There’s also the Explo+Armor SOE Mindlink for 100K LP +100Mil which is juicy..
…and just burned out my scrambler in the Worm Anom mission and for a moment I thought I was screwed and could lose another Nergal… my ECM drones saved me this time… (and a couple of isky boosters to stay alive…)
these LPs don’t comes easy…
Intended for a tiny amount of players???
I’m not so sure about that…
the cost is a big factor I agree on that….
But if this allows almost safe WH wandering and ships swap on the fly…
It might be worth just for the fun of it….
Dreads and Carriers are far more “niche” to me than the Odysseus, but
Right now, about 2.5b. Blueprints are going for around 1b (this will come down) and doing a buy-all in Jita for the BPC nets a shopping cart for ~1.45b.
850m of that is net resonators, which are currently high and will also come down.
Thank you! I’ll still buy it for that much. I want to test fly that ship! I’ll put it through its paces and provide feedback to the shipbuilders
With fit, I assume it’ll be roughly 3 bil… Which means I’ll be flying a 3b ship out of Jita with roughly 3.5b in the ship maintenance bay if any gankers want to try and track me (The Odysseus won’t be the only ship in there).
TBH, I don’t think you’re likely to have a use for it beyond a hangar decoration. It’s a cool looking ship, but I’m struggling to see any real purpose for it outside of some WH applications.
If the boosts are strong enough that you can reliably scan down WHs at 8AU it’s probably an OP necessity for a WH org, but the kind of thing where you just have an alt sitting in one and that’s it. I guess it could also have some applications if you’re living out of a van in c13s.
Yeah, this is a complete a total bummer.
As an explorer main I was very hypped for this ship they sold us as “the top of the line for solo explorer” and all that for what?
A RIDICULOUSLY price tag in LP that makes it literally more expensive than 3 Nestors (and already very overpriced ship), and the need to train not 1, but THREE god damn new skills for a minimum of 2 weeks just to get the right to sit in the ship.
And for what? A ship that honestly don’t deliver on any of the promise.
Someone please explain to me why a solo explorer would ever want that over a T3 or just a little frig?
It’s big and slow, it can’t really deal with sleeper explo sites fast enough, and hacking with it is just priming yourself for slowboat central (btw, you could easily fix that by making it so that once hacked, you directly get the look remotely, thus making the hacking range bonus of that ship suddenly be very good for the supposed job).
All in all I feel like I got jebaited once again with the promise of something made for exploration that will just end up only ever be used by big fleet or gankers to buff Dscan and probing speed.
With over 30km hacking range the ship’s speed matters much less as you can already hack the next can as you slowboat over to it.
Time to hack a site goes down considerably with the range bonus which could largely make up for the slower ship speed.
Also while the Odysseus may not be perfect for a solo explorer, it’s great for a two-account exploration setup for long expeditions with a friend or alt with it’s command bursts, ship maintenance bay (to swap between an Astero and a Prospect) and a huge expedition hold for all the loot.
It’s an interesting ship, even if a bit expensive.
Eh. If/when they introduce a nexus chip, the BPC price will come down to basically zero, just like the other SOE ships. New things are always exorbitantly expensive.
The issue I have with it isn’t so much that it isn’t good for exploration, but that the role it’s trying to fill is one that only exists in an idealized, imaginary version of Eve online where the concept of a mobile exploration base/RV actually provides major utility.
There is no frontier to launch an expedition into - it’s something that just doesn’t exist in the game. I’d like for it to, I think that would be awesome, but as it is right now, the farthest reaches of space are 10 minutes from Jita.
I don’t believe you, but let’s pretend for a second I do.
You slowboat a much smaller ship, that cost a lot less, and can do a WHOLE lot more PVP.
And please, stop talking about “sending a friend” okay?
The thing was sold as SOLO explorer ship. If I was doing multicount shenanigan I would EVEN LESS waste money on expensive ship and take full advantage of the unparalleled safety of having a scout for 1 percent of the price.
EVEN if the chips start to look (and we both know they’ll probably just seed it in high end PVE stuff only big corp farm), that will still be very, very rare and it will only cut the LP cost of the ship in half (which would still put it way ahead of a Nestor).
Exactly. Every time I hear someone talk about “muh WH nomade” I realize the person I’m talking to is a poser that watched one too many youtube video and never actually made a living out of exploration.
There’s no reason to think that a hypothetical nexus chip would drop any differently than the existing ones do. That region of space is currently being turned into a bit of a newb-zoo by Goons and, that aside, it doesn’t really matter who farms them if the net effect is cheap BPCs becoming available on the market. Existing SOE ship BPC prices are 25-35m on contracts.
None of the other nexus chip hand-ins cost any LP or ISK at all - it’s a straight exchange for the chip.
It is, admittedly, a little bit difficult to make sense of the build mat requirements Vs. a Nestor, however.
(The Odysseus won’t be the only ship in there).
