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DED sites - what am I missing

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Reservegirlfj
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-06-27 14:52:09 UTC
Got laid up at home for the past 3 days and decided to get my eve fix in - There is a 2 of 10 in my home system that I figured I would try.

Everytime I warp into the first room the initial spawn with the gate key has already been killed by the same toon. He's been on the past three days straight ( no 23/7 does not make him a bot) and refuses any attempt to convo (still does not make him a bot). This got be frustrated so I thought I would camp the first room and wait for the spawn.

Without fail, everytime the spawn appears, he warps into the room. Never comes in early or late, always within 10 secs of the spawn. Is there some way to time this?

Now 7 times I have been able to grab the spawn due to the warp in being 30 k away from it. Every time I do, he aligns out and mwd's off grid and dissappears. I grab the key, activate the gate and work through the rooms. All 7 times he does not follow me through any of the rooms, yet when I get to the last room, the faction drop spawn is already killed by him and looted. These rooms need all the spawns shot before the next gate unlocks, so how is he getting to the last room without going through the other 3?

Is there someway to scan down the last room that I'm missing and bypass the other rooms? I have not been able to find any way to do this but I'm new to DED sites so maybe I'm overlooking something.

Any help or advice to get in front of this guy?
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#2 - 2012-06-27 15:49:27 UTC
Stop doing trying to do static plexes.

Problem solved.
Reservegirlfj
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-06-27 15:53:35 UTC
Stop trolling legitmate post.

Problem solved. Big smile

He just did it again. Spawn shows up, he warps in, I kill and go thru gate, work to last room and he's already been there and got the last spawn. WTH - can you scan the last room down or something?
Suqq Madiq
#4 - 2012-06-27 16:02:23 UTC
File a petition. Sounds like an exploit to me. Static PLEXes have long been known to be easily exploitable by a select few, but nothing will ever be done if people don't start reporting the issue to CCP in the correct way.
Reservegirlfj
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-06-27 16:06:12 UTC
Petition filed - I'll let you know what happens in 2 - 4 weeks/months/soon.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#6 - 2012-06-27 17:17:13 UTC
If you have the key to the last room, you can use the acceleration gate at any time. Chances are good that he camped a large number of key dropping mobs and warped through while you were gunning down the current key dropper.

ISD Dorrim Barstorlode

Senior Lead

Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

Interstellar Services Department

Reservegirlfj
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-06-27 18:02:41 UTC
That's what I thought, but he always burns 500+k away until he goes off grid. He never passes me in any of the rooms, but somehow manages to kill the one spawn ship in the last room before I can get there.

Maybe he has it timed so that when the first key spawn appears he's already burning through the rooms with an extra key. I don't know, it's just crazy how he gets by me. LOL - I'm so bored that I wanted to play around with the DED plex, now it's become an obsession to figure out how he's doing this.

You know you play eve too much when....
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#8 - 2012-06-27 19:01:39 UTC
Reservegirlfj wrote:
Stop trolling legitmate post.

Problem solved. Big smile

He just did it again. Spawn shows up, he warps in, I kill and go thru gate, work to last room and he's already been there and got the last spawn. WTH - can you scan the last room down or something?


It wasn't a troll, but thanks for playing

Seriously. Static sites are a waste of time.

But apparently you need to miss out a few more times before you realize this.
Suqq Madiq
#9 - 2012-06-27 19:18:56 UTC
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode wrote:
If you have the key to the last room, you can use the acceleration gate at any time. Chances are good that he camped a large number of key dropping mobs and warped through while you were gunning down the current key dropper.


There's a well-known exploit with Static DED PLEXes that requires the use of no keys, but allows you entry into the final room without the use of acceleration gates. The issue has been reported on multiple occasions in multiple petitions by multiple subscribers. While your "explanation" is plausible, it's just as likely that an exploit is being used to gain access to the final room without the use of a key or acceleration gate.
Reservegirlfj
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2012-06-27 21:00:58 UTC
Emperor Salazar wrote:
Reservegirlfj wrote:
Stop trolling legitmate post.

Problem solved. Big smile

He just did it again. Spawn shows up, he warps in, I kill and go thru gate, work to last room and he's already been there and got the last spawn. WTH - can you scan the last room down or something?


It wasn't a troll, but thanks for playing

Seriously. Static sites are a waste of time.

But apparently you need to miss out a few more times before you realize this.



LOL - yeah, it was one of those things where I've never done it before, let me give it a try, then it became an obsession on how this guy was beating me to the last room. We'll see if anything happens, but I'll take your advice and run away. Big smile
Hammer Crendraven
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-06-27 22:16:48 UTC
Reservegirlfj wrote:
Emperor Salazar wrote:
Reservegirlfj wrote:
Stop trolling legitmate post.

Problem solved. Big smile

He just did it again. Spawn shows up, he warps in, I kill and go thru gate, work to last room and he's already been there and got the last spawn. WTH - can you scan the last room down or something?


It wasn't a troll, but thanks for playing

Seriously. Static sites are a waste of time.

But apparently you need to miss out a few more times before you realize this.



LOL - yeah, it was one of those things where I've never done it before, let me give it a try, then it became an obsession on how this guy was beating me to the last room. We'll see if anything happens, but I'll take your advice and run away. Big smile


That room is obviously his place in EVE he spends all of his time there to the exclusion of everything else. So let him have it and move on. Lots more stuff to do in eve. He is going nowhere fast.
vlad0821 Artwik
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2012-06-28 16:34:42 UTC
it sounds like he is exploiting the game on his favor, it also seems like he is a bot (noone in his right mind will stay 23/7 doing the same thing again and again, it not only gets bored but you have to eat, take a shower, etc). You have two options wile your petition gets checked, first one, follow him when he burns offgrid to see what he does, second one, get a couple of friends and gank the **** out of him. you may find some faction loot on his ship :P. also like people said, dont do static plexes! they get farmed a lot by botters

DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-06-29 04:38:03 UTC
Reservegirlfj wrote:
That's what I thought, but he always burns 500+k away until he goes off grid. He never passes me in any of the rooms, but somehow manages to kill the one spawn ship in the last room before I can get there.

Maybe he has it timed so that when the first key spawn appears he's already burning through the rooms with an extra key. I don't know, it's just crazy how he gets by me. LOL - I'm so bored that I wanted to play around with the DED plex, now it's become an obsession to figure out how he's doing this.

You know you play eve too much when....

Sounds like he has timed the re-spawn for the Key in the first room and is trying to keep other players from continuing further into that complex.

As for him using MWD and going off grid, sounds like he has bookmarked the location of the last room. Basically he aligns to it and activates MWD to quickly get to that room, bypassing the gates altogether. If he tried to warp there, it would just take him back to the entry point of the complex.
Ron Maudieu
#14 - 2012-06-29 04:42:27 UTC
While by no means am I veteran at exploration, I can say that static DED sites are not all that lucrative. To me, finding a good site is half the fun. I feel that the static sites feel more or less like a mission, very... boring.