Some days ago the corp management gave us a little reminder to show more presence in the PvP block we belong to. Fortunately, the next event asked for assault frigs which was in my estimated risk-to-lose range. So I came to my longest null sec run since I started playing (the only other and rather short was this one). With a fleet of about 30 ships (mostly assault frigs and interceptors) we flew a big circle through Greater Wildlands, grinding sec status. So PvP was more a secondary goal of the day. All went smooth until around 3/4 of the journey. At this time we ran into a well organised group of 4 or 5 ships who effectively decimated our frigs. I lost about 25 million ISK (equiv. 2-3 hours running Lvl 4 missions) and even reached safe space unpodded. Obviously, I’m still a carebear but one who knows some real bears

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February 19, 2011 at 9:31 pm
evehermit
Your ISK income from Level 4’s is low, but refreshingly honest.
February 20, 2011 at 2:01 am
Sören
The numbers above are the immediate income without loot and salvage. And after our 20% corp tax.
Last but not least it depends on the mission: “AE4″ for instance ist great as it would give ~21 mil (untaxed) bounties + rewards in ca. 1h. Then add 20min für salvaging. Other missions have lower bounties and or longer ways to the next gate. “The Mordus Headhunters 4″ done the other day gave only 12.5 mil bounties + rewards for 1h work, too.
I guess I’m getting a bit faster when I get accustomed to the fitting and develop some intuition about the Lvl4s so I can click accept without studying much in eve survival.
February 20, 2011 at 8:26 am
Handown
Nice story, although I did not understand the relationship between the title and the content …
February 20, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Sören
@Handown: The intended relationship is hidden in the phrase: “So I came to my longest null sec run since I started playing” together with the knowledge that my PvP history contained three fights (two lost) and that my previous and first null sec visit looked this way: http://towt.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/poor-mans-occator-lost/
(updated in the posting)