Marcus Xavier
Minmatar
Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
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Posted - 2007.08.21 22:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Praetor Kahn
So being that I'm running level 4 missions in a 0.9 security system, it is fair that they can come in while I am still doing the mission and salvage stuff that I have killed and that has my ticker on it, not theirs, and not so much as be flagged so that I can do nothing more about it than sit there and watch a three day old alt warp in on me and salvage wrecks?
Are you suggesting it's far too easy to probe mission runners? Was this deadspace or outside deadspace? Were you using drones? Was the mission space within 4 au of a planet?
Sounds as though a cloaked covert ops located you in 20 seconds, warped in and surveyed the wrecks, and either set up a warp-in BM or requested the NPC Corp alt to warp in behind him. What are the odds that this same person would merely adapt to the changed conditions, since it is obvious that he was selective in choosing which mission runners he looted? (Battleship mission runner, battleship mission wrecks, etc.)
By all indications, it's the probing that needs fixed, not the salvaging. Yes, I believe non-exploration probing is far too easy.
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Marcus Xavier
Minmatar
Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
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Posted - 2007.08.21 23:06:00 -
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Originally by: Praetor Kahn
It was a three day old noob-corp alt that was dropping scan probes and warping in on missions, no drones, 20 AU outside any reasonable scanner distance. I know it was him cause I followed him off 30 AU away and saw him drop a probe.
He had to have at least Astro IV to find you at 20 AU (he would need another 12 days to scan you at 40 AU). I suspect he may have had BMs already setup through mission running that system or he was working with someone else who had the requisite skills to probe longer range. I haven't check Evemon to see if it's possible to learn Astro IV in 3 days, but there is no question he skilled this alt just for this kind of "mission" and could easily find you with shorter ranged probes with Astro I.
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