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Ajax Marlowe
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Posted - 2008.01.24 16:57:00 -
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Hello - quick questions:
1) How high do the bounties on rats actually go? I've seen up to 1.85 million bounties (in Serpentis space.) Do bounties ever go any higher?
2) What is an officer spawn, where and how often do they occur?
3) What is "chaining?" I know its a way of controlling rat spawns in a system but i dont know how it works.
Thx in advance!
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Draghkar
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.01.24 17:11:00 -
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Edited by: Draghkar on 24/01/2008 17:11:38 1: Im not sure but officer spawns go up to maybe 4-7m? 2:Officer spawn is a very rare ship that drops faction loot that u can sell for alot of iskies or more they are usually names something different, like an Angel Officer spawn is called a domination, so if u kill it u may get a domination web ect ect. 3.Pretty rairly u can spend up to 3 weeks ratting none stop if not longer without a a spawn or u can get lucky lol.
I'm a bit rusty on the topic, hope it helped. _______________________________________________ WTT This char (PvP) for gallante PvP 22msp Read forums or contact me Xfire:eapptor111 Msn:[email protected]
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Eleana Tomelac
Gallente Through the Looking Glass
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Posted - 2008.01.24 17:31:00 -
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I think officer spawns go higher. 7 million is what I remember of an average 'faction' spawn, that may drop one faction module and ammo and tag.
The officers have a name and may be much harder to beat because of their heavy escort and improved tanking abilities. Officers will drop several faction items (domination for an angel officer) and may drop an officer module (a module with his name on it) which has really great value and even better stats than the faction.
Think about securing the faction and officer module when you find some, being killed in a gatecamp gong home with that in the hold wouldn't be cool. For the prices, check the contrat system for the most common, and go to the trade section in this forum (there's one for auctions and one for evaluation of items). -- Pocket drone carriers (tm) enthousiast !
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Elppin Tsaerb
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Posted - 2008.01.24 19:16:00 -
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I've never seen more than 1.85 million ISK on a standard 0.0 rat bounty.
I've seen Faction rats (Dread Guristas where I fly) with 7.0 - 14.0 million ISK bounties.
Officer spawn - the rarest of the rats - in my epxperience seem to occur more frequently in systems where that Faction has sovereignty. Vepas Minimala was carrying a 24 million ISK bounty when he fell to my Drake a few weeks ago And, yes, he and his escorts (4x 500k ISK battleships) were tougher than "normal" rats.
As for how often - we used to see about 1 Faction spawn a day and an Officer spawn every other week or so in a system in Venal. Vepas was sitting in the second belt I warped to one Saturday morning, in a lonely system, about 1500 eve time. A corp mate got Estamel the month before in a system where there were 8-10 pilots in local, 4 or 5 active ratters, and in a belt I had cleared 15 minutes prior. I would guess the data on the exact circumstances of encountering Officer Spawn, if you were able to collect them, still may not provide a reliable answer on how to predict and / or encourage one to show up.
Chaining is leaving the little rats (frigates, destroyers) and waiting for thier big friends (preferably the afore mention 1.85 million ISK battleships) to regenerate. It works, there's a guide I saw a few days ago that explained it in detail but I can't find the link...
But, do you want to chain 1.85's, or have a chance at a Faction or Officer spawn...like Ratting roulette...
[Oh, I support the ^^ advice on being *very* careful getting Faction or Officer mods out of 0.0. I am a very bold hauler, but still took extreme precautions moving Officer and Faction gear out of 0.0 - that is NOT the time you want to encounter a gate camp bubble or interdictor...] |
Westly Synpa
GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.01.24 20:29:00 -
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Originally by: Ajax Marlowe Hello - quick questions:
1) How high do the bounties on rats actually go? I've seen up to 1.85 million bounties (in Serpentis space.) Do bounties ever go any higher?
2) What is an officer spawn, where and how often do they occur?
3) What is "chaining?" I know its a way of controlling rat spawns in a system but i dont know how it works.
Thx in advance!
1. Faction and offier spawns are the only ones i've seen higher then 1.8 mill.
2. They are very rare i doubt you will ever see one.
3. Chaining consists of killing only the large bounty ships and moving on without killing the smaller ones so that the large ships respawn faster (15-20 minutes) so you can kill them again.
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Cyno Sid
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Posted - 2008.01.24 21:52:00 -
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Bounties on 0.0 spawns, yep, about 1.8 mill is the highest u we see for normal BS spawns
Officer spawns - normally only found in complexs in 0.0 though not sure myself on this point
Chaining - you get a spawn and u kill the 1 mill plus bounties (Bs's), but u leave the little guys alive. Then the BS's respawn some 15 minutes later. So.... if u go into a belt and they are all below 1 mill then kill everything so hopefully they will respawn a new spawn of 1 mill plus. If you have a couple of BS's above 1 mill, kill them and leave the rest so the spawn respawn in 15 mins.
In theory, if you do this then you end up with a system full of 1 mill plus BS spawns. the downside is you wont get any faction spawns (which are different to officer spawns. Faction spawns come every 40 or 50 ish spawns and are random. ie where I am they are True Sansha. They can carry a bounty 10 mill plus sometimes and will drop faction loot.
You also may get hauler spawns which drop ridiculous amounts of minerals
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Sicil Fioet
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.01.24 22:23:00 -
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npcing guide
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Panch0Villa
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.01.24 22:42:00 -
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1: 33m so far.
Anyone else?
/me looks at other guys' cards
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Pemrick
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Posted - 2008.01.24 23:45:00 -
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I've been very lucky. In 5 days, I've had two Shadow Serpentis High Admiral (11.5mil) spawns and a Shadow Serpentis Captain (1.8mil) spawn. Sold all the loot I got from the three spawns for about another 120mil.
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Ralara
Caldari D00M. Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.01.25 00:48:00 -
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Originally by: Sicil Fioet npcing guide
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Blazing Fire
Interstellar Operations Incorporated Black-Out
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Posted - 2008.01.25 09:44:00 -
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The lower the true security for the system is, the bigger the chance for an officer spwan to appear is.
As for chaining, there are a lot of info on the forums, just use the "Search" function.
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