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Petrus Blackshell
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Posted - 2012.01.12 18:52:00 -
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So I have an alt that just trained to freighters, and I forgot why I did it in the first place. What do I do with it?
- Haul crap from trade hub to trade hub to do market PvP?
- Haul crap from provincial markets to trade hubs to do market PvP?
- Do public hauling contracts?
- Join a hauling corp?
- Jump into Amamake from Ossogur in a freighter?
- More interesting stuff?
Suggestions? |
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
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Posted - 2012.01.12 19:40:00 -
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I would use it to resupply Rifterlings, but we stage out of a system several jumps into lowsec, and I don't see a freighter escaping both Heretic Army and the Amarr Militia for those 5-6 jumps, regardless of scouting. |
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
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Posted - 2012.01.12 19:45:00 -
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Liang Nuren wrote:Buy a jump freighter. I staged out of Frerstorn with an Ark for a long time.
-Liang
What am I, independently wealthy?! $15 * (4 bil/ 400 mil) = $150. There is no way I am spending $150 to jump ships into lowsec, and I won't have 4 bil for quite some time making ISK "the legit way" at the rate I am now.
I was asking for uses for a freighter specifically. If I had a JF I'd know what to use it for  |
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
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Posted - 2012.01.12 19:53:00 -
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Liang Nuren wrote:You could troll the **** out of the locals with a fleet of falcons and rapiers... :P
-Liang
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Liang Nuren
Heretic Army
Heretic Nation
I'm onto you. You will not gank my freighter.
Deen Wispa wrote:
LMAO. The guy's a FW pilot not a JF pilot.
Freighter is the way to go in this case. Unless you and your corpmates are willing to pay Black Frog Logistics to do so. I forget what they're charging for JF services?
Enlighten me, are freighter runs common in lowsec? I suppose with good scouting and Falcon support it's doable, but still very risky. |
Petrus Blackshell
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Posted - 2012.01.12 21:29:00 -
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Liang Nuren wrote:Low sec / 0.0 / NPC 0.0 freighter ops aren't at all unheard of. Larger alliances tend to have rapiers for the instawarp + falcons for the jamz + bait cyno ship with cap fleet on standby. Even smaller alliances do it kinda frequently. Hell, IIRC every player created station in existence has required multiple freighter ops all the way from Empire.
-Liang
Hmm... I never really understood how the whole "webbing to warp faster" thing works. I'll have to look into it, I suppose. |
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
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Posted - 2012.01.12 21:39:00 -
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Liang Nuren wrote:It works because of:
- A ship is at rest it has no direction that it points - so any velocity it gains is always in the right direction.
- You only need to go a certain percentage of your top speed to get to warp.
- A ship that gets webbed suddenly has its top speed cut, which can mean that the ship is suddenly going many times faster than its top speed.
Basically: The freighter starts to (very slowly) warp out and gets slammed by 3-4 webs. Its now going roughly its top speed and its already pointing in the right direction and so it just instawarps.
-Liang
I see, so you set all the webs on it after it begins aligning to warp, to get an effect similar to the end of the MWD+cloak trick. Interesting. |
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