Missions & Complexes

Can someone explain to me what happened with Remote Defense grid unit, one that disables the bubble in the site.

I have lost Astero, and 3x Helios in that blast last 7 days.

These are sites for frigates, usually fitted for align/speed not tank and because of that atleast give me time to move with MWD.


My last wreck is standing 30km away where the initial explosion happened.


Pre Rhea, I could fail once, and atleast give it a second try.

Now I cant even MWD from the explosion, because it happens 2-8 seconds after first attempt.



Btw I have run atleast 35-40 Limited Caches so far, so I know something has changed.





EDIT because must be talking to myself here:


I will start moving my alt with me in some Assault frigate and kill the bubble from now.

Like I said, week ago or so I could fail once and still have time for second try ( even tho message in local says you have set something in motion but you dont know what ) on Remote Defence grid unit and not get blowed up,

now if you fail to hack first time you are history.

If Dev can confirm that they changed/tweaked this part of the site I would be gratefull.

No, I was first on the entrance hack in 90% times.

I was hunting for these last 2 weeks in highsec, and got very lucky finding them alot.

Usually the can in cloud that do environmental damage and the bubble storage have the best loot of the site, like 90% of them so in order to despawn site from signatures you need to disable and hack on of them.

If you find yourself in one of the sites, try you luck in the environmental cloud ( if there is anything worth to go for it), ignore the Remote defence grid unit unless you

have frigate alt who can kill the bubble or you have max hacking skills/some implants etc.



Edit for screenshot from the last site where I lost Helios.


Wreck from last site, screenshot by lightshot.


Now on screen, you see that there is no Remote Defense unit grid anymore, where it usually is between those 2 plasma chambers, close to plasma clouds also.

Now you see where my wreck is, I really dont know how it got so far away from the initial location of the Remote defense unit, that is like 20km or so.

When I failed the hack, I quickly hit douple click on direction away from it and hit MWD, that thing exploded in 5 sec. I had no chance.

First explosion while I was in Astero left me on 10% Armor if I recall, the second was last in Astero.
1659 total damage taken.

The same fit was, with 4 Nano Internal Structure II.


I can try and test it with some tank next time, but I wont risk it.

Last Helios had little help with Pseudoelectron Containment Field I (was active on hack attempt) and minor boost to shield with Power Diagnostics System II.

1946 Total Damage Taken.

Okay, thank you for the fit.

I will just ditch Helios from Caches, and buy new Astero then.