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Bei ArtJay
Entering Space Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.12 15:12:00 -
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Shameless plug here, I have been meaning to get round to posting this recipe since I produced this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDQ8pU0OBb0 . I thoroughly enjoyed http://downthepipe-wh.com/ podcast last night and took note of what Two Step said about PVE in wormhole space becoming predictable and boring, we recently thought the same thing and decided to spend some time having fun with red giant effects to try something different! As I point out in the video this isnGÇÖt an original concept but it does take some planning and thinking through so I donGÇÖt know of many people who have tried it. I'd really love to see what other people have done to experiment with wormhole effects in PVE!
Enjoy, and may all your care bear dreams come true!
Serves 7+ players, or one very serious multiboxer.
Ingredients
A base of C6 red giant. Nothing less will suffice, and any lower class will ruin your efforts. 6+ Smart bombing battleships. The more you add the more 'oomph' you have. The Abaddon variety is best, flavoured with high EM resists and True Sansha smart bombs. You will need 60 seconds of capacitor, although cap charges will do if you donGÇÖt have the skills. 1 traditional triage Archon (well used) and loaded with plenty of dashingGÇÖs of strontium. 1 Legion Links of the all Level V quality. Don't hold back on the vintage of your links, they will help spice up this dish enormously. 1 Well trained Zepyr & Zepyr pilot. An additional 1 dreadnoughts and 1 more carrier and dreadnought as required, any brand will do and wonGÇÖt affect the outcome. 1 or more noctis, tenderised with 1600mm plate. 1 Webbifying Loki or Rapier.
Method
Firstly prepare your anomaly by creating bookmarks. Initially you need to create one far far away from the first wave of sleepers. Preferably three hundred kilometres or more. Then you need to warp one of your dreadnoughts to said bookmark and away again, thus creating the initial sleeper guardian spawn.
Secondly, position your Zephyr at the precise centre (this is important) of the sleeper guardian group, this is your warp in.
Thirdly, make sure links are running and your fleet is correctly aligned. Fleet warp your triage Archon, Rapier/Loki and battleships to zero on your Zepyr pilot. He must warp away before they land or meet his fate. On landing all battleships must instantly light their smart bombs and keep running them until all sleeper guardians are exploded. Make use of cap charges as required. The Archon must triage and lock up all battleships. The battleship that is primaried by the sleepers will require all reps and cap transfer to remain effective. Failure to triage will result in a difficult situation. Battleships will ideally be equipped with a webbifying device that should be utilized to prevent sleeper escape from the ball of fire.
Warp-preventing sleepers from the initial spawn must now be dispatched with lazors (refit on the carrier), take care not to trigger the second wave of the site.
Lastly, utilise one or more noctis to salvage all wrecks and warp away, pile all your ISK into a big mountain in the corner of your corp hangar and roll around in it, preferably while cackling like a mad man. Then FOR THE LOVE OF ISK GO AND PVP WITH IT.
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Efraya
DEEP-SPACE CO-OP LTD Exhale.
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Posted - 2012.12.12 15:28:00 -
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Thanks for explaining how you do your pve sites!
I'll make sure that this information makes it into the hands of our finest military minds so that we may fight you on the field of battle. Sir, I salute you.
WSpace; Best space. |
Bei ArtJay
Entering Space Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.12 15:38:00 -
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This was a one off holiday, we don't live in a Red Giant.
I was dying for a T3 blob to land on us while the smart-bombs were running. We most likely would have been overwhelmed, but the panic it would have caused enemy guardian pilots would have been most amusing. |
Jack Miton
Aperture Harmonics K162
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Posted - 2012.12.12 20:10:00 -
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well, it's certainly different. looking at 800dps out to 15km on a rack of faction smarties for anyone who wants the stat. |
Kalel Nimrott
EG CORP Talocan United
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Posted - 2012.12.12 23:17:00 -
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Why is not going to work on anything less than a c6? |
Gibbo5771
AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse
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Posted - 2012.12.12 23:50:00 -
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Kalel Nimrott wrote:Why is not going to work on anything less than a c6?
Range? Guess the sleepers get out of range nice and fast. |
Bei ArtJay
Entering Space Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.13 01:51:00 -
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Yeah if you watch the video you see the sleepers get to around 13-14k form the battleships - so we cut if fine. The True Sansha smart bombs have a 15k range in a C6, only 13.9k in a C5. There is some overlap so you want a bit of buffer. If they get out of range of the smart-bombs it gets really messy. You have to refit, possibly bring a dread in etc etc.
