Originally by: Heikki

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Originally by: Bellum Eternus

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0.68% chance to

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So you would need some 100 attempts to get roughly 50% chance to find him ((1-0.0068)^100), taking about 100*30 seconds or 0.83 hours, on average.

Let's make guess that when jumping fast tackler on probed mission DS you'll manage catch the target every third time, and you're chasing his CNR with 1B of mods, of which 50% will survive

So 0.5 * 0.33 * 0.5 * 1B ISK / 0.83 hours, or about a hundred mils per hour, divided to participants (say 3). Would still sound reasonably.

Originally by: Bellum Eternus

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only mission runners who die to attackers are those who are not paying attention and are not prepaired.

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I think that is the whole idea (as with Empire suicide attacks): you only go after marks worth of the trouble, and only kill those that are careless and very unlucky.

Idea of high risk/high rewards doesn't need to mean that you should lose your ship every 3rd day; rather that you die on days when you let your guard drop.

Then again, I have not missioned nor hunted missioners for ages, so have no first hand experience. Forums might just give a bit biased image; those managing to score nice NPCer kills might be less eager to post about them.

-Lasse

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