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This page is about ratting at the NSC and not about ratting in general. Plenty of what is written here differs in other parts of New Eden.

Killing pirate NPCs, or ratting as it is also called, is a way to earn ISK in New Eden. At the NSC it is mainly done in asteroid belts or in combat sites. While you face off against NPCs in the same manner as in missions, it is not considered the same. See this page for for more information about running missions at the NSC. Since combat sites can be found by probing, ratting have an overlap with exploration, and players can benefit greatly by having a ship capable of scanning down signatures.

Why rat at the NSC?

Main article: Ratting 101

Killing pirate NPCs at asteroid belts or in combat sites is just one way to earn ISK in EVE. Since the majority of ISK is gotten through loot drop, and since loot is dropped at random, the reward for ratting is rather irregular. Some days you can be lucky and get hundreds of millions and even billions worth of drops, and other times you only get the standard bounty from the rats and the from salvage. Still, this is a great way to earn ISK, and the requirements for doing this can be very low, depending on what kind of ratting you do.

Types of ratting at the NSC

At the NSC there there mainly two types of ratting to be done:
Clearing asteroid belts in a system, and hunting down and completing combat sites. Combat sites can furthermore be divided up in combat anomalies and combat signatures.

Combat Sites

Main article: Combat sites

How to be safe from other players

The NSC is located in null security space and players can therefor kill other players without repercussions.