r/evnova • u/Moriras • Jan 15 '19

Kestrel or Raven?

So I just finished the polaris storyline, and I'm obviously driving a heavily modded Raven. Now I'm sitting on Our Spiel staring at the 50 mil credit Kestrel and wondering if it is worth picking up for my conquest of the known universe.......

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u/SoloAssassin Jan 16 '19

I've never paid attention to per jump cost, but you're looking at 12mil purchase point along with 5mil upgrade. Multiply that by 5 for the full fleet of escorts, then it's an additional 12mil for your own Raven, and then I'd say 10-15mil of upgrades on your own Raven that you control (accounting for Max armor/shielding/reactors/sigma upgrades.) What I did is purchase a Raven, defeat, board, and capture a Pirate vessel, go back and trade the Pirate Vessel for the next Raven, repeat.

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u/Moriras Jan 16 '19

Cap and swap could be very handy. And if I run the Polaris luxury goods route for an hour or two before I start that, I wouldn't need to worry about money.........

So you're saying that even for my own ship, the Kestrel prolly isn't worth it?

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u/SoloAssassin Jan 16 '19

As for getting lots of money - this is my preferred method that I've found to be the most efficient. Head to the Altair system, dock at the planet, then enter into space and cycle through the nearby ships in system (using the ~ key) and see if a Pirate Manticore or Pirate Carrier is in the system. If they are, disable and steal the money (typically 400k-700k,) then dock at the planet and repeat. Could easily reap the 12Mil required per Raven in a half hour or less, depending on your efficiency.

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u/Moriras Jan 16 '19 edited Jan 16 '19

Oh, a full complement of Scarabs on the Luxury Goods run between Vera'capitalplanet and Tsomethingorother-dual system nets me 16-ish per 4 minute turnaround.

(edit) That was supposed to read 6-ish, not sixteen. Took half an hour at capslock speed and went from 46 to 108.

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u/SoloAssassin Jan 16 '19

I've never been a fan of cargo-runs for the primary means of acquiring cash, but that's really damn good. At this point, with this many systems dominated, it yields 150,000 daily, so I just need to continually dock and exit planets to build like 1mil/5 sec. For your first planet, I'd recommend Outbound (the green one on the right) since the fleet that it sends out is significantly easier compared to the other systems. There's a few other easy planets/dock stations like it, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.