2.3. Change of plans (an end to maintenence raiding)
After
a review of our progress with maint raiding so far, we've decided to
stop maint raiding altogether. It was an interesting experiment, but
ultimately not well suited for this system. 23k is too good for trading
to control easily; the efforts to keep down the ports which had not
already leveled out of our reach were not profitable and, as the higher
level ports in the system limited our ability to control traffic, the
original goals of maint raiding were not attainable. However, our raid
team and RCs did a great job! We managed to raid every night, and had
good turnout every time. :)
Since we're done with raiding for a
bit, we'll be shifting to a different track: mass item finding.
Throughout the next two weeks or so we will be focusing on making as
much cash as possible for the AA which we will use to ship hunters,
ship a better raid team capable of hitting high level targets, and
finish Asgard.
How it will work is this: Everyone on the raid
team, + RCs, + anyone else willing, will be shipping into item
scanners. Every night at 21:00 all of our item scanners will fly to a
random sector and burn their daily turns scanning together. Two to
three freighters will run back and forth collecting the items and
selling them in massive ammounts, putting the cash in the AA. If a
scanner doesn't show one night, it just means he'll find more the next
night. However, it is best if we have a large number of people scanning
all at once.
I would like to implore everyone who can stand to
put off their TDZK goals (hunting, leveling, etc) for two weeks,
and who can show regularily at 21:00, to join in on this program as
item scanners. It's a selfless task because the profit does not go
directly into your bank account (although if we have a good turnout,
the AA will be able to afford to be quite generous) and because little
to no EXP will be gained (as it will be other people who will be
actually cashing in the items). But the profits and the overall benefit
to Fury will be immense. This method is also much more efficient than
individual item scanning, as the scanners don't waste turns moving them
to the stations.
Who's interested?