You could do it in a C5 for sure, but this is real min/max pveing. Consider also in a C5 you not only have less range but less DPS as well, so I wouldn't feel comfortable with less than 10 battleships, and consequently the loot payout gets smaller per player. Still fun tho if you want to try it out.
The beauty of smart bombing the escalations is that you can do it in one triage cycle - all the guardians are dead in under one minute. If the Abaddons re-fit like pros and the noctis's salvage really quick you can be in and out in just a little over a triage cycle (no need to re-enter triage unless something goes wrong). If you have the sites pre-bookmarked and pre-escalated you can clear many in a relatively short space of time.
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Jack Miton
Aperture Harmonics K162
959
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Posted - 2012.12.13 02:18:00 -
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Well i was sceptical but the vid is good. Given the setup time and number of people needed this isnt going to be as efficient as using dreads for DPS but it certainly gets the job done.
I definitely like the idea. |
Svodola Darkfury
Heaven's End League of Infamy
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Posted - 2012.12.13 20:37:00 -
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Jack Miton wrote:Well i was sceptical but the vid is good. Given the setup time and number of people needed this isnt going to be as efficient as using dreads for DPS but it certainly gets the job done.
I definitely like the idea.
Agreed it's a very interesting approach. But there's only about, what, 6 of these systems in existence? I'll guess 10 on the high because I don't want to look it up right now. Still a fun way to try things out.
Svo. |
Angsty Teenager
Broski North Black Legion.
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Posted - 2012.12.13 23:36:00 -
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There are 18 C6 Red Giants.
1 of them has a C6 static. 6 of them have C5 statics. 4 of them have C4 statics. 6 of them have C3 statics. 1 of them has a C2 static. 0 of them have a C1 static.
So basically there are 7 good wormholes you would want to live in to have any. (I'm counting only C5/C6 statics, becuase C4 statics suck, and I'd rather not have a C3 static because relying on random WH's for capital logistics is ghey, and lel C2's.)
According to wormhol.es, 3 of the C5 statics are unoccupied, with 2 of the other C5 statics and the C6 static being occupied by these duders apparently: http://eve-kill.net/?a=corp_detail&crp_ext_id=1711339511
They were also apparently evicted from one of the now unoccupied C5 statics, so maybe they've just moved around a lot? I dunno and I cba to do more research.
The site did seem to be upset when I opened all 18 C6's systems on it all at once, so I think it failed a bunch of api calls, so what I posted here is probably less than accurate, but w/e. Point is I don't think there is a shortage of C6 Red Giants. |
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Trinkets friend
Sudden Buggery Swift Angels Alliance
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Posted - 2012.12.14 09:57:00 -
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Cool stuff. Kicking the sand around the box nicely. Taking submissions for "Trinkets friendly Advice Column" via evemail or private convo in-game. Anonymity sorta guaranteed. http://www.localectomy.blogspot.com.au
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Psihius
Anarchist Dawn U N K N O W N
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Posted - 2012.12.14 10:30:00 -
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Just one question - is Archon required to go into triage or can it keep battleship alive without the triage? |
Bei ArtJay
Entering Space Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.14 12:28:00 -
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Well lets just say this is how it ended when we tried without triage
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15307468
And yeah, these BS ain't cheap fit but it only made a small dent in our profits. Sometimes you have to suffer in the name of science! |
Psihius
Anarchist Dawn U N K N O W N
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Posted - 2012.12.14 12:38:00 -
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Bei ArtJay wrote:Well lets just say this is how it ended when we tried without triage http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15307468And yeah, these BS ain't cheap fit but it only made a small dent in our profits. Sometimes you have to suffer in the name of science! I suspected that. Well, the main reason I asked is - did it die because of the DPS or carrier without triage just was unable to lock the battleship in time? |
Angsty Teenager
Broski North Black Legion.
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Posted - 2012.12.14 16:05:00 -
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That's interesting. It seems to me that an abaddon, (personally I wouldn't fit the second plate since it already has enough ehp), with legion links, tanks enough off of two legion boosted non-triage meta cap reps to survive 2 waves of sleepless guardians + the smartbomb damage. Even if that's not enough, you can do 3 cap reps + 1 energy transfer and that should be more than sufficient to keep it alive.
The only real need to triage might be if you are doing a quad escalation all at once.
