Comments on: EVE Online: It’s all fun and games until someone loses a Megathron

By: Callan S.

Callan S. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:09:55 +0000

You can make a profit from losing your ship?? Couldn’t you keep doing that for more profit?

By: Magson

Magson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:34:16 +0000

Totally agree that a cruiser-sized ship would have been better. An Exequror has a base cargo hold of 600 m^3, and with a few nanos or i-stabs would have been able to align quite a bit faster than your Mega. I don’t have EFT here at work to check, but I’d bet you could get an align time of 4 to 5 seconds, where the Mega would probably be 9+ Of course, if you’d been killed in the ship the insurance wouldn’t have paid out so well ;-)

Still sounds like a fun trip. Courier contract through null in a Mega. Not something I’d ever have even thought about trying . . . .

Totally agree that looking into a Blockade Runner would be a good idea. As noted — they align like a frigate and warp cloaked like a covert ops. They also warp faster than most ships too, so even if they guess where you’re going, you’ll likely get there 1st and be able to jump away before they arrive. Definitely worth looking into.

By: mbp

mbp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:34:53 +0000

There is an interesting filter you can put on the galaxy map which telly you ship kills by players in the last hour, very useful for spotting gate camps but also generally interesting for seeing where the dangerous systems are.

By: Marcus Hamilton

Marcus Hamilton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:31 +0000

I think I have to echo Akura’s comment about it not necessarily being a scam. I have a research agent out in the Solitude pocket (where you went) producing data cores that I need shipped in the opposite direction. If I decide to use a public contract the length of the trip, size of the cargo and collateral will be close to the same and the autopilot will probably tell them to cross 0.0 space too.

I wonder if I’ll get an angry EVE-mail calling me a scammer. It would be hilarious.

Great to hear about your adventures as always.
Fly safe.

By: Akura

Akura — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:28:00 +0000

I second the call to train transports – got myself the other Galente transport ship, the occator not long ago (http://evemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/new-shiny/) I wouldn’t say it’s the best 80 mil I spent, but it’s definately worth it.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:14:38 +0000

Yeah, they caught me while I was aligning. So damn slow. Is that what inertia stabilizers do, let you align faster?

Wow, you’re right about the Viator. 9 days for Industry I-V and Transport Ships I. Sounds like a plan — Thanks!

By: Shirrath

Shirrath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:46:14 +0000

550m3 could have been done in a properly fitted cruiser in lowsec. With a mix of warp core stabilizers and inertia stabilizers, one could align and warp away before the rest of the gatecamp locked you. My ship of choice for needs like these is the Prowler, a Minmatar blockade runner (T2 industrial), which is reasonably fast and can warp while cloaked, leaving the enemy interceptor only about 1.5 seconds to lock and scramble me. After that I’m simply gone. If you’re training your alt to fly Iteron Vs, then all you need for the Viator blockade runner is the Transports skill itself.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:33:32 +0000

Hmmm… I hadn’t actually thought of a lowsec run — just jumping from gate to gate would have been safe enough. EVE Navigator has a 30 jump route.

The contract may not have been a scam — the payload was 550m3; usually scam contracts are something trivial like 0.5m3. But I’m kinda thinking it was due to the distance involved.

By: Akura

Akura — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:24:47 +0000

I used to live in solitude (the region where Octanneve is) your autopilot will show the route through nullsec but you can actually get there by going through lowsec only. I can’t remember the system names at the moment. I don’t think this courier contract was a deliberate scam however.