Scoto Timta
EveMerc's
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Posted - 2012.02.28 18:27:00 -
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1) With regard to your 400 days of training... As was mentioned, level 4 is often good enough, at least for now. Also, check your attributes and consider using implants. +3 attribute implants were running about 10-15 mill last I checked. Can speed up that training for you. +4 or +5 are nice, but probably a bit too expensive for you at this stage. And +5 requires Cybernetics to level 5, which is a long train in itself.
2) Staticmapper is ok. I used to use it all the time. But now I find that Wormnav is much more accurate. Staticmapper allows users to edit the entries, which has resulted in a lot of bad data in there. Wormnav has always been 100% accurate for me.
3) When the info on a wormhole says "reaching the end of it's natural lifetime", it has 4 hours or less. Forget that 25% figure that is repeated elsewhere. It's 4 hours, plain and simple. When you see it, it may be down to 4 seconds.
4) While it is likely possible to run C1 sites solo in a cruiser, it's certainly not optimal. Maybe some of the T2 cruisers would do ok. Had a corpie use a zealot for them, but not solo. BC is the ship of choice, in my opinion. Drake works great for C1 and C2 sites, and supposedly (no personal experience) is ok for C3 solo. Your frigate or destroyer is not a good choice for Sleeper sites, especially the radar/mag ones. Note that the sentry guns (Sirius) in c1 and c2 sites will insta-pop your frigate from 150k if you give them half a chance.
Why do people like me live in w-space?
a) Profit (sleeper sites, planetary interaction)
b) Solo/small gang pvp with no local (awesome for sneaking around), almost never a giant blob, no carrier hot-drops, no security status penalty. W-space pvp is the best pvp, imo.
Why do I kill you when you come in?
a) You may be just the "tip of the iceberg". Your coercer is no direct threat to me, but if I let you sit there and scan, you may find and bookmark all of my profitable sleeper sites. Then bring in your 5 buddies to run them. Or just save the bookmark for a while (staying hidden) and wait for me to start running them, at which time your 5 buddies jump in and kill me. All in all, you are a security risk. Best option is to kill you now and eliminate the immediate threat.
b) Killboard stats and e-peen.
c) Because I can, and it is fun. And Eve, at it's heart, is a pvp game.
d) To see pretty explosions.
e) To support the industrialists of Eve. If ships don't go boom, they can't sell more stuff.
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