Why mine when you can rat?

Ok here is the deal...Yogita and I love capital ships. However, we do not have the resources to mine for ore to build them in a reasonable time frame.

We have 2 toons each so with all 4 running hulks (only one toon has exumers 5), we can build battlecruisers even the odd battleship or 2. Capital ships....that is another story. Carriers, and dreadnoughts need about 1.4-2 billion isk worth of minerals. We have plex that need to be bought that current runs us about 1.6billion isk each every month.

The solution? The mobile tractor unit! Yogita and I use carriers to rat, yes there are better set ups out there for isk efficiency but we don't need that. We need the junk that the npcs leave behind. We can reprocess them for minerals. Recently this has been nerfed, so to counter that we need even more loot. The answer: we rat together. We clear sites sanctums and havens in about 8-10 minutes. When we warp to an anom which is being run usually the ratter allows us to deploy an mtu there.

The result....we have built 3 Archon class carriers this way. So now the plan is to build more carriers....not for null sec ratting but for pvp, and Wh pve and pvp. We have about 1.8billion worth of loot already, or about 230k m3 collected so far. I want to fill 2 cans 250k m3 for 500k total mine a bit for what might be lacking then build boot carriers (basically pvp carriers for the new occupancy based sov that is coming). I want to keep kicking out back up caps mainly carriers for now nids for me and chimeras for yogi. Archons and dreadnoughts will come later.

Having 3 carriers might seem like overkill but with some recent changes made to them, for example fighters are actually an option now, and carriers now have respectable dps along with the ability to take system star gates....while carrying fit ships around....they are so much more that massive logi, that can haul doctrine pvp ships to the new staging ground.


/tata

A new Carrier has arrived!

Well I finally replaced that Nid class carrier I lost trying to help a fellow alliance mate, actually Yogita and I both lost carriers that night.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=24462230

Thats me ^

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=24462230

This is a fleet of carriers that went down..we were not organized and we got picked off one by one....

But no biggie I have replaced that carrier, and I will be purchasing a Branch based dread to help defend branch, tenal, venal, and Deklein. (Those are sectors of space in Eveonline).

So basically we are putting our loads of isk to work....so sense sitting on billions might as well buy ships with the isk.

Next post...confessor!!!

/tata