Missions & Complexes

Title says it all and i would like to hear from any low sec mission runner who has had same issues.

Grid size is huge in mission pockets now. stupidly big, issues i have is combat probes are no longer required to find players easily in mission or ded plex sites.

They simply need a cloaked ship, slower the better. a point of reference( 5 Degree angle of you on dscan) and a warpable point. either celestial bodie or station, or even a created bm,

simply warp through the mission, bm it, warp to bm and they are on the gate. mission runner has no idea, not lost a ship yet but come close too many times since patch.

Think this is a serious issue, deadspace pockets should be changed back, not using probes should be an exploit.

If you have had issues please stick it here so maybe the GM's will take note

The funny thing is you are making the "problem" worse by posting about how easy it is. In fact I might give it a try tonight.

Whut?

While probably something CCP overlooked, but having a mission grid intersectable by a warp from 2 points in space is just really bad luck. Take a swimming pool 100x100 meters, on random positions around the pool you drop chairs, indicating planets/warpable objects in EVE. You now face your back to the pool, and throw a tennis ball behind you into the pool, indicating your mission grid. A chance of you finding an intersect here is very small, and finding a 8000km grid in a system that's say 15AU across is even harder.

I'd just say it's mostly a case of bad luck. And WHY, for the love of god, do you run missions in low-sec when there is someone in local you don't know or isn't blue? You might as well self-destruct your ship to start with.

Pro tip: go back to WoW.

I have to agree with this. Overall it seems very improbable, even with a crapton of system bookmarks I can't imaging relying on it.

are you sure they didn't drop probes out of d-scan range, drop them on you scan and recall before you could d-scan?

Most solar systems are flat. Simply getting a mission that is at all above or below celestials makes this not possible, which is usually the case. And even if the mission is in the plane of the solar system that doesn't make it between two celestials.

Also, your mission deadspace would have to be pretty darn close to a celestial, otherwise you'll be moving too fast to get the pocket (your position in space updates once a second, mission pockets are bigger, but still really small in the solar system overall) and covops cloaking ships have some pretty decent warp speeds, making this even less likely.

Honestly you're probably better off moving combat probes far out of dscan range, and once you think you've got the mission pocket dscan pinpointed, bring them in for just one scan. Better than dropping the, probably dozens of, bookmarks required to pin someone down by just warping around.