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This guide discusses various tactics for deep 0.0 ratting. See also [[Belt_rat_spawns|belt rat spawn system description]] and list of Eve's [[Rat|NPC Rats]].

== [[Farming|Farming]] ==

Also known as "chaining rats", this is the tactic of clearing all poor spawns, and leaving at least one ship from all good spawns, as a seed for future growth. That is to say, if there is a good spawn, eg a battleship, kill the battleship but leave at least one of his friends - this will ensure another battleship will respawn in its place. If you kill all rats, a new spawn will form (possibly without a battleship). Chaining rats can allow for more profitable ratting.

While average spawn total bounty value is around 1.6M, in a couple of hours
of [[Farming|farming]] that can be increased to 2.1M, and rise up to 3.0M in long
term (15+ hours) community-wide [[Farming|farming]].

These incomes are further boosted by some 1M per hour, if we assume
special spawns on average net 50M extra. If the special spawn average
profit was around 150M, then [[Farming|farming]] would not be optimal at all.

Optimal cut-off point for which spawns to leave and which to kill lies
around 2.6M - 3.6M, as in terms of total bounties of rats. Or in other
words, clear all spawns that don't have at least triple 950k [[BS|BS]], or
equivalent.

== Clearing ==

Kind of opposite of [[Farming|farming]]; killing all spawns thus getting more
chances for special spawns. Profitability really depends on what one
assume's special spawns ([[Hauler|hauler]], faction, officer) average extra profit
to be. If it is around 50M, [[Farming|farming]] always wins, if beyond 150M this one
is better.

This test set seems to indicate that [[Farming|farming]] is good idea for non-[[Sov|sov]]
systems, and might be non-optimal for NPC home systems (like Stain).

== Faction hunting ==

Kind of niche tactic, where focus is on finding special spawns. The idea
is to check belts in multiple non-checked systems, and kill only
special spawns.

Doable in some agile but powerful ships like [[Zealot|Zealot]]/[[Ishtar|Ishtar]], or with
scout/killer pair ([[Interceptor|Interceptor]]/Battleship, [[Covert_Ops|Covert_Ops]]/[[Black_Ops|Black_Ops]]). Upon
finding a target spawn the scout would write down the belt, leave it,
and wait for the killer ship to arrive.

Since there is no point to check a system someone has already checked,
faction hunting is effective only:
* Soon after the reset of downtime
* On systems constantly ratted by non-friends ([[ISK|ISK]] farmers etc), with some 50% reduced chances due [[Farming|farming]].

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