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Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 08:23:00 -
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So, a popular way for pirates to hunt missioners is to probe them down and try to get them to attack. One of the ways they do that is by trying to ruin the mission's objectives, forcing you to fail the mission and incurr a standings loss.
Now suppose you aren't missioning in High sec, but in Low sec, and someone decides to give you enough of their attention that you rather not have them pop up on your overview. If they don't find you at the mission site, they may decide to thrash it as well.
There are plenty of resources available for protecting your ship from mission probers (cloaking and safespots being foremost among them), but what can you do, other than only mission in completely deserted locations, to keep your mission safe enough that you won't be forced to grind courier missions to get your faction standing back to normal each time you stumble across a roamer? |
Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 08:38:00 -
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erg cz wrote:Stop missioning in low sec.
What if i want to do FW? that requires low sec missioning. |
Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 10:28:00 -
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erg cz wrote:Spam your d-scan. You see probes there first. Any probes = cloack if you in Astero or warp out if you are in battleship. Remember, that shield tanked battleship is scanned down much faster, than cruisers like stratios or ishtar.
That protects my ship from destruction. That was not what i was asking about. This topic is because i don't know what i can do to prevent the wannabe ganker from subequently thrashing my mission when he arrives and found i went into hiding. There must be something because people DO run missions solo in lowsec and without such countermeasures the risk of standing loss is just too great to warrant the slightly greater reward.
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Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 11:56:00 -
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Ok. So basically, cherry pick the easily blitzable missions or the ones with kill objectives where it doesn't matter what the pirates do when they don't find you in the mission anymore. I guess that makes sense as i agree that the main reason to do FW or low sec missions is for the LP and for LP blitzing is better than farming the wrecks.
Your ability to identify a mission through nothing else than D-scan is... unsettling. I certainly hope that is not the common norm for low sec roamers to be THAT dedicated or skilled.
Thanks for your insights. |
Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 12:11:00 -
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Ralph King-Griffin wrote:Hi firstly, consider yourself Wachlisted,
Your tolerance for people asking legitimate questions in a Q&A forum, trying to become a better player, is admirable. Would you rather i make unreasonable demands of CCP to nerf high sec piracy? Or do you automatically KOS anyone who tries to avoid becoming prey regardless of how they do it?
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Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 13:01:00 -
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Ralph King-Griffin wrote:Rather missing the point here,
if you are not willing to defend it, you don't get to keep it.
If I get into your mission, you need to get me out, if you can/will not, then it's my mission.
As stated , you can prevent this from happening fairly well but once you have company you have to do something about it, and that something involve your ship, if you're unwilling to risk the ship, you effectively gave the mission away.
Now I'll apologise for the Wachlisted comment
Yes i got that point. TBH it was mostly a thought experiment as i agree that the rewards for LoSec don't compensate for the increased risk that not having CONCORD or a herd of other missioners to hide behind provide. I wanted to know if there was something that could be done to protect both your ship and the mission, other than arranging for an escort (does that actually happen?).
And yes, i only took exception to the watchlist remark. The rest of your post was quite helpful.
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Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 13:14:00 -
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erg cz wrote:Remember that your mobile tractor unit IS scannable as well.
That's an understatement. It's actually a big bright neon sign that makes your mission A LOT easier to scan down. Plus mission flippers delight in suspect flagging themselves by blowing it up. I only had to lose one of those to learn it's better only to deploy it after i'm done with the mission and am cleaning up the wrecks and loot in my Noctis. |
Shanur
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.07.31 13:27:00 -
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Ralph King-Griffin wrote:we just want to see what's inside
I hope you are wearing a blindfold then when engaging it. Don't want to upset the evil Pinata gods!
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