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Cargo delivery, L4 (serpentis) Change?
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Kal'Han
Kador Trade Company
#1 - 2015-12-14 05:04:26 UTC
Hi

just to report a change I hadn't see before today : Cargo Delivery

I usually never rush mission, I like my salvage, so even for this one that could be done in a shuttle, I always go in with big guns

Good for me, this time 4 ships, 2 cruiser and 2 BS waited for me
2 cruisers were trigger to 5 more BS, one name Dune something, that is usually at the end of this mission

looting the quafe made the usual wave with frig/cruiser/bs but not the additionnal wave.

no more shuttling this mission

5.6M bounty


I guess the end reward is not high enough compared to any other fight mission, but maybe this was just a glitch
I've run this cargo L4 dozen of time and never saw rats before looting, until now
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#2 - 2015-12-14 05:45:44 UTC
years ago the rats would spawn when you got inside the asteroid ring. One of the cruisers being the trigger for the 5 bs with the named guy spawn sounds right. I'm not sure when they updated it so the rats don't spawn till you loot the wreck.

this thread has some details on some of the mission changes people have spotted.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=459777&find=unread

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Kal'Han
Kador Trade Company
#3 - 2015-12-14 08:22:37 UTC
I have to say I don't remember "years" ago. I missioned a while in '08-'09 then did other stuff. I started missioning again for the fun of it about 6 month ago
you get to know your rats and mission pretty quickly, and this is maybe a change back to something from before

anyway, thanks for the link, I didn't see it
Kithran
#4 - 2015-12-16 12:17:30 UTC
Kal'Han wrote:
Hi

just to report a change I hadn't see before today : Cargo Delivery

I usually never rush mission, I like my salvage, so even for this one that could be done in a shuttle, I always go in with big guns

Good for me, this time 4 ships, 2 cruiser and 2 BS waited for me
2 cruisers were trigger to 5 more BS, one name Dune something, that is usually at the end of this mission

looting the quafe made the usual wave with frig/cruiser/bs but not the additionnal wave.

no more shuttling this mission

5.6M bounty


I guess the end reward is not high enough compared to any other fight mission, but maybe this was just a glitch
I've run this cargo L4 dozen of time and never saw rats before looting, until now


Its not a change - its a consequence of the new grid sizes/bad luck.

With the bigger grids you stand a greater chance of intersecting with the mission grid on the warp to the site/gate - this can be an issue in incursions where rats spawn on entering grid. In the case of cargo delivery it is more likely pure bad luck - your initial warp took you too close to the container and they spawned because of that - I've had the same happen to me years ago.
Estella Osoka
Cranky Bitches Who PMS
#5 - 2015-12-16 15:06:59 UTC
Kithran wrote:
Kal'Han wrote:
Hi

just to report a change I hadn't see before today : Cargo Delivery

I usually never rush mission, I like my salvage, so even for this one that could be done in a shuttle, I always go in with big guns

Good for me, this time 4 ships, 2 cruiser and 2 BS waited for me
2 cruisers were trigger to 5 more BS, one name Dune something, that is usually at the end of this mission

looting the quafe made the usual wave with frig/cruiser/bs but not the additionnal wave.

no more shuttling this mission

5.6M bounty


I guess the end reward is not high enough compared to any other fight mission, but maybe this was just a glitch
I've run this cargo L4 dozen of time and never saw rats before looting, until now


Its not a change - its a consequence of the new grid sizes/bad luck.

With the bigger grids you stand a greater chance of intersecting with the mission grid on the warp to the site/gate - this can be an issue in incursions where rats spawn on entering grid. In the case of cargo delivery it is more likely pure bad luck - your initial warp took you too close to the container and they spawned because of that - I've had the same happen to me years ago.


Except normally rats don't spawn until you loot the can. It's not triggered by distance. The BS rats that spawn are usually spawned after you kill the initial spawn.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-12-16 22:37:55 UTC
Estella Osoka wrote:
[quote=Kithran][quote=Kal'Han]Hi



Except normally rats don't spawn until you loot the can. It's not triggered by distance. The BS rats that spawn are usually spawned after you kill the initial spawn.


Yep, you could even open the can without them spawning.

In fact you could be aligned to something with the can open and then loot it while moving past, initiate warp and pretty much be warping out as they spawned.