Stockpiling stuff to take to the hubs
Another low sec route today. Only 25 or so jumps but I've found that with the times I'm playing (mostly early morning EU time) there's not too many people around and plenty of anoms spawned. There were some decent sites and plenty of loot.
A few jumps in I scanned down a site where I needed my "squished" probe formation. Just as I was finishing off the scan someone else pops into the otherwise empty local channel. I returned my probes and opened D-scan and warped to the site. First can, failed the first attempt. Not even from being distracted by checking D-scan every 5 seconds, it was just one of those attempts where nothing you do will ever get you to the end. Not even by being lucky and picking the only route through. It was a can where after the first 2 empty nodes it was nothing but anti viruses, firewalls and restoration nodes one after another blocking every single path. Great start.
Attempt 2, still checking d-scan every 5 seconds. I crack the can and as I do there's a targeting bleep and there's a warp scramble attempt on me. How the hell did he sneak up on me when D-scan was blank of probes 5 seconds ago and 5 seconds before that and so on... Never mind. I warp off, trying to get the contents of the can at the same time but this time it didn't work so a couple of million in loot lost. As I warped the guy posts in local "how many warp stabs? 2? 3? 4?" It was quite funny because someone else had just jumped into the system and was witness to this chat exchange. I replied with "11" which got a laugh and then the new person posted and "epic fail" pic I assume aimed at the failed ganker.
I stuck around in that system for another minute or so to chat. I mentioned D-scan not showing any probes. The guy mentioned stealth probes... are they even a thing? Really, I have no idea if it was just a joke or if stealth probes are real. Can anyone enlighten me?
After that quick chat I then warped off to continue my route. Not much in the next couple of systems but towards the end of the route I started getting more sites. All in all a 2 hour trip (with a 30 minute break in the middle for repairs and food, so 1h30 flying time) netted me 38 million.
After a real life break, I did an hour long round trip in the high sec area of my home space and found another 12 million before heading back to the station to unload and log off. Tomorrow I'll probably head to the various hubs and sell. Rens isn't too far from my home base so if anything has the best prices there it's only a 4 minute trip either way and then I can sell the bulk in Amarr or, more likely, Jita.
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