Missions & Complexes

Cool. Learn something new everyday :) thanks

Nice read...never been one for plexing but I might just jump into after all this great info.

This was a lovely read. Thanks for taking the time to write it all down!

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You just make your plex much easier to scan down if it's a plex you found by probing. If it's an escalation you just gave them a way to find a plex that they could not before (escalations, like missions, cannot be scanned themselves but anything inside it like YOU or a bubble can and the gate counts as"inside"). I once lost an escalation plex to someone who scanned me down because I was trying to finish it before they found me instead of being smart and leaving till they left lol.

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I once tried to anchor a bubble in a plex but got the dead space message so appears you can't inside. Haven't tried the external gate but have been told that counts as dead space too.

Well you could anchor it directly behind the gate.

Or better yet - somewhere in space between the gate and the the pocket it points to. That however, assumes you can drop a warpable bookmark there, which I don't think will actually work.

Most people flying tengus can probe the encounter, but won't go in, if you got out, because they won't want you behind them. They may try going in, if you are already in. The usual thing thus is the standoff, which the ESS won't make any difference for.

Nobody flying a cerberus, stabber, nomen, vaga, interceptor etc, can get into the plex without having an overview helper, or by prescanning, which happens almost never. ie I'd just be putting the plex on overview unnecessarily for lots of mobile skirmishing and tackling and dropping types to get at it.

All non cloak warping ships can be reliably protected against by shortening d-scan till they are only on it, if they are on the way to the plex - particularly in my system with only 2 gates and a short gate-gate route. Easy for me to tell if I am the droid they are looking for and they aren't moving along.

Even more terrible would be giving away the position of an escalation with it (which when really paranoid I will shoot the wrecks in, which means its unfindable unless my ship is in it uncloaked).

Roaming probing plexers have to be more careful of residents than vice versa, as its a little more likely the resident has the BM. Moving about and doing a different plex in an empty system is usually the better strategy for a roaming player.

They can't be probed down, but someone with good bookmarks can get onto them via d-scan.

I clear my system of them, and that usually gets rid of whatever miniprof hunter put it there too.

Most other people just ignore them, so they'll be probably be ok, but there are better and worse places to place them. My system is very small, and its very hard to put anything out of common paths, and its an obvious residents and in use system (big anom list from the ihub) - if you leave it more on a travel - pipe system that nobody rats in, and you leave out of range of celestials and gate-gate paths, it will likely remain untouched as long as you need.

I'd expect that competition for venal deds to be pretty high, as they are politically accessible to everybody. Whenever there is excess competition for sigs, the net effect is to "sweep" the space.

Also CFC is off deployment, so local population in the area is probably higher than usual, which may make Zionas preferred strategy of searching sov space near npc space that you can base out of, harder to do than normal.

I get about 10 deds per month in my system, which will give you an idea of guristas signature turnover. Given I'm only online for a session a day, and they occasionally get stolen, I'd expect to have to scan about 6 systems to get a DED on average in lightly populated areas, and like everything that is random, it probably streaks between 3 and 20 a fair bit.

So here is your guide summarized:

1. Be an Aussie.

2. Don't not be an aussie.

3. Profit!