really??? but really???

http://i.snag.gy/7yxva.jpg

Amarr epic arc....

Ok, those didn't perma TD, in last missions I was perma TDed for a bit less but still unable to hit a BS.

Original plan was Machariel + Noctis + Siege Booster, in the end I was so much disrupted I replaced for 2 Machariels + Siege booster. Works for now, while they shut down tracking on one mach you blow em with 2nd and rinse and repeat.

But now for serious, this kinda tracking you miss battleships with 20 m/s transversall speed making it impossible to finish mission solo with any gunboat. My sentrys did somewhat help by taking out cruisers, but took 3-4 minutes per cruiser and no way of breaking battleship tank. With frigates I can simply burn out to 50 km and snipe em with sentry drones, but all together, really bad job with all this TD. I remember doing this missions before in AC Loki and was no where as near tracking disrupted. This is absurd. Fielding 2 machariels to get 4 battleships and 3 cruisers/frigates down is hilarious.

Please FIX IT.

Just want to point out it's not just TD, 8 damps in missions are also great fun (Serpentis Blockade), targeting range of like 7km. It just turns not very intersting content (Missions) into a real chore. And drones on aggressive just ends with them killing every goddamn trigger but leaving the damping cruisers alone.

Warping in and out a billion times just to pick off every damper one by one isn't exactly my idea of "fun" add the new drone aggro into the mix and things get entirely horrible in a drone boat. Not hard, but annoying.

How long does it take CCP to change something like this, genuinely all they have to do is lower a value or two in some text file/database somewhere that controls NPC's stats, it'd literally take less than 5 minutes to do, it's obvious the NPC EWAR is too harsh and annoying everyone so what are they waiting for...?

Look at all the patch notes from recent releases and check out all the useless things that nobody cares about that CCP prioritizes over fixing a part of the game that is horribly broken.

really??? but really???

http://i.snag.gy/7yxva.jpg

Amarr epic arc....

Ok, those didn't perma TD, in last missions I was perma TDed for a bit less but still unable to hit a BS.

Original plan was Machariel + Noctis + Siege Booster, in the end I was so much disrupted I replaced for 2 Machariels + Siege booster. Works for now, while they shut down tracking on one mach you blow em with 2nd and rinse and repeat.

But now for serious, this kinda tracking you miss battleships with 20 m/s transversall speed making it impossible to finish mission solo with any gunboat. My sentrys did somewhat help by taking out cruisers, but took 3-4 minutes per cruiser and no way of breaking battleship tank. With frigates I can simply burn out to 50 km and snipe em with sentry drones, but all together, really bad job with all this TD. I remember doing this missions before in AC Loki and was no where as near tracking disrupted. This is absurd. Fielding 2 machariels to get 4 battleships and 3 cruisers/frigates down is hilarious.

Please FIX IT.

Guys it's look like CCP made some adjustments to TD strength on Singularity.
I wont say that it has been fixed yet, because there was not enough tests from my side, but changes are definitely positive.
With TD from 3 Arch Blood Raider Cruisers on my Sleipnir optimal/fallof decreasing from 19/69 to 12/55 or so, and I'm still able to hit them.
Diff between TQ and current Sisi client http://pastebin.com/ge6RfkNg

So I think that anyone interested should log-in on Sisi and leave feedback. Maybe this will help deploy this on TQ faster.

Guys it's look like CCP made some adjustments to TD strength on Singularity.
I wont say that it has been fixed yet, because there was not enough tests from my side, but changes are definitely positive.
With TD from 3 Arch Blood Raider Cruisers on my Sleipnir optimal/fallof decreasing from 19/69 to 12/55 or so, and I'm still able to hit them.
Diff between TQ and current Sisi client http://pastebin.com/ge6RfkNg

So I think that anyone interested should log-in on Sisi and leave feedback. Maybe this will help deploy this on TQ faster.

Well looks like they're doing something, nice of them to inform us themselves though right? I mean if they say "Hey we want to fix it could you all spare some time to play on Sisi?" I'm pretty sure we all would.

If CCP's goal was to make missions more challenging and fun with uber-tracking disruption, they failed. It simply means that I know in certain missions I just won't be able to hit anyone and simply decline those missions.

I have wasted SOOOO much isk in tryen to get a good ship that will allow me to solo in null sec sansha area. The ONLY way to be able to rat anywhere in this area, is with a missle boat. Drone boats are allmost impossible as they LOVE poping the drones right off the bat. Any ship with turrents gets insta-shut-down. There is no killing rats with a turrent. This is a VERY big Glitch/Break in the game. I fitted 2x TE II's and a Tracking Computer II. NOTHING, i still lost over 75% of my Range and Tracking. This is rediculus CCP. PLEASE do not eliminate the TD from the ships, but instead, reduce that by atleast 50-75% of the current amount. I understand you makeing it to where you will atleast have to equipe a TE or TC with script. So leave it like that. BUT you HAVE to reduce the TD of the NPC's. Wasted money on a NAPOC, Nightmare, Abbadon, and the only ship i found with a decent effectivness is a Harby ft with beams and it gets reduced to 4km Optimal. REALLY? LOL. I have been reduced down to a BC to even rat in belts. With that said, forget useing it in Hub's and havens ECT.... So CCP you guys are great about listening to your players, which is the way any well-ran MMO should be.


So what i ask: Lower the amount of TD that the NPC's do by atleast 50-75% of current amount.
Result: Player will still have to equipe TEs ECT to get there best range/dmg.

Thank you!

So apart from grabbing a few guildies, how does one do The Blockade as a lvl 2 mission?
I usually roll through lvl 2s but I just can't hit these when I have 3 TDs on me. Even at 70 km, I'm still TD'd.

I just don't get this, even moving in close to less than 1k and stopping, I'm still missing.

I've played 2 months, and if this is balance, I don't need to bother cause these guys should be able to take over everything.

I recently came back from over a 4 year absence (so I'm basically relearning the game again) and decided to run a 'Sansa Watch' exploration site that I found with my Harbinger. The first pocket went fine, but when I flew into the second pocket I was met with 18 cruisers TDing me at the same time. I was basically able to kill one (primarily with drones), warp out, and repeat for a few hours before I could finally function well enough to clear the area. Within seconds of warping in my lasers were completely ineffective.

I know I'm bad (still re-learning, and was never an expert even 4 years ago), but I was thinking to myself that it was just ridiculous that my T2 fitted BC with good gunnery skills was performing so poorly....and then I saw this thread that at least made me feel like it wasn't all just a 'L2P' issue and that something was really amiss with the incredible amount of TD happening.

Some NPCs (mostly Sansha) use their tracking disruptor again less often. The tank of some NPCs is also slightly weaker now.

Patch today. I'm out of NullSec today to run some Empire errands if others could give me some feedback before I can test things on my own please post here.

Hey guys, as many of you will have noticed the patch last week included a fix for the Tracking disruption issues. NPC tracking disruption should now activate and deactivate just like it did before Retribution. The fact that it now affects falloff as well as optimal since Retribution is intended and separate from the issue that was causing the constant activation.

I'm interested to hear from as many of you who run Sansha missions as possible. How has the tracking disruption situation been over the last week?