The new technology of gas harvesting

Less than three days left  before I could get into a Rorqual, it's time to seriously think about  how can I organize the process of harvesting. The main problem is the lack of a normal hangar for ships. Mining ships can be put there, others - no.

The old technology

• Cyno-vigil flies in the vanguard and sets the beacons.
• Then followed by Carrier, which brings full hangar of ships - mining, industrial, combat, repair, scout.
• Finally, my fighting hard workers fly on Slashers. They can harvest gas on Venture, and if necessary, take the strategic cruiser / bomber / BS and wallop red crosses, and even white squares.
• When they arrive - they change slasher on the suitable at this moment ship, shoot / mine. Carrier transports result to the POS which is not too far away, in low or NPC-nulls.
• Cut down in reverse order - will ship all in car and, fly out on minmatar frigates.

The only drawback of such a scheme - a small cargo hold of Carrier. Even if i use containers, it transports a total of about 1,300 units of gas. Fuel is a real problem: it's not expensive, it is simply absent in the claim nulls, when Carrier need three jumps to reach the Empire.

Rorqual

Rorqual solves the problem of frequent jumps - 250,000 m3 ore cargo hold  + 30.000 usual cargo + 40.000 fleet hangar - total is 320,000 m3 = 32.000 units of gas.

But there is a new problem - where change ship?. I can't use Rorqual and Carrier at the same time - the character is only one. So in any case I must first arrive by carrier, unload the ships, and come back, to take Rorqual and then fly already for harvesting.

Of course, I can set a small POS and keep and fit ships there, but it's not suitable. The gas is extracted in claim nulls, and to attract too much attention is undesirable. Install POS - this is like a slap in the face of the local alliance. Simply put - do not need to become impudent.

So I can unload ships exclusively to the hands of the characters who will fly on them. After some meditation, I've list of my alts and twinks:

• damager on BS (Raven)
• explorer 
• support (logistics) 
• 2 miners (Venture) – twinks of explorer and support
• 1-2 others – for cyno
• trader/POS manager

Previously, damager could fly on bomber and venture, explorer could fly on mael (most recently - vargur), bomber, and also venture. And support too… But not now. Now, they are attached to their ships

POS

Since is no more reasons to carry it from one place to another, a large Caldari tower was installed, in a place that has already established itself as a quiet, one jump from high-sec.

Where to get the BPC for standard boosters?

They are distributed by agents in space. Only once per character.

They give BPC to everyone, even if you on trial accounts (small problev – you can’t harvest gas on trial), regardless of the standings. For some reason I thought there are only two agents in the constellation, but in reality it turned out that they are at each entry point of the constellation - where it connects with others. In some systems there are even two agents in the same system. Although there are one exception, in GRHS-B I have not found an agent. CCP forgot to put it?

Booster	Agents	What you need for exchange
Standard Blue Pill Booster	Ocho Shusiian / Y5J-EU Ozomi Obanen  / B-E3KQ Vena Saapialen  / UL-4ZW Fetosa Kanim / BR-6XP	20 m3 Amber Cytoserocin
Standard Drop Booster	Binnie Nigolier / PPG-XC Mabvrion Atlete / 6RCQ-V Grisier Challier / XG-D1L	20 m3 Viridian Cytoserocin
Standard Exile Booster	Juvoire Sche / IR-WT1 Oguet Aene / YZS5-4 Goligere Debanelis / 9-VO0Q Gomosabin Zerdanne / 9-VO0Q Ravacesel Roque / XF-TQL	20 m3 Celadon Cytoserocin
Standard Crash Booster	Heiraitah Siakkano / ZXA-V6 Tehjus Otsini / I1-BE8 Kara Morato / 1QH-0K	20 m3 Golden Cytoserocin
Standard Frentix Booster	Galhar Lahara / GE-8JV Rahli Saronu  Division / AX-DOT Enna Ahruneh / MY-W1V Desra Nekri / 3GD6-8	20 m3 Lime Cytoserocin
Standard Sooth Sayer Booster	Riluko Hik  / J-RXYN Uiswin Aurtur / 07-SLO Zwod Aden / GPD5-0	20 m3 Azure Cytoserocin
Standard Mindflood Booster	Marera Arghun / 1-2J4P Yoti Haraisha / 9GNS-2 Rasa Jaswelu / C3N-3S Nemphad Azbias / LWX-93	20 m3 Malachite Cytoserocin
Standard X-Instict Booster	Horir Firvoon / 3L-Y9M Baftot Asluzof / DUU1-K Vianes Ounid / O9V-R7 Golarad Hjom / TSG-NO Bollen Odridur / BJD4-E	20 m3 Vermillion Cytoserocin

As a result, I got 31 one-time agents. I was tired while visiting all of them on the test server, though flew mostly on autopilot. Also you can get them in combat ladar signatures.

Do not be amiss to remind you that visit all these agents is not an easy job as it may seem at first. You are not welcome in these areas.

You can be easily killed, on the way there, or when you are flying back. It takes a lot of time - you need to refit new ship and fly again ... And apparently already with another fleet, because this you can not overtake when you alone. Particularly hurt when, you were killed on the way back with the collected BPC.

Patience, accuracy and caution are the three virtues of the ninja gas harvesting.