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Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.12 20:07:00 - [1] Edited by: Tuttomenui II on 12/03/2009 20:14:03 I am currently doing the Epic Mission Ark, from Sister Alitura in Arnon. I am to #30 in the string and the agent in Hek I was sent to tasked me to scout a Smugglur Hub. When I got there there were 8 battleships all worth 1.2 mil bounty, 9 cruiser/battlecruiser, and a few frigates. And a huge NPC Carrier, 'Stolen Nidhoggur'. I am using a Ishkur to run these missions so I recruited some nice guys from local to waste these ships, (Note killing the ships is not required as this is a lvl1 mission). I moved in shot a bs got them to aggro me and then flew away and orbited the structures at 102km, and all that was able to hit me were the cruise missiles which ony did 6 damage to me in sheilds and 7 damage in armor. Carrier ignores you while you kill all the other ships. After we killed all the ships I engaged the carrier, and got a warning that the ship was a civilian and that i would take a factional standings hit if i continued my actions. I started shooting and orbiting the carrier at 2500m, he started neuting me and trying some other weapon not sure what but it was missing me. every so often my cap would rechage then drop to 0 and then recharge. took us a while to kill him, his armor went quicker than his armor. He dropped some t1 loot 437 marines and a tag. Salvaging the ship gets nothing. Oh and the carrier has no bounty. Alex Dunmori > wheres a dread when you need it Tuttomenui II > lol Tuttomenui II > in amarr mining veldspar Enjoy the pics. http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/20090312170348.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown1.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown2.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown3.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown4.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown5.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown6.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/HekNPCCarriertakedown7.jpg ^^ My Signiture is an actual Signiture WOW!!!^^
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.12 20:22:00 - [2] Originally by: Quantar Raalsken Originally by: Tuttomenui II his armor went quicker than his armor. blasphemy! lol, I meant Sheilds, but hehehe thats funny.
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.12 20:55:00 - [3] Edited by: Tuttomenui II on 12/03/2009 20:56:46 Originally by: Jesum It saddens me to hear NPCs can be out played so easily. Its a level 1 mission... your not really supose to destroy the ships. Originally by: Chribba Yarr! I mean bzzt-bzzt-bzzt-Veldspar! Thank you for posting in my thread oh great chribba!!!
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.12 21:54:00 - [4] Originally by: Venkul Mul There was a standing hit or not? Yes there was a standings hit but I am not sure how much.
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.12 22:43:00 - [5] Originally by: Roemy Schneider so... salvage? Sadly there was no salvage. the carrier droped a damage control and a smart bomb and a couple other things i cnat remember someone else grabbed this stuff, and I grabbed the 437 marines it dropped and the tag.
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.12 23:12:00 - [6] Originally by: Abrazzar Originally by: CCP Dropbear Originally by: Cygwin Gaad did it even launch fighters? I don't think we can make them do that, sadly. Still, glad to see a positive reaction to this mission. The idea behind some of these is to show the less experienced players some things that they usually wouldn't see for a long time. Well, couldn't you add a trigger on the carrier that spawns a couple fighter npcs when it is attacked? Like in that one Drone mission where there just a drone quuen, and at different % of damage it calls in reinforcements. would work for carrier as the fighters could be elsewhere in system ad warp in to deffend.
