Met a 12 boxer last night

[gibsonus]

I use 7 ishtars and occassionally bring out the carrier when intel is quiet. I did notice when I passed the point of wasted dps. So, I inverted the overviews of 3 of the ishtars so that 2 groups target different rats. My ticks rocketed. I can also park the carrier in another anom and the ishtars can help him clean up on the way to their next anom. I gave up Battleship ratting as soon as I could get in the ishtars but the Machariel is a fun fun ship if you don't mind expensive losses.

Oh yeh, I only rat the carrier within range of 3 cyno gens and keep an eye on the local that my carrier would escape to if needed. I've had that carrier a long time by my standards but I'll probably lose it tomorrow now ;-)