NPC hunting chaining
June 22nd, 2007Quite profitable, try and take your abilities to the max because the higher the
more money. The most important thing here is to know your limits, don't try to
take on spawns that are a lot higher then your own ship and ability, if you get
killed this will ruin your profits for some time. Its better to take pirates a
bit below your ability then take them to high, also chaining will mean they'll
instantly respawn, if you had any difficulty in the original spawn that problem
might get duplicated when they spawn right after they die.
Commonly chaining is the best way for making money, however some voices say this
will be removed in the future, still i will discuss the basics:
First you skim through belts trying to find one that suits your own power, then
you'll have to kill the entire spawn except for one pirate, this should be the
weakest one, let him attack you constantly and don't let him get away. At first
nothing will happen but after some time (can be anything from 5 minutes to an
hour for the first respawn) the whole spawn will respawn, again you kill all but
the one circling you, then after that it should respawn faster and faster and
faster, until it will be nearly instant (right after you kill one he'll be
back).
You need to experiment for yourself what chains suit you, and sometimes you will
have to learn the painful way, but eventually you'll get good at it, or ask
corpmates for advice about your abilities.
Another way would be going to a base, this is hard at first because there can be
upto 30 pirates at once, but there usually only a few spawnpoints, and them
spamming one at a time at a slow rate (this rate cannot be increased).
The biggest prize often comes in the lootcans the ships drop, but can also be
their bounties, usually you alone will be enough to chain, unless you're going
to chain battleship pirates (0.0 space) then you might need a group, idd also
recommend shield transfer arrays for everyone in this case (with 4 medium arrays
at one ship hell be invincible compared to the enemies, even if its the heaviest
npc battleships). Profits killing npcs bs's aren't that high because of the
group split, but sometimes the loot is very rewarding.
npc hunting is profitable but it is risky and knowing your own limits its a
must. "exploits ": I wouldn't call it an exploit but officially chaining is one, cant
get banned for it though.
Another one is when fighting heavy gurista's, hide behind an asteroid, since
they're using missiles the missiles will not hit you, and since gurista's like
blasters, a big rock can hold them far enough not to use them.
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