Black's Iron Challenge hunting log

Figured I'd start another of these pet projects to test out small hunting setups on little mobs while doing the iron challenge. Mostly just to keep my interest piqued while grinding tiny mobs.

First up will be cornundacauda. Usually have pretty good luck on them so wanted to see if I could turn a profit while finishing the 5k portion and grinding out the 10k.

Setup: Sollomate Opalo, SGA and A101, Adjusted Pixie, Fap90, RepEdge 2x0, SGA as a finisher for mob amp breaks on.

Process: 50.xx peds per run always leads to amp breaking before ammo runs out. Leftover weapon cells get pooled to do a bonus run as soon as 50 peds have accumulated again. When amp breaks the axe finishes whatever mobs are on me, usually one at a time unless I get ninja spawned.

To make it a little more interesting I've also come up with a list of side goals that I'll keep updated, most are pipe dreams.

GOALS
1) 100 globals or HOFs
2) one über loot
3) Opalo, SGA - three tiers
4) Cornundacauda DNA assembled
5) Adjusted pixie - full tier 1
6) Finish 5000 corns
7) Finish 10000 corns

Run 1-5

Run #1

Start: 2449/5000 Cornundacauda

Ammo purchased: 50.69peds
Decay total: 22.25

Total costs: 72.94 peds
TT return: 45.70 peds

End: 2542/5000, 93 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: -27.24 peds

Run #2

Start: 2542/5000

Ammo purchased: 50.81
Decay total: 23.82

Total costs: 74.63 peds
TT return: 66.75 peds

End: 2633/5000, 91 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: -7.88 peds
Overall: -35.12

Run #3

Start: 2633/5000

Ammo purchased: 50.24 peds
Decay total: 21.84 peds

Total costs: 72.08 peds
TT return: 100.77

End: 2727/5000, 94 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: 28.69
Overall: -6.43 peds

Run#4

Start: 2727/5000

Ammo purchased: 50.02 peds
Decay total: 25.35 peds

Total costs: 75.37 peds
TT return: 90.69 peds

End: 2817/5000, 90 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: 15.32
Overall: 8.89 peds

Run #5

Start: 2817/5000

Ammo purchased: 87.06peds
Decay total: 24.54 peds

Total costs: 111.60 peds
TT return: 81.05 peds

End: 2957/5000, 140 kills

Globals/ HOFs: 0

+/-: -30.55 peds
Overall: -21.66

Goofed off too much on run #5 with a corrosive me chip III, not maxed so it gave me a bad return. But not bad through five runs.

Runs 6-10

RUN #6 - the leftover ammo run

Start: 2957/5000

Ammo purchased: .12 peds
Decay total: 22.95 peds
total costs: 23.07

TT return: 69.59

End: 3051/5000, 94 kills

globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: +46.52
Overall: +24.86

RUN #7

Start: 3051/5000

Ammo purchased: 50.65
Decay total: 22.93
Total costs: 73.58

TT return: 47.60

End: 3143/5000, 92 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: -25.98
Overall: -1.12 peds

RUN #8

Start: 3143/5000

Ammo purchased: 31.80
Decay totals: 21.73
Total costs: 53.53 peds

TT return: 83.07

End: 3228/5000, 85 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: +29.54
Overall: +28.42

RUN #9

Start: 3228/5000

Ammo purchased: 49.37 peds
Decay totals: 22.71
Total costs: 72.08

TT return: 119.17

End: 3318/5000, 90 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: +47.09
Overall: +75.51

RUN #10

Start: 3318/5000

Ammo purchased: 50.57 peds
Decay costs: 23.04 peds
Total costs: 73.61 peds

TT return: 84.41

End: 3407/5000, 89 kills

Globals/HOFs: 0

+/-: +10.8 peds
Overall: +86.31 peds

NOTES: The lack of globals sucks but returns are good overall so I am enthusiastic about results through ten runs. Usually would hit a global of 50-100 ped every 200-250 or so. At this rate, I won't get anywhere near 100 I soldier on.

Interesting thread, subscribing. Where are you hunting at? What maturities? I'm curious if other mobs are coming into play, as I only know 2-3 places that are pure Corn areas.

Area

East of mega volt. Maturities are young to old alpha. I dodge the junk between the camp and the corns, ignore the chirpies and work my way around the itumatroxes. Purely killing corns.

Ahh ok, forgot about up there. Haven't hit that area in a while, the itumatroxes used to scare me

Gl to you

Resurrecting thread

Been a while since posting in it but i've been doing runs lately since i won't be able to deposit regularly for another month or so.

Also was curious with all the recent threads about poor loot returns. Cornundacauda have always been fairly good to me so I've been tracking returns religiously. Camping them until the iron mission is done and then I'll switch to argo's and finish the 2000 left to complete the iron.

CURRENTLY: 5266/10,000

NUMBERS SO FAR TRACKED

KILLS: 5449

AMMO COST: 3391.65
FAP DECAY: 172.89
ARMOR DECAY: 107.67
WEAPON DECAY: 968.32
TOTAL COST: 4640.53
TT RETURN: 4465.09

TT RETURN %: 96.22%

With corrected numbers from posts #2 and #3 added

Adding in the ten runs from the beginning of the thread, the combined and corrected numbers are:

KILLS: 6407

Ammo: 3912.98
Costs: 5393.02
TT Return: 5253.89
Return %: 97.42

going forward

I've settled on the following setup which seems to be the most preferable to me so far:

Opalo SGA, unamped as weapon
Falx to finish the corn the Opalo breaks on
Herb box to heal
Adjusted Pixie for armor

This keeps costs to an absolute minimum and my skills are enough to overcome any shortcomings they may have.

One of the VU's nerfed the Megavolt area spawn so I've moved W/NW of Fort Zeus, a nice spawn of Young to Old Alpha.

Same goals as I set out with before but they rarely global now so 100 globals/HOFs will be impossible.

Off I go.

Run finished

RUN 2012-139

KILLS: 216, now: 5482/10K

Ammo cost: 168.15
Fap decay: 7.19
Armor decay: 5.66
Weapon decay: 2.42
Total Cost: 183.42

TT Return: 144.42, 78.74%

GOALS ACCOMPLISHED THUS FAR:

6) Finish 5k IC

NOTES: I got nothing. Bad run overall.

Three more runs

RUN 2012-140

218 kills

COST: 186.12
TT Return: 163.00

87.58%

RUN 2012-141

215 kills

COST: 184.54
TT RETURN: 165.56

89.71%

RUN 2012-142

211 kills, takes me to 6126/10.000

COST: 183.20
TT RETURN: 183.30

100.05%

NOTES: Runs are slow going and the first two were poor. I'm going to enjoy a nice, long CP camp after this.

RECORDED TOTALS FOR CORN IC:

7267 kills

COST: 6130.30
TT RETURN: 5910.17

96.41%

GOALS UPDATED

1) 100 globals or HOFs - 4/100
2) one über loot - 0/1
3) Opalo, SGA - three tiers - COMPLETED
4) Cornundacauda DNA assembled - 0/1
5) Adjusted pixie - full tier 1 - 4/7 parts
6) Finish 5000 corns - COMPLETED
7) Finish 10000 corns - 6216/10.000