The plan

[gomeler]

How are you keeping your Gilas alive?

Carrier armor reps for ~2700 dps, I figure it'll be okay bleeding some armor during the escalation wave. With a decent warp-in, I should be able to very quickly wreck enough escalation DPS to keep the carrier alive.

Three capital reps + shield harmonizing I link. Provides ~4800 DPS of reps on a mostly passive(1 adaptive) Gila. This all assumes skills @ 5 and things go as planned =)

Anywho, we'll see if this works out. Want to run it on Sisi before I go lose a ~3b set of ships. If it does work out, I'll definitely post about it.

[K'man]

Carrier armor reps for ~2700 dps, I figure it'll be okay bleeding some armor during the escalation wave. With a decent warp-in, I should be able to very quickly wreck enough escalation DPS to keep the carrier alive.

Three capital reps + shield harmonizing I link. Provides ~4800 DPS of reps on a mostly passive(1 adaptive) Gila. This all assumes skills @ 5 and things go as planned =)

Anywho, we'll see if this works out. Want to run it on Sisi before I go lose a ~3b set of ships. If it does work out, I'll definitely post about it.

I have tried this before with BS size ships and It seemed that the BS held up long enough till the Archon locked it up. You would never have to go into triage unless the site was fully escalated. I was planning on having a full capital fleet running escalations. Just have one Moros or Naglfar and the rest archons. I don't need to micromanage the archons as they can tank just fine. Warp in and warp out at grids edge while dread pops the sleepers within range. Little bit of pre-warp bookmarks are required at the spawn point. You should be able to pop each dread with 2 volley. Just warp to BM, once you slow down enough siege, drop mobile hangar to refit as needed for tank or capicitor, drop mobile tractor and plug away at the sleepers while warping each carrier in and out to escalate. Single dread is not as efficient as 2 but if you get visitors and your in mid siege your only gonna lose a dread not 4 capitals. Also I'm going to have 1 OGB as long as that's still available and 2 scouts watching the WH. As long as your sounds are setup right you don't need to be watching the screens of the scouts nor do you have to spam dscan unless you got more than 2 wh present. I've done this prior to even knowing what isboxer was so you can still make enough for your pvp. You could clear a full escalated site every 10-15 but it all depends on practice. 650m to 750m per site.

[gomeler]

I have tried this before with BS size ships and It seemed that the BS held up long enough till the Archon locked it up. You would never have to go into triage unless the site was fully escalated. I was planning on having a full capital fleet running escalations. Just have one Moros or Naglfar and the rest archons. I don't need to micromanage the archons as they can tank just fine. Warp in and warp out at grids edge while dread pops the sleepers within range. Little bit of pre-warp bookmarks are required at the spawn point. You should be able to pop each dread with 2 volley. Just warp to BM, once you slow down enough siege, drop mobile hangar to refit as needed for tank or capicitor, drop mobile tractor and plug away at the sleepers while warping each carrier in and out to escalate. Single dread is not as efficient as 2 but if you get visitors and your in mid siege your only gonna lose a dread not 4 capitals. Also I'm going to have 1 OGB as long as that's still available and 2 scouts watching the WH. As long as your sounds are setup right you don't need to be watching the screens of the scouts nor do you have to spam dscan unless you got more than 2 wh present. I've done this prior to even knowing what isboxer was so you can still make enough for your pvp. You could clear a full escalated site every 10-15 but it all depends on practice. 650m to 750m per site.

My concern/interest in solo carrier was over not having enough sites at home to constantly escalate and run. But.. I guess you really only need a few quad escalations/month to cover PLEX + a few bil/month in the toy fund. Right now I only have 1 dread and 1 carrier pilot, but I'm training two more dread pilots. Maybe when I have 2 dreads I'll give solo quad escalations a try. I was considering solo dread escalations but decided to do the archon/gila thing, figuring it'd be a more forgiving start.

