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Posted - 2006.09.13 18:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Turiya Flesharrower
Originally by: Laboratus
Originally by: Turiya Flesharrower
Originally by: Laboratus
If you fly a T2 fitted raven and know how to chain spawns right, you can make 150-250M per hour in 0.0 just ratting + loot, which is about as much. This is ofcourse if you can do it solo. And this is in a bad system. -0.5 sec or so. I don't know how much ppl make in -1.0 systems and it pretty much scares me to think about it.
You're making the flawed assumption that every ratter gets a Commander spawn at least once per hour and that the spawn drops good loot and not just tags.
No, commander loot gives is nice extra, but with just the "best named" is usually 5M+ per item, and the others are not bad either, if you know where to sell em.
I rarely make assumptions. As assume means (make an) A** (out of) YOU (and) Me = assume.
Well let's assume that every Battleship rat drops 1 mil worth of loot on average (I consider this optimistic) and that the average Battleship rat is worth 2mil as well (again, very optimistic; and I'm speaking from experience here since I lived in a -1.0 system for months). In order to earn even 150mil in one hour, you'd have to kill 50 Battleship rats and then pick up all of their loot. Let's call it 45 rats since you'll have BCs, frigates and cruisers too.
Even assuming you can kill a BS rat in 90 seconds, that doesn't take into account the time taken to pick up the loot or warp from belt to belt (that's actually more time than you'd think). Even with a hauler alt doing it for you, the warp time, crap spawns are still going to cut down on what you make significantly. I'd be surprised if you could make 50mil in an hour given erratic spawns, letalone 150 or even 250.
I'm with you, Turiya.
I ratted extensively in the richest, most profitable areas of Fountain for about two years. Many, many commander and officer spawns...
My experience is that you can earn 15-20m an hour, on average on just bounties alone with the best spawn types mixed in. The loot can increase this if you want to go to the trouble of selling it (or don't use it for your own purposes). Personally, I used to melt most of it, build battleships and sell them.
I think it you take into account bounties/loot/minerals, you're talking about maybe 30m an hour...maybe a bit more, over time.
This 150m - 250m assumption is wildly inaccurate in my opinion.
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