Granted I haven't done this, I'm just looking at numbers in EFT and comparing it to values of tank in EFT for ships I actively use in WH PVE scenarios. The abaddon fit I'm looking at (which is the same as yours, except I drop the second plate and ANP for a-type kin and exp hardeners) tanks more off of two meta cap reps w/ legion links than my moros does (which I use in dual-escalating sites). (Like 1500dps more).
Not sure why you died. Eitherway it seems to me that most optimal way to do this sites would be to have a set of 5 caps, 3 carriers, 2 dreads, and warp 4 of them to 300km of a site to spawn the waves, and setup that site with a zephyr as you use the caps to spawn all 4 escalation waves in all the sites in the system, and as you get warpins for each of the sites via the zephyr, just clear all the escalation waves at once using the carrier in triage--which should be able to rep the abaddons properly with 2 cap RR, and should have enough tank to last ~1 minute even under full dps and neuting. Then just do what you said and salvage during the rest of the triage cycle and use the abaddons to clear the scramming frigs or w/e.
Have you tried doing all 4 escalation waves at once?
EDIT: And to the above poster-- I can't imagine it was due to the carrier being unable to lock in time. I actively use a non-triaged archon, and it locks my loki easily in time (which obviously has a smaller sig and larger lock time). You probably don't even get to half armor, 200k ehp is more than sufficient. Trying to use something with 80k ehp is where it gets pretty sketchy. |
Ace Fire
Chemikals Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.14 18:46:00 -
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Psihius wrote:Bei ArtJay wrote:Well lets just say this is how it ended when we tried without triage http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15307468And yeah, these BS ain't cheap fit but it only made a small dent in our profits. Sometimes you have to suffer in the name of science! I suspected that. Well, the main reason I asked is - did it die because of the DPS or carrier without triage just was unable to lock the battleship in time?
The biggest problem was probably neuting turning off the EM hardeners, which massively increased the incoming friendly smartbomb damage. But the lock time and mod cycle time are also to blame. If you look at the mail then you'll see six friendly BS; add the Loki and there were seven targets for the Archon to rep. I was hoping to be able to run the sites without any triaging, as this would remove a significant element of risk should a K162 be spawned. Unfortunately, a non-triaged Archon is only able to lock six targets and has pretty crappy scan res, and the RR mods cycle quite slowly really. So basically what happened was that the Sleepers neuted the Abaddon dry, turned off its hardeners and, assisted by the 6000 DPS from the smartbombs, ganked it before the Archon could lock it up and cycle the reps enough. The drop in locked targets and scan res when exiting triage also occasionally caused some "omg panic, stash Noctis in carrier" moments when exiting triage with normal-wave Sleepers still on the field.
Obviously, these factors can be mitigated - an autotargeter or signal amplifier for more locked targets, SeBos for scan res, passive hardeners on the Abaddons. But I wanted to keep the Archon PVP-fit. Since we were only there for a few days we didn't have time to try out different fits. At least we didn't end up like this anyway.
We only ever warped into spawns of 14 Sleepless Guardians - we didn't try the full spawn of 28. I'd be confident doing the 28 with two carriers on the field though, and it would probably be fine with a single carrier if you used passive hardeners. One plus is that nobody was ever hit by a Sleeper missile, so their kin/explo volley damage - which numerically is quite scary with 14 or 28 Sleepers - was nothing to worry about. |
Bei ArtJay
Entering Space Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.14 19:11:00 -
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Alas, EFT does still not factor in human reaction time, and that's what makes this game great. I think that was the first site we did so were were a little nervous warping 8-bil of ships into possible doom if it all went wrong.
That's why I love EVE, even after all the dozens of factors to consider in this experiment like this, you can still never precisely predict human reaction time and *OH ***** scenarios.
I'm not the numbers guy, (Ace was) but my gut feeling is that the alpha from 28 Sleeper BS + the 'alpha' form the smart bombs hitting all at once when landing would mean that the Archon would really have to be on the ball. I think that 28 sleeper neuts would flatten the Abaddons cap completely even with a capital transfer on it so yeah B or A-type passive resists might be necessary, but then you are piling a whole heap of ISK on the field!
I would LOVE to see the footage of someone pulling this off tho! Seeing 28 BS 'splode at once would be nice. |
terrah peoples
Fer Lomarcan Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.14 19:48:00 -
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Beyond all the maths, figuring, what if's and what we learned, what I really took away from this is just exactly how awesome it is to see 14 Sleeper BS all go pop at once. It never got old. |
Angsty Teenager
Broski North Black Legion.