[K'man]

My concern/interest in solo carrier was over not having enough sites at home to constantly escalate and run. But.. I guess you really only need a few quad escalations/month to cover PLEX + a few bil/month in the toy fund. Right now I only have 1 dread and 1 carrier pilot, but I'm training two more dread pilots. Maybe when I have 2 dreads I'll give solo quad escalations a try. I was considering solo dread escalations but decided to do the archon/gila thing, figuring it'd be a more forgiving start.

This is what I started with: https://forums.eveonline.com/default...68#post1808468

Than I transitioned to this after all alts could use the proper ships: https://forums.eveonline.com/default...posts&t=144954

This is what I ended with but had a carrier come in and warp out to continue the escalations also I don't need a Loki/Rapier for webs. If the sleepers get to orbit range your doing it wrong: http://youtu.be/q4zmXjrGcYI

Remember that after the first time you initiate the site it will reset after each downtime up to 3 DT on the 4th DT the site despawns. You can run the same site 4 days/nights in a row making anywhere around 2.8b per site. 2 cycles to clear a site. Remember you can have an alt hop in a new cap for each escalation. Most efficient way to do it is 3 total alts, 1 dread, 1 carrier pilot and one OGB. You can salvage if you want but blue loot is 3/4 of isk from the site and your trying to do this with the most efficient way to reduce overhead. 3 PLEX a month, pos/siege fuel, 10% to SRP, 10% to corp and the rest is yours.

[gomeler]

This is what I started with: https://forums.eveonline.com/default...68#post1808468

Than I transitioned to this after all alts could use the proper ships: https://forums.eveonline.com/default...posts&t=144954

This is what I ended with but had a carrier come in and warp out to continue the escalations also I don't need a Loki/Rapier for webs. If the sleepers get to orbit range your doing it wrong: http://youtu.be/q4zmXjrGcYI

Remember that after the first time you initiate the site it will reset after each downtime up to 3 DT on the 4th DT the site despawns. You can run the same site 4 days/nights in a row making anywhere around 2.8b per site. 2 cycles to clear a site. Remember you can have an alt hop in a new cap for each escalation. Most efficient way to do it is 3 total alts, 1 dread, 1 carrier pilot and one OGB. You can salvage if you want but blue loot is 3/4 of isk from the site and your trying to do this with the most efficient way to reduce overhead. 3 PLEX a month, pos/siege fuel, 10% to SRP, 10% to corp and the rest is yours.

Heh, I've hit all three of those links in the past. The solo dread video was one of the few videos that got me thinking about solo dread. For initializing the sites, I'm guessing you just whittle the first wave down to the trigger and leave it like that for the 4 nights? Do you eventually clear the site on the 4th night for a little bonus ISK, or just stick it out with the escalation waves?

I tend to salvage my sites, as it is such low-risk ISK and something I can do while winding down. Run ~6-7 sites, put away the fleet, and start salvaging the wrecks right before they start to pop.

[K'man]

Heh, I've hit all three of those links in the past. The solo dread video was one of the few videos that got me thinking about solo dread. For initializing the sites, I'm guessing you just whittle the first wave down to the trigger and leave it like that for the 4 nights? Do you eventually clear the site on the 4th night for a little bonus ISK, or just stick it out with the escalation waves?

I tend to salvage my sites, as it is such low-risk ISK and something I can do while winding down. Run ~6-7 sites, put away the fleet, and start salvaging the wrecks right before they start to pop.

Correct you leave the initial spawns trigger and the site will respawn. 4 nights of doing the same site and now that the sites don't change their ID after DT it is so much easier to keep track by using an excel sheet. I used to salvage but I've rotated sites to where I'd have 10 or more sites at a time. I'd rather do the 10 sites pick up the blue loot without visitors. You still have to keep your salvager alive by subjecting your carrier to getting ganked. Up to you more reward for the risk but for solo activity not worth it to me. On the 4th run of the site ill complete the entire site so it despawns and I remove it from my rotation.