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Ratting in a Carrier
Table of Contents
The Ratting Progression Chain
The Vexor Newbro Edition
Gallente T1 Cruiser
~20 Million ISK Low Skills
The Ratting Myrmidon
Gallente T1 Battlecruiser
~90 Million ISK Low Skills
The Ratting Dominix
Gallente T1 Battleship
~250 Million ISK Medium Skills
The Ratting Gila
Guristas Faction Cruiser
~300 Million ISK Medium Skills
Ratting Carriers
Minmatar Carrier
2-3 Billion ISK High Skills
Ratting Supers
Minmatar Supercarrier
17-20 Billion ISK High Skills
Fittings
Ratting carriers are extremely variable in their fittings and can be customized in countless ways. For the sake of simplicity 2 fits are supplied here; a max tank fit which will slightly reduce ticks while giving you some buffer, and a max tick fit which will sacrifice that extra buffer for an extra 15-30 mil per hour.
Bear in mind that while both these fits are fairly blingy, almost all modules can be safely downblinged to T2, Meta, or even T1 levels.
When ratting in Catch, change out the Einherjies for Templars.
Ratting Nidhoggur - Tank Config
The tank config of this ship is designed to give you a chance to get support on field if you get tackled. It won't make a difference to a dreadbomb, but with a small-medium sized fleet tackling you, you should be able to survive long enough to get a FAX and support on grid. Even more importantly, this variant includes a capacitor booster to both keep your tank active under neut pressure, and allow you to jump out in an emergency.
[Nidhoggur, Ratting Nid - Tank] Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Drone Damage Amplifier II Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer II Capital Capacitor Booster II Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field Omnidirectional Tracking Link II Omnidirectional Tracking Link II CONCORD Capital Shield Extender Networked Sensor Array Fighter Support Unit II Fighter Support Unit II Cynosural Field Generator I Large Graviton Smartbomb II Capital Core Defense Field Extender I Capital Core Defense Field Extender I Capital Core Defense Field Extender I Tracking Speed Script x2 Dromi I x3 Equite I x36 Einherji II x27
Ratting Nidhoggur - Max Tick Config
The max tick config does exactly what its name implies; it sacrifices any and everything to make you as much ISK as physically possible. This variant is extremely unforgiving if you screw up, getting tackled will likely only give you seconds to get support on grid.
[Nidhoggur, Ratting Nidhoggur - Max Tick Config] Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier Capital Shield Extender II Adaptive Invulnerability Field II Adaptive Invulnerability Field II Sentient Omnidirectional Tracking Link Sentient Omnidirectional Tracking Link Sentient Drone Navigation Computer Networked Sensor Array Fighter Support Unit II Fighter Support Unit II Fighter Support Unit II Cynosural Field Generator I Capital Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I Capital Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I Capital Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I Tracking Speed Script x2 Liquid Ozone x1500 Dromi I x3 Equite I x36 Einherji II x27
Carrier Ratting in 14 Steps
| 1: Your cyno | Fit a cyno. Fit a cyno. By gawd, man, fit a cyno. If you can't fit a cyno, don't carrier rat. |
| 2: Your liquid ozone | Put enough liquid ozone in your carrier for at least two cyno cycles. |
| 3: Your refits | So you should have refits in your cargo with multiple mobile depot. These refits should be a full rack of warp core stabs and a tank fit and some smartbombs. |
| 4: Look at local | If there are neutrals in local, undocking in you carrier to rat is not a good idea |
| 5: See Step 2 | |
| 6: Undocking | Hit those undock arrows |
| 7: See Step 2 | if nuets are in local dock up |
| 8: Align to the target anom | |
| 9: See Step 2 | if nuets are in local dock up |
| 10: Warp to target anom | |
| 11: Align back to station or to a POS/Citadel | Do not carrier rat with no Station/POS/Citadel in system or an out cyno. Use your prop mod to align faster. |
| 12: Launch your fighters | |
| 13: Watch local | If neuts show up hit the warp button to your instadock or to the POS/Citadel |
If you do get tackled
| 1: Assess what is attacking you | The most important thing is to stay calm. | |
| a. If it's only one ship use your fighters to try and kill or haze it off, then warp off. | Keep in mind you CANNOT refit with an aggression timer. | |
| 2: Ask on comms if anyone can help you | Ping the relevant region channel in Discord for support. | |
| a. Make sure you are in the appropriate standing fleet. | ||
| b. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page and ping it to Impass Discord pings channel. If you are carrier ratting in Impass and not in the Voltron Discord, fix that. | ||
| c. Once you get enough and appropriate friendly caps that are willing and ready to jump to you, light that cyno. IF YOU SEE MOBILE CYNO INHIBS GOING UP, LIGHT CYNO BEFORE THEY ONLINE | ||
| 3: Figure out what happened. | If you died it was because you did something bad and you should reassess what that was to make sure it does not happen again. What you should not do is talk shit about anyone who attempt to help you. | |
Ping Form:
@everyone Friendly [shipType] tackled in [system] Enemy Ships (rough idea): Dscan: https://dscan.me/ Join Fleet: Comms Server/Channel: Cyno Under: