Just lost 16 million (ish)

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I'm so glad we can swear in here.

How the fuck do you earn $4M/hr RES hunting???

I take it your T9 didn't have shields. I think my paranoia about always having shields has saved me a couple times. I know the one time in my T7 days, I had really weak ones, some damn Eagle interdicted and somehow got through my shields and after I warped out, noticed my thrusters were down to 40%. I docked and upgraded my shields

About being chased from the RES...I have noticed in CZ's that you can be doing relatively fine for a while, say 20-25 min, then all hell breaks loose. Somehow, a Conda and 2 or 3 of his friends have appeared and focus only on you. They have magic weapons and their ships take about 10% damage. You now have to expend all 8 (two groups of 4) shield cells, chaff, and it does no good. I guess that's the game telling you its time to move on.

If you get a really good RES with large ships it's easily done.

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I give a RES about 2 minutes to 'show itself' .... Even if a single larger ship shows up it might not be a honey-pot RES

The best ones are the ones where you genuinely are struggling to keep up .... They happen maybe 1 in 20 ... but a decent res is maybe a 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 shot.

You know when you're in a golden one though .... endless streams of big fish with decent bounties.... i've made in excess of 6m / hr in one and am having to use shield-cells just to give my shields a top-up every now and then simply because there's no breathing room between fleets.

They're just too rare and unpredictable .. i just tend to log out to main-menu and come back in to reset .... quicker than super-cruise

I run my python with usually 3x A0 shield boosters and an A6 and an A5 shield cell (just turn them on/off as needed to balance power)
I run MC's on secondary weapons and 2x Pulse and 1x Beam on front but i'm still playing with switching them for bursts.

Rails are nice but no use in a RES as ammo is too limiting ... Plasma's are also nice but hit-rate isn't high enough