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Weken
United Kingdom580 Posts
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abominare
United States1216 Posts
Seriously, I don't get how the rumor began when they talked about it at fanfest this year it was always said that it would be like having q20 everywhere. Theyre trying to spread out highsec it might be a good buff to some enterprising traders depending if new areas become popular enough, however I assume it'll just mean people will only use the agents near established hubs anyways. The only mission running nerf that has been alluded to is that they plan to do away with ships being unprobe-able. (which will be a huge nerf to the tengus making 400+ million an hour missioning in low, but you didn't get to kill them anyways) Still I expect you'll continue to find idiots still running missions like you have to date to continue to pad the kb. | ||
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
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flodeskum
Iceland1267 Posts
Back when probing a single ship took at least 6 minutes (and often close to an hour) and agents didn't send you out of the system every single time there were still only a handful of bears in lowsec. But now, when probing is so quick and easy and you have to travel between systems to get to the mission pocket there is no chance for mission running to be viable in lowsec. It's actually a lot safer in 0.0. This will just be a slight nerf to a huge isk faucet. | ||
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
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Thezzy
Netherlands2117 Posts
On May 16 2011 20:39 Warri wrote: this just made me cry so called "highsec nerf" http://www.eveonline.com/updates/patchnotes.asp?patchlogID=226 So my R&D agents....? They're a pain to get access to depending on what datacores are worth most, so now that everyone can get access to lvl 4s with 20 payout....oh boy. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19190 Posts
On May 17 2011 01:03 flodeskum wrote: I doubt we'll see any mission runners actually settling in lowsec to get higher quality agents. No amount of reward will compensate for the risk of losing your ship to piracy. Back when probing a single ship took at least 6 minutes (and often close to an hour) and agents didn't send you out of the system every single time there were still only a handful of bears in lowsec. But now, when probing is so quick and easy and you have to travel between systems to get to the mission pocket there is no chance for mission running to be viable in lowsec. It's actually a lot safer in 0.0. This will just be a slight nerf to a huge isk faucet. We did. | ||
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Warri
Germany3208 Posts
On May 17 2011 01:03 flodeskum wrote: I doubt we'll see any mission runners actually settling in lowsec to get higher quality agents. No amount of reward will compensate for the risk of losing your ship to piracy. Back when probing a single ship took at least 6 minutes (and often close to an hour) and agents didn't send you out of the system every single time there were still only a handful of bears in lowsec. But now, when probing is so quick and easy and you have to travel between systems to get to the mission pocket there is no chance for mission running to be viable in lowsec. It's actually a lot safer in 0.0. This will just be a slight nerf to a huge isk faucet. How did it take 6minutes to 1 hour earlier? | ||
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pahndah
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abominare
United States1216 Posts
On May 17 2011 01:16 Body_Shield wrote: Kwark has dreams of pith fit macherials, loki's, tengu's, and legion's running missions in probe-able ships in Isto. I have dreams of popping peoples link alt now | ||
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Warri
Germany3208 Posts
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34501 Posts
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tofucake
Hyrule19190 Posts
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
Also keep them close to the rest of the fleet as for it to not be singled out, or obvious. | ||
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
On May 17 2011 04:09 tofucake wrote: Why do you think I keep saying "we should get a pos" in combination with the "roaming sucks, we get more fights in Odd" trend that's been going around lately? Let's do it! | ||
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Thezzy
Netherlands2117 Posts
In the old system probing a signal took a lot longer due to probe radius and locations. You could only cover so much of the system that by the time you had good coverage, the target could've gotten away. Nowadays you drop down a probe anywhere, extend the range to whatever you need and you're done. Furthermore, getting a hit was chance based, not a % value. Instead of always getting a dot, you'd have a chance to get a dot and it differed each time you scanned. Very hard to probe ships would take dozens of scans (each scan took a lot longer than a few seconds) just to show up. PvE sites, especially grav sites, were the hardest of the hard to probe down. A large grav site with good ore could take hours to scan down in a fully specialized, implanted and skilled explorer. Back in the day I had a fully equipped and rigged Buzzard with all related skills at IV/V and it took me ten hours to scan down a large grav site. The probes back then (Quest probes) only had a 4 AU radius and you could not put a probe inside the radius of another probe, so each system required very delicate and precisely placed bookmarks to get good coverage (good being like 70%+). Since you couldn't tell the difference if a hard site would take 20 scans (quest probes with good skills had 210 seconds scan time for each scan) or if it never showed up because it wasnt in your coverage meant it required a LOT of patience. Did have the advantage that when you finally found a site that took you ten hours to scan down, you'd probably be the only one to use it unless they probed for your ship. I do miss that part of exploration...it's sooooo easy now...too easy. | ||
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Weken
United Kingdom580 Posts
Gunpoint will come whilst TSL is on with a fleet with 7 baattleships 3 gaurdians and recons and smash up the pos. | ||
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
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Weken
United Kingdom580 Posts
On May 17 2011 04:22 Body_Shield wrote: It would be worth it Well there is two solutions to this 1) get a cap 2) get a supercap | ||
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
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