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Nation on the Rise, not just another mindless escalation
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Lynkon Lawg
Second Six Corporation
#1 - 2013-10-31 15:53:17 UTC
I've been running Sansha exploration for the past couple weeks (I'm an old school Guristas killer) and I picked up the "Nation on the Rise" escalation.

WOW. I've been running DED plexes and LVL4 Missions for years, and this is the first thing I've run in a long time in which I actually got in trouble. I highly recommend trying it if you are looking for a challenge.

Each stage is packed to the gills with elite NPC frigates and cruisers (so you need high dps and good tracking to kill them), you land between 100 and 200 km from the targets (so long range weapons are very helpful, or an MWD), and they will tracking disrupt, web, and warp disrupt you en masse (at one point I was warp disrupted by seven elite frigates simultaneously). If you are going to get stuck in, know there is no easy escape until all the warp disruptors are dead

This is definitely a PvE environment where something like a sniper Eagle or Vulture would shine, and other than Guristas/Serpentis World's Collide, there aren't many of them. (I know it's the wrong dmg type, but I'm not that familiar with sniping with beams or arty.)

My only complaint, and I know it's my luck, not the escalation, but the only loot I pulled from the whole series was 5 True Sansha crystals.

I recommend trying it.
Lynkon Lawg
Second Six Corporation
#2 - 2013-10-31 16:04:38 UTC
One other thing. When you land on each stage, it seems the next escalation stage triggers in your journal, and the current one vanishes. Unlike other escalations in which you can jump away, repair, and jump back using the same escalation journal notification, this one doesn't work that way. When I ran it, I was leapfrogging two ships in a squad so I never left the site empty so I don't know if it instantly de-spawns, but if you are going to need to leave and return refreshed, I definitely recommend dropping a bookmark when you first land.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-11-01 08:02:43 UTC
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Nation_On_The_Rise

Yeah, very fun expedition. I remember adding a lot of info to that Evelopedia page while running that expedition.


Ugh

For some unknown reason that page only shows top contributor - Elisa Fir [1].

History tab shows Elisa Fir, Sersant Majoor and Felix Hibra as adding info and or editing that page. The earliest date listed for Revision history is December 28, 2011. The page format and layout is pretty close to how I had originally set it up.

I also noticed this listed in the History tab : 12:21, 29 December 2011‎ Elisa Fir (moved Nation On The Rise to Nation on the Rise: renamed to be inline with ingame name).

Guess that explains the lack of contribution history as well as being a good way to take credit for documenting it.‎

Evil

Sorry about the rant. I just don't like seeing credit not going to where it's due. You know what I mean?


DMC

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
Ginger Barbarella
#4 - 2013-11-01 17:48:55 UTC
I stopped adding to the Wiki when some people just replaced my info with their own bad (incorrect) info. Someone did that 3 times, so I just stopped updating it.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Nam Dnilb
Universal Frog
#5 - 2013-11-01 23:31:38 UTC
Fun fact: A lot of the "decoration" in the sites is warpable.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-11-02 21:23:09 UTC
Ginger Barbarella wrote:
I stopped adding to the Wiki when some people just replaced my info with their own bad (incorrect) info. Someone did that 3 times, so I just stopped updating it.

Yeah, I know what you mean, especially after a lot of time was invested to not only document the site but to also edit / create the Evelopedia page as well.

If your version is correct and still listed in the History tab of the Evelopedia page, you can still revert it back.

The way I document sites is take notes first, Mission Report style, while running the site, then edit / create the Evelopedia page afterwards.

My main gripe here is that somebody else jumped in and changed it around just enough to take credit for all the work.


DMC

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
Radhe Amatin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-11-05 09:07:11 UTC
You should also try https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Sennen%27s_Tip pretty nasty my tengu was caped out in 30 secs.
Barely got out alive.