Missions & Complexes

Bad luck dude,

Good read though! I've never had anything but tags drop on these escalations - tho they are fun to chase around - never gotten all the escalations to finish a sequence though. But I've only ever had one bit of dead space stuff drop from exploration sites - most of the time all I've gotten was tags and faction ammo and some top tier named tech I modules.

Nice read though!

Laters

"Mayday! Mayday G6 industrial group being attacked by pirates!" i.e. you!

There are, but very few.

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Ssshh! Don't tell him! He's not at the last stage yet.

Ahh Google

yeah is kinda funny now, wasn't funny at all when it was happening.

The Wiki article really need to emphasize how serious the damping is with the new Ewar changes.

Frankly, EVElopedia isn't that keen on timely updates, and same can be said about many other sources. Tauranon is right, that takes some research (augmented by your own knowledge and sense, especially if changes are done recently) to figure out what are you going to face.

My wild guess is that many guide writers got tired with years of fixing and updating and the like, so in many cases you won't see any profound write-up on the matter. Probably talking to people would be better choice sometimes, but keep in mind that when some content becomes trivial for someone, it's possible that he may overlook a detail or two that may be pretty significant for someone not familliar with the content at all.

Its more like RNG, I took my battle Noctis through High-sec doing anoms as I went and killed a faction frig and got a DG ballistic and a blue salvage worth 30k or something silly.

Oh I do agree on the stealth nerf.

To me it seemed that right after the expansion was deployed I was getting great drops in everything I do in Highsec, DED 3,4/10, Radars and Gravs.

Now the places where I was getting A and B type drops am getting C type if lucky, radars are giving out crap and the places that would give C type drops now give tags and crap.

Gravs seem scarcer also.

Maybe it was just a post expansion buff to give everybody that "I love eve!" glow...........

Ive written that down a few times.

Ive always been considered bragging, posing or whatever for sharing that information, until i gave it up, since there are soooooooo many ub0r that know it all better.

It is like that since at least 2 years, if not since the expeditions were introduced.

When the Vigil escalates, you sometimes get a message saying something like that:

" ... the call for help was answered by a nearby fleet, so you better be quick ..." in local chat.

IF that happens, it means that you have a possibility for an escalated escalation, or escalated expedition.

There are multiple ways to solve it:

1.) simply wait like 20 minutes in the first expedition site, after you have killed the NPCs. Remain uncloaked, but goin on a distance like 70 km is a not too bad recommendation. First time i discoveredf this, i was already with my orca and a salvager in the site and the fleet, which warped in, caught me "pants down", 1 rounded my salvager and my orca made it out there on hull.

2.) follow down the expedition until the very last step in LoSec. But be careful! When you do that, the expedition which can be considered in the difficulty of 4/10 then escalated into the difficulty of a 5/10. The fleet which warped in there in LoSec was MUCH harder than the one i had in the HiSec sites. In fact it included more than once something really big, Carrier or Dreadnought.

-----> in 2 cases i have gotten another window message and received a further expedition, that leads to track down the source of where the fleet came. Which then is overall considered as hard as a 5/10. From a friend explorer ive gotten the info, that there is also a chance that this might escalate further into a difficulty of a 6/10 including sometimes a named spawn.

All good explorers know this since years, yet little has been shared. Not on purpose to keep it secret, or maybe just a lil bit. Mostly because all sharing these infos got trolled and yelled at by those who think they invented exploration but dont do much but delivering false facts on false formulas in form of excel sheets.

I know of at least 2 more expeditions that might trigger a further escalation. Atm im trying to find the "holy grail of exploration". A triggered expedition in a difficulty of a 1/10, that leads up to the highest grades of difficulty.

There is few to no information in Evelopedia about that. One of these is well hidden in the frentix distribution site. One of them is hidden in a frig sized signature, i think its XXXX hide, for XXXX = Sansha, Serpentis or whatever. I futher expect one in the monstery sites but didnt get the escalation so far, and those are not spawning in the region im in since about a year.

Definitely.......

Damn, I've seen that message a few times but haven't ever stuck around in the site afterwards. Always thought it was just some extra text to add immersion to the story for RP aspect.

Man, I've been shooting myself in the foot and didn't even realize it.




As for the Evelopedia staying current with all info, that's up to us, the Eve Community, to keep it updated.



DMC