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Irrilian
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Posted - 2006.11.13 22:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Raquel Smith
It's an exploit until someone publicises how to do it.
1) Decide an arbitrary bounty threshold for chaining e.g. 1M isk for the BS rats.
2) On encountering a spawn:
a) if its below the threshold destroy all rats
b) if its above the threshold, destroy all but one of the support rats e.g. leave one frig alive.
3) Move on to the next belt.
Optionally
4) Chastise inexperienced occupants of the system you're in for not knowing about chaining and convert them to its wonders in local.
5) Chuckle to yourself as you troll mission runner threads demanding level 4's to be nerfed because they're oh so much more lucrative than the bags of ISK you're rolling in, no sir, nothing to see here.
Be aware that if you destroy a spawn there is a small chance that an officer spawn can immediately appear, extra tough rats with extra nice loot. Its a trade-off, if you have a system with plenty of belts you can essentially farm the spawns and still have some chance of an officer spawn.
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Irrilian
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Posted - 2006.11.13 23:13:00 -
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If you destroy a rat spawn, there is a tiny chance that immediately an officer spawn will appear in the belt.
The general trend in probability of an officer spawn is inversely proportional to the true system security. e.g. the lower true sec the higher the chance of an officer spawn after destroying a normal spawn. But its worth factoring in the number of belts into a system too i.e. a higher true sec system with a lot of belts may be better than a lower true sec system with only a couple.
There is an absolutely tiny probability that you will see an officer spawn in 0.0, so you can guess what its like in low and high sec but Ive heard of it happening, some dedicated 0.0 ratters might be lucky enough to see a few over several months, others never.
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Irrilian
Eve University
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Posted - 2006.11.14 11:31:00 -
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Originally by: Plutoinum
Edited by: Plutoinum on 14/11/2006 08:32:19
Originally by: Irrilian
The general trend in probability of an officer spawn is inversely proportional to the true system security.
Thats guessed, I suppose.
Indeed, just a hypothesis. With apparently such low probabilities of it occurring its hard to get any kind of handle on how things actually work and it sounds like you've far more experience than I.
As you've pointed out, there's more to it than just lower true sec = better.
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