Raging Abyssal Deadspace (T4)
The farm tier — and the step change: weather penalty now rolls −50% or −70%, the suspect line arrives (flagged in 0.8, clean from 0.7 down), and XL Exotic Plasma BPCs enter the drop table. Measured reality (Abyss Tracker, 119,529 T4 runs): median loot FRIGATE-trio 86.69M vs destroyer 60.67M per run — cache count scales with hulls, which is why the trio meta exists; it is ONE shared pocket though, a tier unlock, not 3× income. This is DTC's home tier: the 3-Hawk trio farms T4 DARK, where the turret-range penalty defangs the NPCs and a proven ~54M throwaway fit clears reliably. T4 is the sensible ceiling for farm-while-you-do-other-things; above it the variance turns existential.
Access B Community-corroborated
- Found via
- Raging filament (any weather) — SUSPECT in 0.8; clean in 0.7 and below
- Ship restrictions
- 1× cruiser (no T3C) · 2× destroyers (T3D allowed) · 3× frigates
Filament prices — Jita sell, 2026-08-26 (refreshed with the data pipeline)
- Dark: 1.6M ISK
- Electrical: 8.6M ISK
- Exotic: 11.1M ISK
- Firestorm: 487.5k ISK
- Gamma: 10.6M ISK
- Cheapest entry this tier: Firestorm at 487.5k ISK — filament cost is part of the run's P&L.
Community meta at this tier (corpus, support-counted)
- The broad T4-T6 frigate meta is Retribution + Deacon (or Nergal) in FIRESTORM — and Firestorm filaments are consistently the cheapest at these tiers (live price rows below).
- DTC's own lane differs deliberately: Hawks in DARK — the turret-range penalty does the tanking; both metas are attested, pick by hull line.
- Gila runners: 'a completely safe T4 Gila is ~2-3B with implants' (2023) — while others farm the same tier in a 500M Povertila. The spread is the honest answer.
- Karybdis Tyrannos and battleship-on-tracking-pylon rooms start collecting ships from T3-T4 up — the 19-Gilas-in-a-month learning account was T4-T6.
Payout B Community-corroborated
Full table incl. XL Exotic Plasma BPCs from here up. Measured: T4 median ~87M/run (frigate trio) / ~61M (destroyers) per Abyss Tracker's 119k-run dataset; Dark's cheap filaments keep the entry cost down.
Hulls the community flies here corpus-attested, renders © Fenris Creations
Sources
- EVE University wiki: Abyssal Deadspace C Single-source / unverified retrieved 2026-08-19
- DTC abyssal research + live T4 trio operation (Aug 2026); tier medians via Abyss Tracker (abysstracker.com, 119,529 T4 runs) B Community-corroborated retrieved 2026-08-15
- r/Eve + r/evenewbies full-history archive (10.6M comments; sleeper-cache/escalation/drifter topics mined 26 Aug 2026) C Single-source / unverified retrieved 2026-08-26
Last reviewed 2026-08-19 · game version: Cradle of War (Jun 2026). Spot an error? Corrections land fastest via the channel.