Low Sec's Most Lucrative Site? Serpentis DED 3/10 – Corvette to Cynabal Bootstrap Challenge – Ep. 22

RIP Thomas, you were a good horse

Ye, those newbros definitely won’t be afraid to enter lowsec now to do a DED site XD

RIP Thomas from one Bill to another o7 bad luck! We were just on our way back from a roam and was wrong place wrong time. Good luck with the challenge!

RIP Thomas. Can Thomas II be far behind tho? Extra props for the commentary at the end. The dynamic of piracy and gate camps and "ganks" in Eve is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the game, and one that causes far more anguish (dare I say even rage) than need be. Sure, you'd rather not lose a ship and your loot. But understanding that losing things is an inherent part of the game, and being able to wish your opponents well -- that, in Eve, is enlightenment.

Loving this series! It inspired me to attempt the same; just completed my first Serpentis DED 3/10 in a frigate (!) - Incursus with my very own "Horatio" helping out. Ended up with both of us taking some hull damage, running out of antimatter s (but looted some extra ammo types along the way) and finally running out of cargo hold for all the loot! (Had to jettison some junk to make room for Coreli A-types).

You gave me the courage to run sites on low-security systems

If you warp out and back in before finishing the last room of the site, you can do the other room of the two you have to choose between and get an extra set of Overseer's Effects, as both 2nd rooms have a faction rat.

Great series - keep it up

bonus episode! Loving it

What a gate camp! Those guys gave exactly no forks whatsoever! Bet you wish that was my poorly fitted legion again, lol

So glad you released this, I was jonesing bad. 😊

I typically farm the highsec anoms in a jackdaw, since it is so nimble and can be fit to <2 align if i get a low-sec escalation. Also, Serpentis/Gallente space is nice since the anom escalation 3/10s don't let t3cs in the gate, giving a bit of protection against the typical hunter. Also, as someone else said in the comments, you should try guristas refuges and hideaways, as they escalate into 4/10s, which give pithum c-type shield mods, which are cruiser sized. Multispec hardeners or shield boosters will be very useful for Thomas. (or maybe even your future Cynabal fit?)

Great series

What a coincidence... I'm the one guy in your EVE channel that was getting lucky with escalations after running high-sec refuges and hideouts (IIRC I only got 3/10 in low-sec) and I was running them in a Catalyst (on average I would need to tactically retreat a couple of times in the room before the last and 3/4 times in the last room). Unfortunately I didn't know others can scan you while in there and I thought I just needed to be careful going to it and warping to and from. I've had my last one on sunday and when I warped back in (last room) after one of said retreats to rep I found 2 guys clearing the rest of it. I tried to warp out but couldn't align in time, got scrambled and blapped. Had I watched this video before, I would have known better and would have been on my D-scan the whole time... Oh well... Honestly I'm on a hiatus, to get blapped as soon as I leave high-sec 4 times in the last week got a little tiresome and took out the wind from my sails. Good luck on your journey, I will follow you until the end.

I run the Narcotics Warehouse in a mostly Meta fit (t2 tank) Blaster Incursus as an Alpha. Only threat is getting scanned down.

Man! Nice episode! Sadly I saw some of the comments before finishing the video. Rip Thomas. It's funny how this challenge makes a 200mil drop appear very meh haha. It's great though. I guess the small armor rep/ab/mwd would have been more useful drops. Question, if the daredevil BPC had dropped, would you have added building a daredevil to your challenge?

they all gonna be hunting the ship you put that on now :D i thought that was the end of the vid lol oh well, easy come easy go :D

you could also try running Guristas escalations to try to get some shield DED mods instead

Dude. What a bummer. Eve can be so cruel lol.

Jasmine Luka here, sorry to bring the challenge to an end. We were just roaming through the space in seach for some fun, and ran into you on the crossjump on our way through. Thomas was a brave soul who was a true warrior even in death. Good luck on your next adventure, Vertex Armada sends its regards o7.