The goal of our little field trip from Jim was to see if pvp
in a c2 was ‘better ‘than Jim and Sally (our C4/C3 Mag).
The idea was a C2 static C2/LS would provide a greater
chain. Greater the chain, more potential of people to murder. C2’s have two
statics always, they are also in greater demand because they can be done solo
in most ships, and always have a K-Space exit. Bears love a way to get out. C2’s
would be more populated.
Also C2’s would be raided by people like us, less.
Most major wormhole hunting alliances/corps connect to a C3 first, because they
live in C5/C5s. The most common way of these large alliances connecting to
lower class wormholes was from a C5/C3. Then the static of that C3 would end in
K-Space. Sure C2’s could ‘open’ into the C3, and the major hunting group could
enter from those holes or the random wandering hole connecting a C3 to a C2,
but those are few. There aren’t any C5/C2s.
If you run the odds, the instances of a major pvp corp/alliance
running down a C2 chain is less.
Less people fishing from the same pond, the bigger/dumber
the fish.
With Jim having only
one static and that static having only one static always. The Jim chain
sometimes had only 1 connection before it ended in whatever K-space Sally(our
static C3). Also, the people in C3’s we
have found to be a far bit more paranoid (less fights).
Target selection came like this. We knew we wanted a c2/c2
connection. The K-space didn’t really matter, but there are only C2/C2/LS’s No
high secs. But since some holes open
into others fairly regularly, especially if they are occupied, we could simply
spread out across high sec and scan for random holes and work down their
chains.
We did.
It took us 1 day to find our first C2/C2/LS. It was
occupied. I entered the hole, D-Scanned down the POS and checked its owners. It
was a large corp that had ties to one of the larger pvp groups in wormhole
space. They had some POS mod kills on their boards, with some major players. This gave us Intel,
that they had friends. Big experienced friends, who didn’t mind removing POS’s. like ours.
Not the best targets for a small pvp corp like SUSU. We would get a fight
alright, but it would be vs. 20+ t3’s with logi and it would happen in an off
time zone(they were EURO).
The static of this c2/c2/LS was another c2/c2/LS!. HA the luck
and it was empty. The C2 connected to that was a c2/C3/HS (lame).
This brought up a new question for the corp. What if we
never found a hole that was right for our experiment , occupied during our time zone and wasn't a giant smash your face gang. Whats
the point of invading someone to get fights, if they play 5 hours before you
corp even logs on? We had a vote,
because that what we do. The vote was, to move into the empty hole.
The following day, when I collected my kit and rescanned
down the new invasion hole chain, we came across ANOTHER c2/c2/LS.
This one had
a POS in it! We checked the Corp and did back ground checks on the members.
Turns out this was a smallish corp like 9 members, English speaking, they had
some kills, mostly losses and they were very active. Also, during our time
zone! Well this is WAY better than a empty hole. It’s not as big of a corp as
we had wanted, but it was at least a warm body or two. Maybe some kind of
action?
We moved in.
