Pretty much anyplace you can find triand or helio growing is a great place to park your bot for farming.  Around the ICS terminal there's a lot of new players harvesting so the plants don't have a chance to grow before they're torn down, but you don't really have to leave Alpha 1 islands to find ample biological life to demolish.  I've never really heard of anyone using a Kain for it though.  It seems counter-intuitive, but I guess with enough medium harvesters you could get pretty competitive rate.  I don't know offhand what the cargo capacity is, but you'll probably be dumping into a can and picking up with a Seq instead of self-hauling so that's no worry.

That said, I recommend a combination of U-plates and that surface area reduction thing.  Toss in a rep and you're off to work, I suppose.  Honestly, does fit matter that much?  You're not really going to be wandering into dangerous turf since there's plants all over the place and I can't see how you'd be able to AFK for more than a few moments being a can harvester.

Maybe there's someone out there that can suggest a more survivable fit for Alpha 2, but unless your corp is insisting you go there (blow them off, seriously) there's no increased reward in harvesting for the higher risk of getting wiped out by an Observer while your proverbial fly is down.

You subbed on july 15th, while it's technicaly possible for a 2 week character to use a mech, your acutally going to be better at farming with an assault vs. assaults and lights.

Jumping right into mech, your going to spend the next month building up EP while struggling with dispersion and advanced weapon skills. You'll have your acc sucked dry by ewar you can barely hit, and spend way too long recovering accumulator after running your repper non stop with dual plates trying to tank.

It's confusing because the natural progression looks like Light-Assault-Mech-Hmech, but if you look at the EP required to drive each of them, you see that if bot were 'level's" you would be at the end-game bot in a month. Progression is about building up the skills to fit and operate the next higher bot effectively.

The extra slots, cpu, reactor, and accumulator recharge so outweigh the reduced damage that I'm always surprised when someone suggests using an assault instead of a mech to new players. Assaults can farm better than mechs it's true, as long as your extensions are high enough to fit good modules of the right types and keep your accumulator high. By that time, you would be better off in a heavy mech.

I jumped in my kain as soon as I could. I've had a few blow up and gone back to the arbalest each time, and each time I found that it simply can't handle the same spawns as the kain.

well, it takes a few extensionpoints to get enough punch into an arbalest or Bapho that makes it a nice farming machine. and most of those points will still help you later fitting your kain or mesmer. -> and the loss of the fully fit farming arbalest costs way less then the Mech

Doh Time for a new alt!

Anyway, for Slugys: I would suggest you put a few in advanced robotics and improved armor repair, add an erp (look under engineering on the market) and some repair tunings. As a blue pilot it's not too difficult to reach a point where you can repair 2 damage for 1 ap on small repairers. With the correct erp you can then run as many repairers as you need to, permanently. Today I was running 3 to farm blue bots since they put out quite a bit of damage. I wouldn't suggest hitting blue bots though, go for green. Hardeners don't work very well in such a setup, since they actually cost ap to run, unlike the repairers*. They'll be useful again once you get into a mesmer or kain mk2, since once you have 3 repairers running, the hardener provides more benefit to your armor bar than another repairer would. As your extensions improve it is actually possible to reach a point where you can run medium repairers like this too, at least as blue. Not sure for the others, but it's doubtful. Fitting tool tells me that one day I'll be able to repair about 3-3.5k of any type of damage every second without touching my accumulator Oh, and don't use medium guns on small targets. Ignore the bot bonus.

If you prefer to use the assault, throw on 5 guns, a repairer, maybe a sensor amp or two, and any weapon tunings you can fit. Then just try to keep too many of them from locking you at once. You'll kill faster but spend more time running around, locking targets, repairing and recharging. It's probably more efficient since you'll save a bit on ammo costs. Although you lose some of the fun factor when people walk past and pause for a moment to watch you tanking a whole spawn.

With high enough fitting skills you can farm tank style in an assault too. You'll still lose some damage from fitting repairer tunings instead of weapon tunings (although if you needed sensor amps when kiting you're not losing anything here since you don't need them for tanking), but less than you lose in the mech. There's also less room for repairers, but it won't be a big deal if you're farming targets with weak damage against you.

*Hardeners can be useful if you're super lazy like me, as a sort of 'half repairer'. If the mobs aren't putting out enough damage to keep your accumulator high enough to permanently run a second or third repairer, but they're outdamaging the first one or two repairers, swapping that second or third repairer for a hardener may even it out so you don't have to bother turning that repper on and off according to your current needs. You can just leave the first repper (or two) and the hardener running permanently.

I put med. miners on my baph to ninja mine with ...

I did.

You can blow us off slugys.

And get out of that silly mech, its to big for you. These pie guys know whats up.

can someone give me a good or 'standard light fit for my kain please?

wanna know if im doing it correctly.

I demob, damp and kite in pve, and that tends to leave me with tons of spare accumulator on my Baph that I use for not tanking. I think I still have a rep on my fit, but I use it practically never.

Why bother tanking when you can outrun the AI with a speed of like 55 (although I prefer to be at 75-80)?

If the AI locks, damp it and it unlocks. If it tries to get back to base when it's all beat up, charge in and demob it so it can't escape. Considering swapping to an l-demob fit, but not sure how effective it would be.

Works in a similar manner to pvp, is way more fun and tends to produce better results to boot. When I was running a repper focused assault I had a lot of trouble taking down a t4L/t3A spawn in my assault solo. I'd get beat up too fast to get more than a few bots at a time before I needed a break. Now I can slay my way through them at a constant rate, upping my income significantly despite not having weapon tunings fit and only wearing a single resist plate (universal, because I CBA to fit specifics).

Kain can probably fit in a similar manner, and it'll be more effective all things considered than a build where you sit still and take it.