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Guide – Can Flipping

This is a guide for all those of you who absolutely love to flip cans get free minerals that took ages for someone else to extract. But beware, this tutorial is filled with some humor!

First of all, these are the stuff you need:

  1. Hauler ship
  2. Quick small ship
  3. One or two giant secure containers or even a general freight container
  4. A system with lots of jetcan miners
  5. Safespot that only you know in that system
  6. Guts (I really hope you have guts, or you should go see a doctor)

Instructions:

  1. Go to your safespot, drop off and anchor your cans and containers. Make sure this spot is your own and no one else knows of it.
  2. Bookmark this spot, never delete it!
  3. Fly your hauler ship to the safespot, eject, and fly back to your other small ship.
  4. Go fly your small ship and look for jetcaned cans of mineral.
  5. Once you spot your can, go to it and flip it so it’s contents now belong to you.
  6. To do this, you fly up to the can really quick, jettison something, like a mineral you stole previously or a piece of ammo, or even better yet, your bookmark for your safespot (no, I’m just joking, don’t do that).
  7. Now bookmark your can.
  8. Open up the other person’s jetcan and grab everything into your own can.
  9. Run away!
  10. Warp to your safespot and sit tight for a few minutes, preferably until the aggression countdown wears off.
  11. Get out of your small ship and hop into your hauler.
  12. Warp back to that can and pickup it’s contents.
  13. Warp back to your safespot, drop everything into your container.
  14. Wash, rinse, repeat…

That’s how it’s done, follow those easy… 14 steps and you can steal ore faster than you can say, Badger Mark II, well not literally of course.

When I try to explain this concept to some people at first, they don’t understand why we setup a safespot and not go into a station. Well person-who-asked-this, it’s so we can shave off about 10 minutes waiting to dock and undock (again, sarcasm).

I hope you have fun and aren’t warp scrambled by some nano’ed mining interceptor.



3 comments

1 Train { 07.02.09 at 8:35 AM }

Just stay away from Scythes and Osprey’s, especially running one mining laser. My mate loves to kill noob flippers by using a passive targeting module….as soon as they flip, he scrams then and ganks them. Probably averages about 1 kill and hour, until they flippers move on :).

2 Tony { 07.05.09 at 1:18 AM }

@Train
Good tip! Your mate must have a lot of fun killing unsuspecting and noobish can flippers eh?

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