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Iracham
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Posted - 2007.12.28 09:02:00 -
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Has anyone gotten this escalation? It started with a Serpentis Watch unknown site that I've done before, but after i blew up all the spawning structures and ships I got the escalation, 4 jumps out, and a simple fight with 3 or 4 frigs and cruisers, go through a gate and 4 frigates 225 km away that warped out and gave me another escalation. I go to the second escalation, similar combat at another gate, but when I warp through, the 4 frigates are there, 1 is 60km away, the other 3 leave, and stuff starts spawning, I got through about 40 cruisers/BCs and similar number of frigates when...
This.
The Serpentis Madcat/Hoodlum was the original frigate that stuck around with a message about his warp drive being broken. I couldn't break its tank, it has 90% in all resists for armor, and when i got it to half armor, it instantly repaired to full.
Has anyone gotten past this part? My Ishtar's tank barely held long enough to warp out after they spawned.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.28 19:53:00 -
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It's not a plex, it's an Escalating path / Expedition from an exploration site.
And for an update, I went back after DT in my domi, the area had reset, and I popped the madcat with a full rack of light neutron blasters with void ammo and a flight of Vespa IIs with a fleeting web and omni link. (at least the madcat orbits in light neutron optimal.)
When the madcat died I got a message about the escalation being a dead end and that I could either leave or stay to be overwhelmed by Guardian Angel babysitters. The expedition is now gone from my journal.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.28 21:29:00 -
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It didn't have anything worthwhile.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.28 22:02:00 -
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No, dead end just means the escalation is over for you. I've had an escalation go 5 steps and end with an actual end (I caught the frigates I was chasing, and got faction loot from them) and then I got it again a few weeks and it dead ended on the third step "Your ship failed to track where they warped to" or something like that.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.29 03:36:00 -
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Or the GM was just clueless about how exploration mechanics actually work.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.01.08 23:27:00 -
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lol. You just needed to kill the madcat, not the whole overwhelming force. Reassuring to see that it doesn't drop anything good though at least. Shame you got dead ended too though, I kind of wonder about the rest of the expedition now.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.01.09 11:57:00 -
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Yeah, once you know the dead end/escalation trigger that's what it is, it's solely chance based whether you get an escalation or a dead end.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.01.29 19:52:00 -
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That looks like a blast, I really wonder what the can has in it, the mass amount of serps doesn't really look too hard, all BCs and cruisers and frigs, just a lot of them.
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