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== Combat Tactics ==

So you have your alt moved to sovnull and you have a shiny new VNI and you are all skilled up into a basic fit and you are ready undock. Now what?

You want to run two types of sites: [[Serpentis_Forsaken_Hub|Forsaken Hubs]] first and [[Serpentis_Forsaken_Rally_Point|Forsaken Rally Points]] if there aren't any hubs available. You can pretty much ignore all other types of sites unless you are ratting in such a busy system that none are available, then you can look at regular Hubs and Rally Points (but I would recommend just moving to a different system if possible). So undock, find a Forsaken Hub preferably, but if not, a Forsaken Rally Point, and warp off! You want to warp to the site at 0km. Here is the next sequence of actions:

# As you are in warp and landing, delete the previous combat site's bookmark.

# After landing, deploy your flight of five heavy drones.

# Orbit at 5km. If you are running a Forsaken Hub, there should be a rock a little above where you are warping in and that is perfect to orbit for the duration of the site. If you are running a Forsaken Rally Point, what you are going to do is kill the closest Cruiser and orbit its wreck for the duration of the site.

# Turn on your prop and auto-targeting modules. Make sure your armor repairer and any tracking links you have are also turned on (you can do this in warp to the site as well).

# Bookmark whatever you are orbiting. For Forsaken Hubs, that's the rock that is above you when you land at 0km and for Forsaken Rally Points, that's the wreck of the first cruiser you kill.

# At this point, you are running up to speed, your drones have likely started to engage the rats, the rats have started shooting you, and you have not much left to do at this point. What you need to ensure is that the rats do not start shooting your drones. If they don't start shooting them within the first 10-20 seconds of starting the site, you should be fine for the rest of the site. If the rats do start shooting your drones, simply recall them to drone bay (shift+R), wait for all the rats to red box you again, and then launch your drones and manually order them to attack a rat. Again, wait 10-20 seconds to make sure the rats don't start shooting your drones again (extremely rare).

At this point, you are pretty much good to go. There are two things to keep an eye out for during the rest of the time you are in the combat site. The first is perma-yellow boxing. This occurs when a rat can't shoot you or doesn't think it can shoot you or just bugs out. For whatever reason, it just follows behind you in your orbit and never fires its guns at you, so your drones will not engage it. The fix is to simply order drones to attack. This is rare when you orbit at 5km and gets more commonplace the farther out you orbit. If this does happen to me, it happens on the waves with frigate spawns.

The second thing to watch out for is the second wave's frigates in a Forsaken Hub and the 4th wave's frigates in a Forsaken Rally Point. These frigates can point and web you (they do not scram). Points don't really matter in terms of endangering your ship inside the combat site, but they will prevent you from warping off if a neutral comes into system and you want to dock up. The most dangerous EWAR is webs. One web is not dangerous at all. Two webs is concerning and if you just have the bare minimum skills, you may bleed some structure before killing enough battleships to relieve pressure on your armor repairer. The rare triple web spawn sis very dangerous. Three webs will slow you down enough that battleships will have zero issues tracking you and you will probably lose your ship. It's not common to get triple webbed and if any fit has a chance to live through it completely AFK, it's an armor rep fit. That said, what I usually do is start my site and then come back in 5 minutes or so for the spawn of the second Forsaken Hub wave and manually direct my drones to kill all the frigates, at which point the rest of the site is completely AFK-able. Triple web problem is technically possible in a Forsaken Rally Point but should be exceedingly rare. If you do want to check up and prevent it, you need to come back in time for the 4th wave and target the frigates.

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+== Combat Tactics ==
+So you have your alt moved to sovnull and you have a shiny new VNI and you are all skilled up into a basic fit and you are ready undock.  Now what?
+You want to run two types of sites:  [[Serpentis_Forsaken_Hub|Forsaken Hubs]] first and [[Serpentis_Forsaken_Rally_Point|Forsaken Rally Points]] if there aren't any hubs available.  You can pretty much ignore all other types of sites unless you are ratting in such a busy system that none are available, then you can look at regular Hubs and Rally Points (but I would recommend just moving to a different system if possible). So undock, find a Forsaken Hub preferably, but if not, a Forsaken Rally Point, and warp off!  You want to warp to the site at 0km.  Here is the next sequence of actions:
+# As you are in warp and landing, delete the previous combat site's bookmark.
+# After landing, deploy your flight of five heavy drones.
+# Orbit at 5km.  If you are running a Forsaken Hub, there should be a rock a little above where you are warping in and that is perfect to orbit for the duration of the site.  If you are running a Forsaken Rally Point, what you are going to do is kill the closest Cruiser and orbit its wreck for the duration of the site.
+# Turn on your prop and auto-targeting modules.  Make sure your armor repairer and any tracking links you have are also turned on (you can do this in warp to the site as well).
+# Bookmark whatever you are orbiting.  For Forsaken Hubs, that's the rock that is above you when you land at 0km and for Forsaken Rally Points, that's the wreck of the first cruiser you kill.
+# At this point, you are running up to speed, your drones have likely started to engage the rats, the rats have started shooting you, and you have not much left to do at this point.  What you need to ensure is that the rats do not start shooting your drones.  If they don't start shooting them within the first 10-20 seconds of starting the site, you should be fine for the rest of the site.  If the rats do start shooting your drones, simply recall them to drone bay (shift+R), wait for all the rats to red box you again, and then launch your drones and manually order them to attack a rat.  Again, wait 10-20 seconds to make sure the rats don't start shooting your drones again (extremely rare).
+At this point, you are pretty much good to go.  There are two things to keep an eye out for during the rest of the time you are in the combat site.  The first is perma-yellow boxing.  This occurs when a rat can't shoot you or doesn't think it can shoot you or just bugs out.  For whatever reason, it just follows behind you in your orbit and never fires its guns at you, so your drones will not engage it.  The fix is to simply order drones to attack.  This is rare when you orbit at 5km and gets more commonplace the farther out you orbit.  If this does happen to me, it happens on the waves with frigate spawns.
+The second thing to watch out for is the second wave's frigates in a Forsaken Hub and the 4th wave's frigates in a Forsaken Rally Point.  These frigates can point and web you (they do not scram).  Points don't really matter in terms of endangering your ship inside the combat site, but they will prevent you from warping off if a neutral comes into system and you want to dock up.  The most dangerous EWAR is webs.  One web is not dangerous at all.  Two webs is concerning and if you just have the bare minimum skills, you may bleed some structure before killing enough battleships to relieve pressure on your armor repairer.  The rare triple web spawn sis very dangerous.  Three webs will slow you down enough that battleships will have zero issues tracking you and you will probably lose your ship.  It's not common to get triple webbed and if any fit has a chance to live through it completely AFK, it's an armor rep fit.  That said, what I usually do is start my site and then come back in 5 minutes or so for the spawn of the second Forsaken Hub wave and manually direct my drones to kill all the frigates, at which point the rest of the site is completely AFK-able.  Triple web problem is technically possible in a Forsaken Rally Point but should be exceedingly rare.  If you do want to check up and prevent it, you need to come back in time for the 4th wave and target the frigates.