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Posted - 2012.12.14 21:56:00 -
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Ah, I figured that you would be able to keep the EM hardeners on with the combination of cap energy transfers and popping cap boosters at the right moment.
Also, what do you mean about nobody ever getting hit by sleeper missiles? |
Janus Nanzikambe
Fer Lomarcan Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.14 23:34:00 -
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Angsty Teenager wrote:Also, what do you mean about nobody ever getting hit by sleeper missiles?
Smart bombs, they kill missiles. The missiles, they deal exp/kin damage, the sleeper beam weapon does em/therm. |
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Lexar Mundi
DYNAMIC INTERVENTION ORPHANS OF EVE
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Posted - 2012.12.14 23:58:00 -
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Angsty Teenager wrote:Ah, I figured that you would be able to keep the EM hardeners on with the combination of cap energy transfers and popping cap boosters at the right moment.
Also, what do you mean about nobody ever getting hit by sleeper missiles? Smartbombs give you a "firewall" of sorts that missiles can't get through if you have enough going off at the right time.
I think an alliance did a video about this going up against drakes out in nul sec. |
Angsty Teenager
Broski North Black Legion.
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Posted - 2012.12.15 00:09:00 -
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Ah yes. I'm familiar with the mechanic, I just didn't make the connection (durr). That's really interesting actually, good to know that mechanic works with sleepers. |
MisterAl tt1
Pretenders Inc W-Space
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Posted - 2012.12.15 17:04:00 -
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Good job for sorting it out. Bad job for letting everyone know.
And I'm really interested in what CCP thinks of it, as it does look as a new exploit for me. |
Robert Harrison
Aperture Harmonics K162
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Posted - 2012.12.15 18:11:00 -
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Lexar Mundi wrote:Angsty Teenager wrote:Ah, I figured that you would be able to keep the EM hardeners on with the combination of cap energy transfers and popping cap boosters at the right moment.
Also, what do you mean about nobody ever getting hit by sleeper missiles? Smartbombs give you a "firewall" of sorts that missiles can't get through if you have enough going off at the right time. I think an alliance did a video about this going up against drakes out in nul sec.
This one Lex.
I'd seen that Abbadon loss and wondered what ya'll at KICK R&D were trying to accomplish. I'm not sure how effective it would be in the long run, but props for ingenuity.
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bubble trout
Sky Fighters Talocan United
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Posted - 2012.12.15 19:39:00 -
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MisterAl tt1 wrote:Good job for sorting it out. Bad job for letting everyone know.
And I'm really interested in what CCP thinks of it, as it does look as a new exploit for me.
How is it an exploit? Someone managed to put a bonus to good use, it's like using frigs in a wolf-rayet or more RR in a cata. |
pierre arthos
Aperture Harmonics K162
6
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Posted - 2012.12.15 21:49:00 -
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Hi Bei,
Always nice to see some out of the box thinking. I see you went back into w-space, good man. |
Angsty Teenager
Broski North Black Legion.
92
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Posted - 2012.12.15 21:52:00 -
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Yea, how would this be considered an exploit? This if anything, seems like the proper use of the red giant wormhole bonus.
And tbh it's only marginally better than standard methods of doing sites, it requires significantly more setup time, and at minimum it takes 5 minutes due to the archon's triage cycle.
You can already do a triple escalation in 10 minutes using dreads, and it requires less people. I see no reason why CCP would think this is bad, especially considering they don't care about leashing sleepers--which is much more of an 'exploit' than this is. |
MisterAl tt1
Pretenders Inc W-Space
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Posted - 2012.12.15 23:20:00 -
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Angsty Teenager wrote: especially considering they don't care about leashing sleepers--which is much more of an 'exploit' than this is. Fixed at least partially with the last patch (saw some whine) and that is an exploit for sure. For this one - they might see it as one, since they have stated they didn't mean capital escalations for capital farm at all. |
Gypsio III
Chemikals Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2012.12.15 23:28:00 -
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News just in, killing Sleepers is an exploit! |
Jack Miton
Aperture Harmonics K162
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Posted - 2012.12.16 01:28:00 -
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MisterAl tt1 wrote:Good job for sorting it out. Bad job for letting everyone know. And I'm really interested in what CCP thinks of it, as it does look as a new exploit for me.
exploit? not sure if serious... Or you just mad that CCP finally fixed the exploit almost all russian corps in WH space have been using for years? |
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