You said you were testing a sample calculator for unpopulated alerts. If you need more data for that we have about 9 systems measured since the nerf so we can give you that data if needed.
Absolutely, feel free to send me anything you have worked out, it all helps to refine the calculator.
And also which sampels tactik do you mean? Is it that one were you produce a scout which doesn´t move and give 100% rates?
Yes, freezing a scout in a NHSS4. Works best with pilots in pairs which is great for us as we don't often get a full wing with timezones etc.. Conda and T9 are what we use.
Buddy Sampling in Alerts - Method
The pilot in the Conda goes into a NHSS4, kills or lets the Orthrus go and kills all the scouts except one, then the pilot in the T9 drops in and the Conda exits to supercruise. This makes the scout freeze in space and sit there slowly spinning on the spot.
Sit the T9 over the scout ready to sample, then the Conda navlocks to it and drops back in. It can't see the scout, only the T9 can, but that doesn't matter. The T9 has 32t of corrosive resistant cargo space, a universal limpet controller and six class 1e research limpets so it can collect 20 samples in a minute or two. It drops them every time it gets 20 or so and the Conda uses collector limpets from its universal controller to grab them.
The Conda only needs 8-12 collector limpets to fill the hold so it can drop the rest for the T9 to pick up and keep sampling with. The T9 has a separate collector limpet controller for this so it doesn't cut into sample time by taking them from the universal.
There are things that can't be explained in text, mostly to do with the pilots coordinating and timing their drops so you don't have them collide and scatter too much, and positioning your ships so you don't hinder the movement of each other's limpets, but after a while a pair of pilots will find their own rhythm with one dropping samples and the other dropping limpets and it doesn't take long to get a flow going.
The Conda with an average 128 hold fills up in a little over 10 minutes with no failures. Go for more if you want to risk a normal cargo rack and an amfu to repair corrosive. The Conda takes full holds to whichever carrier has the buy order for the number of samples needed and returns to collect from the T9 and restock it with limpets until the order is filled.
Two of us doing this cleared a system in just over 2 hours that required 960 samples, which would have taken twice that time or more in solo or even winged on the same signal. Given that you have to find a new signal each time, prepare it for sampling and while sampling the scout is constantly moving in and out of range and some failures always occur, the extra time all that adds to the process is eliminated with buddy sampling, which more than makes up for the small amount of time lost waiting for the Conda to deliver and return. The T9 isn't kept waiting long if it's a signal not too far in and can have 32 samples ready for the Conda's return that it can grab immediately. It feels slow but is deceptively quick.
And about Hip 2422, we´ve now decided with that progress it already has, that it won´t be possible to let go into invasion so were now clearing Hip 2422 instead of Aowicha. Plus the last uninhabited alertsystem.
o7 and thanks for the detailed answer
Any time. As I said please join us on our discord if you want to coordinate operations.
