Monday, September 10, 2012

Addendum to the Zealot gold rush

It's a reasonable question to ask if there are other ways to capitalize on this fight

I can't think of many.

I'm sure GFS and the rest of CFC have missiles well in hand. T1 missiles are EASY to produce and even T2 missiles are not horrible (though there might be some movement there... I expect they're carrying a 2:1 ratio of Kinetic and EM missiles. That's a completely random guess from a completely uninformed carebear. But my reasoning is that:

A) Drake's get a bonus to kinetic
B) "Lightly" tanked zealots (ones without a full loadout / rig slots all devoted to tank) will have EM as their biggest armor hole (and, for what it's worth, their biggest shield hole)
C) "Heavy" tanked zealots will have kinetic as their biggest armor hole (because they'll use a module to plug thermal and a rig to plug EM leaving EANM's to omni up the rest).

CFC has to play a bit of game theory. If they ONLY use kinetic, the Zealots can plug that hole with triple mods and watch the Drake fleet reduced to nothing. By mixing in the EM's (again, 2:1 may not be the right ratio... but it's close), they make sure that the Zealots can't fit optimal against them. That's my line of thought at least. If they mix less, it's probably still worth the zealots plugging 2 kinetic with EANM's for the rest.

Jita's already seen a 10% increase in cost of Scourge Fury Cruise

Armor Kinetic Hardener IIs have also increased. These are normally niche items with rare moments of profitability. This is one of those. It's not fantastic by any stretch. I don't do weapons (they typically suck for profit) but the turrets that the AHACs use might be of use too...

If there's other things I've forgotten, let me know.


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