Those that are aware of my existence will know that I've been mining for a few weeks now, boredom strikes again... And I've been running a few more Loprocs up for some pod-piloting. Nothing big, just figure PI won't demand too much of my attention in the long run.
Also I've been preparing to drop the slow-boat caracal in favor of something sane?
The sane is a Arbalast heavy fitted Gnosis with active shield tanking, dual type resist and a good bag of damage mods. Also this one is rigged.
Before anyone get overtly excited about what would look like me growing a sanity, there's few things about this that still bugs me. There's no way it's going to work unrigged..... The tank is essentially less then the slowboat, it's rather T2 Drone reliant for optimal damage, it doesn't feel particularly faster then slowboat.
But it does carry a punch. on average each weapon system deals in the area of +100% meaning some threefold damage potential on it. Using the T2 drones is somewhat slower then I figured, and the extra 100 m/s the active AB provides doesn't do what i want it too (I need a MWD).
combined with actually having to research the missions before undocking (you need to modify damage type and resists according to mission) and with the damage potential Blitzing is an actual option. And true is really is something you feel on the wallet flashing.
I won't be running these for much longer as my sole purpose for it currently is to get that bloody JC, which needs me to pass the 8+ standing mark. And that's something where I'm starting to have a bit of fun: Predictions....Arghh, formatting sucks, the tabled calculations are in the bottom....
But to throw a bit of math around:
Standing is logarithmic and calculated as thus: 10-((10-current standing) x Mission change) = New Standing
Simply put, there's a bits and piece, like if these numbers are calculated using raw standing figured, and this form is for positive changes, negative changes are not toward 10, but -10, which mean you should swap accordingly.
The effective standing takes into account Connections which is working is somewhat the same way:
the difference between 10 and current standing are deducted 4% pr level of connection, and this is then subtracted from 10 and would be your effective standing.
As some people might notice I have flaws in my math in this table....
My current standing is 7,07 and i expect to get roughly 2% boost pr mission = about 12 more missions before it's off to PI and the free plex scheming, we'll see.
| Current | Expected change | Connections |
| 6,2 | 2,00% | 5 |
| 6,27600000 | 2,00% | 7,02080000 |
| 6,35048000 | 2,00% | 7,08038400 |
| 6,42347040 | 2,00% | 7,13877632 |
| 6,49500099 | 2,00% | 7,19600079 |
| 6,56510097 | 2,00% | 7,25208078 |
| 6,63379895 | 2,00% | 7,30703916 |
| 6,70112297 | 2,00% | 7,36089838 |
| 6,76710051 | 2,00% | 7,41368041 |
| 6,83175850 | 2,00% | 7,46540680 |
| 6,89512333 | 2,00% | 7,51609867 |
| 6,95722087 | 2,00% | 7,56577669 |
| 7,01807645 | 2,00% | 7,61446116 |
| 7,07771492 | 2,00% | 7,66217194 |
| 7,13616062 | 2,00% | 7,70892850 |
| 7,19343741 | 2,00% | 7,75474993 |
| 7,24956866 | 2,00% | 7,79965493 |
| 7,30457729 | 2,00% | 7,84366183 |
| 7,35848574 | 2,00% | 7,88678859 |
| 7,41131603 | 2,00% | 7,92905282 |
| 7,46308971 | 2,00% | 7,97047177 |
| 7,51382791 | 2,00% | 8,01106233 |
| 7,56355135 | 2,00% | 8,05084108 |
| 7,61228033 | 2,00% | 8,08982426 |
| 7,66003472 | 2,00% | 8,12802778 |