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.13 07:57:00 - [7] Edited by: Tuttomenui II on 13/03/2009 07:58:38 I have made it to Final mission, its like #50 or 51.. Capture Dagan. And look at his ship its of simular design as the Apotheosis Shuttle. Nice. Heres pics: http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/DagansShip1.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/DagansShip2.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/DagansShip3.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/DagansShip4.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/DagansShip5.jpg ^^ My Signiture is an actual Signiture WOW!!!^^
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.13 09:15:00 - [8] Edited by: Tuttomenui II on 13/03/2009 09:35:05 Correction Capturing Dagan is not last mission lol, and FYI station in that mission drops 5x Caldari Light Marines, and takes quite a long time to pop iwth a isshkur and 5 hobgoblin IIs. Edit: Pictures of last mission, For sure this time. Drop off Dagan to a prison transport. http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/LastMission1.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/LastMission2.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/LastMission3.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/LastMission4.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/Tuttomenui_II/LastMission5.jpg
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.13 11:17:00 - [9] Originally by: Bimjo Just so that we understand could you answer the following : 1. I know this Epic is low level, but what would be total worth of these missions approximately ? 2. how many hours game time totally ? 3. did any of them send you to low sec or 0.0 ? 4. your final thoughts ? good for new players ? and vets too?or will they get bored with it ? ta 1. I salvaged and looted a lot of the missions that were combat. I didnt really keep track of how much I made, but without killing the carrier and those battleships I would estimate the loot, and some salvage, and the bounties to be around 20-30 mil easy. 2. I would say 12hours total play time maybe more, I think I did 1-18or20 yesterday with a break between for maybe total 6 hours yesterday on the Arc, and today I played from 8 am to 6pm maybe.. got to a few misisons after the one where i killed the carrier. then I took a break. Got back on at 9pm and played until 2:45 am, I spent an hour I think just blasting the station in the secound to last mission to see if it dropped anything, thats about 1:35-2:45 spent on killing the station. I flew the entire arc in my ishkur with light neutron blaster IIs, and it took quite a while to pop the station I think it took 2300 round of null S, then I arn out and used iridium S to finish off the last 1/4 structure. it dropped 5 Caldari light marines. Then was maybe 15 minutes to finish off last mission. So 6 hours plus (8am-6pm = 10), plus (9pm-1:35am = 4:35) plus 15minutes = 19:50 total. I left out the time I spent on killing the station. with that its 21:05. I am sure it can be done in less total time I took a few breaks to just sit in station to spin ship and chat to locals and link my forum thread. I helped a guy recover some 3 wrecks of his he lost a 2 rifters trying to salvage his destroyer wreck so i went and toasted the rats for him. 3. None of the Agents sent me to low sec, or 0.0. It would be fairly irresponsible for CCP to send new players out to low sec and 0.0 for a lvl1 mission arc. 4. Items you get as reqards, are destroyer skill book, within first 15 missions, a Civilian Analyzer, and the statue you retrieve for an agent with the analyzer that he lets you keep. Aditional items I got for going beyound the mission and killing stuff is 437 marines and a tag the carrier dropped. (both of which are on contracts). I would say its a definately a time consuming mission so it give a new guy something to do while he/she trains those free skill books from aura and the tutorial agents. They seem to increase in difficulty as you go and a few of them subjest bringing freinds. With the exception of the taking down of the carrier and its fleet, I soloed the entire arc in my ishkur. So if a new player takes thier time and thinks to ask people to help as they go I think they will ahve a great time, if they dont ask for help I see a lot of players losing ships from not know how to properly outfit and such. Vets, I would say the only value was the doing it to say you did, If I had spent this time on lvl 4 missions instead I would have made about 35-40 million for ever 4 hour period as thats how long i average to solo lvl4s killing/and salvaging looting afterwards. So isk isnt the prize for a veteran. I got bored a little with some of the back and forth between some of the other agents. you get sent to all 4 corners of the empire, *inner corners that is. Get sent to caldari, amarr, ammatar, and gallente. THere are 2 instances where its like a choose your fork, theres a 2 way early on, and before the last 2 missions you are given a choice between 4 commanders to give you last 2 tasks. A commander from each race. they are all 4 within a 4 system cluster 2 jumps from Arnon. I have to say overall I had fun. I hope this answers your questions.
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.13 11:21:00 - [10] Additional thoughts on what it would be like for new players. It does a great job of letting them know just how big eve is. Sending them to the 4 racial corners of empire. I think CCP did a damn good job on this mission arc and I think it will fullfil its purpose great.
Tuttomenui II Gallente BUDAPIG LTD	Posted - 2009.03.15 04:46:00 - [11] Edited by: Tuttomenui II on 15/03/2009 04:49:05 Originally by: Estel Arador Were all of the missions for SoE agents? How small/large were the standing increases? No, you do missions for Minmatar, Amarr, Caldari, and the gallente navy ontop of what you do for the sisters agent. There are a few agents in space you get sent to as well. In the end its like a huge cooperative thing between all 4 empires to rid the galaxy of that dude you hand over at the end. Originally by: Bimjo tuttomenui II , thanks for the writeup Your Welcome Bimjo. This started out mostly as a, "Holy **** look what I did with help from some cool guys in local!!!" thread, but with you all adding to it and asking questions its turned into quite the discussion. Helps to have a CCP Dev comment to. Also Chribba "The great Lord of the Veldspar".

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