'Claiming' belts
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:58 pm
So since a t1 thrasher can kill an average retriever (cost is around 300k after insurance vs 10m-ish retriever) and 4 suicide fit cruisers make short work of a Hulk, how do you guys cope? Personally I use belts that are out of the way but I have an ace up my sleeve when someone does find me. Since most suicide gankers use t1 ships they have really shitty sensor strength. What I do is I fit up 2 noob accounts with ECM griffins and then pre-emptively ECM ships that try to lock my miners. It takes literally a day to get decent jamming skills and it's saved about a bil of isk (not that that matters with several hulks mining 23/7 
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This works great in highsec since it calls concord to the belt as well, making future gank attempts impossible. In nullsec you can keep people permajammed with just 3 noob accounts unless they fit eccm (yeah right)
Also if you want to remove competition from a belt, 1 thrasher can kill an avg retriever and down in 0.8 down, 2 can kill a mack but you need 3 to make sure. As stated before, 4 cruiser hulls (ruppies, thoraxes) will make short work of a hulk at pretty much no cost (t1 fit, insurance). Destroyer/weapon skills take about a week so you can make a 21 day trial, use plex, receive plex and have 40+ days of ganker/protector pilot for free. Also allows for multiboxing (think 3 griffins orbiting your robotic fleet).
Warning: if someone uses smartbombing BS you're still SoL.
What do you guys use to cope? Or do you just take the isk hit and reship?
)This works great in highsec since it calls concord to the belt as well, making future gank attempts impossible. In nullsec you can keep people permajammed with just 3 noob accounts unless they fit eccm (yeah right)
Also if you want to remove competition from a belt, 1 thrasher can kill an avg retriever and down in 0.8 down, 2 can kill a mack but you need 3 to make sure. As stated before, 4 cruiser hulls (ruppies, thoraxes) will make short work of a hulk at pretty much no cost (t1 fit, insurance). Destroyer/weapon skills take about a week so you can make a 21 day trial, use plex, receive plex and have 40+ days of ganker/protector pilot for free. Also allows for multiboxing (think 3 griffins orbiting your robotic fleet).
Warning: if someone uses smartbombing BS you're still SoL.
What do you guys use to cope? Or do you just take the isk hit and reship?
