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Spider drones in AE
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Shaotuk
Sin City Enterprises
#1 - 2011-10-27 01:59:44 UTC
Since the last patch, I have had the opportunity to run two L4 Angel Extravaganza missions. During each run, in the last room (before Bonus Room), the two Spider Drones that spawn almost immediately start webbing my ship... The issue is they are ~60km when they spawn and start to web.

Anyone else have this occur?
Goose99
#2 - 2011-10-27 02:09:33 UTC
Shaotuk wrote:
Since the last patch, I have had the opportunity to run two L4 Angel Extravaganza missions. During each run, in the last room (before Bonus Room), the two Spider Drones that spawn almost immediately start webbing my ship... The issue is they are ~60km when they spawn and start to web.

Anyone else have this occur?


It's always been that way. In Duo of Death and other missions where there are spider drones too.
Desudes
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2011-10-27 02:13:00 UTC
Don't they go at 5,000m/s anyhow?

Excuse me, but what the f*ck are you desu?
Shaotuk
Sin City Enterprises
#4 - 2011-10-27 02:17:48 UTC
Hrmm, I never noticed it before. And yes, they do travel fast so it isn't really an issue. Was just curious.
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#5 - 2011-10-27 08:42:33 UTC
Spider Drone's have a VERY long web range, well over 100km (155 or 160 or something iirc). They have been this way well before any recent patches. Tengus beware!

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Dors Venabily
United Starbase Systems
#6 - 2011-10-27 10:34:01 UTC
Sobaan Tali wrote:
Spider Drone's have a VERY long web range, well over 100km (155 or 160 or something iirc). They have been this way well before any recent patches. Tengus beware!


Pretty much this they have nast combination of super high speeds , Very long range webs and tiny signature. Very annoying for the Tengu.
Qalix
Long Jump.
#7 - 2011-10-27 14:24:21 UTC
I've done this mission a lot, though not this week (last patch). While the spider drones move fast and yellow box for quite a distance, I don't think I got webbed until they closed into 50 to 40km. That said, they rarely survive that long when I'm using a tengu. Maybe I've just been blowing them up too fast?
stoicfaux
#8 - 2011-10-27 14:40:09 UTC
Qalix wrote:
I've done this mission a lot, though not this week (last patch). While the spider drones move fast and yellow box for quite a distance, I don't think I got webbed until they closed into 50 to 40km. That said, they rarely survive that long when I'm using a tengu. Maybe I've just been blowing them up too fast?


You don't need to kill the spider drones to trigger the mission completion. Why shoot them?

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Qalix
Long Jump.
#9 - 2011-10-27 17:10:33 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Qalix wrote:
I've done this mission a lot, though not this week (last patch). While the spider drones move fast and yellow box for quite a distance, I don't think I got webbed until they closed into 50 to 40km. That said, they rarely survive that long when I'm using a tengu. Maybe I've just been blowing them up too fast?


You don't need to kill the spider drones to trigger the mission completion. Why shoot them?


It takes about 5 secs each. Is there some reason not to shoot them?
stoicfaux
#10 - 2011-10-27 17:28:42 UTC
Qalix wrote:
stoicfaux wrote:
Qalix wrote:
I've done this mission a lot, though not this week (last patch). While the spider drones move fast and yellow box for quite a distance, I don't think I got webbed until they closed into 50 to 40km. That said, they rarely survive that long when I'm using a tengu. Maybe I've just been blowing them up too fast?


You don't need to kill the spider drones to trigger the mission completion. Why shoot them?


It takes about 5 secs each. Is there some reason not to shoot them?


No bounty, no impetus to loot/salvage them, being webbed makes aligning for warp faster, it takes more than 5 seconds to unload Fury, load t1, lock them, and kill them, etc.. Lots of reasons.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Spineker
#11 - 2011-10-27 17:50:48 UTC
Yeah I use to kill them but then I realized they were a waste of missiles and isk unless the final commander is too far away to loot. But I beat feet to the coral thing in space (yeah who was smoking the good stuff when they came up with space coral?) sometimes he drops some decent stuff worth few million so I generally loot him so if he is 10 12km away the spiders have to die.
Zanthosistine
State War Academy
Caldari State
#12 - 2011-10-27 18:33:11 UTC
I always have precisions preloaded in before I warp in to most any room anyway...better safe than sorry
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#13 - 2011-10-27 20:25:01 UTC
Zanthosistine wrote:
I always have precisions preloaded in before I warp in to most any room anyway...better safe than sorry


That's nice and all, but how is it supposed to help when they spawn at the end of the room?

By the by, the annoying one is actually Serpentis Extravaganza. Where three of them spawn. And killing them is required for mission completion.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#14 - 2011-10-27 20:48:34 UTC
Sobaan Tali wrote:
Spider Drone's have a VERY long web range, well over 100km (155 or 160 or something iirc). They have been this way well before any recent patches. Tengus beware!
Meh. By the time they spawn, there won't be anything around to hurt a Tengu anyway.
Jennifer Starling
Imperial Navy Forum Patrol
#15 - 2011-10-27 20:49:28 UTC
Dors Venabily wrote:
Sobaan Tali wrote:
Spider Drone's have a VERY long web range, well over 100km (155 or 160 or something iirc). They have been this way well before any recent patches. Tengus beware!

Pretty much this they have nast combination of super high speeds , Very long range webs and tiny signature. Very annoying for the Tengu.

Hardly annoying at all for the Tengu since when the spider drones spawn there's only one battleship capable of doing any DPS with them.
Jun'tarious
Hanuman Corporation
#16 - 2011-10-27 21:38:15 UTC
where can i buy these wonderful little things?
Sandrestal
Pakistani Taxi Drivers
#17 - 2011-10-28 13:13:18 UTC
Not sure about the rest of you but, since I just sit and tank, the webs are meaningless. I just sic my drones on the spiders and forget about them.