Missions & Complexes

I haven't, but I've heard that the Caldari Arc sends you into low regardless which side you pick. Everyone/guide has told me though that's not the case with the other three Empire Arcs -- to the point that picking the pirate side WILL and picking the Empire side WILL NOT --, and I've ran the Sisters Arc many times and the Amarr Arc several times before without ever getting sent to anywhere outside of high sec. That's why I was asking, it just seemed weird. Lesson learned, I suppose.

Thank you for the clarification, Sentenced.

Also if you are in a ceptor your not going to die in low sec unless you are an idiot. I wouldnt worry about your precious implants.

Not totally true. There are instalocking setups that can catch interceptors.

Even so, pods pretty much insta-warp. So if your ship dies and you are spamming warp-to, you should warp instantly. Unless you screw up and are spamming warp-to the gate you just came through.

Basically, the way server works is that it takes 2 seconds to lock and apply point to your ship...

As long as you have an ship that can warp off in less then 2 seconds, you are fine. You jump gate, you initiate warp, your ship appears on overview. Enemy needs 1 second to establish lock (1 server tick = 1 command = 1 second) and then 1 more second to apply point/scram. Basically even with laggy connections, if you have sub 2 seconds warpoff (most nano ceptors have it, shuttles have it as well) you are fine.

However, when you are you arriving on outbound gate, you might land into ship already firing smartbombs, in that case you might be fu**ed. So my suggestion, jump into system, take a second to breathe, you have 30 seconds for sure to get your barrings. Look for your outbound gate, then find celestial body which is at high angle to your gate and warp there first and then to the gate.

Smartbombs are limited in range, so ships are usually parked in straight line from 2 gates, you wanna have incoming vector that is not in the same line as two gates. However, even with that, might be good idea to avoid places like Rancer where they put 20+ smartbombers all around the gate :)

But in most cases for epic arcs, you should be fine.

I bought like 100 medallions 3 years ago and have them in Amarr on stockpile, so can't say for sure, but pretty certain somebody finished the site before you and it didn't despawn. From what I know this site will spawn fairly often in constellation, so just look for a new one and you might get it.

Please report back what you hear from the GM's!

Edit : It's worth mentioning that some cans (Tutorial Missions) become re-hackable after some time. It's possible that there is some fault where someone did the site, hacked the cans, the wrecks despawned approx 2hrs later and at some stage the cans became re-hackable despite having nothing in them. It's all speculation though.