Missions & Complexes

Guristas?

The assault with guristas i PITA and I refuse to do it whenever I can.
they spawn all over the place with 200km missile range and **** load of EWAR ships... too much effort for my liking.

and regarding your question I think it's karma.
try to sacrifice a shuttle to the rng gods.

@Forum- Serpentis, actually- so usually routine slaughter (like hunting in a petting zoo). I know what you mean about Gurista version- way unbalanced IMO.

@Donnachadh- I'll see what CCP says (or doesn't say).

Thanks to both!

sounds like you are bumping off something, or just weren't paying attention to the direction you were facing.

Only thing I can think of is that if you are on approach with something like an MTU or BM, your ship will eventually, slowly, poke too far past it and your ship will make a sudden about-face in place when it realizes it has floated past the object or location instead of coming to a complete stop like it should. Bad timing can cause that to be a headache in your case. Slower ships without a prop mod going tend to take longer to do this, but they WILL eventually do this at least once if you let them.

Reminds me of when I use to fly a Tengu, I almost biffed it once and a pocket of neuting Blood cruisers nearly ate my ship. I had set orbit on a cathedral structure in the middle of the pocket and was busy knocking out the web towers while the swarm of cruisers too slow to overtake me formed a cloud of unhappiness behind me. When I turned my prop mod off to avoid getting to close to one of the web towers I hadn't killed yet, my ship literally stopped, turned around, and blindly faced the hoard of hunger hippos lagging behind. It wasn't until I realized that my tank had shut down and that I was completely cap dead that something was a miss. Nearly cost me a small fortune in ship and fit back in those days for that mistake. I swear that autopilot controls are just there to bamboozle you rather than be helpful.

Worth mentioning, but if that's not it, then it beats the hell out of me. With how much code there is in Eve (and how much of a nightmarish mess it must be in paces), it's a wonder we don't see even more strange and inexplicable phenomena in our everyday pod lives. Either way, good luck and hope you and your Domi continues to fly safe.

There is your problem right there. When at a dead stop you do not stay aligned your ship sort of settles back to a default facing horizontal to the default view it does not say facing the way you last moved.

Always align the way you want to jump before hitting MJD.

I assume that the rats put you to 2% hull and not the MJD itself?

Aha- so always be moving in desired direction before hitting the MJD. I'd have never guessed. Why the random vector from a standing start? Spite? To be clear, I was facing where I wanted to go but was not moving. After the MJD started to spool-up, the ship actually turned around 180 degrees- while I watched in horror- before jumping.

@Arthur, yes was the rats that chewed me down to a nub, and not the MJD. Now that would have been a real bug... hit the MJD and BLAM!!! you're down to 2% hull. Kinda like Takata airbag activators that sometimes double as shrapnel grenades.

Thanks all! Appreciate the insights.

After landing you probably aligned where you wanted to but there was LCO or some asteroid in your way. Stopping your ship and activating lmjd forces your ship into full speed.

It happened to me when I MJD before align.