Slithereen
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Posted - 2003.12.21 01:03:00 -
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Edited by: Slithereen on 21/12/2003 01:05:36
Previously I made a good living hunting cruiser sized spawns, sometimes within empire space (if you don't have a waiting line), sometimes out in 0.0 (if you don't have a waiting line).
I don't think I make as much money now in sheer bounty size. But hunting in 0.1 systems now, and killing a whole bunch of small rats, I get total bounties exceeding 30K often. If I chain a cruiser spawns with 20 and 30K rats, after I kill the initial spawn, my kills are just 20k or 30K every few minutes, and often I have to share the spawn with someone else, cutting the amount I make in a period of time.
Nice thing about 0.4 to 0.1 systems is there is no waiting line when you hunt.
The bad thing is you don't have as much medium sized loot. A cruiser sized attack on you comes only occasionally, if not rarely, and that really reduces the chance of picking up medium hull repairers, which is the best source of megacyte in empire space. You also don't get much named medium and named smart bomb drops either, which can give nearly 50 units of Zyd for every item. This cuts down on mega and zyd production.
So I adapted a new strategy, or rather a variation of an old one. I have to work harder since afterburner loot no longer have zyd, but there are other frigate drops that have mega and zyd:
Warp Disrupters
Basic Overdrives
Small Smartbombs (ironically Small ones have mega but medium bombs do not).
Energy Neutralizers
Nosferatus
ECM modules (the ECM burst is the best)
Tracking disrupters
50mm and 100mm armor drops
Sensor Dampers
Sensor Boosters
Dual Lasers
Medium Lasers
X-ray, Radio, Multi, Microwave, Gamma small crystals
Other stuff got plenty of mineral value too:
Stassis Webs
Passive Targeters
ECCM modules
Warp Scramblers
Warp Stabilizers
Caps
Rechargers
Weapons
Lately I was able to recycle a lot of junk and still was able to sell nearly 4 million worth of minerals, not counting items reserved for selling in the market, which can add another million, and stuff I plan to use myself. I was able to claim well over 200 units of zyd and over 50 units of mega.
I'm going to observe the 0.0 spawn situation for a while and let it settle down once CCP can proportionalize the spawns to the ore in the belts. The loot potential of these large spawns are so immense to the point you may not need to mine ore. Gather stuff like Large Crystals for example, and you got pretty high concentrated sources of mega and zyd---if you don't plan to sell the crystal directly or use it yourself.
One should look at the military missions too. You got a triple reward there---what the agent gives you, what the npc bounty gives you, and what the npc loot gives you.
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