Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
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Posted - 2012.09.11 09:11:00 -
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If you're selective about your missions, yes, a bomber soloing L4 FW missions can work pretty reliably. One way to make it work is to pick a bomber that's built by the faction you're going to fight - that way, you get the bomber's damage bonus shooting into the faction's resistance hole. Nemesis against Gallente, Manticore against Caldari, that sort of thing.
You need to get your speed-to-signature ratio as high as you possibly can, though, and you absolutely need to fly manually to keep high transversal to slip the NPC guns. Rule of thumb says you want to top 1,000 meters per second on afterburner; in my experience, in a Nemesis, that usually takes two overdrives in the lows and a deadspace afterburner (expensive, but it earns out quickly).
NPC electronic warfare can also make these missions a cast iron [beep]. Gallente will throw enough tracking disruptors at you that you'll have to get within 15,000 meters to lock up your target, which means coming terrifyingly close to about 378.6 metric f[beep]tons of battleship guns. Minmatar will target-paint you, throwing your speed-to-signature ratio into the toilet and letting their missiles cream you. Caldari will jam you out completely. Amarr ... will use tracking disruptors, which mean [beep]-all against a stealth bomber.
And I've got a bad feeling that somewhere along the way, CCP buffed some of the elite NPC's in those missions with Sleeper AI and forgot to tell the players. I was tag-teaming a mission with a buddy, assigned to destroy a stargate, and was kiting all the hostiles a couple of hundred km away from him, when one elite battleship reversed course, charged in on him at a kilometer a second, and started neuting him - while it still had me red-boxed.
But on the other hand, running Level 3's and Level 4's (three L3 missions will get you as much LP as one L4, and more cash besides) got me enough LP to be effective in one of the recent LP dumps. |
Marc Callan
Interstellar Steel
Templis Dragonaors
21
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Posted - 2012.09.11 13:07:00 -
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Zarnak Wulf wrote:Missions in FW used to be the only way to make LP and turn a profit. Now they are redundant and serve no useful purpise except as an exploit. They should be removed. Period.
If one side in a warzone has captured nearly all the systems, there's nowhere left to plex, which leaves only two sources of LP to upgrade systems and the like: PVP victories, and missions. And missioning in the FW zone can be a challenge, and can draw some interesting fights. It's not nearly as broken as using an unarmed frigate to capture zones designed for battlecruisers. |