Davs hope has quite a bit of rare materials and with the amount of 3 and 4 grade stuff you get you can easily trade up, not to mention the turn around time on davs hope is far quicker. In less then 5 min you can get a data scan point, and 30 items, 10 pickups at 3 items a piece, then just relog and get them to respawn. There is a reason davs hope is so infamous, because its so easy to farm materials there.
Good corvette build for farming mats in robigo?
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Davs hope has quite a bit of rare materials and with the amount of 3 and 4 grade stuff you get you can easily trade up, not to mention the turn around time on davs hope is far quicker. In less then 5 min you can get a data scan point, and 30 items, 10 pickups at 3 items a piece, then just relog and get them to respawn. There is a reason davs hope is so infamous, because its so easy to farm materials there.
Thats how i look at it, the only way, imo, that running outta Housers reach is worth doing is if you cant do the single jump Robigo->sothis, in an anaconda. Then the time you save in the jump between sytems, and travel time from robigo to the station is worth it. That my opinion.
Trying to do that in the vet would just be, like i said, the worst of both worlds.
Not quite. The reason Dav's Hope is so famous is that it was a good place to farm materials before we got the ability to find all HGEs in a system by scanning the nav beacon.
Your 30 items will almost all be grades 2 and 3. You can trade down for that with the plunder from a single HGE. As long as you know how to identify systems that will have a plentiful supply of quickly gatherable HGEs it is far faster to do that and trade down. I'm not spouting stuff off the top of my head here, it's observable.
Not having an e-peen measuring contest here by the way, just trying to give you some helpful advice. If you don't want to take it that's fine. The only real reason to bother with Dav's now is that you can also pick up some mostly crap-tier data there too, although there are far more enjoyable ways to do that.
Painful? It’s one of the fastest ways to get Biotech Conductors and Modified Embedded Firmware - and to an extent Exquisite Focus Crystals. I get at least 20 BC’s every run, which takes roughly 10 minutes.
I'm doing robigo > sothis only. who the hell cares about jumprange, the systems are 59 ly apart, a jumprange of 30ly is all you need.
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If the goal is to try and maximize your profit/material gathering, it matters a lot.
The issue with the corvette is that when loaded for passenger missions even with a guardian 5 FSD booster, your only going to get there in 2 jumps. You can get there in the same time with a python with 2 jumps. Why this matters is because on the return, large ships are forced to dock at Hausers reach, which is ~1000ls away from the entry point. Medium ships, can dock at robigo, which is like....200ls? from the arrival point, and there is no planet you have to fight with to get to it. So by taking a large ship that cant make it to sothis from robigo in a single jump, your greatly hindering yourself.
To give you an example of that, when i first started running robigo in my anaconda it was 2 jump from robigo to middle man system, to sothis, then back. And i could do the robigo run in about 14~16 min. A one jump anaconda, and a python can do the robigo run in sub 12 min easy. That does not sound like a big diffrence but when you are doing it back to back it added up a lot.
You would be better off getting a python to do it then the corvette. Im not saying you cant do it in a corvette, hell you could do it in type 9 if you really wanted to. Im just letting you know whats going to be the most effective.
i tried building an anaconda that can jump to sothis in one jump and i couldnt find one. i might try the python tho
yeah, way too few cabins imo. i'll stick with the python instead.
And thats a very good choice as well. i dont actually know if the python or the 1 jump anaconda pulls more per hour i never got around to testing that, but its gonna be damn close i would assume, considering i can do a run in 10~12 min in the anaconda, and turn in about 9 each time.
But thats just me really REALLY trying to get eh anaconda to work, the python is the far easier choice.
Due note though, the python although it has more cabins, it only has 6 cabins that can fit 8 or more people, those are the missions that gernally pay more and offer the good materials, where as the anaconda can fit 9 missions of 8 or more people and still make it in a single jump.
But thats just me really REALLY trying to get eh anaconda to work, the python is the far easier choice.
Due note though, the python although it has more cabins, it only has 6 cabins that can fit 8 or more people, those are the missions that gernally pay more and offer the good materials, where as the anaconda can fit 9 missions of 8 or more people and still make it in a single jump.
where did you get the information about the 8 passenger missions giving better materials? i'm not sure if that's true tbh.
im just assuming they award better mats, considering they also award much better credit pay outs as well. I dont actually no if thats true or not, However in the missions i do grab there are a lot of grade 5 mats i run across.
More passengers = more credit rewards, usually
Non- credit rewards are dependent on what the credit rewards are... i did some ballpark figures in another thread, but a G5 thing is worth around 200-300k each... so a mission which would normally pay 2m credits will only pay 500k-ish if there's 5xG5 materials being offered in an alternate.
If your mission only pays out around 1m, you're more likely to get lower grade mats as a plate of 5xG5 mats isn't possible for such a mission.
yea, i'm not sure if i agree. that might be true for credits, but definitely not for mats since there are missions that offer loads of money but no mats.
The raw credit reward of a mission doesn't influence whether or not materials are one of the reward options, only the grade and quantity. Influence and reputation are both 300-500k per + (in addition to the base rep/inf rewards offered in the credit rewart), Materials are (I forget the rough figures I drew up last time for all grades), and cargo is the value of the cargo per galaxy average.
It's a direct exchange of potential credit reward to the respective items. For missions that offer loads of money, if there's a material reward, it won't take away more than around 2-2.5m off the reward for 5 x G5 mat rewards. Corollary: You'll never see anything like Courier missions ever offer G5 mats, unless it's to a distant station (which ramps up the potential credit reward).
For example, below's a 3x G5 mats, which virtually blats the 1.25m credit reward (because 3 x G5 mats is worth roughly half that 2-2.5m I quote)
As a comparison, 5 x G4 materials is about 1.25m credits, since they're worth roughly 100-175k
Reputation affects your raw reward total, so usually if you have lower rep you'll see less high-grade material offers, because the raw credit offer is lower. But per below, for large-credit missions, you can still see 5xG5 mats even if you have low rep.
The below mission is offered by a faction I'm unfriendly to, and is a wing mission to ship 1600 units of cobalt. Note, 5 x G5 deducts about 2m again. This correcrts my previous estimate of 200-300k, putting them at 400k a piece.
As the final contrast, here's a mission paying out 16m... but note the 5xG5 mats still deduct only about 2m off the credit reward, maintaining that "exchange rate"
tl;dr if you've only got 1m or so to play with, that will only ever offer at-most 2 x G5 mats, and more likely variations of lower grade mats. I'm unsure what the going rate for passenger missions is, but more passengers should = more credits, which means greater chance of having G5 mats as a reward option, when mats are offered as a reward.
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Exactly what he said.
For all intent and purposes the goal your going for is the exact same goal as trying to get the most credit/hour reward out of robigo, except your going for mats/hour. So you want to be able to take as many cabins that fit 8 people or more, of the highest class, and be able to run it as fast as you can. So really you wanna load up on as many 5D business cabins as possible. with one or two first class cabins if you can fit them. and then 4E.
And of course while not said yet, it is also implied that when the reward of rep is offered, always take that over cash and mats even, unless its a mat you really need, but still i would take the rep to get allied.
For all intent and purposes the goal your going for is the exact same goal as trying to get the most credit/hour reward out of robigo, except your going for mats/hour. So you want to be able to take as many cabins that fit 8 people or more, of the highest class, and be able to run it as fast as you can. So really you wanna load up on as many 5D business cabins as possible. with one or two first class cabins if you can fit them. and then 4E.
And of course while not said yet, it is also implied that when the reward of rep is offered, always take that over cash and mats even, unless its a mat you really need, but still i would take the rep to get allied.