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Simi Kusoni
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Posted - 2012.02.13 17:53:00 -
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As an ex bad ass piwate, I thoroughly endorse this product.
Although to be honest if you go on a quick buzz about null every now and then you can regain sec pretty quickly, especially if you don't pod people. (I used to pod people  ) Plus it's pretty safe if you're just rushing through in a nano cane with ECM drones, killing one BS rat then moving on.
Then again I've always had positive sec alts, so sec status never effected me that much even when I didn't bother grinding it. I can see how incredibly annoying it must be for single-boxing types PvPing in low sec. |
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Posted - 2012.02.14 15:54:00 -
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Muad 'dib wrote:Bare in mind that a BS rat is 0.2% gain, once every 20 mins if you can find one everytime. Thats 3 BS rats (one hour ratting) to repair a an aggro, 20 BS (6 and a half hours) to repair a ship kill and for a pod to rapair would take 60 BS rats or 20 hours of ratting. So to piont, kill and pod a guy takes a total of 28 hours, okay so most people like myself will avoid podding nuetrals because i dont have an intire day to rat it back.
An entire DAY of play, no sleep for 24 hours to repair one guy, or a minimum of 7 hours to rat back one ship kill wihtout pod
These numbers are a bit off. For one thing sec status hits are once every ten minutes* per system. Also, if you are belt ratting in a single low sec system to gain sec status, you're doing it wrong. Moving system to system you can get a sec status gain roughly every three minutes, although in low sec you're pretty unlikely to get 0.26% sec status gains.
That being said, I still agree low sec could do with a buff to sec grinding. Just not a massive one, putting it almost on par with nullsec would seem reasonable to me. It would still take work to grind up from -10, but those that wish to live purely in low sec (and not pod people every chance they get) could.
Either way, encouraging people to travel system to system belt ratting can only lead to more pew pew. Which is a good thing.
*http://i.imgur.com/sgBPu.png - apparently hot linking imgur addresses using BB codes is impossible on the eve forums :D fuuuu CCP forum devs. |
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Posted - 2012.02.14 18:21:00 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:How about an option where you can forgo the bounty payout in exchange for twice the sec status gain? That reduces the time you spend and reduces an ISK faucet as well. This would be an option you set before undocking, and would be in effect until you changed it.
Well, no, because that would be a ridiculously massive buff to grinding sec status in null sec. Ratting across a loop of systems in this way I'd be able to go from -10 to positive sec a few sessions. |
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Posted - 2012.02.14 20:29:00 -
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Muad 'dib wrote:If ccp are going to be harsh against medium level players in low sec for pvp then i will just go totally pirate and just like every other low sec pvper forget about trying to vaugly 'good' about repairing it.
This is probably their intention.
It also doesn't take "hours" of play to reverse a single aggressive action, you're talking to people who have been -10 or are currently -10. Either you are exaggerating or you're doing it wrong, I agree with you low sec should be slightly better for sec grinding, but not the four times faster you suggested. |
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