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[Incursions] The mother of all jokes: Scout encounters

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elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#1 - 2015-10-09 01:40:52 UTC
Storytime:

While I was hauling the chaos that represents my assests all over empire space to one place I came to visit my Caldari agent location and it happens that an Incursion was happening.

Experience from a long time ago thought me to avoid those but since I cannot fight my own curiosity I wanted to give it one more try.
If my guess is right the staging area would have the not so difficult sites to do and so I went only to dock a few moments later because I was jammed and neuted out by a frigate.

Yeah speaking of challenges, I got a different boat and had more succes and since the journal entry said something about a 3 million isk payout I was expecting this site to be soloable.

Holy bajeebus was I mistaken. I am still unclear what kind of ships you are supposed to fly in the staging areas so I called for help.
Minutes later we were fighting Sanshas in those sites that are supposed to be for 3-5 people.

Now my thinking was that for 3 million isk the work should be done in about 5 minutes but I was wrong again.

About two hours later we completed that thing for a payout of 2.5m isk.

Joke is on you CCP, fool me once. Now here is my idea, add some zeros at the beginning of the million so the risk versus reward thing is appropiate.

Eve Minions is recruiting.

This is the law of ship progression!

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Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#2 - 2015-10-09 02:22:27 UTC
Scout sites are broken basically.
There are two basic ways to run them. Drone boats with drone assist on whoever isn't jammed.
And 5 Marauders.
Neither is worth the effort.
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#3 - 2015-10-09 02:34:18 UTC
Thank you Nevyn!

Yeah that's what we figured too. Neither of us had one and a corpmate lost a Gila. So the site did cost us 300 million isk.

Can you, CCP, reimburse us for wasting out time?

Eve Minions is recruiting.

This is the law of ship progression!

Aura sound-clips: Aura forever

Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#4 - 2015-10-09 03:18:28 UTC
A little bit of research first would have however told you what you were going into.
So CCP owes you nothing. Not everything is efficient to spend time doing in the game.