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== Hot dropping ==

Hot drop describes the practice to light a cyno directly on a target to then destroy said target. This is where Black Ops shine. The targets are usually PvE ships but it can also be ~~an industrial~~/freighter or a short escalation in a PvP fight. The act of searching for targets and then dropping on them is often called “BLOPsing” (not to be confused with “blobbing”). It’s not clear if BLOPsing only refers to the pure use of Black Ops or also when Black Ops are only used for bridging and mixes of those.

Hot drop describes the practice to light a cyno directly on a target to then destroy said target. This is where Black Ops shine. The targets are usually PvE ships but it can also be a hauler/freighter or a short escalation in a PvP fight. The act of searching for targets and then dropping on them is often called “BLOPsing” (not to be confused with “blobbing”). It’s not clear if BLOPsing only refers to the pure use of Black Ops or also when Black Ops are only used for bridging and mixes of those.

As you can choose which targets you engage or not, BLOPsing should rarely lead to losses. The biggest risk lies in being baited and this is also the best strategy to fight hot drops. Therefore the challenge of the fight isn’t the motivation for BLOPsing. It’s rather about hanging out on coms, hurting a specific hostile group, getting isk from expensive modules which might drop, or the thrill of the hunt.

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 == Hot dropping ==
-Hot drop describes the practice to light a cyno directly on a target to then destroy said target. This is where Black Ops shine. The targets are usually PvE ships but it can also be an industrial/freighter or a short escalation in a PvP fight. The act of searching for targets and then dropping on them is often called “BLOPsing” (not to be confused with “blobbing”). It’s not clear if BLOPsing only refers to the pure use of Black Ops or also when Black Ops are only used for bridging and mixes of those.
+Hot drop describes the practice to light a cyno directly on a target to then destroy said target. This is where Black Ops shine. The targets are usually PvE ships but it can also be a hauler/freighter or a short escalation in a PvP fight. The act of searching for targets and then dropping on them is often called “BLOPsing” (not to be confused with “blobbing”). It’s not clear if BLOPsing only refers to the pure use of Black Ops or also when Black Ops are only used for bridging and mixes of those.
 As you can choose which targets you engage or not, BLOPsing should rarely lead to losses. The biggest risk lies in being baited and this is also the best strategy to fight hot drops. Therefore the challenge of the fight isn’t the motivation for BLOPsing. It’s rather about hanging out on coms, hurting a specific hostile group, getting isk from expensive modules which might drop, or the thrill of the hunt.