Misanth
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Posted - 2008.09.26 11:54:00 -
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Edited by: Misanth on 26/09/2008 11:55:29
Originally by: Asantte this depends really on what you are doing in 0.0 if you are x'ing up every day then clearly it would be wasteful to wear a +5 set if you mostly sit there and carebear it up then +5 set is as good as in empire because really if you want to keep yourself safe in 0.0 you can go for 6+ months without getting podded a single time
Or you x up frequent, but still don't lose clones that often. I used to fly without clones for years, thinking that I lived in 0.0 and would lose alot of isk this way. Then I looked back and checked my statistics. I havn't got an overly impressive amount of kills, but I do have a frequency and x'ing up both for attack as well as defence. I'm very seldom on top 10 kills/points per week but I am, as I said, stable.
Over time I noticed it averages a few months between each clone loss, then I compared that with my income and bought a set of +3's to PvP in. Eventually +4's dropped to the price they are today, i.e. not much at all over +3's, and 3% implants are cheap as well.. If you want to put it extreme; say you get 1 kill a day and you lose one ship every 2nd week. You won't lose your pod each time you lose a ship, so over time, say one clone a month. That sounds pretty close to my stats and seems perfectly natural for an active 0.0 pilot..
A full set of +4's and say some mix of 1-3%'s and you end up around 100mil per clone/implants. That means in a GTC period you get 30 kills, 2 ship losses, and a 100mil clone. I bet your ass that clone is less than the total loss in ships + modules/rigs. 100mil can easily be ratted in an evening if you live in 0.0, even if you don't loot at all and you use a HAC/BC or something smaller, 3-5 hours tops in pure bounties.
Now tell me it's not worth it? It's what someone else posted above; same as with ships, "can you afford to lose it". An non-hardcore 'normal' character that x up nearly daily should easily be able to. Then again, someone else might want to split those 100mil on 50mil extra fittings on the two ships you lost, but personally I prefer the 1-3% performance and the boosted skill training time. It should pay off more in the long run.
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