Missions & Complexes

Personally never though of this, i havent use sentries before, are they capable of shooting frigates?

For those crying about those crying about "NPC AI changes" (drones weren't changed).

Step 1: read up on the changes
Step 2: Realize Sentries are not nearly as hated by npcs as other drones are
step 3: get scrammed by stuff that sentries can't hit while whole room has you aggro'd
step 4: put out light drones to kill scraming npcs while doing dps from main ship + other ewar + remote repping trying to generate enough threat to get aggro off light drones
step 5: watch your light drones vanish from frig npc alphas despite the fact that your ship is generating loads of threat
step 6: explode

Domi pilot - take out 1 gun/DLA and put in said small remote armor rep. Aditionally take out 1 cap recharger and fit a target painter for addidional threat generation

CNR pilot - You arent a droneboat.

Ewar doesnt work, neither does RR.
I speak from experience.
That is all.

What part of eve do you hail from where npc frigates are the only ships with guns.

the way i see it is that a few things need to be changed.

they should either up the rewards for level 4's since l4 runners have more risk of being popped now, also the ai is the same as the sleeper AI which gives better rewards.... a few of you love this term risk v reward l4 runners now have more risk of being popped so fairs fair cant have it both ways.

if the aim of the changes is to cut down on the amount of isk gained from running missions, a timer needs to be put in place to limit the amount of missions and get rid of the stupid ai changes.

if the aim is to stop AFK'ing missions (personally i believe this is a red herring) dont think its as common as people say, how do you know they are AFK'ing in the first place? .... if you knwo they are afk'ing / botting ... ban them = simples.

also if the isk is too high nerf the bounties for all npcs ingame for all and not just nerf mission runners like myself who are casual gamers and dont get massive amounts of isk form level 4's... im lucky if i do 8 missions a night.

Frigs in my experience have targeted lights, mediums, and heavies.

Also, BSes can target sentries. If they're optimal and 12 BSes alpha your sentry, its gone.

No repper can save the drones from that kind of alpha.

That's funny, because they're shooting my salvage drones, never mind the hate a drone type that actually damages them picks up.


Personally I've all but disposed of drones as a weapon system and now nearly exclusively use salvagers, fortunately, I'm rocking a missile boat so I can get the little buggers with precision/equivalent weapons.

I feel for those gunboat folks though.

1) CCP has said it's a bug, so it's not really a drone change, it's a broken AI.
2) See #1.

CCP has identified the whole room agro to be a bug that they're working on. The deal with frigs targeting drones is WAI afaik? Once they change the agro management coding so that all of Vengeance doesn't agro on your ship when you warp in the room you will still need to figure out a way to deal with the frigs that are scramming and webbing you, but it should be MUCH more manageable.




I believe this to be a function of the difference in sig radius actually. Salvage drones maintain the same sig radius (25m) as light drones.

I might just be crazy for this assumption, but I pretty much think its about how far off the target is from the NPC's programmed sig radius targets, then modified by how "threatening" the target is. When I was in missions with my friend in his Assault Frigate, I could keep the frigates or the cruisers off of him in my CNR. My drones were pretty much able to do whatever they wanted for the duration of the mission.