots) and you won't see people doing null missions in marauders with nice implants in their heads. The most common null mission ship in my experience is the Tengu followed by the proteus.
Refitting from mobile depots i since but tedious. Then there is the difficulty involved in getting the stuff you buy with the LP back to empire. Regular transport ships aren't great because of (again) bubbles but ok if you have a scout and wormholes are great but take time to find. The best way to move loot is with a jump capable ship like a carrier.
I haven't lost a ship doing null missions in ages, but the honest truth is that the process is so tedious and nerve racking (even with a "hard to scan" Tech3 ship you will still be spamming dscan looking for combat probes) that after i make enough LP for 2 of 3 implant sets or 2 of 3 pirate BS BPCs I leave null missions alone for a few weeks and go back to high sec lvl 4s or SOV null anoms/exploration. |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.12 20:15:00 -
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I've updated the spreadsheet with 30 missions (plus 5 declines) with a wider range of missions. Which didn't change the numbers that much.
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Desudes
The Desu Initiative
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Posted - 2014.02.12 23:56:00 -
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Something I haven't seen people mention in regards to refusing missions/standings issues: One can also use alt accounts to help with standings problem. On the rare occasion that I dip too low from refusing missions, I log in an alt and use it to warp my main into missions until standing is back.
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Tauranon
Weeesearch
Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.02.13 00:08:00 -
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Desudes wrote:Something I haven't seen people mention in regards to refusing missions/standings issues: One can also use alt accounts to help with standings problem. On the rare occasion that I dip too low from refusing missions, I log in an alt and use it to warp my main into missions until standing is back.
Requires you to invest in standings on the alt. Super trivial if the alt is on another account. Not so trivial if it isn't - really need to max the skills on the alt and/or buy standings from someone to avoid a long unprofitable period of running crap missions, and its also a slow fix, because its basically only giving you free 4 hour timers to avoid bad missions with.
Most of us are interested in what one person can do with 1 account, as that's a baseline that probably matters more. |
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2014.02.13 18:36:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:Very nice Stoicfaux. Of course someone will be along shortly to contest what you are saying lol.
But this is why there are high sec mission alts, and a smallish part of the reason why almost half of the 90k characters in SOV holding alliances aren't in null sec (of course there are other reason, like cyno alts and hauler alts etc). There is no need to be out there.
the other important factor being the number of active people in system. I remember back with belt ratting a system could only handle 2 or so ratters (and i think that was a good system with 20ish belts), Anoms increase this a bit, but well only a bit.
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Batelle
Komm susser Tod
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Posted - 2014.02.13 18:43:00 -
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Tauranon wrote:Desudes wrote:Something I haven't seen people mention in regards to refusing missions/standings issues: One can also use alt accounts to help with standings problem. On the rare occasion that I dip too low from refusing missions, I log in an alt and use it to warp my main into missions until standing is back. Requires you to invest in standings on the alt. Super trivial if the alt is on another account. Not so trivial if it isn't - really need to max the skills on the alt and/or buy standings from someone to avoid a long unprofitable period of running crap missions, and its also a slow fix, because its basically only giving you free 4 hour timers to avoid bad missions with. Most of us are interested in what one person can do with 1 account, as that's a baseline that probably matters more.
Doing it on an alt that is on the same account is pointless because you can't share the rewards with your main, and yes, getting standings on the alt would be tough. Getting up standings on a no-sp alt is trivial if you're already running level 4's on your main. Its definitely worth mentioning for people who are concerned about declines.
Stoic provided a list of the affects of declines in a different thread related specificly to vargur blitzing. A situation where declines would be more used than in non-blitzing.
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stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.13 18:51:00 -
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Chainsaw Plankton wrote:Jenn aSide wrote:Very nice Stoicfaux. Of course someone will be along shortly to contest what you are saying lol.
But this is why there are high sec mission alts, and a smallish part of the reason why almost half of the 90k characters in SOV holding alliances aren't in null sec (of course there are other reason, like cyno alts and hauler alts etc). There is no need to be out there. the other important factor being the number of active people in system. I remember back with belt ratting a system could only handle 2 or so ratters (and i think that was a good system with 20ish belts), Anoms increase this a bit, but well only a bit.
Yup. On one hand anoms aren't scalable and are subject to sudden PvP.
On the other hand, if an Ishtar can make 70M in liquid isk running anoms, can you imagine what could be done with a Marauder?
Compared to high-sec, if the scalability and security problems were "solved", null anoms would be insane income. Especially when you consider that a Level 3 Ishtar can make ~50M isk, most of which is in LP, or that my Level 4 Vargur was making ~40M in liquid isk and the remaining 30M isk in loot and salvage. If you add in the "secure ESS" the Goons have developed, then Ishtar anom income could jump to 75M isk + 14,700 LP (worth ~12M at 800 isk/LP) for ~87M isk/hour in assets. Anom income in a marauder would most likely put level 4s to shame.
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Batelle
Komm susser Tod
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Posted - 2014.02.13 18:55:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:
On the other hand, if an Ishtar can make 70M in liquid isk running anoms, can you imagine what could be done with a Marauder?
I'm guessing only 10%-20% better on bounties as my anom-running ishtar fits do 817 dps. But then you have loot/salvage on top.
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stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.13 19:42:00 -
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Batelle wrote:stoicfaux wrote:
On the other hand, if an Ishtar can make 70M in liquid isk running anoms, can you imagine what could be done with a Marauder?
I'm guessing only 10%-20% better on bounties as my anom-running ishtar fits do 817 dps. But then you have loot/salvage on top.
