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Harald Normansson
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.11.27 23:18:00 -
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I've spent the last 2 hours warping around 0.8 to 0.5 security systems' asteroid belts, to no avail. Is there an easier way to do this?
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Sikiros Novaken
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Posted - 2007.11.27 23:28:00 -
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Its odd that you have found nothing. For good rating find a less populated system with the security level that sounds good to you (although if you stay in high sec all you will find in frigates and maybe destroyers)and work your way systematically through the belts. Are you seeing wrecks? If so there may be other hunters around who are beating you to the punch.
You can always go do kill missions for an agent, that should give you a steady diet of npcs to vaporize.
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Cygnus Zhada
Amarr
The Wild Hunt
Pure.
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Posted - 2007.11.28 00:27:00 -
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try in a .5 or .6 system, they're not around a whole lot in .8
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De Bergerac
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Posted - 2007.11.28 01:17:00 -
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From one noob to another, I've gone as far as 0.3 space to kill belt rats in my destroyer, but it's safer and more profitable to just run level 1 combat missions and salvage the wrecks.
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Leora Nomen
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Posted - 2007.11.28 02:52:00 -
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Go through systems that have less players in them. Go to low sec, always plenty of rats there and much fewer players. Run missions, though in my experience they pay less than ratting in the long run but sort of more relaxed ratting because you don't have to worry about pirates, just the swarm of rats in mission handing your behind to you.
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Helen Hunts
Gallente
Red Dragon Mining inc
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Posted - 2007.11.28 03:31:00 -
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Just be warned that in low-sec, other players who don't mind a heavily negative security status ( ) would usually rather hunt players instead of rats. (they like being flashy red)
In high-sec, pirates are slightly limited in what they can do to you.
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Gojyu
Gallente
Ever Flow
DeStInY.
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Posted - 2007.11.28 03:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Harald Normansson
I've spent the last 2 hours warping around 0.8 to 0.5 security systems' asteroid belts, to no avail. Is there an easier way to do this?
In high sec space, mission, don't rat. Ratting is only profitable when you're in deep 0.0 space and dropping 1.5mil+ rats. Missioning is faster, more reliable and will provide rewards greatly exceeding the bounties you'd be getting
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Ishtari
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Posted - 2007.11.28 06:12:00 -
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Easiest way to find enemies (NPC`s).
Do kill missions for an agent.
Talk to agent.
Fly to location given in journal.
Kill enemies, loot, salvage.
Talk to agent.
Collect cash, loyalty points.
Repeat.
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Harald Normansson
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.11.28 16:10:00 -
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How do you salvage the wrecks?
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highonpop
Gallente
Eve Mineral Emporium
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Posted - 2007.11.28 16:20:00 -
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Originally by: Harald Normansson
How do you salvage the wrecks?
u must train the salvaging skill. and have a salvager on your ship ;]
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Apocryphon
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Posted - 2007.11.28 22:54:00 -
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Dunno if its mining that makes em spawn, but I mine in a 0.7 belt and get 1 to 4 rats spawn on me every 10 or 15 mins, usually.
Sometimes it goes quiet for a lil longer, maybe 20 mins or so, but then they come at me again.
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Verx Interis
Amarr
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.11.29 07:38:00 -
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Originally by: Apocryphon
Dunno if its mining that makes em spawn, but I mine in a 0.7 belt and get 1 to 4 rats spawn on me every 10 or 15 mins, usually.
Sometimes it goes quiet for a lil longer, maybe 20 mins or so, but then they come at me again.
I think that's just murphy's law. I saved someone's arse in the system where I live. They checked a belt in their BC and it was clean, but as soon as they bought their Retriever in, two scrambling rats appeared  . It was only because I decided to follow them randomly that the ship is still in one piece.
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Billy Sastard
Amarr
Life. Universe. Everything.
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.11.29 20:45:00 -
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I think it is more than pure chance. In all my time mining, more often than not (and especially so in 0.0) rats will show up within seconds of activating a mining laser on an asteroid. At first I thought it was just chance, but after a while I noticed that it happens more than it does not, and this was not just over a few hours or days, I noticed this trend over a period of months. My conclusion was that the NPC rats have some kind of sensor that detects when a miner is activated on an asteroid, and when this happens they warp to the belt where the mining is occuring.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.11.30 12:15:00 -
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I will support billy sastart opinion. Rats seem to react when a mining laser is activated for the first time: I had the same effect in explorations belts.
Perfectly clear when I warp in but as soon as I active the mining laser or the stripminer some rats spawn.
I recall that for a time when the drone regions where bugged and no rat spawned there the people living there where using this tactic to force the spawning of rats.
While it is not 100% proof it is sufficently consistent to be a good trick.
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