Vexidious
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Posted - 2010.06.21 22:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Noise Munga
Not if there are like three fleets of 6 all doing missions kitted with Ewar and logistics they wont. I'll quote one of my old FCs on this "Hows that pirate going to pick off the weak if they are all together and together they are strong?"
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This time you have taken the biscuit! How many people out of 6 are going to be engaged by the rats? one perhapps two at a time? Just make sure your combat ships warp in first and take on the aggro then get the Ewar, cap warfare and tackle to safe up or come in once it's safe. They are only there as a support crew to get pirates jammed out and able to do nothing but sit there or warp off if indeed you dont want to kill them.
If local spikes by like 10 or something neuts/reds safe up, GTFO, use your brain!
So, you are saying that you need about 6 people to do L5 missions in low sec without being auto-ganked by the first small pirate gang that wanders by - and even then, if a larger pirate gang shows up you get to play "warp between the safe spots" until they get bored with you. Just one problem with that...
L5s don't pay enough (compared to L4s) to make it worth doing them in a gang larger than 2 or 3 - and that's assuming that you won't be spending much time hiding in safe spots, and that you won't be losing any expensive ships. And that doesn't even take into account all of the other downsides of L5 missions, such as the huge factions hits, the fact that you need to keep your standings very high to even run them, and the fact that there are so few L5 agents (so all the pirates know where you will be.)
Now, I don't have a problem with L5s in low-sec in principle, but if the rewards are not equal to the risks (and they are nowhere close), then something is broken and needs to be fixed. Whether that fix is high-sec L5s, or higher rewards, or more L5 agents in more systems to reduce risk, I don't really care. But the fact of the matter is, you would have to be crazy to run L5s right now unless you are in a low-sec PvP corp that basically owns the systems near your L5 agent - and if that is the case, you probably have better things to do than L5 missions.
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