The Ishtar was using Wasps, so damage projection wasn't optimal: http://eve-search.com/thread/311310-1/page/71#2101
So unless anoms spawn everything at short range, income would probably be a lot higher than 10-20%.
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Batelle
Komm susser Tod
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Posted - 2014.02.13 19:51:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:Batelle wrote:stoicfaux wrote:
On the other hand, if an Ishtar can make 70M in liquid isk running anoms, can you imagine what could be done with a Marauder?
I'm guessing only 10%-20% better on bounties as my anom-running ishtar fits do 817 dps. But then you have loot/salvage on top. The Ishtar was using Wasps, so damage projection wasn't optimal: http://eve-search.com/thread/311310-1/page/71#2101So unless anoms spawn everything at short range, income would probably be a lot higher than 10-20%.
wasps move fast, should have used two navigation computers instead of 1 and an omni.
But I was referring to my ishtar, which uses gardes.
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Anize Oramara
S T R A T C O M
Critical-Mass
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Posted - 2014.02.14 06:56:00 -
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a properly fit and skilled vargur with implants gets over 1200dps. thats closer to 40% more dps over an ishtar and roughly the same increase in income. then theres the loot/salvage.
if you have the security a marauder should be pretty epic in null. |
Gimme more Cynos
Du nervst geh sterben
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Posted - 2014.02.14 10:14:00 -
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don't tell me you did this because some ****** goon claimed that anoms can't compete with Lv 4's? |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.14 14:14:00 -
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Gimme more Cynos wrote:don't tell me you did this because some ****** goon claimed that anoms can't compete with Lv 4's?
Some people play the game. Some people play the meta-game. And for some people, the game is how they pay their rent.
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Angry Mustache
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.02.14 16:26:00 -
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Nicely done man.
Very solid data, and easy to comprehend.
Is it possible to conduct a similar sample on "optimum" L4 missioning, or even slightly more discretionary. For example, a station with 2 L4 agents, more cherry picking, and blitzing.
Regarding using marauders in Nullsec, they are generally not used because bastion locks you in place. When a neutral enters system, they can be on you in anywhere between 10 and 25 seconds. The one minute delay is deadly.
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March rabbit
Federal Defense Union
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Posted - 2014.02.14 16:45:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:March rabbit wrote:stoicfaux wrote:
Caveats:
* 21 missions isn't a very large sample size.
* multiple missions were declined per four hour block (4 declines total)
so you got 4 declines for 21 mission. Is there any prediction how long you could continue this chain until your agent will stop to talk to you? Or at the end your standings with agent became higher? Another question: which security status of system you used for mission running? Am i right agent didn't give you missions into low-sec? 25 missions were offered. 0.5 system. The declined ones were for low-sec (plus one of them was also 3 jumps away which isn't going to happen just on general principles.)
well. you are lucky.
when i tried missioning last time i was getting missions in low-sec after every 1-3 high-sec missions. Add here faction missions (which i don't touch too).... Maybe this because agent was sitting in high-sec system next to low-sec?
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l0rd carlos
Friends Of Harassment
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Posted - 2014.02.14 16:54:00 -
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How much LP/h did you make?
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Morrigan LeSante
The Lost and Forgotten Troopers
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Posted - 2014.02.14 17:04:00 -
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The in game loot estimate is very hit or miss and the time taken to actually move and liquidate those assets isn't inconsiderable.
I'd be interested to see how long it takes you to do that liquidation and what the net income etc actually was. |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.02.14 19:52:00 -
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l0rd carlos wrote:How much LP/h did you make?
16,539 LP/hour. It's been added in B82.
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Anize Oramara
S T R A T C O M
Critical-Mass
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Posted - 2014.02.14 23:07:00 -
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Morrigan LeSante wrote:The in game loot estimate is very hit or miss and the time taken to actually move and liquidate those assets isn't inconsiderable.
I'd be interested to see how long it takes you to do that liquidation and what the net income etc actually was.
You mean refining everything when you have 500mill-1bill in loot and red frogging the minerals to jita?
All of.. 5min?
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Novah Soul
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Posted - 2014.02.15 01:32:00 -
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Interesting thread. Would it be a fair assumption to think the other three marauders would perform on a comparable level? |
Anize Oramara
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Critical-Mass
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Posted - 2014.02.15 02:37:00 -
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Novah Soul wrote:Interesting thread. Would it be a fair assumption to think the other three marauders would perform on a comparable level?
So long as they were fighting primarily their natural prey as it were I can see the paladin doing even better. |
Tauranon
Weeesearch
Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.02.15 03:16:00 -
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Novah Soul wrote:Interesting thread. Would it be a fair assumption to think the other three marauders would perform on a comparable level?
The kronos is a magic beast full of success and fail. Its advisable imo to keep a dominix to go with it. Which isn't a particular chore as the domi is one of the best T1 runners.
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Anize Oramara
S T R A T C O M
Critical-Mass
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Posted - 2014.02.15 03:40:00 -
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These numbers are pretty solid. Ran missions for an hour, two crappy ones and one AE with bonus room and ended up with around 70mill + whatever the LP is worth. |
Morrigan LeSante
The Lost and Forgotten Troopers
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Posted - 2014.02.15 08:34:00 -
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Anize Oramara wrote:Morrigan LeSante wrote:The in game loot estimate is very hit or miss and the time taken to actually move and liquidate those assets isn't inconsiderable.
I'd be interested to see how long it takes you to do that liquidation and what the net income etc actually was. You mean refining everything when you have 500mill-1bill in loot and red frogging the minerals to jita? All of.. 5min?
Well you could do that, but you'll get nowhere near as much as if you cherry pick the sales. |
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