Lloyd Roses
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Posted - 2014.08.03 09:55:00 -
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One thing driving me nuts from time to time are lowclass-sentries, those Argos (I believe) that force you to run c1/c2 anoms with a HAC/BC/Gila atleast. While some are painfully slow, some are mindnumbing expensive for the money you earn that way. The whole idea of treating pve more like pvp (i.E. noobs in their wolves/hawks running anoms) simply doesn't work cause *those sentries*. Better: You can only run 1 or two types of anoms unless you take the ONE DRAKEFIT to run it at low SP. Wormholes are hostile enough to low-SP players as is, it would be sweet if the options to generate money inside a hole would allow you to go in in smaller ships by being a better pilot (durr, transversal)
It's simply, I've taken many noobs (~1-2mil SP) into c1/c2 to show them around holes and run some anoms with them using rifters - while it works in (for example) perimeter hangars/c2 (running 3-4 rifters works just fine), a perimeter camp/c1 will simply slaughter you one by one even though it's supposed to be easier just cause 2 sirius pop you on warp-in. The necessity to take out expensive ships is quite contraproductive to getting new people into wormholes (better now, used to be HAC/T3 or get out).
To top it off, sleeper sentries don't switch targets. So oldschool. So dumb. And as many people pointed out, afk-mining in highsec is usually way superior to running sites in a poorly skilled drake, dafuq. At least given that in a c2, 25mil an hour from a single drake with some proper MNR drops is quite wonderful with your puny 230dps, while 15mil/hr/toon having some miners active on a roid is almost a laughable revenue for that sort of activity, and then you're even in highsec, the only threat being overzealous suicide gankers (use dcu if you like to go afk). Since wormholes got introduced, trit went up by 150% in value (2.3 -> 5.2 atm?), while valuables you get out of wormholes dropped from ~7mil/MNR to the current ~3mil. (excluding the spikey near 10mil from 2011 to 2012)
Really about time for a wormhole-mats/payout revamp.
"I honestly thought I was in lowsec"
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